From CSO Online:
Hosting provider Namecheap said Monday hackers compromised some of its users' accounts, likely using a recently disclosed list of 1.2 billion usernames and passwords compiled by Russian hackers.
I suspect this is only the beginning. There’s an entirely new data set to run through.
Note: I’m not sure I’d call this a hack but that’s what the article is calling it. I’d just call it an attack.
It’s ok. I’ve rarely seen anyone not suck at presentations. Communication is hard enough. Communication with a finite time limit, topic and goal is incredibly hard. Doing it with style and grace feels impossible.
David Sparks has style, grace and a way with eBooks. His latest Field Guide is all about preparing and giving the best presentation possible.
I’ve given hundreds and maybe even thousands of presentations. I like to think I have my tricks.
Sure, MultiMarkdown is awesome. It’s the cornerstone of 90% of my written words. But have you ever tried to work with MMD using multiple AppStore apps? It can be frustrating. Jumping between apps usually means closing the document, quitting the app and reopening the document in the new app. It also means dealing with embedded images in surprising and disappointing new ways each time.
Brett Terpstra and The Soulmen did what good people usually do.
Working in Boston generally means I dread the back-to-school time. At least the sales for nerd stuff are nice. Go take advantage of the Take Control sale to get some very good books. The 1Password, Launchbar, PDFPen and BBEdit books are one of a kind and very handy.
From Alexis Madrigal in the Atlantic:
That is to say, our inboxes are getting smarter and smarter. Serious tools are being built to help us direct and manage what was once just a chronological flow, which people dammed with inadequate organization systems hoping to survive the flood. (Remember all the folders in desktop email clients!)
Unfortunately, while inboxes get smarter, people get lazier. It’s always been a tug of war but the last 5 years has resulted in a dramatic shift where I need to filter out bacon from friends and family a lot more aggressively than ever before.
I find Zach Holmquist’s syntax for TextExpander snippets both logically satisfying and frustratingly prone toward collisions. It’s the kind of system that makes me smack my forehead for not coming up with it myself, but then I dig in and realize how terrible it would be in a world of dot notation (like URL’s).
The syntax is logical: email.me expands to your preferred email address. me.home expands to the home address.
Brian Krebs writes about Tennessee Electric suing its bank for negligence when hackers funneled off $325,000 from their account. But what I found more interesting is the process by which the money was stolen and that it was distributed to 50 different “mules” around the US. Fascinating and frightening. It doesn’t sound like a phishing scam but rather malware interception.1
A “cyber”-interception by “cyber”-malware. I kid, I kid. Krebs is the authority here.
We had a special guest on the show to talk about the value of sketching, thinking and working with paper and pen. Bob VanderClay, Erik and I hit on the pros and cons of digital notes and sketches but then it’s pretty much just a big show and tell of our favorite stuff.
Humans of New York feels too good to be true. God, I hope it’s real and not some thesis project using stock photos. I’m too cynical but I also just spent one of my only free hours of the day on it.
By way of that damn Scott Simpson.
Note: I’ve received plenty of feedback that this appears to be genuine and not some viral marketing shenanigan.
Übersicht is a Mac application that can display widgets on the desktop. There’s an entire cult around Geektool, which does the same, but Übersicht is raising the bar a bit for customization. It allows you to pipe shell command output to the desktop but format it using JavaScript and CSS. It looks nice.
There are many “widgets” already available if JS isn’t your thing or if you only have enough spare time to install a widget.
