Quick tip: Enable full screen Dash in Ubuntu 11.04 desktop

This tip is solely for Ubuntu 11.04 users, but it’s a dozy worth sharing.

The Unity Dash in Ubuntu 11.04 is an intelligent beast. When running on a screen with a resolution greater than 1280 width and 800 height you get the wonderful ‘half screen dash’ which can be toggled full screen.

When used on a device with a resolution ducking below 1280×800 you get full screen dash by default:

Whilst this is an intentional design decision – and one I totally ‘get’ – if having to manually hit the ‘full screen switch’ each time you run it on a big-ass monitor annoys you there is a “hack” to enable it all the time.

• Install dconf-tools
• Run ‘dconf-editor ‘ from a Terminal
• Head to ‘Desktop > Unity’ in the left-hand tree
• Select Netbook as ‘form factor’.

Many thanks to eylemkoca for sharing the tip!

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/quick-tip-enable-full-screen-dash-in-natty-desktop/

Archives: Omg! Ubuntu!, The end of Ubuntu Netbook edition

Canonical has announced that ‘Ubuntu Netbook Edition’ – the netbook-orientated version of the Ubuntu operating system – will be ‘folded’ into ‘Ubuntu Desktop Edition’ for Ubuntu 11.04, with the latter being rebranded simple as ‘Ubuntu’.

Canonical marketing manager Gerry Carr writes: -

“From 11.04 the core product that you run on your PC will be simply, Ubuntu. Therefore the next release will be Ubuntu 11.04 and you can run that, my friend, on anything you like from a netbook to a notebook to a desktop. “

So why the move?

Unlike previous editions of the operating system Ubuntu 11.04 comes with Unity as the default desktop ‘shell’. As Unity was created, originally, for Ubuntu Netbook Edition, but now adapted for use as a desktop interface, Ubuntu 11.04 is able to work just as well on a netbook screen as on a desktop.

‘Two birds, one stone’ and all that.

Carr highlights that the move should certainly not been seen as  a ‘withdrawal’ from catering towards netbook users, saying that the move is the result of Canonical ‘recognising that the market has moved on’ and that ‘separate images are no longer a requirement as the much anticipated convergence of devices moves closer. “

The move does not affect Ubuntu Server Edition.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/the-end-of-ubuntu-netbook-edition-the-return-of-ubuntu/

Clean Up Facebook with Facebook Profile Cleaner

Firefox with Greasemonkey: Get rid of unwanted Facebook clutter with the Facebook Profile Cleaner, a Greasemonkey user script that completely removes Facebook apps from profile pages. Facebook is the decidedly more layout-friendly of the two most popular social networking sites—mostly because Facebook doesn't allow for custom user layouts like MySpace does—but Facebook has started heading down that road with their profile-embedded apps. If the Facebook apps are making your head spin and you want to get back to the basics, this Greasemonkey script should take care of what ails you. MySpace users, you can disable all custom styles with the MySpace Custom Style Remover.

How to block spam from Facebook

Facebook has more than 100 million users and is one of the most well-known social networking sites in the world. The site is used by members for a wide range of purposes ranging from keeping in touch with family and friends to promoting their businesses. With such a vast array of different activities occurring on the site, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that Facebook has issues with spam. However, the site has taken adequate steps to prevent the growth of spam and considering, the fact that it has millions of users, it has so far done a wonderful job of preventing malware and adware applications from getting installed on its members’ computers.

Spammers have long had malicious intentions in using the social networking site Facebook. The site’s security team is fighting a long-drawn battle with spam to ensure users have a pleasant experience on the site.

Spammers have been hijacking accounts of the users and posting spammy wall posts on the profiles of members. Most of the wall posts contain links to sites that are filled with spam. To counter this, the site has introduced a new feature wherein you are required to click on "continue" before proceeding to third party sites which likely contain spam. This feature of Facebook allows users to think before proceeding and is a good way to prevent spam from flooding one's profile. It is important that users develop a sense for links that might be spam. And, if you do make a mistake, the site ensures that it alerts you before you click on the spammy links.

It is also an unwise idea to accept requests from unknown individuals. Wall spam is one of the mere problems plaguing Facebook. There are viruses being spread through the wall posts of the members and malware is being installed when links contained within posts are clicked. It is essential that users be able to identify links that might be spammy. If, however, the user is not able to identify a possible spam link, the site helps the user by deactivating the link(s). This saves the members from going to nefarious sites. This is one of the biggest steps the site has taken in trying to keep spam in check.

The site has been taking other stringent measures to control the proliferation of spam. All user reports of spam are examined, false content is being removed, and spammy links are being blocked. With security in place, Facebook users can look forward to having a hassle free time communicating online with their friends knowing that there is an effective spam block in place.

[SCAM ALERT] See how your baby will look like?

[SCAM ALERT] See how your baby will look like?

Scam Signature Message: 

awwwwwwww my baby is so damn cute!!! check out yours :)

See how your baby will look like?

Scam Type: Survey Scam, Malware

Trending: May 2011

Why it's a Scam:

Clicking the wall post link takes you to the  following page: 

Clicking "Show Me" kicks off a series of instructions that is designed to copy and paste malicious code into the users browser. The scammers are little crafty on this one. They ask the user to click: CTRL C (to copy the highlighted code), then ALT D (this puts the cursor in the browser bar), the next command is CTRL V (this pastes the code into the browser window) and finally ENTER. Completing these actions will post the spam message to your wall and load the following survey scam:

Here we see the end game of a typical Facebook Survey Scam. Each time someone completes a survey, the scam creator gets a commission. The scam creator will possibly have your personal information to do you harm. (depending on the information you submitted in the survey) If you downloaded any games or other files then your computer could be infecting with a virus, trojan or other malware. Never download files from scams like this!   

How to Deal with the Scam:

If you did make the mistake of clicking "Submit" on the main page, you are now spamming your friends with the scammer's message. You should clean-up your newsfeed and profile to remove references to the scam. (click the "x" in the top right hand corner of the post).

If you made the mistake of submitting your cell phone number for any of the surveys, then you should contact your carrier immediately to keep any bogus charges from appearing.

If you downloaded files or games while completing the survey scam, then your computer could very well be infected with a virus. Install and or update your anti-virus software and run a complete system scan.

If you or your Facebook friends are falling for tricks like this, it's time to get yourself informed of the latest threats. Be sure to join the Facecrooks page on Facebook to be kept informed of the latest security issues

Facebook should step in and clean up!

Isn't this the most annoying thing on Facebook this crap? YES!

ANNOYING!!! 
Facebook, step in, take action and clean up this junk!


From my point of view, many users get infected or get tricked via Facebook! What a shame... 
Facebook has billions of users, they should make sure that they are protected. Everyday, when I get greeted by my "news feed" I get all of this sick kind spam, some even worse. Facebook!  get your butt in gear and take action. Facebook has become a unsafe place for ANYONE! 


I hate to say this, BUT I would rather have only 140 characters to type (twitter), than this unsafe spam/malware pool!  very sad! very! 

Read more on technically, it's me!
[SPAM ALERT!] Osama killed

11 Must-Know Tips and Tricks for Twitter

1. Find out when you were unfollowed and why

This is an excellent tool both for business and personal use on Twitter: Tweeteffect. By searching for any Twitter username, you can see a summary of how many follows/unfollows that account gained over the past 30 days. Where it gets really clever though, is when you scroll down you can see a full summary of your tweets and which ones caused you to gain or lose followers, and how many. Tweets highlighted in green are where you gained followers and tweets in red are where you lost followers. The screenshot below shows an example of this from my Twitter account. Business users in particular should monitor this to look for patterns, as although some may be coincidental you could find patterns emerging that allow you to optimise your Twitter activity.

2. Advanced Search on Tweetdeck

While many people use the advanced search function on Twitter, the same search operators apply when searching on Tweetdeck. This can make for a much more efficient and streamlined way to search, if you want to filter by location for example, or exclude certain keywords from your search term. You can do this by loading up the search bar as you would normally (by selecting ‘add column, then ‘search’), and simply applying the search operators. You can then save those searches for instant updates. Here’s a handy list of the search operators that you might want to try, with the full list available here :

3. Optify – Measure your Twitter campaigns

Optify is a social media monitoring tool that contains a free product for Twitter, allowing you to measure the success of your Twitter account. While it offers much of the same tools available within CoTweet for managing your Twitter account, Optify does offer a lot more in the way of Twitter analytics, which is key for any business active on Twitter. Though you’re required to set up an account to use Optify, you don’t have to add any credit card details and the Twitter section is always free to use. I recommend you set up an account on Optify to gain full visibility of your performance on Twitter, as they offer an impressive advanced analytics suite. The tool also allows you to track leads  and referral traffic from  Twitter, so you have full visibility of the ROI of your activity:

4. Monitor your new followers

Tweetdeck has a handy option that not many people use or discover, that allows you to monitor your latest followers. You can find this by adding a new column in Tweetdeck and then select ‘Core’. This will bring up an option on the right called ‘New Followers’. Select this and you’ll have a new column on Tweetdeck that only contains tweets from your newest followers. This is an excellent way of building out your community on Twitter and making sure you’re keeeping track of your new followers. It can be easy to stick to the same people on Twitter and not follow your new followers back, but this helps to ensure you can always find valuable new connections :

5. Share Screencasts on Twitter

This is a great way to add different content to your Twitter stream. Screenr is an app that allows you to create screencasts instantly, including the option to add an audio commentary. This screencast can then be shared straight into your social networks, including Twitter. The site is very quick and easy to use and I think it offers a great way for companies to share new content with their users, such as showing them a new section of their site for example. It’s also likely to engage your followers a bit more as they might not be used to seeing this kind of content within Twitter.

6. Twitter for Android

Tweetcaster is a very cool app available for Android users. The mobile app allows you to create multiple Twitter accounts that can be managed with the same screen, which is great if you run personal and business profiles. The app has lots of nice functionality to make for an easy Twitter mobile experience, including being able to easily navigate to different user profiles and easy integration of complementary services such as shortening urls, sharing photos and videos. Tweetcaster is also available as an app for the iPhone, though it appears to be getting the most positive reviews across the Android platform, with poor image quality seeming to be an issue for the iPhone version.

7. Post images from Flickr

Flick to Twitt is a nice app that allows you to instantly share your photo uploads in Flickr, back to Twitter. This is a useful app as there is a correlation between active Flickr users and Twitter users. Though there are plenty of photo sharing services available through Twitter, such as twitpic or Yfrog, Flick to Twitt offers a simple one-click process to tweet your Flickr uploads instantly. You don’t need to create a separate profile, simply add your Twitter and Flickr logins and you can instantly share links to your photos.

8. Twitter SEO Tip

I found this interesting SEO experiment using Twitter Lists, courtesy of Peter Drew, that can be easily replicated across any Twitter account. SEO still applies to Twitter profiles in the same way as any other site and this tip shows you how you can use SEO on Twitter lists to help improve your Google ranking for your chosen keyword. By creating a Twitter list that has your chosen keyword in it, such as twitter.com/LaurenFisher/socialmedia you can help your Twitter profile rank for your own name, plus your chosen keyword. Though this will happen naturally as you’re added to Twitter lists, you can help control this by creating your own that contains a keyword you’d like to rank for. When Peter Drew ran the experiment he found the Page Rank steadily improving for the list and despite not promoting it at all, it had a Page Rank of 4 within 2 weeks. Through further optimisation, the term is now appearing in the top 50 results on Google, showing the importance of SEO via different means within Twitter.

9. Find trending topics

Twopular is a useful site that allows you to find the trending topics on Twitter, split by hours, weeks, months and the past year, allowing you to access archived trending topics. While the homepage of the site provides lots of useful information on current trending topics, there’s lots more you can discover by clicking further, such as the ability to compare trending topics, adding in your own search terms to compare to the trends offered. Their ‘sparklines’ are also particularly interesting, allowing you to see peaks in trends over time, with the option to drill down further to see particular results:

10. Find deals on Twitter

This Twitter coupon search is a handy tool that allows you to see which deals are currently being shared on Twitter.  You can search by keyword or type to see a current Twitter stream of people sharing offers in real-time. What I like about this is that it adds some authority to deals. Though there are plenty of deal aggregator sites, the user experience is often messy, leading to old links or offers that aren’t always legitimate. As this is based on links being shared, there is an element of trust in the results. You can click right next to a result to claim that coupon code.

11. Browse your Twitter friends

This is a very cool site that allows you to easily track connections with other new users and discover new people to follow. To use the app, simply put in your own (or any) Twitter username to bring up your latest connections. You can then click on the avatar for the profiles returned, to instantly see their own latest followers, tracking your connections between the two. By continually clicking and dragging you can build out the connections returned, making it incredibly easy to find new people to follow. Warning: it can get a little addictive.

Did we miss one? Please share your thoughts and let us know the top tools, apps and tips you think should be on this list in the comments.

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[SCAM ALERT] Osama Bin Laden killed live on a news broadcast! watch the video:

[SCAM ALERT] Osama Bin Laden killed live on a news broadcast! watch the video:

Scam Type:  Malware

Trending: May 2011

Why it's a Scam:

Clicking the wall post link takes you to the  following page: 

Here the scammers want you to copy and paste code directly into your address bar. Never, ever copy and paste code directly into your browser. You bypass security controls built into your web browser, and you totally expose your computer to the code creators. Sometimes you might be lucky and just have a survey scam load; however, these victims aren't so lucky. We copied the code into the browser on our test machine, and we received a virus alert!

How to Deal with the Scam:

If you did make the mistake of pasting the code into your browser, you are now spamming your friends with the scammer's message. You should clean-up your newsfeed and profile to remove references to the scam. (click the "x" in the top right hand corner of the post). If your installed anti-virus program caught the malware attempt, then your system should not be affected. If you don't have anti-virus software installed, then you need to that immediately and run a full system scan.

If you or your Facebook friends are falling for tricks like this, it's time to get yourself informed of the latest threats. Be sure to join the Facecrooks page on Facebook to be kept informed of the latest security issues. 

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Comodo, uses DACKS tech ... Auto sandbox with Hips Tech (host intrusion prevention system), Uses White listing instead of Blacklisting.. has Behavior shield, have Cloud scanner, One of the best firewalls, Has Cloud behavior...
Have Real-time Sandbox (when an unknown file is picked up, no matter if it's bad or safe, it is send to comodo Labs for file check and then it's know as good or safe) You know when You get AV updates? Well that is a files that have the listings of bad files (no AV, can have 100 % bad file list(always miss some files), so that The AV can get the bad file.. 


Well comodo doesn't work like that, comodo has a Good file list, wich have all the good files from software makers on it and other files is bad/unknow...
BAD files is deleted and unknown files is Sandboxed and monitored by the HIPS module, also send to Comodo labs for testing.... Comodo also have DNS servers for bad websites, email and spam links.... Comodo uses 10-20 MB of ram and is fast! Trust me I also thought nothiung was better than Avast and kaspersky! but Since I used this program, I have yet to infect my main Computer... 


And the best part of it all is, IT'S 100% free.... 
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Other AV'S CLEAN THE COMPUTER ... COMODO PROTECT THE USER... 
IF PROTECTED, THERE IS NOTHING TO CLEAN. 
see comodo working yourse;f @ http://antivirus.comodo.com/ . And trust me COMDODO EVEN USES THE REAL NORTON/KASPERSKY/NOD BOXES TO SHOW THAT THEY DON"T PROTECT! THEY WILL EVEN GIVE YOU $500 IF YOUR PC GET'S INFECTED!! SHOW ME AN AV THAT WILL DO THAT!


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