Grabbing screens and pulling images from the web just got a bit easier. With the Pixlr Grabber add-on, you can copy, save, share or even edit your final grabs – including any image or background – with just a right-click.

www.pixlr.com/editor/

To extend the pixlr experience we have created the Pixlr Grabber extension for both Firefox and Chrome.

http://www.pixlr.com/grabber/

The issues addressed by cyber law includes:

1. Cyber crime
2. Electronic Commerce
3. Intelectual property in as much as it applies to cyberspace
4. Data protection & privacy

Some interesting definition of cyber crime according to the “Criminal Justice Resource Manual” is

• Computer crime is any violation of specific laws that relate to computer crime.
• Computer related crimeis violation of criminal law that involve a knowledge of computer technology for their perpetration, investigation or prosecution.
• Computer abuse is intentional acts that may or many now be specifically prohibited by criminal statutes. Any intentional act involving knowledge of computer use or technology is computer abuse if one or more perpetrators made or cloud have made again and/ or more victim suffered or cloud have suffered loss.

What is KeePass?
Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your homepage’s FTP password, online passwords (like website member account), etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password you have a problem… A serious problem. The thief would have access to your e-mail account, homepage, etc. Unimaginable.

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish). For more information, see the features page.

Is it really free?
Yes, KeePass is really free, and more than that: it is open source (OSI certified). You can have a look at its full source and check whether the encryption algorithms are implemented correctly.

• Visual Design
• Praxis (helpful)
• User Centered Design

Apple’s User Interface Guidelines

Conceptual and task-oriented information. Guides include overviews, tutorials, programming guides, server administration guides, and, for developer tools, user guides.

Human-Computer Interaction Resources – site with links to jobs, in-progress thesis, conferences, labs, organizations, companies, and other resources for HCI researchers and practitioners.

Human Interface Technology Lab Home Page - The Human Interface Technology Laboratory is a research and development lab in virtual interface technology. It was established to transform virtual environment concepts and early research into practical, market-driven products and processes. HITL research strengths include interface hardware, virtual environments software, and human factors.

Task-Centered User Interface Design: A Practical Introduction Shareware book by Clayton Lewis and John Rieman–the entire book online.

Wearable Computing – Wearable computing facilitates a new form of human–computer interaction comprising a small body–worn computer (e.g. user–programmable device) that is always on and always ready and accessible.

1. PHP 5 Online Cheat Sheet v1.3
2. PHP cheat sheet version 1
3. List of all the documented PHP functions
4. PHP Functions to Work With MySQL
5. PHP Application Security Checklist
6. Handy Cheat-Sheet of MySQL Commands
7. Download MySQL cheat sheet-v1
8. HTML Colors Cheat Sheet
9. Web Safe Colour Chart
10. Browser Safe Colour Chart
11. Approximate Conversion from Points to Pixels
12. Web-safe-font-cheat-sheet-v-2-including-google-font-api
13. 25?point Website Usability Checklist
14. Will the browser apply the rule(s)?
15. When can I use? Compatibility tables (html5, css3 + +)
16. The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet

Cufon is an implementation of javascript, SVG, and Canvas that slaps your font into place after the browser has loaded your website with an amazing amount of speed and efficiencySo it better than image replacement, and simple.

Compatibility: Cufon works in all browsers except IE6.  Since it’s run by javascript, it doesn’t require you to have the most recent version of flash on your site.  In fact, it doesn’t require flash at all (and thank god).  Not every browser has implemented the use of canvas or SVG, but with javascript mixed in, every browser (except stupid old IE6) is at least able to run Cufon.

Usability: Cufon is amazingly easy to install.  Plug your font into their encoder, allow it to spit it out, and plug it in.  For those of us who are CSS gurus and not developers, this means something very important: Cufon works like a breeze with CSS! For any of you who have been using sIFR to do your subbing in, and I have tried it myself so I am talking from experience, how difficult is it to actually A. Target a piece of HTML with sIFR and B. Actually then apply the correct CSS to it without tying yourself in a knot over word-spacing, line-height, and all the other joys of actually forcing your new flash text to over-write your old text in that pretty manner that you want?  You know what I mean.  With Cufon: Apply it, target it with javascript (Cufon.replace(‘h1′)) and Apply your CSS as normal.  No extra instructions, no obnoxious work-arounds, just put it all in and make it pretty.  No stress and no grey hairs.

Speed: Taking compatibility into consideration with this one, @font-face is fast.  It plugs your text in like normal.  In the browsers it works in.  Image-replacement is fast enough.  You have to wait for the images to load and in the meantime, no text appears at all. Luckily for us, Cufon pops up (leaving your regular text there until it does, styled with the CSS as normal so it looks nice) as soon as your javascript kicks in.  Which is pretty darn fast in all the modern browsers.

Safety: Cufon does imbed the font you upload into a new javascript file for you and requests that you specifically apply it to your domain.  People can probably steal all the code and put it in their website, but they won’t be able to download it for use at least.

For the better part of the past decade, the design profession has been in a chaotic period. Confronting a unique mixed salad of conflicts–political, social, economic and environmental–designers have been struggling to define their core beliefs. The result has often been a defensive stance, rather than a positive look at the industry’s capabilities and their accomplishments. Expectations of the design industry’s social responsibility are essential, yet an understanding of designers’ ability to use their skills to create a better future would be a better place to start.
This is where hybrid design comes in. It’s a progressive notion about the multi-dimensional craft of “doing things,” as well as a reflection on the interconnectedness of all kinds of design within the economic and commercial fabric of society. It balances the skills, talents and relative strengths of designers to create both physical and non-physical objects, and their refinement, delivery, and relevancy within a cultural, social and responsible context. And it advances the current rage for design thinking by producing tangible, well-crafted solutions to the strategic and difficult challenges businesses face in this new, and complex environment.

Hybrid design is already happening all over. Within industrial design, the seamless integration of software and hardware into everyday objects, whether it be the iPod and iTunes, or the old-fashioned “on-screen-display” on your cable box, has been a part of any physical design for over a decade.

Similarly, non-object designers are becoming increasingly aware of the power and effectiveness of physical objects in cementing abstract concepts such as brand or service design. The making, delivery and presence of these physical objects are as essential to brand and service design as logos or user interfaces.

Hybrid design is the de-facto merger of industrial, interactive, and brand design. It is, however, more than that, since it places these trusted design methodologies within an actionable, focused and deliverable framework.

Size and Shape
Standard business cards are 2? x 3.5?, in either vertical or horizontal orientation. Horizontal is more traditional, but plenty of people and companies now opt for vertical layouts.
There are a few benefits to the standard sizing, the primary one being that it’s generally less expensive because it’s common. The other big benefit is that it is immediately recognizable as a business card, and will fit in standard business card holders.
But just because business cards are traditionally a 2? x 3.5? rectangle doesn’t mean you can’t deviate from that size and shape. With modern printing and cutting techniques, virtually any size and shape can be used for your business cards.
Die cut cards are particularly popular. Some opt for a traditional rectable, but with rounded corners or some kind of cutout shape within the card.
Others opt for an entirely custom shape, often reflecting their logo or a company theme or mascot. Just remember that anything too complex is likely to get bent or otherwise misshapen, which may defeat its purpose.