Please do not change your password
By Mark Pothier
April 11, 2010
"You were right: It’s a waste of your time. A study says much computer security advice is not worth following..."
"...Now, a study has concluded what lots of us have long suspected: Many of these irritating security measures are a waste of time. The study, by a top researcher at Microsoft, found that instructions intended to spare us from costly computer attacks often exact a much steeper price in the form of user effort and time expended..."
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Congratulations to LateBarChicago.com
Late Bar wins Time Out Chicago 2010 award!
2010 Eat Out Awards
Eat Out Awards: Critics’ Picks
Awards to our favorite Chicago restaurants, bars and chefs of 2010.
Best Reason to Buy Real Estate in Avondale
Read all about it!
Congratulations to Kristine and Dave - you guys are the best :)
If you haven't had a chance to visit LateBarChicago.com, you should go and sample their great selection of drinks and music. Check out some great photos of the bar from Chicago Magazine!
Monday, May 17, 2010
Congratulations to the Beloit College Class of 2010
Our JameyB (Current President of the Beloit College Alumni Board) had the opportunity to speak at the Beloit College 160th Commencement Exercises on Sunday, May 9, 2010. Armed with bubbles (300+ for each graduate), a bubble machine and an enthusiastic welcome to the next group of students to float over from the "Beloit Bubble" to the "Alumni Bubble", she got the crowd laughing and blowing bubbles together. The day was picture perfect! See proof here, thanks to DavidB...
The keynote speaker was Alumni Dad, David Axelrod.
Top Obama adviser tells Beloit College grads to pursue passions
Honorary degrees went to: David Axelrod and Judith A. Miller '72
Emeriti Citations went to: John Rosenwald, B.A., M.A., PhD and Rod Umlas, B.A., M.F.A., PhD
For more details visit the Beloit College website.
For videos of the speeches by David Axelrod and Scott Bierman, visit the college's Vimeo site.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Celebrate OfficialDaveDay.com!
Happy Birthday to our own DavidB :)
Join in our celebration by hopping over to OfficialDaveDay.com and signing up for our mission to have a special day every year for our very special Dave's in our lives! The goal of this site is to collect enough names to have May 14th officially recognized as Official Dave Day! And each year we get closer and closer to our goal.
Here's how you can help...
- Sign up to be counted
- Download the banner and add it to your site
- Add your photos to our ODD Flicker Group
- Subscribe to this blog to keep up to date
- Tell everyone you know about OfficialDaveDay.com
P.S. May 14th is DavidB's birthday, so be sure and wish him a happy one.
(This is a pet project of DavidB's.)
Join in our celebration by hopping over to OfficialDaveDay.com and signing up for our mission to have a special day every year for our very special Dave's in our lives! The goal of this site is to collect enough names to have May 14th officially recognized as Official Dave Day! And each year we get closer and closer to our goal.
Here's how you can help...
- Sign up to be counted
- Download the banner and add it to your site
- Add your photos to our ODD Flicker Group
- Subscribe to this blog to keep up to date
- Tell everyone you know about OfficialDaveDay.com
P.S. May 14th is DavidB's birthday, so be sure and wish him a happy one.
(This is a pet project of DavidB's.)
Monday, May 3, 2010
GIFs, JPGs, PNGs, and TIF, oh my! Not sure what image file type to save that photo as?
Contrary to what many programs tell you, not all image files are interchangeable. For faster downloads, image files need to be compressed. Each image file compresses the information in a different way.
GIF : Graphics Interchange Format
(the "G" is hard, like GIFT, not soft like JIFF)
GIFs are bitmap images, which save space by limiting the # of colours - (LZW) lossless compression.
. This limited colour pallet is great for small images with few colours (arrows, bullet points, and other line based art). GIFs also have the unusual ability to store multiple frames, which when opened play back each frame in sequence, making an animated GIF. GIFs can also allocate one of the colours to be transparent. Full colour photos are much richer with millions of colours, instead of 100s, so GIF is not your choice for photographs or for printing.
JPG : (from Joint Photographic Experts Group)
To achieve those rich, full colour photos, that don't take up much space, JPG is your number one choice. JPG allow you to compress your photos, usually at 10:1 compression - lossy-compression - allowing you to fit a very high resolution photo in a small file. Most digital cameras shoot in JPG to save space, for the maximum amount of photos on your digital media card. Images can range from small web graphics to huge poster sized images.
PNG : (Portable Network Graphic)
PNG is an interesting mix between JPG and GIF. A PNG is a bitmapped image, like GIFs, but they use lossless compression to save space. PNGs have the limted colour pallet like a GIF, but their colour pallet can be Millions of colours, instead of the 100s found in GIFs. PNGs can have the beautiful full colour photographic capabilities, and impressive compression, of a JPG - with the added bonus of having a full range of colours that can be used for transparency (opposed to the single color of a GIF.) PNGs, however, are another web based file type, and are not the best for printing.
TIF
A TIF file is generally a print ready bitmapped image file. It can be saved at very high resolutions and can be RGB (for the web) or CMYK (for printers).
Not everyone will have the software to open a TIF file so it is best to save as a nother format if you are just sharing holiday snaps.
EPS
An EPS file is a vector file - instead of small dots, the image is a series of mathmatical formulas that create lines and colours that make up a lineart image. EPS is a fantastic formula for printing because, unlike a bitmapped image, a vector image can be shrunk down or blown up to any size without loosing quality. It is NOT for photographic images, and can also tricky to open without the correct software.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask our resident graphics guy, DavidB@yourplanb.com
GIF : Graphics Interchange Format
(the "G" is hard, like GIFT, not soft like JIFF)
GIFs are bitmap images, which save space by limiting the # of colours - (LZW) lossless compression.
. This limited colour pallet is great for small images with few colours (arrows, bullet points, and other line based art). GIFs also have the unusual ability to store multiple frames, which when opened play back each frame in sequence, making an animated GIF. GIFs can also allocate one of the colours to be transparent. Full colour photos are much richer with millions of colours, instead of 100s, so GIF is not your choice for photographs or for printing.
JPG : (from Joint Photographic Experts Group)
To achieve those rich, full colour photos, that don't take up much space, JPG is your number one choice. JPG allow you to compress your photos, usually at 10:1 compression - lossy-compression - allowing you to fit a very high resolution photo in a small file. Most digital cameras shoot in JPG to save space, for the maximum amount of photos on your digital media card. Images can range from small web graphics to huge poster sized images.
PNG : (Portable Network Graphic)
PNG is an interesting mix between JPG and GIF. A PNG is a bitmapped image, like GIFs, but they use lossless compression to save space. PNGs have the limted colour pallet like a GIF, but their colour pallet can be Millions of colours, instead of the 100s found in GIFs. PNGs can have the beautiful full colour photographic capabilities, and impressive compression, of a JPG - with the added bonus of having a full range of colours that can be used for transparency (opposed to the single color of a GIF.) PNGs, however, are another web based file type, and are not the best for printing.
TIF
A TIF file is generally a print ready bitmapped image file. It can be saved at very high resolutions and can be RGB (for the web) or CMYK (for printers).
Not everyone will have the software to open a TIF file so it is best to save as a nother format if you are just sharing holiday snaps.
EPS
An EPS file is a vector file - instead of small dots, the image is a series of mathmatical formulas that create lines and colours that make up a lineart image. EPS is a fantastic formula for printing because, unlike a bitmapped image, a vector image can be shrunk down or blown up to any size without loosing quality. It is NOT for photographic images, and can also tricky to open without the correct software.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask our resident graphics guy, DavidB@yourplanb.com
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