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New Web trends: immersive interaction design

May20
by on May 20, 2015 at 9:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, interaction design

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The wheel of progress is changing what we think of as “new” or “old,” and users can easily scorn the sites and apps they loved only a few months ago. But for every door that technology closes, a new one is opened. Below we’ve collected some of the modern IxD techniques that users are flocking to. Some are genuinely new, while others are just new takes on old ideas. Either way, they’ll help you stay ahead of the curve…and the crushing wheel of progress. 1. Animation & Transitions When it comes to interaction design, one of the most popular concepts…

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There’s a new problem with SSL called “Logjam”, here’s what you need to know

May20
by on May 20, 2015 at 9:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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It seems like we just got over the Heartbleed vulnerability, but there’s another major flaw with SSL called “logjam” that affects a number of fundamental Web protocols. The bug affects an algorithm called the “Diffie-Hellman key exchange” which allows protocols such as HTTPS, SSH, IPsec, SMTPS to negotiate a shared key and create a secure connection. Researchers from a number of universities and organizations including discovered a number of weaknesses in the algorithm and published a technical report that details its flaws. The attack allows a man-in-the-middle to downgrade security of connections to a lower level of encryption — 512 bit —…

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Adblock Plus launches an Android browser that does what it says on the box

May20
by on May 20, 2015 at 8:52 am
Posted In: Adblock Plus, Adblocking, ads, Apps, Around the Web, beta

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For years, desktop users have sworn by Adblock Plus (ABP), the efficient browser extension for hiding Web ads, and the service is finally making its way to mobile. ABP’s developers have launched Adblock Browser for Android, which is basically Firefox 37 for Android with ABP baked in. The app is currently in beta, and you’ll need to sign up to ABP’s Google+ community to download it. ABP previously offered a Firefox for Android add-on as well as a standalone Android app to block in-app ads, but they’re both clunky to set up and use. The latter was actually thrown out of…

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There’s still no perfect cloud photo library and Google could fix that

May20
by on May 20, 2015 at 8:19 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Opinion

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When Apple released Photos for Mac alongside iCloud Photo Library earlier this year, the promise that I’d finally be able to synchronize all my photos from both my iPhone and digital camera across my devices was alluring. I uploaded a chunk of my photography from the last few years – about 40GB excluding RAW images – and went off sailing for a few days. Unfortunately, it hasn’t turned out how I’d hoped. The simple act of shoving 40GB of photos into each of my devices has caused the photopicker on both my iPad and iPhone to take an age to load…

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