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Publishing your podcasts was always the hard bit. Opinion for iOS now makes it really easy

Apr09
by on April 9, 2015 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Recording a podcast is the easy part. Publishing it so people can listen to it and subscribe to your feed via apps like iTunes can be more tricky for beginners. iOS app Opinion has already tackled recording and editing, and with its latest update it’s addressing the publishing side of the equation. Publishing a podcast with Opinion takes less than a minute. You give your podcast series a name, enter an episode name and description and it’s uploaded to the ‘Made With Opinion’ site, like this: From there, visitors can bookmark your page or use the supplied feed link to subscribe…

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AT&T ordered to pay a $25 million fine after its customer service reps stole 300,000 Social Security numbers

Apr09
by on April 9, 2015 at 8:57 am
Posted In: Around the Web, AT&T, Insider, Security breach

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The Federal Communications Commission has fined AT&T $25 million over a privacy breach at the company’s call centers, reports The New York Times. About 300,000 of the carrier’s customers had their names and Social Security numbers stolen and sold to third parties by employees in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines. FCC officials said the parties who bought the data may have been attempting to activate stolen cellphones that they wanted to sell. AT&T customers’ personal information was used to submit more than 290,000 handset unlock requests through its site. AT&T says it has “no reason to believe that the information…

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Why designers should never use fake text

Apr09
by on April 9, 2015 at 8:51 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, fake text, How-To's, web design

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Jerry Cao is a UX content strategist at UXPin — the wireframing and prototyping app. To learn more about content-first design, download the free e-book Web UI Design for the Human Eye: Content Patterns & Typography. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: content is king. That means content should not be the last stage in design, something to be filled in right before the launch. Content is the backbone of your site, and must be developed together with the visual design. Sure, using a placeholder like lorem ipsum is tempting with its convenience — but ultimately it…

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Microsoft launches stronger email spam protection for Office 365 commercial users

Apr09
by on April 9, 2015 at 7:28 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Enterprise email, office 365, Product Launches, spam

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Microsoft is introducing Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection (EOATP) , a new line of defense against malicious software for Office 365’s commercial email users. The service builds on Microsoft’s Exchange Online Protection and is currently in private preview. It offers benefits like Safe Attachments, which protects users from malware and viruses transmitted via email by analyzing messages for malicious intent before relaying them to users. The new service also offers real-time scanning of email links to ensure that you don’t get redirected to an unsafe site after clicking a seemingly safe URL. It also brings rich reports and tracking so…

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