Google and the NSA: Necessary Allies - PCWorld Business Center

Google and the NSA: Necessary Allies - PCWorld Business Center

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Andrew Rosenthal recommended an article : Google Asks Spy Agency for Help With Inquiry Into Cyberattacks

Andrew Rosenthal recommended an article : Google Asks Spy Agency for Help With Inquiry Into Cyberattacks: "Google has turned to the National Security Agency for technical assistance to learn more about the computer network attackers who breached the company’s cybersecurity defenses last year, a person with direct knowledge of the agreement said Thursday."

The story goes on and on as Google seeks to get to the bottom of the attack on their security systems and enabling the hackers to gain access to their corporate client base.

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Google Streetcar in Berlin | F.A.T.

Google Streetcar in Berlin | F.A.T.: "

OH SNAP!! Google had one of their Streeview camera cars parked in front of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt right here in Berlin. We put a GPS tracking device it and are following it right now!!!! Check this awesome large map we threw together (updates every 2 min) and follow what we see at @fffffat (twitter) (this will be EPIC!!!!)

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Official Gmail Blog: Default https access for Gmail

Official Gmail Blog: Default https access for Gmail

Another security update and advice on using https on your gmail and the benefits of changing the settings to enable additional security for all your private/business mail.

I have tested this facility over the past 12 months and find that using it together with google labs features you will be able to make your site more user friendly.

This facility enables changes to how emails that are received can be easily protected from prying eyes and together with GMAILS latest features you can make searching your mail even easier.

More soon on the pluses and minus of gmail in my next posts.

Kindest Regards,

Ian Draper

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Official Google Blog: A new approach to China

Official Google Blog: A new approach to China

This is the original article produced by Google with explanation of exactly what happened with the attack that took place on their infrastructure. It is both revealing and explains the complete story together with other relate articles.

Please take a look using this link provided and leave your comments accordingly on my blog or at googleblog.blogspot.com and maybe we can disqus.

Kindest regards,

Ian

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FACEBOOK CLEANS UP ACT

At long last it is great to see that another social media site has taken action against malware on behalf of their consumers. Oh yes it will cost anyone taking up the software, but it is important that any rogue computers using this to infect others will be made to clean-up their act.

Well done Facebook and will be watching progress.

The Geometry of a Blogger Template: Columns and Widths

The Geometry of a Blogger Template: Columns and Widths: "

One thing that you need to have in mind when designing a Blogger template is the general width of your template and how the columns inside of it will be arranged. Here is a quick explanation to help you understand how it work’s when it comes to setting columns and width in your template’s CSS.

The elements

There are a couple of elements that you should have in mind when it comes to columns and widths, and those are:

• #outer-wrapper: This is the div that is wrapping all the blog and making it centered on the page, its width is the maximum area that your blog can occupy, (For example if your outer-wrapper have a width of 1000px, it is the maximum width of the whole blog, meaning that all the other widths added together should be less or equal to 1000px)
• #main-wrapper: This is your main column, means the one that hold your posts, it is generally wider than your sidebar in order to hold larger content and text.
• #sidebar-wrapper: This is your sidebar columns, the one that holds your widgets and stuff to the side, it is generally smaller than the main-wrapper, for obvious reasons.

How the columns are arranged

So as you can see the outer-wrapper will always set the maximum width of your template. The main-wrapper and the sidebar-wrapper are floating elements, so you have to be careful when setting valued for their widths because if they don’t fine enough space they will not behave as we want them to.

Let’s do the math, as you can see in the picture below, we have a little simple equation:

X + Y + Z + Y + X + W + K + W + X = outer-wrapper width

Be aware that you need to be careful for what are the real widths of your columns. For example: If you set to your main-wrapper a width of 400px and you having a 10px padding and a 10px margin, you need to add those values in order to get the real width. That would be 400 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 440px.

Final Words

So keep that in mind when you try to make changes in your templates. If you want to add another column remember to enlarge your outer wrapper or reduce the width of your existing column in order to get enough space to fit the new column.

This was a very basic explanation about the arrangement of columns in your templates. I hope that it will help beginners to understand the structure of Blogger templates. For this example I have used a basic 2 column layout, but if you get the main point of it, you will be able to understand all the other layout models.

If you have any questions about it, just drop me a comment below. There are a lot more stuff to come, so to don’t miss out, make sure you subscribe and follow us on twitter.

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