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Xamarin Now Provide Extended Support to iOS App Developers

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Have you looked into the latest version of Xamarin? The namesake development platform is now having additional support for iOS mobile app developers for sharing codes across Apple OS, Android and Windows. New Xamarin version 3 allows the devs to use C# to create native apps for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows. Moreover, the most important feature in this respect is the addition of Designer for iOS. Xamarin feels that the mobile app developers of today will embrace the alternative to Apple's Xcode Interface Builder. This will help them to stay in a single environment for the entire development process.   Distinct Advantage of Designer for iOS Developers can build and modify iOS 6 and 7 and their so-called storyboard files. This tool helps to assemble the different screens that make up an iOS application as well as the navigation path embedded in them. The upgrade is not just about iOS, but the ability to share code to multiple OS also improved in the version 3. ...

Website Mistakes Not to Make

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We being a web designing company seriously felt this issue when we caught up a recent post at The Next Web. It was explaining seven elaborate mistakes that website designers and developers often make when they get down to design their idea. It touted the fact that a website providing desktop only experience makes users go nuts if it has a poor mobile experience. That is not the end as responsive design is not all about website becoming mobile optimized, it is something more than that. You have more UX blunders that make us go crazy over those poor-performing websites. Signing Up Before Browsing Website – This top-notch error makes users angry. Maybe a way to build to email list, but you loses more than you gain. You Just Forgot the Mobile – Make website to share on multiple screens such as mobile or tablets, as people no longer browse only on their desktop. Those Ridiculous Forms – Filing out an online form on Smartphone, that is ridiculous. Eliminate or tri...

Facebook’s Reach & Identity Vs Twitter’s Real-Time Stream

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The battle is on! Facebook VS Twitter Real time stream of Twitter made it a de facto place and Facebook takes it on soon. Facebook’s VP of Media Partnerships believes his company has two big advantages if the battle warms up: a huge audience reach and a real identity. Gosh, this is a big move on the checkered board against Twitter.  According to a recent post published in Techcrunch shows that Facebook’s integration of real-time streaming need a lot more effort. Yet, what Facebook is going to do to stay one step ahead by – pouring resources into its new Public Content Solutions team, hiring TV execs, acquiring startups that analyze real-time event chatter, and building new APIs so that news outlets can visualize its data and will remind users about the right locations to discuss those world events. That’s a big move, though and several of these efforts will come to action with some cool partnerships. Facebook announces some of their partner’s name – N...

Heartbleed Threat Still Exists Across 300,000 Servers

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Two months before when Heartbleed was spot, and at least 600,000 servers were vulnerable to this security flaw. Now two months has crossed Heartbleed bug continues to scare at least 300,000 servers. Heartbleed, discovered by a Google engineer, caused widespread panic as it had a strong impact on the OpenSSL. In addition, if further exploited it can get on to leak account login details and passwords on the Web.  What made this bug different from other bugs? – OpenSSL framework is an open source project used by thousands of sites online and its attack left their servers and customer details exposed to the Web. As soon as Heartbleed publicized, and founding out the number of website facing the threat, security menders started to work along. After working day and night, in the next one month 318,239 were left exposed. However, according to the latest news that appeared on ZDNet we see that 309,197 servers remain unprotected . As well as a patch rate plummets from double ...

Android Simplifies Permissions UI in Play Store: Threat or Shield

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Just over a week, Google introduced their latest version of the Play Store with the tweak in the permissions. Developers are now likely going to see related permissions grouped together when you update the apps. With Google, discarding the old User Interface to make the installation process comfortable, but this simplicity also has some potential implication where we need to worry. According to the Android Police , previously Google updated apps via Plat Store and dropped a notification at the users account if any new permission were added. However, with the new permission UI, a user will be notified that there is a change if a new group adds. It indicates a serious threat, were permissions can add up without your knowledge. Aptly speaking, when new permission adds up, developers would see no new changes until they add a new category. Not so great for those who are attentive for new permissions and do not make everything a free-for-all.as Android Police shares, permiss...

5 Social Media Dashboards Mobilizing Tweets, Likes, Shares and Pins

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Tweets, likes, shares, pins, diggs, gosh lot to do when we get down managing your social media accounts. You need to spend some time to manage your social media accounts or else they would turn to ghost towns. You might have a myriad of social channels to monitor, so either you can employ professional socialmedia marketing agency or staff to manage your needs. However, even if you get someone to manage those channels, how can you know that it works? Therefore, popular social media management platforms bring forwards dashboards to integrate social networking sites and offer a plethora of features. Social Media Examiner shares a write-up where they have provided relevant information on the social media management dashboards. We caught the glimpse of this interesting write-up and thought to share it with our blog readers to know the ways social media management works. And how implementation of the right tools can make it merge with the best of the services? 1. All-in-...

WP Going to Integrate a Built-in REST API Plugin

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WordPress maintained their repute despite lacking a built-in REST API. This built-in facility allows WordPress-based website's content and users to interact easily. However, on May 25, Ryan McCue creator of the plugin that extends the open source content management system with a full REST API that uses JSON and OAuth authentication. He is pushing WP to have it integrated before the major release of 4.0. The plugin as ProgrammableWeb reports that previously the developers read, add and edit their WordPress content, including post metadata, custom post types and comments. However, the recent version 1.0 gives developers the ability to create, view, edit and delete user accounts. Further, the API manages the entire WordPress site and accesses the contents via a REST API. (Look further at the report shared by ProgrammableWeb and WordPress to know about the how the API works.) With the rise of popularity, WordPress transformed from a simple content management system ...

Latest Version of Siri does not Require iOS 8 – That Sounds Cool

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At WWDC held earlier this month, Apple introduced their latest version of Siri . This updated version seems to offer iPhone and iPad users with several new enhancements, which consumers can get to use in the falls. Notable features such as – voice activation, 22 diction languages and song reorganization via Shazam are some of the worthy features in brand-new Siri.  With the release of iOS 5, Siri entered the mobile market. It responded to our questions, comments and sometimes insults. This voice assistant serves up answer to our queries saving our manual labor. Apple constantly keeps on upgrading it with newer skills. However, it is frustrating if you do not about its full capabilities. Apply is gearing up Siri gradually with more rewarding skill since the mobile market witnesses upsurge in virtual assistants with Google Now from Android and Cortana from Microsoft. As the competition boosts up, Apple makes Siri available on various iOS platforms, pr...

Apple Soars on Cloud Nine with iCloud

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Apple commenced the launch of iOS 8 and Mac OS X Yosemite Version in the beginning of the month. On the stage of WWDC, Apple showered developers with surprises. CloudKit was apparently one such big spell effectively free and allows app creators to tap into Apple’s iCloud so that they can more easily work cloud components into their mobile apps. iCloud is a sign that Apple is taking their iOS and Mac developers concerns more seriously. Matthew Panzarino wrote about two iClouds last year reports TheNextWeb – one is the massive reliable infrastructure that Apple builds and the other is the hodgepodge of networking and synchronizing protocols handed to developers earlier. Apple did not turn to those issues again and never took the problems seriously. As Panzarino says, One thing that could help is if Apple dogfooded more of iCloud’ s developer API features in its own apps. Dogfooding, the process of a company using its own creations internally, is a well-respecte...

SSL on All Domains by the End of 2014: WordPress Promise

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Technology has changed the fabric of our daily life, with constant updates technological revolutions has started to think of revolution that was mere science fiction till date. With the rising demand to encrypt different corners of the internet enabling more SSL is gaining prominence. Wordpress is not far behind. Threatpost reports that Wordpress on Thursday became the latest to promise to encrypt its traffic by default by the end of 2014. Paul Sieminski, general counsel at Automattic, the parent company to WordPress, Cloudup, Simplenote further confirms the news saying, “In the face of intrusive surveillance, we believe that everyone in the tech community needs to stand up and do what they can, starting with their own sites and platforms.” ( Threatpost ) Wordpress made the announcement prior to Reset the Net day a coordinated movement urging websites to encrypt traffic using SSL, HSTS and PFS, and to deploy SSL and certificate pinning, besides prom...

Buck Up! - You Need to Upgrade Your Wordpress All-In One SEO Pack Now!

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Sucuri , a web monitoring and malware cleanup service was the first to spot the exploits. Their blog brought into notice about the vulnerability last week. As a result, large number of website owners has raised the alarm. Wordpress Plugin has more than 18 million downloads. Indeed, a huge number of websites is going to face this potential threat, especially if the webmasters does not take the advantage of automatic update. That's a serious issue and team of All in One SEO Pack need to fix it soon. THREATS If your site has subscribers, authors, non-admin users logging in the WP-admin, then you will face this potential threat. Besides, if there is an open registration, the site is going to face high-risk or threats. The code in the plug-in has two security threats - Attacker can conduct privilege escalation And cross site scripting (XSS) attacks The security vulnerability recently patched. So, if you are an All in One SEO Pack use...