Online Security Tips
- ALWAYS, always use an antivirus program on your computer. Always. Yes, even a Mac.
- Backup, backup,backup,backup. That means an external hard drive (or portable hard drive). If you start out by saving all your files to an external hard drive, when you lose your computer all your files are still safe.
- Get another external hard drive and then backup all your files to it. If the first hard drive fails (and they sometimes do through no fault of your own) you still have all your files backed up.
- Be discriminating about links. You don’t know where they’ve been.
Watch for the next post on the top 3 Antivirus Software.
Stunning Visualizations From The National Science Foundation (Gallery)
TRICHOMES (Hairs) on the Seed of the Common Tomato
The 2010 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge released its top stunning entries yesterday. They appear in the Feb. 18 issue of Science that co-sponsored the event with the National Science Foundation.
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- Human Immunodeficiency Virus 3D
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- Enterobacteria Phage T4
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- Proposed Structure of Yeast Mitotic Spindle
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- Rough Waters
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- TRICHOMES (Hairs) on the Seed of the Common Tomato
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- Map of links between the genes of the mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana
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- Introduction to Fungi
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- Everyone Ever in the World
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- Computer Simulation of a Binary Quasar
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- Visualization of the Whole Brain Catalog
Credit: National Science Foundation
Captions from Kristen Mingoue, Science 331: 847-856 (2011). ScienceMag.com
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Alert: Kama Sutra Trojan via PowerPoint Presentation?
“A new malware campaign is camouflaging its dangerous payload in the guise of a PowerPoint presentation showing 13 explicit Kama Sutra sexual positions, according to the security firm Sophos. With names like “The Frog,” “Wheelbarrow” and “Lyons Stagecoach,” the PowerPoint is certainly not safe for work.
…. But while they’re viewing the provocative pornographic pics, a backdoor Trojan called “Troj/Bckdr-RFM” is hard at work, automatically and inconspicuously planting malicious software on the victim’s system.”
7 Ways Your Website Can Grow Your Business for You
“When you’re an overworked, overwhelmed entrepreneur, the best way to do that is to turn your Website into a 24/7 salesperson. In fact, these days I’d say your Website is likely the single most important place to invest your time and marketing dollars.
Here are solid seven reasons why…”
What Snow Crystals Really Look Like
This is what Snow Crystals look like under an Electron Microscope (Wired.com Slideshow)
Original Photos: http://emu.arsusda.gov/snowsite/default.html