It’s no secret that Facebook has been cracking down hard on fake profiles. Any number of actions can set off the dreaded checkpoint verification system. If you want  to create a number of fake Facebook profiles, you will need a number of tools and remember some basic rules.

1) Use a credible seeder account you’ve worked on for several years. The seeder account is crucial as it will be the first friend of your new FaKebook. Seeder accounts are necessary to identify the FaKebook’s friends, a classic checkpoint requirement. Be cautious with your choice of seeder account as the algorithm will suggest first and foremost your seeder account’s friends to the FaKebook account. Got that?

2) Get yourself a VPN that gives you the ability to choose your city, country or region. We have found that Private Internet Access has the best set of tools.

3) Use multiple browsers: one browser for the seeder account, a second browser for account creations and a third browser for other activity. We suggest using Safari / Firefox & Chrome. Chrome is best suited for creating accounts because of step #10.

4) Use Evernote to keep your accounts straight. Sounds silly, but one of the classic checkpoint questions is the date of birth. If you’ve created 10 or 20 fake accounts, you need to remember the right DOB!

5) Names and places. We have a collection of 300 abandoned casino cards we picked up from various gambling establishments in Vegas. Take one card from your stack for the first name, take out a second card for the last name.  You can make up your own name generator with some imagination. Pick a city and do your homework: lookup High Schools, Colleges. Make your choices credible. Use Google Maps, Google and Google Images.

6) Accumulate profile pics from ‘victim profiles‘ with plenty of photos with your data-mining account. Get as many as you can. Organize the photos by folder with the name of the new identity. Make sure there is no linkage between your seeder account and the data-mining account. Add pics to your profile over time, it’s more credible. This step is the most questionable and raises serious ethical issues.

7) Start creating your accounts, one at the time. Don’t be greedy, don’t add friends too quickly as your account will be quickly reprimanded. Instead, use passive techniques: join interest groups, sport franchise pages, dating groups and post agreeable messages. This will garner interest and friend requests. You’re better off receiving than begging and you will be flagged. You can also add what we classify as ‘easy friends’: local politicians, local celebrities, local musicians, TV anchors.

8) Clear your browser history, cookies and all between sessions. Change your VPN settings, rinse and repeat …

9) You will need a phone number for verification. Get yourself a virtual voicemail account. We have tested dozens of systems; most are banned or blacklisted by Facebook. Don’t even bother with online texting systems and for goodness sake, do not rush out and buy a bucket of SIM cards: that’s an expensive proposition and most pay as you go carriers are black listed by Facebook.

10) When Facebook checkpoints you and requires you check your identity with a text message, this is when things get tricky. You will need to edit the live HTML and submit alternate code to toggle Facebook into calling your virtual voicemail account with  security codes. This is the key to the whole process and maintaining FaKebook credibility.

For more information on the last two steps, please contact us for code, techniques and best services.

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Is Google+ the same color as HTML5?

Is Pinterest the same color as Quora?

Find out the exact RGB color for each one of these brands over at BrandColors.net.
Galen Gidman has done all the work for you with a brilliantly simple layout. Enjoy!

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Below is Windows’ current commercial. A longer version of the song “Everything At Once” can be found here. .

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Travel & more

• Travelocity
• Transit
• Foursquare
• Yelp

Browsers

• Chrome
• Atomic Lite (perfect for privacy once options properly setup)

Notes and content creating

• Evernote
• Snapseed
• Smart Office 2
• Meernotes

Reading and news

• Byline
• Breaking News
• Pocket

Managing and GTD

• GoTime
• Checkmark
• Mint.com Personal Finance

Camera and video apps

• Camera Awesome
• QR Scanner
• Word Lens
• Photo Guard
• Color Pair
• iREC Black
• WebCamera
• Air Video
• VLC Streamer Free
• YouTube
• Instagram

Music & Radio & Podcasting

• iCatcher
• SoundHound
• Hound
• TuneIn Radio
• Beat Hazard Ultra
• What’s On Air
• HABU
• 8tracks
• Soundbeam
• VonBruno Hearing Aid

Commerce

• Grocery Gadget
• Apps Gone Free
• RedFlagDeals
• Decide Shopping & Price Predictor
• WagJag

Searching

• Waze
• Google+ Local
• Speed Test
• Handy Convert
• Nice Trace

Foodies

• Urbanspoon
• Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner
• FindMeCoffee
• AG Wine Guide
• MoodieFoodie

Networking and connecting with others

• Steam Mobile
• Skype
• Facebook Messenger
• Facebook
• OkCupid
• Echofon
• Klout

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Don’t despair, there is a solution! And an elegant one at that. Follow these steps:

1. Go to Safari
2. Go to this URL: maps.google.com – nice HTML 5 interface isn’t it?
3. Press the action button
4. Swipe to the next page and select: add to home screen.
5. Voilà!

You now have two mapping applications: Apple’s native IOS6 and Google Maps courtesy of the web.

PS: don’t forget to turn on localization services for Safari.

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Mapping is an age old endeavour. We map our world, we map our minds, and now a team has mapped the internet in a very original way.

Ruslan Enikeev created this Internet Map featuring over 350,000 websites and two million links from 196 countries. Each country is color-coded and he rates the size of a website by the amount of traffic receives and how frequently surfers jump for one website to another.

For example, Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Live.com have the biggest circles and are featured prominently. Around each site are a great number of satellite sites and some do take quite a bit of zooming to view. Each circle is clickable, revealing the URL of the selected object.

Internet-Map.net is a great resources for understanding the web, how it works, how sites are linked and the relative importance of each domain. It’s also a great way to discover new sites!

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We have tried and tested so many security plugins, some of which are great at what they do: AntiVirus – SucuriScanner – Theme Authenticity Checker and much more – however no plugin goes as deeply and thoroughly as WordFence.

Now, you’ll still get the odd false-positive, especially if you’re running a version of WordPress in an another language than English. Wordfence will tell you certain files have been modified such as version.php, readme.html, wp-config-sample.php. But this is the brilliant part: Wordfence will actually show you why it thinks a file should be examined and this is a great plus for security sleuthing.

WordFence is so powerful it will detect hidden directories on your server, it will flag files that have been modified and no longer match the original install, it will alert you about theme updates, spam urls in your comments you may have missed … All in all, it’s simply the BEST tool out there for WordPress.

Check out: Wordfence.com

Check out: Wordfence Plugin @ WordPress.org

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• Locking Down WordPress

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“Hey Harry, I think this one has got something – To be or not to be, that is the gazorninplat.” – An Infinite Number of Monkeys, Bob Newhart

If you love classic humor, you’ve probably heard this routine by Bob Newhart who imagined the daily routine of human supervisors in charge of an infinite number of monkeys, who according to the celebrated theorem, if given enough time would write all the greats literary works of all time.

Unfortunately, these typing monkeys seem to have found new jobs, mostly with technical support teams at some of America’s top Web Providers. We deal with a number of hosting services and had a bit of a problem of late: a default 404 page that distributes malware.

Our provider, which we shall not name at this point, has many servers one of which hosts over 90K websites. Within this server, is a directory no client can access, it is the /error/ directory, and it is here that a custom 404 page with an iframe that calls up a page from the infamous SearchMagnified site.

document.write('<iframe style="width: 100%; height: 
100%; border: 0;" src="http://******.com/?dn=' 
+ location.hostname + '&pid=******"></iframe>');

Most clients with this web provider are not aware their default 404 error page is redirecting users towards this page. We only discovered this issue recently as one of our websites was not using WordPress’ 404 page and was sending users to this malicious frame.

The .htaccess in the root folder of our server was the culprit: ErrorDocument 404 /error/mt404.html

We contacted Tech Support.

Colton, Anna, Reggie, Ron, Simon and Tyler tried their best to convince me MY browser was infected. Telling them I was on a Mac, that Safari, Firefox, Chrome and even my iPhone Browser was showing the same malicious page was of no use, they stuck to the mantra: I was infected: “This is not the first time we’ve heard of the issue with SearchMagnified.com that your experiencing. It’s not on the server, and we have determined this with past issues with other clients and on your account as well. This is not an issue with our web server, and SearchMagnified.com is a MalWare issue for browsers.”

They were consistent with the blame: “Once installed, Searchmagnified.com may activate corrupt system processes and hide itself from firewall and anti-virus programs. Searchmagnified.com is a security risk that may change your default browser start page, search page and favorites.”

When this line was no longer possible, as per my various attempts and disproving their claims, they started telling me my website had been infected: “Your site has been injected with code that is sending it to another page “searchmagnified” which hijacks your browser.”

It took three days, eighteen messages and this cast of tech support agents with names from All My Children to finally admit: this was their default 404 page: “This is our default 404 page. This is not malware. We apologize for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you. Please contact us should you have additional issues or questions” – John

&F*A(S?$ ?!

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• Be to the point. Nobody cares about splash screens, flash intros, portfolios or any other useless drivel beyond the basics : Who, What, When, Where, How and WHY!
• People perform searches on the go. They now spend more time searching with a mobile device than on destop computers.
• People want to know WHERE you are. If you’re not on Google Maps, you don’t really exist.
• People want to know WHAT you do. Be social. Facebook for instance is the best way to get people to know you and trust your services.
• Get involved with niche web 2.0 services relevant to your industry.
• Forget twitter. It’s basically for politicians, celebrities and news.

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In fact, we should be doing this!

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Please read through to enjoy our resources!

• File conversions
  • Zamzar – File conversion – From anything to anything
  • Youtube-mp3 – Convert and download youtube video/audio
    
• My name is URL
  • Tinyurl – URL Shortener
  • ShadyURL – Create alternative “shady” urls
• L-Mail – Send letters via this online from anywhere
• WhatTheFont – What font was that?
• File hosting
  • Dropbox
  • MediaFire
  • Ge.tt
  • ZumoDrive
  • DepositFiles
• Other file services
  • FilesTube – Search and Download Files
  • MultiUpload – Upload to multiple popular hosting sites with 1 upload
  • FileCrop – Search engine for shared files
• WhatIsMyIp – Find your IP address – Make sure you’re on the right network…
• Stuff to do with emails
  • Mailinator – Disposable email
  • 10minutemail – Disposable email
  • FaxZero – Send/Receive faxes through email
• Tools for text
  • Scribd – Text hosting, scrapbook for snippets
  • PrintFriendly – Make webpages printfriendly
  • Lipsum – Filler text – the classic latin passage
• Image hosting and management
  • Imgur – Best image hosting
  • DummyImage – Create dummy images of any format
  • VectorMagic – Create vectors from any image
  • Challonge – Create tournament brackets
  • Tineye – Reverse image search. Great to catching liars!
  • CoolUtils Image Converter – Resize images for avatars
• Various tools
  • Prezi – Because powerpoint slides are boring
  • TypeWith.me – Online word document collaboration
  • eBuddy – Web and mobile messaging
  • Iedone – Online IDE & Debugging Tool
  • Readability – Make articles easier to read
  • RunPee – Find out when the best time to use the bathroom is during movie
  • ShowMeWhatsWrong – Instant Screen Recording for troubleshooting
  • Pipl – People search
  • Mibbit – Web IRC
  • DownForEveryoneOrJustMe – Is google.com down?

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