Depending on how much time you’ve spent around technology, you’ve probably heard the term cache before. Most likely, you’ve heard it as it’s related to your internet browser. When you visit a web page, a copy of that page is stored on your computer, so the next time you return to that page it can pull the files from your computer instead of transferring it again over the internet. This saves a lot of time.
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Consider a situation where you are sending sensitive information through the U.S. Postal Service. When you send a letter through the mail, it doesn’t just magically end up in the other person’s mailbox. You send it to a post office, that sends it to another post office, and so on, until your letter arrives at its destination. Now let’s say somewhere between you and the recipient, someone else intercepts that letter. They open it, copy all the information, and then send it on to the original destination. No one noticed that the data was stolen, but it was.
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I was finally able to play with the iPad 2 this weekend, and a funny thing happened . . . I wasn’t impressed as I thought I would be. Should you upgrade or wait for the iPad 3?
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There’s a common scene at the corner of E. Basse and Jones Maltsberger in Alamo Heights. If you have driven by this area, you’ve probably noticed a man holding an advertising sign, who is gesturing wildly to cars as they pass by. You can’t help but look, but that also opens up this question: Is this effective marketing — or is it just annoying?
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In journalism, there is a principle known as The Five W’s (sometimes called The Five W’s and One H). When researching a story, journalists often start by asking these 6 basic questions:
- Who is it about?
- What happened (what’s the story)?
- When did it take place?
- Where did it take place?
- Why did it happen?
- How did it happen?
I have modified these questions (and slightly reordered them), into something that is useful for potential clients, web developers and people who are just interested in learning more about Content Management Systems (CMS):
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We were very excited yesterday to receive our beta invitation to help SublimeVideo test their new HTML5 video player. SublimeVideo maximizes the use of HTML5 Video in the latest browsers while providing full support for legacy browsers thanks to its integrated fallback to Flash.
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