YouTube celebrates 10 years of service this month since launching in May 2005. They made a video and image to go through the entire English alphabet to recap many of the things that have made YouTube great and the time just fly by. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoKkq685Hk From the YouTube blog, this picture was posted as well as a link to a YouTube trivia game: … [Read more...]
Image sizes guide for popular social media
Having a presence on social media helps you to engage your customers. How many social networks should you be on and what should you be doing on them? Those are questions that will depend on your organization as well as your ability to keep up with the different communities. Creating your social media presence though can require a bit more work than just signing up though. If … [Read more...]
Malware threats to mobile devices
Sophos created this infographic to detail malware threats to mobile devices since 2004. The threats include such names as DroidDream and MasterKey which could compromise banking or rack up phone/SMS fees to the victim. Check out the image below to see more details. Click image to view larger size. (Credit: Sophos) … [Read more...]
Dealing with sysadmin anxiety
From DevOpsDays NYC, an interesting presentation was given on anxiety working in IT operations. Given the stress of the job, the goal of the talk was to explain anxiety, identify sources of stress such as ongoing education and being oncall, and ways to minimize anxiety including blameless postmortems, checklists, on-call partners, and more. The last section of the talk gets … [Read more...]
First look for ‘Steve Jobs’ movie
Steve Jobs starring Michael Fassbender as founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, will be in theaters October 9th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeOxo7o9T8Q Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its … [Read more...]