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Nov 30, 2010 By Jared Heinrichs Leave a Comment

How protect yourself from Facebook or scams

If you are someone that tends to fall for fake virus software and online scams you should listen up! Winnipeg Experts can setup your home/business computers to block malware and crap sites before you can even open them! While the title of this article targets the Facebook crowd, this service can help block the bad guys from yourself, from any website.

The only cost involve is the initial setup. After that Winnipeg Experts partner will preview the domain name before giving your computer directions to the website. While this service isn’t 100% accurate, it sure is close.

Another plus for the service is that it is PC, Linux, Mac, iPad and iPod touch compatible. All of these devices automatically get all the info as long as you have a router. Most people have one of these devices in their home now.

Here’s an example of some link baits that were shown on Facebook:

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How temping is it to Click on this link?

Using the service setup by Winnipeg’s best IT Consultants you would see something like this:

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You might think this is neat but ask why is this worth the setup fee? I would answer:

  1. If you mainly use the laptop at the place of setup (ie home/work) then definitely yes!
  2. If your antivirus is not up to date, or doesn’t know about this software you are still have a high probability of getting something. Fortunately the antivirus companies know where these virus makers send out their malware from. Because the Virus writers are constantly changing things like size, date, behavior and hash tag. It makes it very hard for rouge software to be detected.
  3. I would also say this is the next generation of protection service. Unlike Norton or AVG where they provide link scanners for you, our service has a only a very minimal performance hit. With Norton and AVG link scanners your browser feels like it grinds to a halt. The reason for this is your computer has to manually check all the links on the page BEFORE the page is loaded. Because our service is does the time consuming process of scanning links in advance, your computer has all the speed without any of the slowdown. What’s so great about this service is that no matter what a user does, they won’t be able to “accidently” go to that page.
  4. This is GREAT for families with small children who always seem to click on things they shouldn’t.

Let me know if you would like this service setup for you. The process honestly takes a very short time and I can normally even do it remotely depending on the devices in your house or business!

Email me or use the contact form to book a time!

Filed Under: Review Tagged With: How To

Nov 28, 2010 By Jared Heinrichs Leave a Comment

How to convert text into shapes with Adobe Illustrator

How to convert text into shapes with Adobe Illustrator 00Have you ever needed to send something to a printer and it didn’t print out correctly? It’s most likely to that the printer didn’t have the exact font that you had. There are ways to embed fonts into PDFs but it adds size to the document.

I prefer to convert the text into shapes. I must warn you. If you convert text into shapes it’s a one way trip. You can’t convert shapes back into text.

You might be wondering if there are any other reasons why you’d want to convert Font text into shapes. Logo design is one of the main reason’s to convert a font you already have and tweak it to fit the project.

Here’s an example of converting Text into shapes:

How to convert text into shapes with Adobe Illustrator 01

Obviously W’s and g’s don’t look like this out of the box. By converting the word “Winning” and the thin black rectangles into shapes and then merging them. You are able to get something that looks completely different then the regular font.

Now that you know WHY you would want to convert text into shapes with Adobe Illustrator, let’s look at “how to convert text into shapes with Adobe Illustrator”.

First you want to make sure that the “Text” layer is meat balled. See red box.

How to convert text into shapes with Adobe Illustrator 02

Next you need to run the command “Create Outlines”. This is found under the “Type” menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut “Shift+Ctrl+O”.

How to convert text into shapes with Adobe Illustrator 03

Once you do that. Go back to the layers dock. You will see something interesting. Each letter has become it’s own object. All the letters will be added to a new group.

How to convert text into shapes with Adobe Illustrator 04

Notice the “g” on the left hand side is now a compound path. You can now edit the letter even further if you wanted/had to.

It’ isn’t that hard to do the conversion but I find the “Create Outlines” for what ever reason doesn’t jump out at my in the drop down list. Now that your word is turned into shapes you can go in and do anything you can do with shapes which is a lot!

Hope you enjoyed the article on “How to convert text into shapes with Adobe Illustrator”.

Filed Under: Adobe Illustrator Tagged With: How To

Nov 27, 2010 By Jared Heinrichs 1 Comment

Firebug warning Unexpected token in attribute selector: ‘!’

Much like the error: “unknown pseudo-class or pseudo-element ‘sizzle’” this error: “Unexpected token in attribute selector: ‘!’” is caused by NOT having jQuery 1.4.2 loaded. This error started when you started using jQuery 1.4.4

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Again. If you go back to version 1.4.2 you won’t see the error “Unexpected token in attribute selector: ‘!” anymore.

Hope this helps.

Filed Under: jQuery Tagged With: How To

Nov 27, 2010 By Jared Heinrichs Leave a Comment

Firebug warning unknown pseudo-class or pseudo-element ‘sizzle’

This is the issue with open source that pisses me off. I was running 1.4.2 of jQuery  and then upgraded to 1.4.3. Well it turns out versions 1.4.3 makes Firefox through these errors. The jQuery guys are blaming the FireFox guys. The FireFox Guys are blaming the jQuery guys.

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If you are getting the error: “unknown pseudo-class or pseudo-element ‘sizzle’” then just revert back to jQuery 1.4.2!

Please note this has NOT been corrected in jQuery 1.4.4. The error in 1.4.4 is:

Unexpected token in attribute selector: ‘!’.

Filed Under: jQuery Tagged With: How To

Nov 26, 2010 By Jared Heinrichs Leave a Comment

How console.log can cause issues in Internet Explorer

This post will cover why you should never leave console.log in your html coding.

I use console.log when I use FireBug. I didn’t realize how amazing the program is for troubleshooting until I started using it on a daily bases. With it you can quietly tell the browser what the variable values are etc. Internet Explorer however does not like console.log unless you are using FireBug Lite (a javascript version of FireBug).

If you are getting weird results on your page and you know you used console.log to troubleshoot them, go through the html code and look for console.log. You might just find that the problem happens because you left a line in your code.

Here’s an example where I left console.log in the code and the effect ended up failing in Internet Explorer.

How to use a variable with CSS and jQuery

Filed Under: jQuery Tagged With: How To

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