Facebook Opens Timeline To All Biz Pages

Facebook Pages around the world can now upgrade to Timeline, allowing businesses to express themselves more visually through a redesign consistent with what was pushed to user profiles this fall. Major new features include the option to pin posts to the top of the feed for one week, and receive and respond to private messages from users, as well as add a big cover image and feature posts from amongst a feed of updates Facebook determines to be the most engaging.

Overall, Timeline should inspire users to spend more time browsing Pages and reading their feed stories. However, it removes the ability to set an app as a default landing page, which could reduce engagement with signup widgets and contests. All Pages can upgrade to Timeline today, and but also have an optional 30 day period to curate before Timeline is forcibly pushed to them on March 30th.

Here’s the Facebook video introduction to Timeline for Pages. The product guide for Timeline for Pages is also embedded below.

Existing Page APIs will remain intact. Facebook has been working with platform partners like Buddy Media and Vitrue to make sure their tools don’t break and can support the new functionality. A new admin panel and Activity Log lets Pages see a quick view of their Insights data, respond to inbound private messages, and feature, hide, or delete posts. Timeline for Pages is not visible from mobile yet, but will be soon.

Brands with a long, colorful history have the most to gain from Timeline. They’ll be able to insert updates, links, media, and milestones as far back as their founding. For example, Livestrong’s Page features photos and videos from Lance Armstrong’s fight with cancer in the 1990s, while ESPN displays a photo from its first broadcast in 1979.

The inventor of Timeline, Facebook product manager Sam Lessin, tells me that “We’re doing this because consistency matters. Organizations have identities too. A lot of brands aren’t great storytellers, but the best ones are. All brands should aspire to that level with their Timeline. It weaves together the best stories from the brand and the best stories from your friend about the brand.”

While businesses, organizations, and public figures should be excited about Timeline, their relationship with users will go largely unchanged. That’s because most interaction with them happens on the news feed, not Pages. The redesign does give marketers a more compelling place to link to where visitors will see more branding and less Facebook site chrome. By reducing the prominence of apps on Timeline, Facebook may have sacrificed the quantifiable benefits of Pages to increase their beauty. Still, the stunning visual design will further Facebook’s goal of replacing the company website as the center of a brand’s marketing efforts.

Here’s the Facebook Product guide for the Pages Timeline, which explains all of its features and some best practices for using it:

Facebook Timeline For Pages - Product Guide - From ColomboZone

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Hack Training Video Course 2 Discs From Colombo Zone

Hack Training Video Course 2 Discs
679 mb | eLearning

These Videos are for Educational Purposes ONLY!

Table of Contents:

CD1 Content:

Session 1
# Understand the Purpose of the Course and the Phases of Hacking
# Acquire the Hardware and Software for Your Laboratory
# Build the Windows? 2000/XP Hacker Tool Analysis Laboratory
# Build the Linux Hacker Tool Analysis Laboratory
# Test Your Laboratory and Keep It Secure

Session 2
# Understand Low-Tech and Computer-Based Reconnaissance
# Use Sam Spade to Gather Information About Target
# Search the Web for Interesting Target Information

Session 3
# Understand Scanning Techniques
# Search for Modems Using THC-Scan
# Develop a Network Map Using Cheops-ng
# Conduct a Port Scan Using Nmap
# Scan for Vulnerabilities Using Nessus

###### CD2 Content ######
Session 4
# Analyze Buffer Overflows
# Crack Passwords on Windows? and Linux
# Sniff Data from the Network Using Sniffit
# Use Netcat, the Swiss Army Knife? of Hacker Tools

### Session 5 ###
# Analyze an Application-Level Trojan Horse Backdoor (VNC)
# Analyze a Traditional RootKit (LRK4)
# Analyze a Kernel-Level RootKit (Kernel Intrusion System)

### Session 6 ###
# Understand File Hiding in Windows?
# Understand File Hiding in UNIX
# Analyze Protocol Tunneling Using Reverse WWW Shell
# Analyze Covert Channels Using Covert_TCP

Download Links: 3 files

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How To Hack WiFi.[Video Tutorial] From Colombo Zone

How To Hack WiFi.[Video Tutorial]

Size 141 MB | 3 Videos | Volume 1 | HD Videos | Video Tutorials

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LMFAO Video Premiere: Watch "Sorry for Party Rocking" Blow the Roof Off Right Now!

LMFAO returns—and they brought a crazy dancing zebra with them this time!

In this E! exclusive video premiere of "Sorry for Party Rocking," Redfoo and SkyBlu get their grumpy neighbors upset with their epic good times. And that altercation sets off a series of crazy party antics that bring out the authorities—and some kids who know how to play. Plus, this prequel-y movie set the record straight on some very important questions left over from the "Party Rock Anthem" video, such as: How did they end up in the hospital? What's with all the shufflin'? And hey, is that a zebra?!

So are you ready to have your mind blown? Check out this exclusive new video—and be forewarned that it's got grown-up language and situations—right now....

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CHRIS BROWN Singing with Rihanna in Orlando Nightclub

Chris Brown didn't shy away when the DJ blasted a Rihanna song at an Orlando nightclub this weekend -- instead, he proudly sang along with EVERY lyric ... and TMZ has the footage.

It all went down at Club Vain on Sunday night during an NBA All--Star weekend finale party.

Chris was hanging on the main stage ... with everybody looking at him ... when Rihanna's "We Found Love" began to pump through the speakers ... and Chris made sure everyone knew he's a HUGE fan of the song. 

It's the latest in what seems like a public reconciliation between the two sides -- earlier this month, the two collaborated on remixes of each other's songs. 

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iPad 3 Rumor Roundup

Unless Apple is conning the world, the iPad 3 should be announced next week. It, like its forbears, is the subject of many a rumor, some more likely than others. We’ve collected most of them here in this post with arguments for and against, for your convenience and flaming pleasure.

Of course, we’ll be there to cover the event live, and will (if past events are any indication) get a nice hands-on as well.

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Retina screen

Argument:

• Natural evolution of Apple brand
• Component already spied
• It’s on the invitation

Objection:

• There aren’t really any objections at this point

Judgment: This was a long shot last year, but it looks like a sure thing this year. Apple’s high-res screen should be 2048×1536, exactly twice the dimensions of the original iPad. This will allow for smooth upscaling of old content while enabling the same nearly pixel-less UI already seen on the iPhone 4, among other things. Others are creeping up, though: Asus just showed off a 10.1″ tablet at 1920×1200.

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Capacitive bezel

Argument:

• Apple is serious about removing physical buttons
• Patents for hot bezels have been seen
• Invite picture shows no button

Objection:

• Invite picture could be just in landscape mode
• The clicky home button is an iconic feature of iOS devices
• Capacitive buttons and non-display surfaces can be confusing or annoying
• The whole point of an iPad is touching the screen

Judgment: While the powerful gestures of the Playbook and webOS’s non-display gesture areas (i.e. hot bezels) are clear, it’s not at all clear whether Apple is ready to include those things in their UX vocabulary. Simplicity and usability is the word with the iPad, and Apple’s focus has always been on the on-screen interface (especially with a screen-centered device). It doesn’t seem likely to us, but a smaller aspect such as stroking the side instead of a volume button could possibly be in our future. And it doesn’t seem likely that Apple would spoil the surprise of a feature like “no buttons” on the invitation like that.

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Quad-core CPU

Argument:

• Need the power to handle improved graphics and higher resolution
• Everyone else is doing it
• People love cores

Objection:

• iPad buyers don’t actually care about cores
• Improved GPU unit more integral to graphics than extra processing cores
• “A5X” chip already spied, suggesting smaller step in this case

Judgment: Four cores just doesn’t seem right. Apple rarely competes on specs, and some of their most popular products have been conspicuously less powerful than the competition. Their style of chip design is more about specialization, not general-purpose firehose-style CPUs like on PCs. We don’t expect this to happen next week, though later in the year could be another story. More likely is the A5X already spotted, with GPU improvements and other things specific to Apple’s requirements.

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iPhone 4S-style camera

Argument:

• Apple already buying these camera stacks in bulk
• Creation/media apps on iPad blowing up, will be improved by new screen
• The old iPad camera is awful and will look even worse on high-res screen

Objection:

• iPad as camera is pretty awkward, be honest
• Apple wants to keep 4S as only premium-camera offering

Judgment: The chances are good for this one. The improved camera stack is likely just the new standard Apple is bringing to its device line; the more it can put out there, the fewer regular cameras people are buying, and the more they rely on Apple devices for the whole media creation process. And the 4S has already had itself a nice lead time to sell as the premium camera device. Time to spread the love. It may not be the same exact unit but it will probably share at least some of the improvements (back side illumination, better lens).

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Thicker case

Argument:

• New screen requires more significant backlighting, which takes up space
• More battery needed for backlight, new chip, etc
• “Thin” could be addressed by separate device or lower-cost iPad 2
• Again, the component has been written about

Objection:

• What is this “thicker” you speak of, Apple products get thinner

Judgment: Apple is up against a few physical laws here, and those are notoriously difficult to violate: battery energy density, the strength of a certain width of aluminum, the depth of PCBs and chips. A really serious change in size is out of the question, but a small enough one that it’s more or less imperceptible? The report linked has it coming it at under a centimeter thick, which was probably the magic number they wanted to stay under. Anything over that would be uncivilized. It’s not going to be the thinnest tablet in the world (the market is too diverse now to claim that title for long anyway) so they’ll focus on their being under a centimeter with better battery life and a better screen than anyone else (for as long as that can be claimed).

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LTE

Argument:

• AT&T and Verizon are the LTE guys and iPad is already offered by them
• It would make sense with Apple’s new bandwidth-heavy services (iCloud)

Objection:

• AT&T and Verizon’s LTE networks would probably buckle under ten million iPads
• Cost and throttling issues would be trouble
• Coverage is a concern: iPad is for everyone, LTE is not
• International compatibility is a concern

Judgment: This is tricky because the iPad 3 will be on the market for a year at least, and LTE is an evolving product, becoming more common and desired. Right now you would have to explain to many iPad buyers what LTE is and why it’s better than 3G. Apple would hate to roll out something that’s slow compared to mobile phones, but at the same time an LTE debut would almost certainly be a mess, with the bandwidth and coverage problems AT&T had for every iPhone. A stepped release could happen: wi-fi only until, say, June. Or the chip supporting LTE could ship but not be activated until AT&T and Verizon say it’s okay. Unlikely Apple would ship an incomplete product because of the carriers’ problems, though. This is a wild card.

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iPad Mini

Argument:

• The rumors refuse to die
• Kindle Fire is extremely popular, iPad Mini could tap that market
• Low-cost iPad could reach new markets
• Original 1024×768 resolution could be used

Objection:

• Apple’s not interested in going downmarket
• The iPad isn’t that size and shape by accident, 4:3 and 9.7″ is “perfect”
• It would be seen as imitative, not innovative

Judgment: We talked about this a little while back. As much as we might enjoy an iPad Mini, it doesn’t look like it’s in the cards. Apple has committed to the iPad as it is, they are launching a strong new version at that size, with a high-resolution screen. To release a smaller, low-res version would be like saying that maybe the iPad as it is isn’t for everyone. That’s a bad message to send. (To some extent, this applies to a lower-priced iPad 2 as well)

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Mountain Lion features

Argument:

• Further integration of Twitter would be a welcome feature
• The features in Mountain Lion are clearly meant to spread to iOS

Objection:

• Mountain Lion features before Mountain Lion even comes out?

Judgment: Seems pretty likely that the cloud, syncing, and some 4S features will make it to the iPad, likely in the form of iOS 5.1. This will probably be announced but shipped later, since Mountain Lion and 5.1 for other devices are both still in development.

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No more 30-pin connector

Argument:

• Thunderbolt and wireless syncing together make this cable obsolete
• They need the space this cable port takes up
• New design could be necessary for thinning the case

Objection:

• Partial thunderbolt integration would let them keep form factor, add features
• Yes it’s going away, but not yet
• There are just too many 30-pin accessories out there

Judgment: The 30-pin connector is in all likelihood going to stick around for this device. If it gets dumped anywhere, it will probably be on the iPhone 5. Right now Thunderbolt isn’t ubiquitous enough and not enough people are comfortable relying on cloud and wireless syncing. Tweaking the cable to partially support Thunderbolt is another option, but it’s kind of an awkward one. It would deprecate old cables and accessories while not supporting all the cool Thunderbolt features they’d want to highlight. For now things might just have to remain the same, with iOS and OS X gently pushing the user towards the future solution.

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Siri

Argument:

• It’s a big hit and would be a natural fit for this couchtop device
• No data worries – send audio data over wi-fi

Objection:

• Not clear where Apple is on scaling or updating Siri
• Could be part of a larger rollout later on (i.e. 5.1)

Judgment: There’s a good chance that Siri will be announced as one of the software updates coming to the iPad 3 down the line. Waiting until a later launch date (a la 5.1) could lessen the burden of scaling to accommodate so many new users, and an updated Siri (beta 2 or version 1.0) could be a nice debut item for the device as well.

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That’s all we have for now. Did we miss some? Do you have some personal theories? Talk amongst yourselves.

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ASO (App Store Optimization) Is The New SEO, And Here’s A Tool To Do It

What’s the hardest thing about building a successful mobile app? If you answered “building a mobile app,” you’re wrong. It’s getting your app found. With over 600,000+ iOS applications, and now some 450,000 on Android, the real challenge for developers is having their app surfaced higher than hundreds of other competitors in the app store search results. Doing this correctly involves ASO, or app store optimization. It’s basically SEO repurposed for mobile, and because we’re still in the early days of the mobile ecosystem, it’s simpler to optimize apps than webpages.

But developers are often lacking knowledge, and especially tools, to help them out on this front. That’s where the newly launched App Store Optimization Keyword Volume estimator (whew!) comes in.

Don’t let the utility’s wordy, boring title fool you – this is a killer product for mobile developers. (If you want, you can pretend it’s called App Store Rockstar or something, if that makes it more palatable.) Created by AppStoreHQ, where it’s been tested internally for several weeks, the ASO Keyword tool tells app publishers how frequently a query is being searched for in the app store.

To use the tool, developers enter their app’s URL, and those from their competitors. The software will then analyze the metadata of the apps entered and make recommendations as to the most important keywords to use. This will help you see, for example, if your competitors are focusing on a particular keyword that you may be missing. It will also show you how frequently that term is being searched across app stores.

In addition to showing the keyword suggestions, the utility also shows your app’s current ranking in a chart, a graph of rankings over time, the current top 10 apps in the category and more.

Unfortunately, there is a drawback here. Google and Apple aren’t keen on sharing their exact search volume data, so the utility has to rely on third-party sources. At launch, the service is using a handful of sources, includingAppStoreHQ, AppESP, Google Trends, and Appolicious. However, the plan is to add more sources in the near future. In the meantime, the data is kept up-to-date within the last 24 hours, the company tells us.

In addition, the tool only supports iOS and Android for now, but that’s obviously where the biggest issues are in terms of discovery. Case in point: just this past week, the cool universal remote app called Clik launched, leading to lots of press coverage, but the startup had problems converting users to app downloaders. Why? Because they couldn’t find the darned thing! Over the weekend, a search for “clik” in the Android Market wasn’t even showing the app on the first five pages of results. The problem has since been resolved, but it’s the kind of thing that happens all the time. Focus on product and press, forget ASO…get burned.

If you’re interested in testing out this new utility, a 30 day free trial is available. Afterwards, various pricing tiers starting at $14/month up to $99/month are offered, depending on the number of apps and reports needed. More information is here on the product’s homepage.

P.S. You can use the code ColomboZone100 to get 3 months free.

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Nero Multimedia Suite 11.2.00400 Full Repack From Colombo Zone

Nero Multimedia Suite 11.2.00400 Full Repack | 378 MB

Nero 11 enables a new way to create and share with others photos, music and video. You get a really high-grade tool, which includes the function of simple and advanced video editing features, innovative technology convert videos to watch movies on any device, as well as the possibility of burning and backup to meet all your needs for working with digital content.

The integrated Nero MediaBrowser
Thanks to all the new Nero MediaBrowser can easily get started on any project. In most projects, you can one-touch access to a library of music, photos and video. Your job will be easy and convenient, for now, just drag your photo files, video and music from the Nero Kwik Media Library to your project.

Convert and compress DVD-Video *, or video
Whether it's video, shot on your mobile phone, or DVD-movie, each device needs its format playback. 11 Nero provides advanced video transcoding, which can convert almost any DVD-movie or video in any video format for playback on any device, so you can easily watch their favorite videos virtually anywhere.

Import projects Windows Live Movie Maker ™
Import and edit projects Windows Live Movie Maker directly to Nero 11. Open video files Open Windows Live Movie Maker and then begin to improve the original design, adding new effects to produce professional results. Thanks to the advanced editing features you can add your videos professional touches.

Simple and Advanced mode video editing
Get delicious results, regardless of their experience in video editing. You can easily switch from Express Storyboard editing mode in the advanced editing mode and continue to work on a project in the same window. Go from the simple and easy to use templates to the effects of multi-track editing, management of key frames on a single screen video editing, effects, templates remarkable blend "Picture in Picture" and much more. Do your homework projects with excellent quality will delight friends and family like never before.

Nero LIVEBackup
Easy backups in one-touch by using Nero LIVEBackup to protect all your files and even entire operating system. You can choose to back up manually, but only Nero LIVEBackup provide continuous, reliable backups.

Burn multiple discs
The experts, who first implemented the technology for burning, constantly improving their decision. The exclusive application Nero SecurDisc 3.0 provides a surface with scanning legibility of the disk, regardless of scratches, age and wear, so that your content will be stored for a long time to drive safe and sound.

Copy DVD
Move movies to DVD-ROM drive directly to the PC via one-touch backup. Put all your DVD movies and Blu-ray * in a single media library by copying them to optical media. Advanced options allow to copy only what you need, eliminating unwanted sections, the track in other languages, additional material and more.

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Why Google+ Doesn’t Care If You Never Come Back

Ad targeting. Google+ is designed to power ad targeting, and for that it only needs you to sign up once. This lets it combine the biographical information you initially enter such as age, gender, education, employers, and places you’ve lived with your activity on Search, Gmail, Maps and all its other products to create an accurate identity profile. And this powers targeting of more relevant ads it can charge more for.

So despite comScore showing that the average Google+ user only spends 3 minutes per month on Google+, VP Bradley Horowitz wasn’t lying when he told the Wall Street Journal ”We’re growing by every metric we care about”.

Maybe when it first launched, Google+ had aspirations of stealing away some of your content feed reading time from Facebook and Twitter. While it needs a lot of work, the design and features Google+ have launched are solid, and I have the utmost respect for team team doing the best it can. The problem is that it doesn’t solve a problem. Facebook owns the social graph and the relevance-sorted news feed of your friends’ activity, and Twitter owns the interest graph and the firehose of news and real-time updates.

But that was not why Google made building social functionality a priority. Nor was improving its already dominant search feature. It’d would love this engagement but it doesn’t need it. Google scrambled to build Google+ because it watched Facebook and saw users were willing to volunteer biographical data to their social network, and that data is crucial to serving accurate ads users want to click. Search keywords and algorithmic analysis of your Gmail and other content weren’t enough. It had to start the journey to identity after shortsighted years of allowing users to sign up without asking who they really were. 90 million signups is a good start.

Isn’t it curious that Google+ doesn’t actually show you any ads? It’s because the time-on-site and page views there are trivial. Hit the road, Jack. Don’t you ever come back and post an update, upload a photo, or add anyone to your Circles. It doesn’t matter. What’s important to Google is getting your biographical data. That’s why Google founder Larry Page said that by “baking identity into all of our products…you’ll have better, more relevant search results and ads.” on the 2011 Q3 earnings call.

But the really sad part is that soon, biographical data won’t be enough either. Facebook, having successfully determined who over 845 million people are, now wants to know what they do. It wants behavior data, and has created the Open Graph platform to foster apps that tell it what you do in structured way it can target ads against.

Google’s a talented company with a trove of Android usage, search, email, and maps data Facebook and Twitter lack. But now it needs to think hard, come up with a brilliant strategy, and leap-frog. Otherwise Google is going to find itself playing catch up in a race that’s already over.

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Desin Pe - Lahiru Perera Music Video Making Photos

We found some photos taken while shooting Desin Pe music Video.

For Download the Music Video

Upeksha Swarnamali and Lahiru Perara are doing main characters.

Desin Pe - Lahiru Perera 

Artiste - Lahiru Perera
Lyrics - Manuranga Wijesekara
Melody - Lahiru Perer
Music - Music Oven Crew

Video Director - Ayesh Wijeratne
Editing & Color grading - Ayesh Wijeratne
Cinematography - Kalinga Deshapriya
Art Director - Bimal Dushmantha
Make up - Ruchira Sanjeewa
Assistant Director - Wasantha Weeraddana
Production Manager - Raja Ranasinghe

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