August 2012 - Page 11 of 11

Leila & Buff’s Beautiful Beach Abode — House Tour

Name: Leila & Buff Ross, Jack and Barlow (and Etta, Coulee and Nitty Gritty Urban Kitty)
Location: Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina
Size: Approximately 2,300 square feet
Years lived in: 3.5 years

Buff Ross grew up a block off the beach on a little slice of paradise just north of the Charleston Harbor, called Sullivan’s Island. He and his wife, Leila, were living elsewhere in the Charleston area when his mother, a potter and teacher, passed away six years ago. They answered the island call, choosing to make his childhood home their family home.

Njuice mines Twitter and Facebook to surface trending stories

Njuice is the latest news aggregation service to hit the market, launching this week in open beta.

The Swedish startup’s platform constitutes a website and iOS app, scanning Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms in real-time, tapping predictive algorithms that surface trending stories before they break.

“We built Njuice to help navigate the ever-increasing flood of news out there,” says Andreas Thorstensson, founder and lead developer of the service. “By using Njuice, the articles you care about find you instead of the other way around, it’s truly addictive.”

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Dropbox Admits To User Data Theft, Bolsters Security

News updates all day from Fast Company.

Dropbox has confirmed that a security breach has resulted in a number of users’ log-in details–including username and passwords–being stolen by hackers, possibly by accessing a third-party website and then using that data to login to Dropbox. One of the affected users was actually a Dropbox employee, and this person’s account contained a list of users’ email addresses. It’s this specific hack that’s being blamed for email spam attacks affecting some Dropbox users beginning in mid-July. The site has contacted those of its clients it believes to have been affected, and has also instigated a stricter security regimen, including an automatic suspicious behavior detector and a two-step log-in.

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