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Great Shield Matte Screen Protector for Nexus 4

UPDATED 2013-03-09

One little pet peeve of mine about smart phone is the glare on the glass screen. All of the iPhones and Nexus-series phone I own have matte/anti-glare screen protector installed. With the iPhones, I recommend getting Power Support brand. When I got a Nexus 4, I looked into several different brands of screen protectors. I decided to try one out, GreatShield Matte Screen Protector.

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It comes in a 3-pack for under $10 at Amazon.com.

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It took me about 5 minutes to apply the screen protector with no noticeable dust bubbles, and it took me only one try. I have been applying screen protectors on numerous iPhones, iPad and other smart phones for the past 5 years. I can’t do it with my eyes closed though.

The current revision of GreatShield Matte Screen Protector has the necessary cutout for the front-facing camera and the proximity sensor. During the course of my research, different brands of screen protector for Nexus 4 do not have the said cutout.

One thing that you should know that GreatShield Matte Screen Protector size. While it fully covers the screen area, it is smaller than the glass-face of Nexus 4. It leaves 2 mm on the sides and bottom and 1 mm on the top. The gaps prevent the film from bubbling due to friction from certain Nexus 4 cases. The case I have on this Nexus 4 certainly does not fall in that category.

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A few days in, I am pretty satisfied with GreatShield Matte Screen Protector. In case anyone wants to know, it is a Rearth Ringke SLIM Case one the Nexus 4. I’ll post more details about it on a different post.

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Evernote resets user passwords after a hack attack

The Evernote team has been sending out emails to users regarding the hack attack. The Evernote also initiate a service-wide password reset.

Evernote’s Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service.

As a precaution to protect your data, we have decided to implement a password reset. Please read below for details and instructions.In our security investigation, we have found no evidence that any of the content you store in Evernote was accessed, changed or lost. We also have no evidence that any payment information for Evernote Premium or Evernote Business customers was accessed.

The investigation has shown, however, that the individual(s) responsible were able to gain access to Evernote user information, which includes usernames, email addresses associated with Evernote accounts and encrypted passwords. Even though this information was accessed, the passwords stored by Evernote are protected by one-way encryption. (In technical terms, they are hashed and salted.)

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Reporting malicious links to bitly

Recent round of spams propagated using hacked Twitter accounts and bitly URL shortener became the topic of discussion. Just a few days ago Twitter account of Greg Hetson (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks) was hacked and a link using bitly URL shortener to a spam site was posted.

If you encountered any malicious or spam using bit.ly, please report it to bitly immediately.

You can report spam links to support@bitly.com to be blocked. Include the word ‘spam’ in the message and include the link and information about how you received it.

From time to time you’d see that bitly would warn visitors off the malicious URL they about to visit.

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Tips: Subscribing to eBay Search RSS

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I was doing some research on eBay and noticed that I could no longer find the subscribe to RSS option. Before reinventing the wheel again, I managed to find the answer on eBay Answer Center.

From eshons2525:

create your search, and then copy the URL of the search results page into your browser address bar and add “&_rss=1” at the end (no quotes)

That was easy enough. Thanks.

Well, if eBay removed the RSS altogether from the site the trick would no longer work.