If you’re not familiar with Vine, it’s a relatively new app from Twitter that allows you to record six second looping video clips (with audio) that you can share on Twitter, Facebook and Vine.  Since it’s launch in January, Vine has grown its monthly active users by 50% in the last month and is easily the most popular video sharing app out there. The super-short format has clearly inspired creativity in Vine’s users. I spent way too long watching this loop:

I think it’s obvious what you are Harry… vine.co/v/bpj7Km0T3d5

— Jackson Holland (@_jacsun_) March 20, 2013

But I was most angry at myself for not setting up Find My iPhone. Had I taken a few minutes to set this up, I would have at least had a fighting chance to recover my iPad. So if you’ve got an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Mac make sure you enable Find My iPhone, which will help you locate your device on a map, play a sound, display a message, remotely lock your device, or even erase all the data on it.

In order to setup Find My iPhone, you’ll need to first setup iCloud on your device. This can be done by tapping the Settings icon on the Home screen, selecting iCloud, and entering your Apple ID. You can use the same one you use for iTunes or setup a new account. (detailed instructions here) Once iCloud is setup, make sure Find My iPhone is set to On.

Now, if your device is ever lost or stolen, you can download the free Find My iPhone app on another iOS device. Then login using the same Apple ID you used to setup iCloud. If your device is online, it will locate it on a map and allow you to play a sound on the device (useful if you’ve misplaced your phone or iPad). If you’re running iOS 6, you can enable Lost mode, which will allow you to enter a message that will be displayed on the device, a phone number where you can be reached, and a four digit passcode to remotely lock the device (if you already set a passcode on the device, it will be used). For even greater security, you can remotely erase all data on the device. If you get the device back, you restore your data from a backup (which conveniently can also be done through iCloud).

I have a new iPad now, and Find My iPhone was the first thing I setup. And if I’m ever craving Trader Ming’s Pot Stickers, I make sure to lock my bag in the trunk.

How was this accomplished? Well, Honan got the details from the hacker in exchange for promising not to press charges. Strong passwords are important but they are not enough; flaws in many customer service systems can allow hackers to reset your password and access your data. Ultimately, all they needed was Honan’s email address, a billing address (which they got from the Whois information for a domain registered under his name) and the last four digits of a credit card on file.

Turns out that all you needed to get into an iCloud account was a billing address and the last four digits of a credit card on file. The hackers called Amazon and told them they were Honan and wanted to add a credit card to the account. All you needed to do this is the name on the account, an associated email address, and the billing address. Amazon then allows you to input a new credit card number. After doing this, the hackers called back and told them that they lost access to the account. By providing the new credit card number and the billing address, they were able to add a new email address to the Amazon account. After this, they went to Amazon’s site and sent a password reset to the new email address, which allowed them to see all of the credit cards on the account — not the entire numbers, just the last four digits.

Pretty scary stuff. Apple and Amazon have quietly closed these security flaws, but you can be sure more holes will be discovered. Honan’s main recommendations are:

1. Don’t link together key services (i.e., your iCloud and Google accounts)

2. Don’t use the same email prefix across multiple accounts (i.e., mhonan@gmail.com, mhonan@me.com, mhonan@wired.com)

3. Backup your data — Honan lost photos covering the entire lifespan of his daughter, in addition to documents and emails that were stored in no other location.

But hold on, there’s a catch. A quick look at movie listings on Fandango would lead you to believe that you can see The Dark Knight Rises in IMAX in any number of local multiplexes. However, in most of these places, you would be watching a digital print of the film being shown with an IMAX brand digital projector. A True IMAX venue has screens that are at least 72 feet wide by 52 feet tall, while IMAX Digital screens are significantly smaller. You’ll still pay more though; theaters charge around $5 more for tickets to movies shown in IMAX Digital.

So if you’re in the Philadelphia area, you can either make the trek out to the UA King of Prussia IMAX or get tickets at the Tuttleman IMAX at the Franklin Institute. Or if you’re more adventurous, you can take a ride to the Tropicana IMAX in Atlantic City and make a weekend of it.  I’m not a huge fan of I-76 so King of Prussia is out for me. I’m also old, so probably no trip to AC tomorrow night. And I have a feeling that the dome shaped theater at the Franklin Institute might make me nauseous, so I’ll be watching on a standard sized screen. I’m sure it will still be awesome.

Here’s where you can see The Dark Knight Rises in True 70mm IMAX

From time to time, Orbis has customers that wish to pay with their credit or debit card, but it’s not really a big part of our business. Still, we like being able to offer this convenience to our customers. Unfortunately, the process is way more complicated than it needs to be. The website used to process payments is confusing. We get charged three different monthly fees which seem to vary every month. We pay different rates depending on the type of card.

As a possible solution, we’ve opened an account with Square, a company started by one of the founders of Twitter. They’re sending us a free card reader that plugs into an iPhone and allows us to accept all credit cards with a flat percentage fee and no contract. Sounds good, I guess we’ll see how well it works. Anyone out there have any experience with Square?

But the original reasons for us to blog, tweet, youface, pholo, fingertag, etc. remain — it’s a great way for us to connect with our customers. So we are officially rebooting our social media effort. In the coming days and weeks you can expect to hear about cool new products and services, links to interesting articles, and general updates about what’s happening at Orbis. Most importantly, we want this to be a conversation. Tell us how we’re doing — are our tweets the highlight of your day? Are our blog posts unbearably boring? We want to hear from you.

Yo-Pro is a new organization comprised of young professionals working within the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market. Our objective is to build lasting relationships, make the Market a more appealing place to work, and develop suggestions for future improvements.

We’ll be hosting a Happy Hour this Thursday, November 19th from 5-7pm at Irish Times, on the corner of 2nd and Bainbridge. Please RSVP if you’re interested in attending.

Put simply, a 64-bit PC can handle larger amounts of information than a 32-bit system. Since it can use more RAM—4 GB and up—a 64-bit computer can be more responsive when you’re running lots of programs at once and switching between them frequently.

Windows 7 is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Most programs designed for computers running 32-bit versions of Windows will work on a computer running the 64-bit version of Windows. Notable exceptions are many antivirus programs and hardware drivers.

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