Seems like every day there’s news of another data breach. Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, has partnered with one of the most respected online security experts to help you know when your personal info is exposed. Firefox Monitor lets you check your email address for known past breaches, and even sign up for ongoing alerts. When you join Firefox, you’ll be able to monitor multiple email addresses, and keep track with a dashboard for all your accounts, monitoring and alerts.

Firefox-level privacy, Chrome-level compatibility. The new Edge browser is based on Chromium, the open-source project that is the foundation of other browsers like Google’s own Chrome. Essentially, Edge is a stripped-down version of Chrome with all the Googly stuff replaced by Microsoft features. Like Mozilla’s Firefox, Edge also focuses more on privacy features with built-in tracking protection. And on top of that, Microsoft has split Edge out from the Windows 10 operating system, and will receive updates every six-weeks. With versions for Windows, MacOS, Android, and iOS you can try the new browser on your desktop, laptop, and phone.

Starting in Firefox release 72 and Chrome release 80 web notification requests will be getting less annoying, but may upset website owners that use notifications to drive traffic.

Linux, has a limited number of dedicated graphic design tools, including tools like GIMP and Inkscape. But unfortunately these tools are missing modern features and workflow of UX/UI design applications like Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD or even Affinity Designer. Akira is going to fill the gap of a professional caliber design application for Linux!

Microsoft says it plans to replace the proprietary EdgeHTML browser engine Edge currently uses with Chromium and the Blink browser rendering engine, an which is an open source project that powers everything, from the world’s most popular web-browser (Google Chrome) to famous desktop apps like Spotify.

Feature Policy allows you to opt-in to a set of “policies” for the browser to enforce on specific features used throughout your site. These policies restrict what APIs the site can access or modify the browser’s default behavior for certain features. For example you can control the features of an iframe, currently supported by Chrome and Safari. If you embed a site and do not want that site to use geolocation, camera or microphone APIs then you can easily disable them.

Designers often take inspiration from other sources including nature. This compendium of four short films with English subtitles “In Search of Forgotten Colours – Sachio Yoshioka and the Art of Natural Dyeing” is a beautiful testament to both the amazing colours in the natural world and the ingenuity of humans to develop such complex of extracting these natural dyes.

Watch the video on YouTube

In design we are seeing the continuation of big text being integrated into images, especially into front page and header images.

• Integration: Text integrated in graphics will continue to be strong for example Highland Hounds & World Champion Ansterdam
• Photo Masking: Text masking graphics like Oxeva & Seven 811
• Big Text: Large text in headers like our own homepage. You & Sundry & Just Food For Dogs & Stonewall Forever

Cleaner/Simpler copy will continue to lead the way. Look for ways to simplify your message and cut out unneeded text and insert white-space.

Instagram will continue to grow as not only a strong platform social but as an e-commerce platform as well. Shopify just recently launched its Instagram integration which allows merchants to easily sell on the network, this can also be setup manually, just check out Highland Hounds on Instagram! products on Instagram only works on the app

Video, especially live video will become more pervasive, you need to have video in your content mix or you’re going to lose out on attention grabbing moments as people scroll through their feeds.

We often get asked how to get people to visit their site, do you need SEO, how do you get links to your site. Our answer is often the same, create good quality original content and people will visit your site for the content. People will link and promote your content if they find it useful and of good quality, which means you need to invest time into the development of your content.

Lets face it, with recent changes to the Ontario association rules regarding advertising, veterinarians can now advertise prices and compete on price. It is more important than ever that your practice put its best foot forward. You need to promote your professional image and show pet owners the value that your practice brings to pet care. In the end you need to a leave a professional, positive, and lasting impression with your clients, Mocoda Interactive can deliver.