We're all a little lax when it comes to sending as many "thank you" notes as we should.
That's where Facebook comes in. It's the perfect platform for thank you missives that can be personalized and shared, giving a public shoutout to someone who's done you a solid.


There are endless ways in which Facebook is ideal for sending a thank you note.

• Someone's given you/your child/your pet a gift. Snap a picture of the recipient with said gift and create a photo post, tagging the giver as a thank you. You get to show her how much the present was appreciated and she gets a public shoutout for her thoughtfulness.
• You enjoyed a delicious meal at someone's home. Be sure to grab a tasty-looking image of the food and the next day, post a Facebook #foodgram complimenting his amazing cuisine and tagging him as the chef. He'll be flattered you liked the food so much to create a post.
• You were invited to a party or other event. Take some arty shots and create a mini-gallery on Facebook, tagging the organizer. Make sure you mention details (the decorations, the venue, the music, etc.) so the organizer knows you really noticed the small things.
• If you want to say a thank you for a deed or kindness, but there's no obvious visual, think about what your recipient really loves. A cute picture of her favorite animal, a quirky image to make her smile, or a beautiful arty photo can work just as well.

Unlike traditional thank you cards, the great thing about social "thank yous" is that the person, or people, you're thanking get to post an instant "you're welcome" by commenting under it. Good feels all around.

Once you've created your photo post, don't forget to tag the person (by typing the "@" sign and selecting their name from the list that appears).
You can also add a "feeling" emoticon to further enhance your message. Just click on the yellow smiley at the bottom of your post to choose a suitable emotion, such as grateful, loved, thankful or delighted.
If you think your recipient would like it, add cartoon "stickers" to your photo: Once you've uploaded it, hover over the pic and click on the paintbrush-shaped "edit" icon. You can browse and add stickers.

Of course, you could always make your own digital thank you card and upload this as a Facebook image. A variety of sites and apps can help. We like the Red Stamp app for iOS. It lets you pay to create real cards and send them, but also gives you the ability to make free digital versions.

You can choose from a great selection of thank you card templates, add images and designs to make it personal, then upload your finished design to Facebook, remembering to tag the individuals you want to thank.

Apple CEO Tim Cook was at the forefront of the recent online protest against Indiana's new law permitting businesses to discriminate against LGBT consumers

 There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country," wrote Cook in the Sunday edition of the paper. "[T]he bill enacted in Indiana last week that drew a national outcry and one passed in Arkansas, [says] individuals can cite their personal religious beliefs to refuse service to a customer or resist a state nondiscrimination law."
Cook, who in recent years has gone on record as an advocate for workplace equality and the rights of LGBT citizens, drove his point home by putting the much-criticized law in Indiana in historical context.
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These bills rationalize injustice by pretending to defend something many of us hold dear

These bills rationalize injustice by pretending to defend something many of us hold dear," wrote Cook. "They go against the very principles our nation was founded on, and they have the potential to undo decades of progress toward greater equality … The days of segregation and discrimination marked by 'Whites Only' signs on shop doors, water fountains and restrooms must remain deep in our past. " Once again putting the internal policies of Apple front and center, Cook talked about how the company is "open to everyone," and added an anecdote about being baptized at a Baptist church as a child. Considering the religious parameters of the Indiana law, the church reference is particularly important to Cook, who wrote in 2014 that he is "proud to be gay."
This additional, more detailed push against the law in Indiana by Cook, who sits at the head of the most valuable company on the planet, is likely to put even more pressure on the state's governor, Mike Pence.

Pence has been scrambling to explain the reasoning behind the passing of the law following the largely negative reaction from the public and the business community, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Angie's List (an Indiana-based company) CEO Bill Oesterle, among others.
"This isn’t a political issue. It isn’t a religious issue," wrote Cook, on Sunday. "This is about how we treat each other as human beings."

Affiliate marketing is when you sign up with companies to market and sell their products and/or services for a commission. Commissions are generally 25% or lower so be sure to check before you sign up. If you want to make a living online, affiliate marketing can be a good way for you to learn the ropes or add to your existing online business income. Many of us (me included) make the same newbie mistake. We sign up for any programs we find, slap a banner or two on our website and then wait for the money to come rolling in. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. As with any business, you will need to work consistently and persistently to build your affiliate sales business. Below are ten tips to help you make more sales with
your affiliate marketing business.
1. Sell What You Believe – Selling a product or service that you have actually used and believe in is much more effective than selling a product you have no clue about. Try the product, tell your story and make more sales. Being able to personally recommend a product can go a long way. Be sure to know about your product too, so when people ask you questions you can let them know the information they need. This will help in making more sales as well.
2. Be Selective – Do not join every program you find. Spreading yourself too thin will cause you to lose focus and sales. Find one or two excellent programs and products that you can really spend time and energy promoting heavily. You don’t want to confuse your potential customers with too many offers, ads and products plastered all over your site.
3. Sales Materials – Most affiliate companies will offer you professionally made sales materials such as banners, ads, sales copy and more. Be sure to take advantage of these if you cannot provide your own. Test and track the ads to find the most effective. Place the banners in different locations on your site and find what works the best. Don’t just paste them anywhere and hope they work.
4. Customer Testimonials – Be sure to use customer testimonials or case studies. Ask the company if they can provide you with some until you start getting some of your own to use. Use the testimonials in whole and snippets in various places you are promoting.
5. Video Marketing – Video marketing can be much more effective than text ads because it allows the customer to actually see how the product is used and how well it works. You can easily make your own effective video with your personal recommendation to go along with the demonstration.
6. Social Sites – Be sure to add videos, banners, incentives, etc. on your social sites such as Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and others. Tweet pertinent info about your product as well. Be sure to connect all your social sites to your site and vice versa.
7. Add a Bonus – Giving a person a little extra incentive to purchase your product is sometimes all it takes. Offer a free ebook, report, gift card, etc. so the customer will be convinced to make the purchase. A little extra push can make a big difference in your total sales.
8. eMail Signature – Your email signature is a sometimes overlooked advertising opportunity. Write a little teaser about your product and/or bonus and add this to your email signature along with your affiliate link. Every email you send could be a potential sale!
9. Article Resource Box – Be sure to incorporate article marketing into your promotion tactics. Add a snippet and link in your article resource box to get people’s attention.
10. Promote to Your List – If you have been online for any length of time, you should have built a reliable mailing list. Send special offers and incentives to your mailing list. Let them know they are appreciated and will receive special offers that no one else will.
Affiliate marketing can help you get started in the internet marketing business or it can help you increase your existing business income. Either way you need to work at it and promote consistently and effectively for it to be successful!

 

Website Performance Affects Your Bottom Line

We all know that website performance is extremely important. Every website visitor’s experience should be as optimal as possible. With 75-80% of website visitors coming from mobile browsers, it is important that your website is as streamlined and efficient as possible. Let’s take a look at some helpful tips for increasing website performance.

Be Sure To Test Your Website Every Once In A While

With free services, such as Google Page Speed, Yslow, and Pingdom, you can test your website’s performance for free. You gain valuable insight as to how fast your website is running, that you also learn where it is hanging up. Maybe there is a script that is taking too long to load, or maybe you have a lot of server requests. You may not know this is happening, unless you test your website using one of these services. It’s free, so why not?

Reduce Image File Size

It seems like images on the web are getting bigger and bigger. Mobile devices are beginning to be able to use more bandwidth as it is becoming available. Some web designers are forgetting that large images slow down your site. If you do decide to use a large image, make sure that it is optimized as much as possible for the web. There’s no point in using a 300 PPI image on your website.
It’s also important to remember to use the right file format for the right image. For flat one or two color graphics, use a GIF or PNG-8. If your image requires transparency, but is still 1 to 2 colors, use a GIF with transparency enabled. If it is a full-color image that requires transparency, then use a PNG 24. If it’s a full-color image that doesn’t require transparency than a JPEG is the best choice. Make sure to save it for the web, don’t make it super high quality unless you have to.

Minify CSS and JavaScript

Minification removes unnecessary characters and spaces from your CSS and JavaScript files. While this doesn’t seem like a lot, every little bit helps. You might also consider bundling your CSS and JavaScript files together. Remember when I talked about reducing the number of server requests? Combining CSS and JavaScript files will do that. The harder your server has to work, the slower your site will load.

Use Compression To Reduce File Sizes

In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a theme here. It’s all about making everything smaller and more compact. The way you compress your files is to use gzip compression. This type of compression will lower file sizes, dramatically increasing your website’s performance.

Use Amazon S3 For Your Website’s Images

There are pros and cons of using images off-site. This can be a real headache when something goes wrong. This is especially true with WordPress, because there are a lot of plug-ins out there to help fix image problems when the images are actually on your server. The problem is missing images is multiplied when your images are off your server and hosted on another site. The advantage of this is that your server doesn’t have to work as hard. Images are displayed remotely, and Amazons hardware is extremely fast. You have to weigh out the pros and cons for yourself and decide whether the payoff outweighs the possible risks and headaches that may come.

Strip Down Your Site To Only What You Need

You might consider using the heat map tool that I mentioned on this week’s iTunes podcast. You can use it to record for your users are actually clicking on your site. If you have bulky ads that no one is clicking on, or scripts for special effects that no one seems to be using, you might strip these away to increase performance. The less scripts you have on your site, the faster it will load.

Stay Away From Script Heavy Sharing Buttons

I use sharing buttons on my website to promote social sharing and content promotion. I try my best to use the most lightweight solutions possible. However, there are some really script heavy social sharing plug-ins out there that cause your site to load an extra 3 to 5 seconds longer. This is murder for your page speed and rank. Consider using a more lightweight solution, such as sumo maze share plug-in. It’s fast, lightweight and gives you a ton of options. This is the case where features don’t necessarily have to equal size or bulk. You just have to know where to look.
There are some people who would say that you might consider stripping your social sharing buttons from your site altogether. I tend to disagree with this, because people are inherently lazy. They aren’t going to share your content unless there’s a button there to make it easy. Any extra effort you cause someone to have to take in order to share your content means that it is less likely to happen.

Lazy Loading

Lazy loading is a script that only loads the images that are visible to the user. The rest of the images load as you scroll down the page, or they load in the background. While this sounds like just another script that will bog your site town, it actually speeds up the amount of time that it takes for your site load.

Conclusion

Focusing on website performance will give you a blazing fast website that users like exploring. No one likes waiting for every page to load. Increasing website performance will also increase your rank. It’s not really difficult to do, but it’s definitely something you should take a look at periodically. You never know when someone will make a change to a script, causing it to bog down your site. Regularly checking your website’s performance should be something that you add to your weekly routine. You have any tips for increasing website performance? Feel free to leave your tips in the comments section below.

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A few weeks ago, WhatsApp's Call feature made a small appearance for a few users, but at the time almost no one was able to trigger it reliably and keep it activated. The company appears to have flipped a few switches in its servers and the function is confirmed to work for those running version 2.11.528 from the Play Store, or 2.11.531 from WhatsApp's website (also uploaded to APKMirror).



A few users have emailed us reporting getting the function activated over the past hours, and I just got mine up and running after receiving a call from Clinton (who got it from another friend, and so on). So as you are suspecting, the "invite" or, more accurately, the trigger that enables the feature has to be the reception of a call from someone who already has it. (Or maybe this terminal trick still works, I'm not sure.) Once that happens, WhatsApp's UI switches (either immediately or after you exit and reopen the app) from just showing chats, to a 3-tab layout with calls, chats, and contacts.

Calls are well integrated in WhatsApp. The dedicated tab shows incoming, outgoing, and missed calls with precise timing. Ongoing calls stay in the notification panel until you hang up while missed calls leave a notification that you can later check out. While on a call, you can activate the loudspeaker or mute the microphone. If you open your text chats with any contact, a call button appears in the action bar, right next to the attach icon and the menu, to make it easier to talk to them. And finally, if you click a contact's avatar, you now get a bigger profile image with the options to message or call them, or view their information.

The call button for all contacts now defaults to a WhatsApp call instead of going through your phone. I can't find a way to trigger a regular network call from the app, which is a bit annoying because you might be in a spotty area or your contact might be offline. (For the record, in this case, the WhatsApp call still rings for a while, no one answers, and then gets disconnected. When the person goes back online, they see it as a missed call.) You'll have to go to your regular Phone app to initiate a network call.
When you're lucky enough to receive a WhatsApp call from a friend, you can go on enabling the feature by calling your other contacts. If they're running an older version of the app that doesn't support it, you will instantly see a message notifying you of that so you can tell them to update their app before you call them. Now all you have to do is cross your fingers and hope that someone shares the riches with you so you can spread them further.

I'll leave you with the truthful words of CJ (whose face is all over my screenshots) that perfectly describe this feeling: "I feel so powerful now. What do I do with all this POWAAAAAAAH? *Calls random people in friends' list* With every person I activate, I get less powerful, gasp."

Update 5: 2015/03/25 1:18am PDT

Invites open again
The invites are working again. You are better off installing WhatsApp 2.12.14 and trying to get called by someone who has the feature activated.

That's why we're proud to announce the relaunch of MashFlix, our digital and IRL film club, with Alex Garland's latest feature film, Ex Machina, a tale of technology and the complications of artificial intelligence.



We'll be spending the next few weeks showcasing content and contests about the film, fostering online discussion, and getting you set for our free screening with Garland himsel

Ex Machina is Garland's directorial debut, having found success in screenwriting and producing with 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Dredd. The film follows a young lamb of a programmer named Caleb Smith (Domnhall Gleeson) who wins the trip of a lifetime; a stay at the home of his company's genius, heavily bearded CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac).

There, he encounters Ava (Alicia Vikander), a beautiful and mysterious AI, under the strictest of confidential terms. As Caleb and Ava spend more time together, he finds himself entranced by her emotional intelligence and begins to grow more paranoid about Nathan's true intentions.

It's Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep meets 2001: A Space Odyssey, with their magnetic, not-so-human characters and peaceful, if claustrophobic settings. Garland brings new life to the AI tradition by raising the ethical concerns of developing technologies to the forefront of the audience's mind.

It may breed some controversy, but the film touches on so many issues we write about at Mashable — from the future of tech to the disturbing relationship the industry can sometimes have with women and diversity — that we wanted to bring it to you directly, and hear your thoughts.

Watch the trailer for a thrilling preview of the movie, and then sign up for the free screening and Q&A with the director at the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg on April 8 at 7 p.m. ET. If you can't join in person, be sure to follow MashFlix on Twitter and we'll keep you posted about how you can join in on the discussion online.

Twitter is currently testing a video feature that lets some videos play automatically when it's visible in someone's feed, according to an AdAge report. A small pool of U.S. users accessing the social network on an iOS device reported seeing videos start without hitting play earlier this week.



AdAge indicates that the test applies to Promoted Video ads, clips uploaded directly via Twitter's app and videos in its Amplify program, which helps brands like the NBA promote video clips with a teaser ad from a sponsor. Twitter is experimenting with two versions of the test: In one case, some users will see an entire video play on a loop, while others will see six seconds of a video teaser play in a loop.

However, videos posted from Twitter's six-second Vine app won't automatically play in feeds.

The move is part of an effort to take on sites like Google and more recently, Facebook

The move is part of an effort to take on sites like Google and more recently, Facebook, which dominate the online video space. Autoplay is an easy way for companies to grab a user's attention. It allows brands to no longer have to rely on a person clicking on a video to get the message across to users.

Facebook, which rolled out its own autoplay strategy in 2013, has seen big success with the concept. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said the site gets 3 billion video views each day. A video is considered "watched" if it plays for three seconds.

Amazon-owned game streaming service Twitch was hacked, the company announced in a blog post Monday. The attackers gained access to users' account information.



Users will be notified that their passwords have been reset the next time they log in

he company also sent an email to users, warning that their account information may have been compromised, including email addresses, passwords (cryptographically protected, according to Twitch), IP addresses and limited credit card information. Full credit card numbers aren't stored by Twitch, but other personal data is, such as card type, truncated card number and expiration date.

"We are writing to let you know that there may have been unauthorized access to some Twitch user account information. For your protection, we have expired passwords and stream keys and have disconnected accounts from Twitter and YouTube," Twitch's blog post read.

Users will be notified that their passwords have been reset the next time they log in, and will be prompted to choose a new password. Furthermore, those who connected their Twitter, YouTube or Facebook accounts with Twitch will have to reconnect those accounts to the service again.

Twitch provided no further information about the nature of the attack or the measures it is undertaking to identify the hackers. Representatives for Twitch didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Twitch, which lets users watch other people play games, was acquired by Amazon for $970 million in August 2014. In January of this year, the company launched a music library, as well as music as an entirely new category.

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Movie: Ek Paheli Leela (2015):



Actor/Actress: Sunny Leone, Jay Bhanushali, Rajneesh Duggal And Many More.
Director: Bobby Khan Producer: Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Ahmed Khan, Shaira Khan.
Writter: Bunty Rathore (Dialouges).
Screenplay: Jojo Khan. Story: Bobby Khan.
Music by Songs: Meet Bros Anjjan, Amaal Mallik, Dr. Zeus, Tony Kakkar, Uzair Jaswal.
Cinematography: Bashalal Syed. Editor: Nitin FCP. Production Company: Paper Doll Entertaiment.
Distributor: T-Series.
Release Dates: 10 April 2015.
Movie Language: Hindi.


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On Tuesday, more Marvel characters will join the toy lineup of Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes. Fans can pick up figures of the trickster god Loki, as well as Falcon, a Marvel hero with more than 40 years of history in that universe.

The flying hero Falcon, who can be seen above in action in Disney Infinity, first appeared in Captain America's comics in 1969, becoming a series staple through many runs. He also appeared as part of the Avengers for a short time, as well as in the Ultimate Spider-Man TV series.



When Avalanche Games, the developers of Disney Infinity, began working on Falcon's design, Disney suggested using the last series as inspiration.

"When we create any Infinity figure, we want the most iconic and appealing version we can find of that character… the version we think the fans of that character will appreciate the most," said Jeff Bunker, vice president of art development for Avalanche Studios. "We have found over the many figures we have done that when we listen to the creators of the characters and make them happy, that we will ultimately make the fans happy."

Many fans might wonder why Falcon's military-inspired costume, as seen from Captain America: Winter Soldier, wasn't the chosen outfit.


There was some desire, for me personally, to do the Captain America 2 version of Falcon, because I thought they did a great job on the design of his film costume. It was hard to justify though, because although cool, he didn't fit into the three Marvel families (Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man, and Guardians of the Galaxy) that we were already supporting in the game," Bunker said, noting that players can change Falcon's costume with the Ultimate Falcon power disc."

While plenty of heroes in this version of Disney Infinity have the power of flight, Falcon's wings posed an extra challenge for the development team, especially as characters are given the consistent, simplified look that is standard throughout the game.

"It was really difficult for us to figure out the right balance for his wings," said Bunker. "We tested his wings in two ways — one version had the wings coming from his arms and one version had them coming from a pack on his back. We landed on the pack so we could make them look like more realistic wings from all angles."


Making the wings a translucent red was also a first for the series, and something Butler says took "a lot of extra R&D."
Falcon's appearance in the game doesn't necessarily indicate whether or not he'll make an appearance in Avengers: Age of Ultron, although a few sites have pointed out the actor who portrayed him in Winter Soldier, Anthony Mackie, appears on the movie's IMDB page.

Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes is available for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC, Wii U, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.

Facebook may be trying to take over your phone app.

The social network is testing a voice-calling app that can screen your calls and show you information about who is calling, according to an image obtained by Android Police.



The app, called "Phone," will display information about those who call you —presumably based on their Facebook profiles — and automatically block calls that come from numbers that have been previously identified as spam, according to the description in the screenshot. Facebook is known to test new features with small groups of users first, but the leaked image suggests the testing for this app may be limited to internal tests at the moment as it has an "FB-Only" note.

A Facebook spokesperson told Mashable "we are always testing things," but declined to comment specifically on the Phone app.



This isn't the first time Facebook has experimented with voice calling. The company introduced voice calls to Messenger a few years ago and has been testing the feature on the Android version of WhatsApp, both of which rely on either a Wi-Fi or a data connection.

It's not clear whether the Phone app would be an expansion of these existing voice-calling features or a standalone service, but the description suggests it would work for all voice calls, not just those made over a Wi-Fi or data connection.

Facebook Messenger is slated to get a big overhaul.

Vepsh has learned Facebook plans to announce that it's opening up Facebook Messenger to third-party apps during its upcoming F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco next week.



The social network is set to announce about 20 third-party services, whose apps will work on top of Messenger when the integration rolls out, according to a person familiar with the matter. It's not yet clear who the early partners are or what the integration will look like, but Facebook will likely expand the capability to more developers following the initial rollout.

Facebook has previously announced major new features at its F8 Developer Conference and typically offers guidance, in the form of workshops and talks on the new features to developers during the event.
The upcoming update to Messenger, first reported Thursday, is the company's latest in a series of moves that have vastly expanded the reach of Messenger over the last year.
Facebook declined Mashable's request for comment.

Facebook first launched Messenger as a standalone app back in 2011. But last summer the company announced it would be shifting mobile messages out of the main Facebook app entirely — a move that angered many users at the time.

Since then,

Facebook has been steadily beefing up Messenger's feature set

Facebook has been steadily beefing up Messenger's feature set, most recently with the addition of mobile payments.

But opening up the service to third-party developers will make Messenger its own platform, rather than a supplement to Facebook's main's service. The company's motives for doing this are unclear but the success of apps like WeChat and Line in Asia, which also support third-party apps and services, has demonstrated the potential of such a platform.

Much more will be revealed during F8 next week — CEO Mark Zuckerberg will likely deliver the opening keynote — so stay tuned as Mashable will be reporting live from the event in San Francisco.