You frequently see censored images in newspapers, magazines and on the television. Pixelation is most often used to blur out the features of people to preserve their privacy. Whether it’s to protect the children of celebrities, a car number plate or a person’s private parts that have wrestled their way out of their clothes, there is a Photoshop filter to help censor those images. Here’s a really quick way to give your images that censored look using the Pixelate filter in Photoshop.
1. Open up the image that you want to censor. I’m using a wallpaper of the movie poster for Leap Year which I downloaded from MovieWallpaper.net. I don’t know anything about the movie, I was just looking for an image with a couple of faces in it.

2. Draw a circular selection around the man’s face using the Elliptical Marquee tool (M).

3. Press Ctrl + J (win) or Cmd + J (Mac) to duplicate and copy the selection onto a new layer.

4. With the new layer selected, choose Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic. This opens the Mosaic dialog box. Make sure the Preview check box is selected so you can see how the image will be affected.

Yesterday, I wrote about cause marketing as one of four types of marketing strategies I’m covering this week. Today, we’re looking at relationship marketing.
What is Relationship Marketing?
Relationship marketing focuses on using customer service and quality of service as benchmarks in a company’s marketing activities. Relationship marketing campaigns are developed by looking at the lifetime relationship with clients rather than the individual dealings in order to increase profit. In relationship marketing, the goal is to satisfy and retain clients in order to create long-term profitable relationships.
Relationship Marketing Background
Leveraging existing customer relationships in marketing began in the 1960s through direct-response marketing campaigns. However, the term “relationship marketing” wasn’t used until 1983 when Leonard Berry wrote the book, “Relationship Marketing.”
Benefits of Relationship Marketing
It’s obvious that there is a lot to be gained by marketing to your existing client base. Here are some of the positive results:

Episode 46 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week, Patrick O’Keefe (@iFroggy) is joined by social media strategist Jim Turner (@Genuine) to discuss supporting good causes through social media.
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Patrick: January 29th, 2010. Social media strategist Jim Turner stops by to chat about supporting good causes through social media. This is the SitePoint Podcast #46: Using the Internet for Good with Jim Turner.

"I'm in the process of designing a complete front end sales order to shipment solution for our business that will take the form of a web app."

iPhone applications have been the success story of the last year. Developers have churned out thousands of excellent — and dubious — applications for Apple’s popular mobile. Some companies have made a fortune selling their software for a few cents.
However, there is a growing trend for developers to move away from Apple’s proprietary platform and return to web technologies. A number of companies, including Twitter, Techmeme and Nextstop are producing mobile web applications that work well on the iPhone but are based on HTML5 in the Safari browser. For example, the jQuery iPhone reference uses jQTouch to simulate the iPhone interface and caches web files so it installs and acts like a regular application.
There are several benefits to this approach:

I’m not quite sure how to feel about this one. The web developer in me is saying “Whoa! That’s so cool!”, while the web surfer in me is saying “Ew.. I’m leaking data everywhere.. How gross..”.

Digital civil rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (of recent Net neutrality and Facebook privacy battles) has released an eye-opening online tool called Panopticlick, designed to demonstrate exactly how uniquely identifiable you are — even if you’re diligent enough to take some of the most commonly prescribed privacy measures.

Conventional wisdom holds that if you disable scripting and refuse to accept cookies, you’ll be denying web sites the tools they need to recognize you when you return, thus maintaining your anonymity.
However, as Panopticlick shows us, there is still a lot of seemingly benign data available to any web server inquisitive enough to ask — items such as user agent, browser plugin details, local timezone, screen size, screen color depth and system fonts.
As is the case with the proteins in our DNA, while none of the individual pieces are (likely) unique, when taken as a whole they very likely combine to produce a unique fingerprint.
*Head slap*. It was so obvious.

The new device from Apple is on everyone's mind. What do you think?

Khurram's article reviewed 10 dedicated hosting plans from different hosting companies and compared their features. Of course, that's far from an exhaustive list. Who's your favorite dedicated hosting provider?

For the second-last day of our Christmas Countdown, we’re going to open the floodgates and make ALL deals to date available for one more day!
So, if you missed out on a deal you really wanted, now’s your chance …
Even our deals that were sold out are available again — but if you take up one of those offers, you need to be prepared to wait until late January for the stock to arrive.
Our deals so far:

What's the right approach to build a fully-featured, desktop-like application in JavaScript?