August 30, 2005
Celebrate 10th anniversary of Opera with a free registration code, Today only!
There is a free registered version of Opera for today only! Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Opera.
For one day only, you can get an ad-free version of Opera. Simply go here. This offer is valid from 12 a.m. Tuesday, August 30 to 12 a.m. Wednesday, August 31 2005 (PDT).
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August 24, 2005
Gary Rivlin: Google is the Borg. Jason Calacanis: Cry me a river.
Jason Calacanis, CEO of Weblogs, Inc. had a few choice words for Gary Rivlin's NY Time piece today. Gary writes how Google is becoming the Microsoft of Silicon Valley and no one can get funding or talent because of the search giant.
See what Jason has to say here. This is what makes a successful venture versus a unsuccessful one.
Via JasonCalacanis
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Google Talk Beta is here!
Google announces Google Talk!
Still in its infancy, and running on the XMPP protocol (Jabber for those that understand) and SIP for the VoIP bit. If you just want to use it for the IM part, it can support multiple clients.
So take a looksie here and have at it!
Via GoogleBlog
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August 23, 2005
Backup Del.icio.us bookmarks with Excel
Social bookmark service Del.icio.us is a wonderful tool. But you probably are kicking yourself for not backing it up for whatever reason. Never fret, here is a tutorial that tells you how to back it into Excel. Yes... that Excel.
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August 22, 2005
ADV Films sees the light with BitTorrent
ADV Films, one of the largest anime studios, decided to try out BitTorrent by promoting MadLax via BT. Due to overwhelming response, ADV is now promoting bonus materials for Gilgamesh and Goddanar. Animegeeks rejoice. ADV is playing a new ballgame.
Via Slashdot
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Google releases Desktop 2.0 Beta
Google releases their Desktop 2.0 Beta and has improved Outlook filtering, a way to look at RSS feeds, filtering for your gmail account, and other fun new features besides the usual indexing of your computer for searching.
Via Slashdot
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August 19, 2005
DIY DSL wiring
You've probably never wondered about how the DSL is wired into your house unless you're like ratchet, who's built his house and fought with the provider over crappy service.
This guide is to show you how to rewire the DSL circuit from the phone Company's NID to your modem and hopefully you’ll gain about 100 to 150kbps in speed, lower Latency and even get rid of all the Filters that are attached to your phones.
Feeling adventurous?
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August 17, 2005
Turn any RSS or OPML feed into a PDF
With RSS2PDF, you can turn any rss or opml feed into a pdf. Great tool written by Tom Churm.
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August 15, 2005
Mirror Me
Mirror Me, is a service that tracks downloads of certain files, manage mirrors, and throttle the bandwith on the mirrors. Pretty interesting if you have large files and need to have efficient distribution when your users are not centrally localized.
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August 09, 2005
Firefox UndoCloseTab extension
If you haven't installed SessionSaver, then this extension can do the same for accidental closing of tabs. While this could be very useful, just note that this is already built into SessionSaver also in the SnapBack feature.
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August 04, 2005
Howto make your site mobile friendly
While your server needs to be able to take on PHP, this is a quick way to make all of your sites run in four quick easy steps in a mobile environment.
Very cool for mobile device web design, without the web design part.
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August 03, 2005
NYT on Mozilla's move
Joi Ito reports on how NYT's Markoff scooped the Mozilla move to create a for-profit subsidiary. Unfortunately, there are some inaccuracies in the report on the Mozilla Corporation from NYT. There is mention that there is a service and support fee tied to the subsidiary, of which Joi says currently there is not.
In this matter, I think I'll go with Joi instead of Markoff.
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August 01, 2005
How to change text size with Firefox
LifeHacker:
If you find yourself squinting to read a web site with very small text on it (all the rage with the kids these days, that small text), don’t forget: hold down Control and hit the + key to enlarge or the - key to reduce the size of text on many sites using Firefox, including Lifehacker. (Command key for Mac users.)
What LifeHacker forgot to mention is that you can also hold Control and use the mouse to scroll up or down for text change. Scrolling up will shrink the text while scrolling down will enlarge the text.
Neat trick eh?
Via LifeHacker
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July 31, 2005
The incompentency of governmental IT
I will say that the Information Technology staff that I have "heard" about in most governments could probably be compared side-by-side to the Australian IT staff (management included.)
But this is the exact reason I have despised many-a-IT staff member for their incompetency by flinging around certifications like they actually meant something. Usually these are the same numbskulls that have never touched a linux box in their life, don't know what CLI means, think open-source software means no support, and are paid somewhere between 50k-100k for technical fervor equivalent to a wet blanket.
And you ask, why all this animosity? Case in point. Slashdot posts that eighteen AIX servers from the Australian government were not wiped, with ALL financial, payroll and other records still intact, along with backup tapes. All this for fourteen US dollars a server.
While most geeky people would just laugh at the government for such a stupid mistake, I point my finger at the IT management and staff for blame. Why? Management should know better. I have never liked technical positions managed by a bunch of suits that couldn't tell you what the difference between RAM and ROM was. IT staff should get fired for not knowing better to security wipe those AIX servers. Backup tapes were given? They should have gone to a secure waste disposal facility.
Harsh? Perhaps. But Information Technology has been long overdue for a change in the ranks. As we push further into the Information Age, those that are not willing to look for alternative solutions and be open to all solutions need to be filtered out. IT is not an easy money field as most tend to think. Then again, you could always act like the Australian IT guys.
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July 29, 2005
Why IE7's Phishing feature is plainly stupid
Interesting that people actually see some use of the IE7's beta features, especially the feature on phishing. This morning, a colleague of mine and I were IMing about the ridiculousness of Microsoft's IE7 and how the only unique feature between Firefox and IE7 was the phishing filter.
Then he went to point out why it was bad. Microsoft is doing a URL block. "That is true," I replied after further study of the beta. "And phishing sites only stay live for an average of two days now," I said thoughtfully. "Exactly," he answered.
Back in March of this year (2005), phishing sites were on average staying alive for six days. May of the same year, the Anti-Phishing Working Group shows on average 5.8 days of live activity.
The way Microsoft implemented it gives you a false sense of security. It doesn't do squat, seeing that most phishing sites have no URL and probably aren't documented until it's too late (Microsoft compares the phishing sites to a list). If you must have it in Firefox, it already exists in extensions. Dan, my friend, your request was answered even before you asked.
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July 28, 2005
Mozilla extension: Super DragandGo
From the Mozilla Updates page:
Drag a link or anything like a uri (e.g. "abc.com" ), and throw it to anywhere blank on the webpage to open the it in a new tab.
Why is this cool? You can download pictures and open tabs without right-clicking now. Just drag and go. Nifty.
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July 27, 2005
The Grokster versus Smith & Wesson argument
Some things in law never make any sense. Take for example the whole debate on Grokster. RIAA/MPAA won against Grokster for creating a technology that supposedly empowered people to infringe on copyright. We need not go into the good of peer-to-peer technologies and how it takes a lot of the burden off of Internet providers and servers by using the populace as an uploading mechanism.
While in the similar context, the Supreme court decided a while ago that Smith & Wesson cannot be sued for people that murder with their products.
So here it is in a detailed diagram.
GROKSTER -> P2P -> USER -> USER-ILLEGAL-DEED -> GROKSTER LIABLE
SMITH&WESSON -> GUNS -> USER -> USER-ILLEGAL-DEED -> SMITH&WESSON NOT LIABLE
Go figure. Talk about inconsistent.
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PDFOnline
Another piece of free PDF technology. PDFOnline is a free service where you can upload a PDF and they will send you a HTML version, send them Word Docs, Excel spreadsheets, picture files, and they'll send you the corresponding PDF.
This is assuming you never use PDFCreator which is free also, or Cute-PDF Writer.
Or you could have broken down and bought Acrobat since you needed to edit PDFs. Either way, another useful tool.
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July 26, 2005
DIY Google Earth Movies
Google Earth is sweet but it the free version only allows you to do certain things. The $400 version can allow you to record movies and do fly-ins and other features but I don't know anyone that wants to drop $400 for Google Earth.
So this guy went in and did a bit of hacking and made his first fly-by movie! The tutorial on how is here.
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July 20, 2005
Free Skypeout minutes
Free 10 Skypeout minutes again. Check Skype here on how to credit your account!
Via Skype
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Scribe: Mozilla Firefox extension
Word processing got you down? Pissed that you lost that "world changing" entry? If so, then Scribe is for you. This little extension allows you to hit "Ctrl-S" and save forms locally. This way, even if the ever-annoying Internet connection croaks, the post is still around!
Who need Notepad. Get with the age!
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July 11, 2005
Free SkypeOut credits
10 free SkypeOut minutes! And apparently they'll be giving away more as time goes on. What a deal.
180 days to use them or lose them.
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Polaroid-o-nizer
Ever want to go a bit retro with your pictures and go back to the days of the Polaroid? Here is your chance with any digital photograph. Just go to the Polaroid-o-nizer and the rest is history!
ForeverGeek < Polaroid-o-nizer
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July 02, 2005
DIY e-books for your iPod
MAKE has a great little tutorial on how to turn your iPod into an ebook reader! Pretty neat if you have some documents that you want to browse through in ASCII mode.
I suppose this could be useful, although I don't really use my iPod for anything but music.
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June 30, 2005
11 Nation Raid on Software Piracy
Department of Justice conducts an 11 Nation Raid on software piracy as of Wednesday.
Operation Site Down
Groups that were targeted:
RiSCISO, Myth, TDA, LND, Goodfellaz, Hoodlum, Vengeance, Centropy, Wasted Time, Paranoid, Corrupt, Gamerz, AdmitONE, Hellbound, KGS, BBX, KHG, NOX, NFR, CDZ, TUN and BHP.
One thing to mention. They claim $50 million in software damages. It's somewhat lesser. Software companies usually use each copy that is downloaded as "revenue lost". In actuality, there is only about one third or less that download, that would actually purchase the software.
Even so, at 25% of current "damages" $12.5 million is still a hefty sum to swallow. Also between this operation and the last one, they at least stopped RiSCiSO temporarily along with Fairlight, which is another old gaming group from the 90s.
Centropy was the Fairlight movie division and Myth (game rips group) was related to someone large also. Next generation warez groups such as TDA (applications), and LND (applications) were also decently sized being more matured operations.
Dual post on the CYBERGUARD forums here.
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June 24, 2005
Google's Site Search feature
Everyone knows how to type in Google the little bar, keywords for Google to find and it will trace through its vast index for matches.
Not many know of the filtering process that you can search with called SiteSearch. Here, if you type your entry and follow it with "site:
For example:
- admissions site:mit.edu
- 1090 site:.gov
Very useful.
Via GoogleBlog
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June 22, 2005
Drag and drog URLs in Firefox text areas
LifeHacker:
If you want to put an url that’s in your bookmarks into [a blog or forum post or new email message], simply drag the bookmark into the text area.
http://url homepage name
will appear. You can also make a temp folder in your bookmark toolbar to save all your links for latter ‘dragging.’ This works in almost all text areas you can drag to.
Via LifeHacker
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June 09, 2005
Delivr
Delivr is a great web service that searches through Flickr's Creative Commons photos by keyword to provide custom e-cards. Neat little utility.
Note that Delivr is not affiliated in any way with Flickr.
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June 06, 2005
Google Maps and Stealth Bombers
Google Maps turns up a stealth bomber in California.
Via GoogleBlogoscoped Thanks Adam!
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June 02, 2005
More people are paying for music but there are also more illegal downloads!
Cory Doctorow believes that one hand feeds the other. The drive for illegal music downloads has been what drives the $.99 purchases at your iTunes store to feed those iPods. Without either, there would not be the online purchases, which would kill the iPod market, and so on so forth. Sounds like there's some truth to how that works.
Via BoingBoing
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May 30, 2005
Technorati Japan launches
Technorati Japan beta site launches. Congrats to the DigitalGarage and Technorati team. Perhaps one day we will see a Technorati China.
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May 29, 2005
Docking boxes (dbx)
Similar to the sorting lists, this Javascript code takes the boxes and applies a snap-to-grid function along with the drag and drop, and show and hide functionality. Docking boxes (dbx) does exactly what it says it will do and also has keyboard accessibility along with the usual mouse movements!
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May 28, 2005
HoverHelp
HoverHelp is developed by Richard Livsey, and is a small script that allows clear mouseovers for hovering help tooltips. Attach a popup to anything!
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May 27, 2005
resize text boxes
Anders Pearson has come up with a brilliant way to have resized text boxes on the fly. This allows the user to expand or shrink the text box size right in the browser instead of being statically dependent.
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May 26, 2005
Drag and drop sorted lists
Simon Cozen first developed the drag and drog list example a while back. Tim Taylor has went and expanded on how to drag and drop sorted lists, buttons and more here in this tutorial.
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May 25, 2005
domCollapse
domCollapse:
domCollapse allows you to collapse and expand parts of page by activating other parts of a page.
To define a element that expands or collapses others add the class trigger to it as an attribute. This will automatically collapse the next following element in the document tree and add the functionality to alternately collapse and expand it.
The collapsing and expanding is achieved by adding and removing classes from the elements. This means you do not need to know any Javascript to make domCollapse behave differently.
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May 24, 2005
Firefox: Web Developer extension
From live CSS editing to multiple validation schemes, this is a web developer's dream tool for quick and dirty editing of websites via Mozilla's Firefox browser.
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May 23, 2005
Firefox tab tricks
If you're looking for keyboard shortcuts, or mouse shortcuts, here are all the one's that Mozilla has provided for you.
Via LifeHacker
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May 22, 2005
Website defacers help against phishing
Website defacers are now helping against phishing by defacing scam sites to warn consumers away from the fake businesses.
Another play on ethics. Ethically incorrect, but morally good acts.
Via SecurityFocus
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May 20, 2005
Flashblock: Flash blocker for Mozilla
BoingBoing:
Many sites have turned to Flash as a means of circumventing popup-blockers and selective ad-blockers, relying on the fact that most browsers don't have the ability to turn off Flash on a per-site basis. If you've got a popup blocker installed but still see popups, that's why.
Flashblock is a Firefox/Mozilla extension that provides easy and free Flash blocking on a per-site basis so that you can keep Flash switched on in Flickr, but turn it off for sites that use it to spawn popups.
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May 18, 2005
Those that use Yahoo, beware....
Yahoo is now tracking where you go. Using something called Web Beacons, they claim to use this for research on their users. What it actually is, is marketing research to find out what their users actually do outside of the Yahoo network.
ForeverGeek's procedure for opt-out:
Yahoo tracks all of its users everywhere on the web and the way to opt-out is detailed below. If you have a Yahoo e-mail account or belong to one of Yahoo's many Yahoo groups, this probably applies to you. Yahoo has probably been tracking everything you do online. Follow the instructions precisely to opt out of this. Notice the important part at the very end.
"Yahoo is now using something called 'Web Beacons' to track Yahoo Group users around the net and see what you're doing and where you are going similar to cookies. Yahoo is recording every website and every group you visit.
Take a look at their updated privacy statement:
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy
About half-way down the page, in the section on cookies, you will see a link that says web beacons. Click on the phrase web beacons.
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html
That will bring you to a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network."
In this section you'll see a little "click here to opt out" link that will let you "opt-out" of their new method of snooping.
Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted. Notice the "Success" message on the top of the next page. Be careful because on that page there is a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will **undo** the opt-out. So don't reflexively click that button, or you will undo the opt-out ! Feel free to forward this to other groups."
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Vehicular traffic conditions RSS
Either use the little URL generator or just use the directions below.
LifeHacker:
Now you can check the best route home from your RSS reader - Yahoo! offers traffic conditions data via RSS.
The URL to add to your newsreader looks like this:
http://maps.yahoo.com/traffic.rss?csz=10013&mag=4&minsev=2
Edit the URL to add your information:
LifeHacker < TrafficConditionData
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May 17, 2005
TPC Fax - Free faxing through the Internet
Lifehacker:
Send a plain text fax directly from the TPC site or with your regular email client. For formatted documents, download the TPC client software which prints from any application to fax. The catch is TPC fax only sends to certain locations, so refer to the coverage list or just check to see if your destination number is covered first.
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May 15, 2005
Poor Man's XBOX LIVE!
XBConnect is one of the most interesting projects I've seen in a while. The idea is to use your computer as a tunneling tool and have your console connect to the game on LAN play, and join the tunneled LAN. Essentially creating a VPN that your console can play on also.
Completely legal, and for 2005, XBConnect is offering support for the PSP. Now they just have to figure out the rest of the consoles and they'll have it made.
The normal version of the tunneling software is completely free, but XBConnect Pro gives you some advantage pre-releases and configurations for a mere $14.95. Available only on the Windows and Macintosh platforms.
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May 14, 2005
FireTune
There are many tutorials out there on how to tweak FireFox to make it your slave and tune it so it will play as fast as it can go. FireTune takes all of the scary stuff out of tuning it yourself and is a one stop shop. Works for Windows XP/2000/ME/98.
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May 13, 2005
Blogger bit the dust today
*laugh* Blogger just got hit by something. As of 5:15PMEST or so, Blogger was knocked off by whatever unknown reason.
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Raising money for a cause? Use Fundable
Fundable is a group money raiser that seems to have a very good model down. An organizer sets up a goal and how many people need to contribute how much money by how much time. Then a description is put in and the waiting starts. If the contributions meet the goal before the time expires, then the organizer must provide to the group what is promised. If the time expires before the goal is met, those that have participated would automatically get their funds refunded by Fundable.
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AIMSniff
AIM Sniff is a utility for monitoring and archiving AOL Instant Messenger messages across a network. You can either do a live dump (actively sniff the network) or read a PCAP file and parse the file for IM messages. You also have the option of dumping the information to a MySQL database, a flat file, STDOUT, or any combination of the three. AIM Sniff allows administrators to see how often users are chatting to monitor for abuse and you can also use AIM Sniff to monitor for cases of harassment or pirated software trading. It has been tested on FreeBSD, Linux, and OS X.
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May 11, 2005
Lickr with Flickr
Lickr is a hack of the current Flash interface on Flickr, replacing the Flash with some HTML and Javascript. Unfortunately, this is an end-user hack, but definitely worthwhile for those systems that cannot use Flash or load slowly with Flash. This is also a strictly FireFox hack.
Requirements of Flickr, GreaseMonkey, and Ajax.
ForeverGeek < Lickr
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May 09, 2005
Google Print
If you remember a phrase out of a book, but couldn't remember the actual text, Google has created a tool for you. Similar to Google Scholar, where it searches theses and research papers, Google Print looks for phrases to search for the book you're looking for.
This was done in cooperation with the Google Library Project, where several libraries partnered with Google to digitize their collections into a medium that Google could search for online use.
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May 07, 2005
DNS cache poisoning... cure it with Spoofstick
With the recent concern with DNS cache poisoning, there is nothing an end user can do about connecting to a site that isn't whom it says it is. Until Spoofstick. Available for FireFox or Internet Explorer.
SpoofStick is a simple browser extension that helps users detect spoofed (fake) websites. A spoofed website is typically made to look like a well known, branded site (like ebay.com or citibank.com) with a slightly different or confusing URL. The attacker then tries to trick people into going to the spoofed site by sending out fake email messages or posting links in public places - hoping that some percentage of users won't notice the incorrect URL and give away important information. This practice is sometimes known as "phishing".
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May 05, 2005
Yahoo Mail goes up to 1G
Yahoo Mail goes up to 1G storage. Interesting... now can they take on GMail's Infinity+1 plan? Nope. Hotmail, you're still in last.
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Google Web Accelerator
Google has released a free web accelerator product for both Firefox and Internet Explorer. According to their information page the software uses Google servers as a proxy for web content, delivering the pages to your system more rapidly and compressing them beforehand.
Via Slashdot
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May 03, 2005
Skype Conference Calls
Skype User Stuart Henshall:
Conference call power creates a different set of associations immediately. It implies that the tool is more collaborative than the telephone and at this point [you don’t] even have to have any Skype buddies to be getting value… Go out and connect everyone in your family this weekend all at once. I did, not long ago, and it was fun.
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April 30, 2005
Ten Good Practices for Writing JavaScript in 2005
Ten good practices for writing JavaScript in 2005
1. Make sure your JavaScript code is in balance with its environment
2. Create accessible JavaScript
3. Create usable JavaScript
4. Create easy applicable JavaScript
5. Create future-proof JavaScript
6. Know JavaScript's weaknesses, limitations and bugs
7. Often there is more than one good solution
8. Write your own scripts or reuse code from trusted places
9. Optimize your JavaScript code for performance
10. Use tools to optimize your work process
ForeverGeek < BobbyVanderLuis
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April 29, 2005
How to use Gmail to do spam filtering and mail backup
Here is a clever method of using G-mail as your spam filter and mail backup. Especially with the current scheme of infinity+1 program, there is no reason why people should not be backing up their e-mail with this method. Not only do you have a complete spam-filtered backup, but it's free!
Thank you G-mail!
This requires you to run your own mail server, and know how to configure the mail server properly to forward via header settings.
Via MBoffin
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April 19, 2005
Sharing Flash code
The Macromedia Flash community has always been a very open bunch. At the FlashForward conference, Lessig talked about how the culture of sharing.
SO, Mike Chambers of Macromedia came up with this little Actionscript, and released it under the Creative Commons license. Now you too can share your Flash code in hopes that others can benefit from your ingenius night-zombie coding.
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April 17, 2005
Have kids? Google brings up too much smut? Kid friendly search engines here.
Kid-friendly search engines should potentially block out most intimidating topics from children eyes.
KidsClick and Ask Jeeves Kids, are two of the examples given through SearchEngineWatch. The couple of big search engines also have filters that you can turn on to accomodate your young'uns if that is your desire.
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April 06, 2005
Google Definitions
Ever wonder what a word means? Multilingual? Google Definitions makes it easier to look for the meaning of practically anything that is indexed by Google. Definitions were never closer than a finger and a mouse away.
Via GoogleBlog
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April 05, 2005
Google Maps now include satellite photos!
Google Maps now include satellite imagery. Not as close as you would like to zoom, but still cool anyways.
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April 04, 2005
Yahoo! Launches FareChase travel extension
Yahoo launches FareChase, a travel search engine extension that was recently purchased. Still in Beta.
BattelleMedia < Yahoo!FareChase
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April 01, 2005
Create your own South Park character
South Park Studio version 2. VERY cool. It's times like this that I absolutely am flabberghasted by the wonders that Flash can produce.
Via TheUberGeeks
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Google's Ride Finder
Pair up Cab companies and Google maps and you get Ride Finder! Real-time cabs in eleven cities as of post. There are only a couple cab companies that are participating as of now, but this is a great use of GPS and real-time web technology.
Now if only they'd put monitors in at bus stations so you knew when your line was coming up.
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March 27, 2005
FCC says they can't force naked DSL
Apparently certain RBOCs have been forcing people to sign up for a landline instead of getting just DSL by itself. Qwest and Verizon willingly offer naked DSL to their customers. The FCC voted 3-2 that federal law does not require telcos to provide standalone service.
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March 26, 2005
Learn Macromedia Flash with these easy tutorials
FreeFlashTutorials has some free lessons on how to manipulate Macromedia Flash. Very well written in a video format. A lot of tutorials and gives a great look at the basics of Flash.
Via Highat
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March 24, 2005
IE unsafe for 98% of 2004
"Global security consultancy ScanIT shows Microsoft's Internet Explorer was "unsafe" for 98% of 2004, while rival browser Mozilla was "unsafe" for only 15%... "
Also amusing is the fact that security experts are more likely to report the bugs to Mozilla because of better public disclosures of vulnerabilities and better attitudes towards security researchers. Surely the $500 per critical bug (Mozilla Bug Bounty) program helps a little also.
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March 23, 2005
Yahoo raises mail limit to 1GB
Yahoo has announced that they will raise their mail limit to 1GB. And so starts the mail quota wars. Apparently, mail is also one of the leaders in page views and drives profits. No wonder Yahoo has been scared of GMail's launch.
Via BattelleMedia
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March 22, 2005
Nortel VPN Windows client: password stored in memory
Take heed, those that use a Nortel VPN for their corporate networks. The Windows client happens to store both the encrypted version of the password in the registry, and a clear-text version in memory.
To: BugTraq
Subject: Nortel VPN Client Issue: Clear-text password stored in memory
Date: Mar 22 2005 5:12PM
Author: Roy Hills
Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.0.20050322171210.02c0ed40@192.168.124.1>
Nortel VPN Client Issue: Clear-text password stored in memory
Summary:
NTA Monitor have discovered a password disclosure issue in the Nortel
Windows VPN client: The Nortel client stores the password in an obfuscated
form in the Windows registry, but it also stores the unencrypted password
in process memory.
The Nortel VPN client is used for remote access IPsec VPNs, typically in
conjunction with the Nortel Contivity VPN router.
The vendor has been notified of this issue.
Via Bugtraq
Personal note: While my corporation uses Nortel's VPN, I suspect that even with the password in clear text, it would do no good in the current standing since we use two-part authentication. But those that do not, beware.
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