Friday, December 7, 2007

Footnote Millions of Historical Documents Online

Footnote is an impressive resource which launched last week that allows users to access millions of historical documents online for the first time. Interested in the Civil War or perhaps the Bureau of Investigation? Just look it up on Footnote & w/in secs view digitized copies of the orig. docs including photos, signed docs, letters, case studies..

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IE Project Manager says IE7 Can't Match Firefox & Opera

Last week, Internet Explorer Group Program Manager Chris Wilson wrote a blog post where he discussed Internet Explorer (IE) and its CSS compliance. In a nutshell, the report said that IE 6 and IE 7 can't match the level of standards support found in Opera and Firefox.

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New Google Maps photo explorer

Panoramio brings a great new photo explorer to Google Maps. This new interactive photo atlas makes it easy for you to browse the world and contribute your own photos to specific geographic regions.

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Copy DVDs to your iPod

So Apple wants you to pony up $14.99 for Pixar's Cars when you already own the DVD? Nuh-uh. Don't think so. Seems like you should be able to copy that DVD right to your iPod. You can, provided you have the right tools and some time to kill. With free software and this tutorial, you can copy almost any DVD in your library to your iPod

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Firefox 2.0 Available To Public!

The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence. Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups.

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Pagety: possibly the simplest CMS you'll ever use

We just launched our new web application. It's called Pagety and is a hosted CMS. Use coupon code 'launchfest' to get a 50% discount when you upgrade to a premium plan...

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Democracy Player changes name to Miro

In all our debates about whether you could call something ‘Democracy’ and how people would react to the name, we hadn’t realized that so many people would simply assume that the software was for politicians and videos about politics. We hear this response over and over, and it’s a real limitation to our user base. So we’re changing the name to Miro

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IE does what it does best.

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Google Calendar Launches New Features

Updates include weather forecasts, moon phases, and support for 17 new languages.

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Convert anything to anything

Convert pretty much any format of anything to any other format. Online. Free. Without downloading anything.

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Carry a PC Repair System on a USB Drive

The Daily Cup of Tech computer help site put together a USB-drive based collection of software that'll help you resuscitate any ailing PC. All wrapped up into one convenient, 14.2MB zip file, the USB PC Repair System contains 37 fix-it utilities (via Lifehacker)

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The Drupal Song - Remix Tracks

Show software some love and jangle the Drupal jingle. The tracks are available, what will people make?

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250 Free Office Templates and Documents

There are lots of good free Office Templates and Documents available for download.

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IE does what it does best.

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Convert Everything

WAV to MP3, OGG, AAC, AMR, FLAC, MPC, MMF, AU, AIFF, QCP.MP3 to WAV, OGG, AAC, AMR, FLAC, MPC, MMF, AU, AIFF, QCP.WMA to WAV, OGG, AAC, AMR, FLAC, MP3, MPC, MMF, AU, AIFF, QCP.OGG to WAV, MP3, AAC, AMR, FLAC, MPC, MMF, AU, AIFF, QCP.AAC to WAV, MP3, OGG, AMR, FLAC, MPC, MMF, AU, AIFF, QCP.# MP4 (AAC) to WAV, MP3, OGG, AMR, FLAC, MPC

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Don't be misled by these 10 Windows Vista myths

The official consumer launch of Windows Vista has brought with it a great deal of confusion, misinformation, and some fairly ignorant assertions. Windows expert Deb Shinder debunks some of the misconceptions she's been hearing, from exaggerated cost and hardware requirements to feature limitations and compatibility issues.

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Slife - Mac App that Visualizes/Organizes Computer Activites

Slife is the new awareness browser for the Mac OS X that lets you visualize your computer activities like never before. Trying to be more productive? Wondering where all that time went? Now you can find out!

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Gregarious 2.0 Beta Released!! (Wordpress plugin for Digg)

The new version sees various incredible changes that are sure to cause a stir in the Wordpress community. This version now adds PostBadge, DiggDetect and many wonderful features that make it a pleasure to use - inc. Share This! The options page itself is so good looking. Definitely the number one choice for a social plugin.

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PSPIRC has been shut down!

After various abuses of the Freenode IRC network, PSPIRC has been shut down indefinitely.

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GIMPshop turns the GIMP into a Photoshop look alike

Turns the GIMP into a Photoshop look alike. Maybe this will convert Photoshop pirates into Gimp users.

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

eBay Seller Taking Advantage of Open Source Software

A seller on eBay is offering well-known, easily (and freely) obtainable open source Windows applications. The applications are going for $10 per item to $15 for a "software power pack" which contains programs like The GIMP, Audacity, and even Mozilla Firefox. We should be educating people about open source, not charging them for it.

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Available Now - Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta Download

While playing around with Adobe Labs website download URL's and found this page to get the Photoshop CS3 beta before its officially released sometime tomorrow. Good luck, I already downloaded a copy of the Mac and Windows version.

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Ultimate List of over 150 (!) Free Windows Software from Microsoft

Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows & Office Programs available for download -- finding them all is extremely difficult . . . until now. My favorites: FolderShare (a P2P application to synchronize folders with other users (or your devices)), Virtual Desktop Manager, Alt-Tab Replacement (however I think that TaskSwitch XP is better) and ISO recorder

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URL Fixer: Firefox extension automatically corrects common URL typos

URL Fixer is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that corrects typos in URLs that you enter in the address bar. For example, if you type google.con, it will correct it to google.com -asking first, if you enable confirmation. (via DownloadSquad and LifeHacker)

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Making Labels with Openoffice.org Templates - Tech-Recipes.com

Templates make life easier when you use them for letters, documents, brochures, etc. but they really make life easier when you use them for labels. The spacing for your label documents has to be extraordinarily precise to make sure that the text is printed exactly where it needs to be. This Howto will help you use Openoffice.org templates...

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Slickr (Flickr Screen Saver)

Slickr is an OpenGL flickr screen saver that shows images by: user (favorites, set, tags, contacts), groups, or everyone (tags, recent). It can also display local images. For ideas on groups and tags, go to the flickr explore page at http://flickr.com/explore/

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What's New For You in Photoshop CS3

In each version of Photoshop, Adobe releases features that are of use to different types of users. Some features are tailor-made for photographers, for example, while others are better suited for designers. Let's take a look at who will benefit from some of the new features in Photoshop CS3.

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Have your own photo gallery in 5 minutes using free software

Do you like gallery tools such as Flickr, but want to control your photos, or get rid of any of their limits? Now you can have your own custom gallery using PHP, a script called Picy, and 5 minutes of your time!

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blummyWiki - personal wiki via bookmarklet

Blummy the bookmarklet management bookmarklet has received a major upgrade. The blummyWiki is a personal notebook that can be used to store notes or favorite URLs. The cool thing: as it's stored on a server it can be shared between browsers and computers.

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Host your own photo gallery with Gallery2

This week, I'll show you how to install Gallery2, a free, open source web application that lets you publish and manage your digital images for web consumption on your own web server, whether it's your home server or hosted account.

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New WP Tiger Admin 3.0 Released

The WordPress Tiger Admin plugin has been updated to version 3.0. It's been completely redesigned, and has much better compatibility with the newest WordPress features.

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Gallery 1.5.4 Released

Version 1.5.4 of the popular PHP photo publishing software has been released. Primarily a bug fix release this time around, with definately worth checking out!

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Democracy Player 0.8.5 Released (including an Intel-Mac Version)

A new version of Democracy Player, the most popular dedicated video RSS client, was released today. IN THIS RELEASE: a new Intel-Mac version, stand-alone torrent support, fullscreen controls on Windows, and an advanced 1-Click subscription system. Democracy Player is 100% free / open source and is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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DocMAN Categories

This tutorial will show you how to add a category in DocMAN

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Register using a fake email address - then grab the emails from dodgeit.com

To avoid spam, send your registration forms to *(anything)*@dodgeit.com, then go to dodgeit.com and type in *(anything)*. Your email will be available with complete anonymity. No prior setup or login required.

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New Firefox Digg Extension (Dugged)

Adds a duggmirror link to websites listed on digg.com.

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Software for Starving Students 2007.01 Released

The 2007.01 release of Software for Starving Students is now available for download at: http://softwarefor.org/downloads.html -- Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone). They have best-in-class programs gathered onto one CD (one disc for OS X, one for Windows).

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BadVista.org: Tagging Vista at Amazon.com

The BadVista campaign is encouraging supporters to take a minute and visit the Amazon page for each of the Vista versions and leave tags that express their opinion about the software, so that other potential users will have a chance to learn about the unadvertised Vista “features” that lock them out of their own computer.

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Fauxto.com: Flash-based Photoshop-like image editor

This is the first online image editor that I know of that includes photoshop-style layers. It is still in early beta at this time, but it shows a lot of promise

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Digg.com worth $106 Million Youtube worth $969 Million - Whats your site?

dnScoop is a many domain tools wrapped into one convent package. A domain traffic tool, a domain whois tool, a domain history, a domain popularity, domain appraisal (site value report), a link value appraisal (link value report), pagerank check, an inbound links count, an indexed pages check and more.

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Deligio.com - Discover and share software

This week the Dutch new start-up Deligio launched a new search engine which focuses on finding software. Deligio enables the user to easily search and find software, shareware and freeware.

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Make XP Look Like Vista

Despite Windows Vista being out for a few months now, not everyone is ready or willing to make the big "switch" just yet. Some people are waiting for the time to buy a new PC, some are not upgrading because their hardware isn't up to it, and some well.....just don't want to. So I'm going to show you how to get a Vista-like desktop on XP.

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How to Build Triple Boot (XP, Vista, Ubuntu) with single Boot Screen wpics

This is a tutorial with lots of screenshots on how to build a triple boot system (Windows XP, Windows Vista and Ubuntu Edgy Eft) with a single boot manager. + wiping HDD, installing, backing up GRUB's MBR, modifying boot.ini and Vista's bcdedit records. I hope you'll like it.

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Google content blocker (humorous)

why see anything but ads?

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iTunes 7 breaks OurTunes and inhibits open sharing

The widely distributed update to Apple's popular music app: iTunes 7, leaves many users in the dark. Users of pre-7.0 versions are no longer able to browse music on the same local network. Also, the popular java-based application OurTunes is rendered useless if your target library uses v7. Lets work together to find a fix.

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Live Documents is Powerful Stuff

A new service called Live Documents allows Windows PC users with Office already installed on their computer to syncronize documents across multiple users over the Internet. The next step for Live Documents should be to look for a partner amongst the online office players to make their service work across applications as well.

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Firefox Pop-up Notepad Bookmarklet

This is a cool little bookmarklet with which you can make a quick text note in a pop-up and save it directly from your browser. Thanks to Baris Unver for the inspirational spark.

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Guide to Those Useless Windows XP Services

here is a look at the default set of services that come with a fresh installation of Windows XP. "We'll tell you the ones that you don't need and try to tell you why, so you can disable them without any problems."

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Simple hack to disable USB drives in XP - Perfect for public machines

A simple hack to disable all access to USB drives on XP, without disabling USB mice, or keyboards.

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New release of My Exposé, an Exposé-like application for Windows Vista

Simon Ferquel has released a new version of My Exposé, the application that provides a similar feature to Mac's Exposé, giving you an overview of all open windows on your screen. Display your windows using the keyboard, the mouse or even your voice! This is still a pre-release (he calls it CTP) version, but it's pretty stable and bug-free.

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Zestr: A Free AJAX Based Book, Movie, Music and Game Organiser

With Zestr you can organise all your books, movies, music and games online. You can even import your collections from Delicious Library to save you having to enter them all again! RSS feeds let you access your collections externally (such as from your blog).In a beta stage at the moment so why not grab an account (free!) and help shape it.

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Google's Silent Monopoly Redux (Google Responds - Issues Public Statement)

Based on the thoroughness of the statement and the use of the word "precedent" in the second sentence, it appears that the Google PR team huddled with the legal team and issued a statement.....

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Drag and drop your Windows taskbar buttons!

Free program that lets you drag and drop your Windows taskbar buttons to re-order them! No extra hotkey or lame extra steps, just drag 'n drop... sooo useful.

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111 free Photoshop plugins

The Plugin Site (aptly named) has 111 free Photoshop-compatible plugins available for download. Take your pick from categories such as Image Effects, Patterns/Textures, Photo Enhancement, and many more. Each plugin is rated according to a three-star usefulness scale; plus, you can easily see if the plugin is Mac or Windows compatible...

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rbtestdox - TestDox for Ruby

Ruby port to TestDox.

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Dabble Commons - Free version of their online database package

Dabble, a paid web based database just released a free version. Functionally, it’s the same as the paid service except that data you keep in a free application is publicly accessible. Their paying customers pay for private databases. So if you have some public information you want in a database this is good news!

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XBList

Check out your XBox Live Friends list on your desktop in buddy-list form, complete with your friends' Halo 2 Emblems and quick links to their Halo 2 stats.

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Gallery 2.1.2 Security Fix Release

This release adds no new features. It fixes a minor information leakage in Gallery 2.1 and 2.1.1a and a major session ID disclosure in all versions prior to Gallery 2.1. Note that these flaws only affect installations where Gallery's storage folder is accessible directly from the web, which we strongly discourage during the installation process.

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Digg All bookmarklet: Lets you digg all stories submitted by your friends

My friend and bookmarklet meister Jesse came up with this cool bookmarklet that lets you automatically digg all the stories that your friends have submitted.

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New math-library: Eigen 0.9.1 released

Eigen is a lightweight C++ template library for linear algebra: vectors, matrices, solving systems of equations... It's very complete apidocumentation shows its mature state already: http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~jacob/eigen/dox/

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Opera Mini 3.0 out now

The beta period is over, Opera Mini 3.0 is now available for download, almost as an early birthday present for me. If you have a Java MIDP-capable mobile phone, this is the application you should have installed. Opera Mini gives you access to the full web on almost all mobile phones, at least the ones with Java and data support, and not just a smal

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Great anti-piracy message (picture)

A funny anti-piracy message I recently came across from the makers of USB overdrive.

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HOWTO Drupal with LDAP authentication

Drupal has a fantastic feature, the hook_auth to allow any third party to interact in the authentication process. This is used to authenticate against other Drupal sites over XMLRPC, it is used in the experimental openID integration, to allow authentication against any database, and so on. And off course to authenticate against an LDAP directory, u

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DocMAN Files

This tutorial will show you how to add a file in DocMAN

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Top ten tips for a successful Intranet

So you're thinking of building an Intranet? The question is, how can you make something that everybody uses and that actually achieves your goals? What? You're not sure what your goals are yet? Well that's probably the biggest mistake of all failed Intranet projects.

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Fun with ASCII image conversion

I was pretty bored at work, so I made this image to ASCII conversion site.Check it out and give me some suggestions!

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Firefox or Internet Explorer? Rocketboom Interviews New Yorkers

Which do you use... Firefox or Internet Explorer? Amanda Congdon of Rocketboom interviews New Yorkers. You might find their answers interesting.

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SmartSetr, A Better Way to Build Sets on Flickr, Seriously Rocks!

Eric Appel has developed one of the best Flickr apps I've seen yet. It's called SmartSetr and it allows you to use Smart Sets to organize your sets on Flickr. Smart Sets are a far more efficient way to build sets and allows you to build sets based on tags rather than having to go through Flickr's organizer and add each manually going forward.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Geek to Live: Visualize your hard drive usage

"..Free tools for Windows, Mac and Linux map your hard drive usage so you can get a birds-eye view of what's taking up most of your coveted hard drive space.."

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Jinzora 2.5 Released

Jinzora is a complete web-based multimedia portal for your home music/video collection. It can be used to stream your content to another computer or to control a local hardware or software jukebox device, as well as retrieve metadata about your collection. This release is significantly more stable than previous builds.

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Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth (Awesome!)

Ever wondered what it would be like to walk through your digital photos in 3D or see what hundreds of other people shot at the same location? See Photosynth in action and hear how Live Labs is exploring new ways to change the way you think about the web.

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What Comes After AJAX?

Most people who've done significant AJAX development will admit that the development story is a mess. I personally don't mind the the Javascript language but I'm appalled that the most state of the art development process I've found is to use Emacs to edit my code, Firebug to debug in Firefox and attaching Visual Studio to the Internet Explorer.

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How to add Rmail as a choice in Firefox 2.0

How to add Rmail or an other web aggregator subscription button to your Firefox 2.0.

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Google Calendar Review on Vitamin

Google Calendar is the latest app to emerge from the Google factory, but is it just another calendar app or does it bring something new to the table? We took it for a test-drive.

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OpenOffice Ad Project Fundraising Almost Complete

A small group of OpenOffice.org volunteers, inspired by Spread Firefox's project of 2004, secured Monday, July 31 as the date for their own ad to run in NYC's Metro newspaper. With ten fundraising days to go, and at about 75% of the goal, the final push to raise money to place this ad in front of 450,000 people is happening now.

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First Impressions: WSUS 3.0 Beta 2

Excellent summary and writeup of the expected improvements for Microsoft WSUS 3.0 slated for release next year.

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InstaCalc Online Calculator | Fast, Shareable, Linkable

InstaCalc fits the gap between Windows Calc and Excel: Clean, fast, powerful and easily shareable. You can even embed any calculation into a webpage. There are advanced features like converting numbers to binary or if-then statements. Check it out!

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Microsoft Expression Web Designer review

Rachel Andrews, Web Standards Project member, reviews Microsoft's new web authoring tool for Vitamin

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Hack Attack: Getting good with Google Reader

Today, I'm going to show you the ins and outs of Google's powerful newsreader, with an emphasis on Reader's powerful and time-saving keyboard shortcuts. To round things off, I'll finish up with some of my favorite Google Reader-related tweaks and downloads to get you up to speed with the best newsreader on the planet.

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KlipFolio 4 Beta Released!

After several months of teasing from the folks at Serence, the newest version of KlipFolio (a desktop dashboard and RSS reader) is ready for beta testing. What's new? For starters, a super-sexy mini-sidebar...

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Have People Rate your Web Hosting Speed & See them on a Map

A cool little widget that you copy-paste onto your site. Your visitors rate your site, and you can see their location and rating on top of a map. Check out the demo.

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Tracking the Web with Single Page Aggregators

A comprehensive round up of services that aggregate popular social services and websites such as Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, Flickr, and more, or that let you build your own aggregations.

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XP's Little-Known 'Rebuild' Command

Have you ever run into a "Missing HAL.DLL," "Invalid Boot.Ini," or "Windows could not start..." message?That was when I learned about XP's built-in "Rebuild" command. It often can easily fix "missing HAL," "Invalid Boot.Ini," "Windows could not start..." and similar problems in just a minute or two.

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Apple's Multi-touch - was it their idea?

This is an off topic post considering the focus of this site but something that I will make an exception for. You may have seen the recent image on Engadget showing the striking similarities between Apple's iPhone and the LG KE850. Well here's another one...

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Sun Microsystems is now offering premium support for OpenOffice.org

This is great news for fans of open source. Now you can tell your friends who are suits in big business that a major company like Sun is supporting OpenOffice.org (OOo). There are also other commercial support vendors listed on the OOO site, but this is a big move by Sun, because they also offer a proprietary package, called "Star Office."

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SlimTimer - Keeps Track of Time on Tasks

Easy way to time tasks. Keep track of all time worked in any combination of contexts you choose. You create the tasks. You organize the tasks. You share the tasks. You decide who can report on the tasks.

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Data Recovery First Aid: 3 tips to increase your chances of success

I always thought of myself as a reliable guy with reliable data. I never deleted my files accidentally, I made regular backups and had a power supply for my computer to protect me against surges and outages. However last year I experienced two cases of data loss where I needed to use recovery software.

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Internet Explorer 7 Available Now

The long awaited IE7 has been officially released. Get it now from the Microsoft website.

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Why I left Microsoft

Former IE program manager Scott Berkun muses about leaving Microsoft in this short essay.

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Top 20 Reasons why Web Apps are Superior to Desktop Apps

Great article by Vinny Lingham on the emerging Web App industry and what makes web apps the future of software.

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Crash this server to help my team get 1000 points in a scavenger hunt.

The faceless invasion is a scavenger hunt throughout Montreal. One of the tasks is to crash their server, and I thought, what better way than to digg it? Please help us and make this site feel the digg effect.

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In a perfect world…

An idealistic approach to software development.

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Why I'll Never Make Digg Popular

Rebecca Kelley lists 10 reasons she'll never make digg popular (funny but true)

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musikCube 1.0 Final Released!

Good news everyone! The final version of musikCube 1.0 is out at last. Huzzah!MusikCube is a light, feature-rich, highly extensible Open Source Media Player for Windows. Great interface, extremely fast database management, and superb playlist support make this the best music player you'll ever use. Download it now- you'll never look back.

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Free math book published because they think textbook prices are too high...

"With the current price of a new algebra textbook approaching $110 and publishers bringing out a new edition every three to four years just to prevent students from selling their used books, we have decided to create a site where the textbooks are free."They only have one up right now but plan to add more, along with video and audio lectures.

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Hidden Program In Windows XP

Go to Start > Run > and type in eudcedit - this will open up a font editor - allowing you to design your own custom fonts and characters to be used in things like MS Word.

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New Release of Mephisto Publishing Tool

Here it is, the release that we've been working hard to get pushed. Immortus is a huge improvement over the 0.5 release. We've finally got a really solid system with some of the most intuitive features you'll ever use in a publishing system. The big addition for Mephisto 0.6 is the slick Asset Management feature.

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Firefox loses market share

Firefox lost 0.65% market share while IE gained about 0.35% in July. Indication of things to come or just an aberration?

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Ajax draggable dashboard interface (like MacOSX)

Moo.fx team just released this amazing interface that works like google home but much slicker. So long pageflakes and netvibes. (real browsers only)

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Firefox 2 Officially Released

The Mozilla.com website has been updated with download links, press release, and a post from Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker about the official release of Firefox 2. Well done everyone.

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Acrobat plans to walk the chat line

Adobe will sell six versions of Acrobat 8, including the Acrobat Connect and Acrobat Connect Professional services, which enable small companies to set up online conferences.Via http://devalert.blogspot.com

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Best Bluetooth software for Vista -Bluesoleil 3.0-download it from here

Download Bluesoleil 3.0 for Windows VISTA

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Why can't free software do portable right?

U3 and USB Smart Drives are making it easier and easier to take not only your data, but your entire workspace with you wherever you go.But alas, there is trouble in paradise, read this article about how free/open source software is lagging behind that pack and what can be done about the problem, in rant style.

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Microsoft Acquires Winternals Software and hires Mark Russinovich

Microsoft seems to be on a spree lately with the SoftGrid aquisition and now Winternals as well. Mark Russinovich has been a great contributor of quality kernel-level software for Windows for a long time, bridging the gap where Microsoft perhaps should have. Now they can.

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Macromedia.com updated!

Now it is: Adobe - formerly macromedia, and ugly as hell!! What a shame!

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Could the New WordPress.com Kill Off Blogger?

WordPress.com is a hosted, free blogging solution just like Blogger. While WordPress.com is in a very early Alpha stage, it is drawing the attention of bloggers around the world with its inclusion of AJAX scripts and other new features such as a rich WYSIWYG that allows you to drag and drop photos or images into your posts, etc.

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Photoshop CS3 beta contains Internet speed reducing spyware!!

The Windows version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, downloaded legally from Adobe labs, secretly installs the bonjour service: mDNSResponder. This service sets up a P2P connection without your permission. You can remove it following the steps in the article without harming Photoshop.

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RLA ("Remote LanD Attack")

This is a copy of the release of an exploit I found. Most Network Perimeter Devices are susceptible to the attack. This exploit has made it to many security news related sites, including a top story on SANS. The exploit was posted to BugTraq, FD, and others.

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NMAP 4.0 Released

Nmap has undergone many substantial changes since the last major release (3.50 in February 2004) and they recommend that all current users upgrade.

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Police raid Justin.tv, live on webcam

Wed, 1:40 AM someone spoofed the caller id of the Justin.tv official cell phone number (listed on the website), called the San Francisco police department and reported a stabbing in the North Beach apartment. Police arrived, guns drawn, and entered only to find a bunch of (surprised and nervous) geeks with laptops and webcams. All broadcast live.

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Top Ten Stupidest Joomla! Administrator Tricks Edit this entry.

I recently can across the following post on the forum. Many of them are sad, but true.10. Go with the cheapest hosting provider you can find, preferably a shared server that hosts hundreds of other sites, some of which are high-traffic porn sites.

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Insecure.org Top 100 Network Security Tools 2006 List Released!

It has been three years, but Fyodor has asked those of the nmap-hackers mailing list what are the top security tools of 2006, and 3,243 users have voted and the results are in.

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Sunday, September 16, 2007

California Selling Social Security Numbers

Local Lawmaker Wants To Stop The State's Four-Year-Long Practice. Today, a Sacramento lawmaker showed how you could go to the Secretary of State's the web page where, until today, the state was selling your personal information for only $6 -- the cost of lunch.

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fwknop-1.0 released: strongly authenticate to your closed Linux Firewall

Single Packet Authorization (SPA) is basically port knocking on steroids, and fwknop is the best supported and feature-rich implementation available today. I never worry about zero-day vulnerabilities in my SSH daemon while I'm running fwknop. This is the production-ready release of fwknop; use fwknop with iptables in a default-drop stance.

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Pirate Party Launches High-Capacity Darknet

The Swedish Pirate Party has launched a commercial, high-capacity darknet, on an unprecedented scale and bandwidth. This service lets anybody send and receive files anonymously without being tracked or traced, and can pump data well over 10 megabits per second.

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MSN launches Dutch Digg clone, but forgets spam prevention

Spamming your way to the msn.nl frontpage was never so easy...

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Default Password List

Updated today :) Enjoy

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Spaf Writes More On Passwords And Myth

Eugene Spafford has written more about passwords to some of the comments made in response to his recent post about passwords.

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Take the Zone Alarm Pepsi Challenge!

Interesting comparison of what 10 regular home PC users think when presented with the new Zone Alarm warning message in relation to blocking 180 Solutions software, as opposed to the old one. 180 might've been better off leaving well alone...

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Free, Anonymous OpenID for You

OpenID is getting popular day by day and generating lot of discussion with varied response. I thought it would be a good idea to have a password-less/ anonymous OpenID that one can use. It is ready for you to use. No signup required. Just use http://www.jkg.in/openid/anything as your OpenID.

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How the myspace SWF hack worked

As the title says, this is how the myspace SWF hack/hijack worked. There's no ads, and this isn't a blog - just a page I quickly made explaining what I found about the hack, also note that I didn't create the hack. I just found it interesting :)This is hosted on a random free host, which may die at any point - offers of hosting are welcome!

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GoDaddy trashes Seclists.org

"I'm in the market for a new registrar. One who doesn't immediately bend over for any large corporation who asks." So says Seclists.org owner Fyodor, aka Gordon Lyon, speaking of GoDaddy.

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2007: The year of the 9,999 vulnerabilities?

A look at the National Vulnerability Database statistics will reveal that the number of vulnerabilities found yearly has greatly increased since 2003. An average increase of 48% since 2002 indicates that breaking 10,000 vulnerabilities in 2007 is a real possibility, and may be problematic for some vulnerability tracking systems.

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Zango Myspace partner still pushing their videos in Myspace

A few weeks ago, Zango Adware was being pushed via Myspace - after an outcry, the vids were pulled and you'd assume the affiliates account was cancelled. However, not only is the guy pushing Zango Adware from a new website, he is still installing from the old site too - the page is just not linked to. Something stink here? Yep.

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Zyprexa Memos Leaked using Tor

The internal Ely Lilly memos have been leaked to the intenet using Tor. The anonymous post also launched a distributed netroots campaing organized around the 'zyprexakills' tag.

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Reporting Vulnerabilities is for the Brave

The risks associated with reporting vulnerabilties are discussed in this recent CERIAS weblogs post. In the end, the author decides that the risks are too great, and decides that in the future, he will stay safe by staying quiet. Was this the right decision, or is reporting an issue regardless of the risks a moral necessity?

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Interesting thing you can find with Google code search

Google launched a new code search feature today. People are already starting to use it to find username/passwords and other secure information.

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HD DVD Encryption Hacked!

It looks like someone finally did it! "BackupHDDVD is a tool to decrypt a AACS protected movie that you own, so you can play it back later usingan HDDVD player software."

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Eon8 - a Summary

Nice rundown of what Eon8 was all about, some of the after-effects and (of course) screenshots of the (sadly inevitable) hack attempts on the site.

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Pirate Party Launches High-Capacity Darknet

The Swedish Pirate Party has launched a commercial, high-capacity darknet, on an unprecedented scale and bandwidth. This service lets anybody send and receive files anonymously without being tracked or traced, and can pump data well over 10 megabits per second.

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Hardening OpenSSH with Single Packet Authorization

SSH is a critical service for encrypted connectivity, but even OpenSSH occasionally has security vulnerabilities. It is risky to allow arbitrary IP addresses to connect to your SSH daemon, but if I'm on travel how can I still gain access if all connections are silently dropped by my firewall? Single Packet Authorization (SPA) provides an answer.

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Now my mom can surf the web again

A new company siteadvisor.com has a new approach to preventing spam and spy-ware. They support Firefox and IE and are also making their database available under the Creative Commons license.

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How I Hacked Your LinkSys Router Which You Probably Bought at Best Buy

In a world where we all shop at the same stores and buy the same wireless equipment it is very easy to unintentionally hijack someone’s wireless connection. Here's how this guy did it - by accident....

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How to mathematically crack a Masterlock combination pad-lock

This guy shows you have you can break the combination of any Masterlock pad-lock. He uses math to bring down the possible number of combinations from 64,000 to 100.

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How to: Set Up an Offshore Banking Account

Do you want to impress women by shredding a bank statement? For some guys an offshore bank account may sound like something out of a James Bond film or maybe a clever way for an arms dealer to conduct business, but for the most part, banking offshore is about saving on tax dollars.

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Whitedust.net Announces The First Annual Black And White Ball

Whitedust.net, the leading online source of unbiased and uncut security information, today announced the first annual Black & White Ball. Presented in a unique two track format, The Ball will run for 4 days the first two bringing the latest in hacker techniques and attacks, the last two presenting the cutting-edge of security defence mechanisms.

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The first "hacker world war"...

An interesting summary of the first "Hacker world war" which took place in 2001. It appears Ebaum vs ytmnd.com was *not* the first online cyber-jihad, as we can see. Links to a lot of archived defacements and some good background info, too.

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How to generate a wallet-sized paper backup of important phone numbers

Reliance on cellphones means we rarely remember the numbers we dial frequently. Here's a trick for creating a wallet-sized paper hard-copy of your important numbers so you still have the important ones when your phone is inaccessible.

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Phishers Defeat 2-Factor Authentication

Phishers have now started phishing for the two-factor token ID from victims. The most interesting part is that these tokens only give you one minute to log in to the bank until that key will expire. The phishers employ a man-in-the-middle attack against the victim and Citibank to log in via php and conduct money transfers immediately when

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Spyware Warriors in the Digital Underground (Podcast)

FTA: "Wayne Porter and Chris Boyd (aka PaperGhost) get paid to spend their days infiltrating rings of real life cyber criminals,all the while risking they’ll get caught by the thieves themselves.How must it feel to gather evidence on such bottom-feeders and then turn it over to States’ Attorney General’s offices and/or Federal Authorities?"

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Instant Messaging E-Commerce Exploits

A Botnet's been found that installs remote admin tools on an infected PC, then attempts to run a file that queries e-commerce databases and steals personal info like credit card info. They're also using commercially available apps to do a lot of this stuff. From the article.."Comersus Cart, CactuShop, CCBill and others" (may be vulnerable).

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21 Firefox vulnerabilities reported today. Either update or install Opera.

Multiple vulnerabilities reported today at Secunia. Some of these bugs are critical. Check it out.

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So neighbors steal your wi-fi net access, kill the connection or have fun

So you find out that everyone in on your block is using your network without your permission. Do you lock it down or...? Or maybe you want to have a little fun. A little creativity with squid and you could turn your everything they browse upside down (literally)

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Encrypt your web browsing session (with an SSH SOCKS proxy)

Using a simple SSH command, you can encrypt all your web browsing traffic and redirect it through a trusted computer when you're on someone else's network. Today we'll set up a local proxy server that encrypts your online activity from your Mac, PC or Linux desktop.

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IM Worm installs own browser: The Safety Browser

A new IM hijack that installs its own browser called (as you might have guessed) the "Safety Browser" which is anything but! Changes your homepage, loops music on your desktop every time you boot up and spams the infection link via IM and IRC. Oh, and enables popups by default...!

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Myspace Hacked

Thousands of Myspace emails+ passwords were phished and made available online. Users who used the same passwords for all their logins (myspace, msn, yahoo, paypal etc) are having problems.. Loads of Myspace accounts have been hijacked. Check your account, change your passes!

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Gozi trojan analysis leads to Russian data hoard

One attack by a single trojan variant compromises thousands, circumvents SSL, and uploads it all to a Russian server where it's immediately turned around for sale. A unique step-by-step analysis reveals how groups of malware specialists are cooperating with each other and points to the future of malware as a managed service.

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CapCom Federal Credit Union Leaks Customer Information

Capital Communications Federal Credit Union located in Albany, NY sent bank statements by mail that had other peoples information including balances, recent transactions and account numbers. They said they had some sort of software glitch from the third party statement company they use.

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2007 A Hacking Odyssey Part 2 - Network Scanning & Nmap

This series of papers will take an in-depth look at how someone may target and electronically break into an organisation. The second phase can be generically summed up as ‘Scanning’Covered in this paper:War Driving, War Dialling, Network Mapping, Port Scanning

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Unpatched, highly critical vulnerability in Firefox 2.0

This weakness has been known since June but no patch has yet been made available. The developers claimed to have fixed the problem in 1.5.0.5. So why did they release 2.0 without a fix? If "security" is what makes FireFox better, how do we explain known vulnerabilities unpatched on major releases?

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Data-Theft Malware Targets Google's Orkut

A new type of Malware is targetting users inside the Orkut.com community, stealing their login details to online banking sites, dumping them into a Botnet and trying to spread automatically via their "scrapbooks". Screenshots and a movie file of the infection mailing home the data, which is pretty interesting.

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Digg Blocked by Parental Controls in Vista

Windows Vista's medium parental controls automatically block digg.com.

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List Of Security-related Firefox Extensions

Firefox's extensions are one of its biggest selling points. Looking for ones that will help make your browsing more secure? Check out this list.

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Security Myths and Passwords

A blog post by Eugene Spafford which examines password security, and the way that detrimental security practices sometimes get propagated because they're considered by many to be "best practices."

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Digg Blocked by Parental Controls in Vista

Windows Vista's medium parental controls automatically block digg.com.

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The Most Influential People in IT Security

Here’s our list of the most influential security experts of 2007 - from corporate tech officers and government security types, to white hat hackers and bloggers.

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Digg is blocked at thousands of schools across the nation - Stop it!

Thousands of schools in the US use the BESS filtering system. The nice people at Secure Computing decided that digg.com should be blocked. Send an email to service@securecomputing.com, and tell them to stop blocking digg.

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Myspace.com hijack is currently spreading like wildfire

Somebody has managed to hack Myspace with a flash redirect that exploits what is apparently a gaping wide hole in their code. If you are signed into Myspace, and you go to a compromised page, you will be redirected to a blog post containing a diatribe about how the U.S. government is behind 9/11 & your page will now be hijacked! Solution at link.

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HOWTO: Secure Firefox/IM/email from anywhere with PuTTY

Quick, step-by-step HOWTO to set up secure, encrypted tunnels for web browsing, instant messaging, and email from anywhere. No need to set up a VPN. Great for working from hotels and coffee shops!

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Crack Windows Passwords in Minutes!

Ophcrack is a brute-force cracker of pre-computed hashes called rainbow tables. Simply burn the CD, pop it into the victim's computer, Ophcrack will boot into a Linux shell, extract the password file, and find a match. For more information on rainbow tables, see Rainbow table - Wikipedia

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Teenagers used to push Zango on Myspace?

A ring of "Myspace profile edit" sites encourage Myspace users to add their "free videos" to their profiles. What they *don't* mention, is that these videos pop open a box that tries to install Zango Adware when someone visits a profile running these movies. Getting what is likely teenagers to unknowingly distribute this stuff is a new low.

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New MS 0day on milw0rm

A New 0Day (DoS Proof of Concept) has appeared on milw0rm related to MS Windows XP... It seems to affect ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) and it seems to only apply to data coming into the shared NIC, not via the internet connection.

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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Essential Free Wireless Hacking Tools

Anyone interested in wireless security and exploiting vulnerabilities will need a good set of base tools with which to work. Fortunately, there are an abundance of free tools available on the Internet. Brought to you by Dan Hoffman, CISSP, CWNA and regular columnist for the new online magazine, The Ethical Hacker Network.

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Worried about the airline losing your luggage? No problem. Just pack a gun.

The airline wouldn't want to be responsible for losing a gun, right? That's one photographer's solution to making sure his expensive camera equipment is watched carefully by the airline when he has to check it as luggage. He packs a starter pistol in his camera bag and declares it as a firearm.

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Google blog hacked!

My friend aim's me: i HACKED GOOGLEBLOG !!!!!!!!!!!!!1I don't believe him. Sure enough, it's hacked. But how do I know HE did it? Well....he added a special note for me.How did he do it? Some good old password guessing. Wanna know the pass? Let's just say it had something to do with their lovely rival M$.

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Zero-Day IE Exploit Takes Control of PCs

Yikes, all you have to do is browse to the affected page. Glad I have Firefox!

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Is Best Buy A Corporate Pirate?

Winternals, the Texas software company known for programs such as ERD Commander 2005, has filed suit against electronics retailing giant Best Buy this week, claiming that the company has been using thousands of unlicensed copies of their software in stores across the nation.

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List of 300+ proxy sites which let you surf any site

Title says it all.

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Should you sign the back of your credit cards?

or... why you should NEVER sign the back of your credit cards.

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Direct Revenue's dirty laundry

An excellent summary of the numerous supporting documents involved in the New York Vs Direct Revenue case. Threats, intimidation, insulting the userbase, seeking out ways to "get around" SP2 and antivirus....make sure you read the documents. Enlightening stuff.

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Hackers gain private information on all 642,720+ Second Life users

Linden Labs has forced a password reset for every one of its 642,720+ residents after it was revealed hackers gained access to the entire user database. Customer service will not begin to address password issues until Monday, September 11.(the news story link is a "blog" because that is the "official" lines of communications from Linden Labs

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Microsoft practices predatory pricing

Shows how Microsoft is undercutting the security market in consumer and enterprise software.

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PGP Founder Phil Zimmermann and BorderWare Join Forces to Secure VoIP

BorderWare Technologies Inc., and PGP founder Phil Zimmermann, industry leaders in IP communications security, privacy and compliance solutions, today announced an agreement to make BorderWare the first commercial licensee of Zfone, secure VoIP media encryption software, created by Zimmermann.

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The Last Large Scale Commercial TV Signal Hijacking

On 22 November 1987, sports anchor Dan Roan of Chicago's WGN-TV News Network was narrating the video of the day's football highlights when something highly unusual happened. The pictures on the station monitors in the studio & TVs across Chicago suddenly began to jitter & twitch & the feed was replaced with an sinister feed of a masked TV pirate.

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Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form

Decent security and high accessibility married and rolled into one PHP contact form. I did this more out of need than want, because cotact form spammers, like comment spammers waste my time. It's free for you to use if you share this problem.

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New Online MD5 Hash Cracker!

I recently opened my site GDataOnline.com which is a fully functional MD5 hash cracker built with over 5.73 million unique entries. Its not meant to crack every possible word, but it'll crack any word from Swedish to Japanese and cars to anime. Give it a whirl, and if you wish, submit a word or two!

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Lindsay Lohan causes massive DoS war

An animated gif of Lindsay Lohan, stolen from ytmnd.com and placed on Ebaums world without a credit has caused uproar -the massed ranks of ytmnd.com, somethingawful.com and newsgrounds descended upon ebaums site and hosed the lot. Its all got a bit serious now and site owners are appealing for calm (and getting nowhere).

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Take Control of your Flash Player

Steve Gibson was just doing a great piece on "Call For Help" discussing all of the security related settings you need to know about in your Flash Settings Manager. You really should look this link over, it's amazing how bad the default settings are.

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Symantec: Mozilla browsers more vulnerable than IE

The truth is that the Mozilla Foundation *admits* to 25 security flaws vs. MS-IE's 13.Crackers are still aiming at IE, due to its larger market share.

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Trademark trolling for fun and profit

Leo Stoller (well known for hurling legal letters at people involving amazingly generic "trademarks") has fired one at Castlecops.com ( an excellent security site), as he claims he owns the rights to the word "Castle". I remember this guy going after Google a while ago, and that case is still ongoing. Show your support for Castlecops!

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How to: Conduct a Basic Security Audit

These days every business--from Fortune 500s to Mom and Pop groceries--have valuable IT assets such as computers, networks, and data. This detailed 10-step guide can help anyone to conduct their own quick n dirty security audit.

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CNET Webware.com: Thievery in the digital age

I recently got my car stolen from a public parking lot. When I got it back several days later, all the electronics were stolen, along with everything else even remotely valuable. The same day I got it back, a friend of mine told me to check out Craigslist to see if any of my stuff had been listed. I took his advice, and to my surprise I found a loc

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CNET Webware.com: Thievery in the digital age

I recently got my car stolen from a public parking lot. When I got it back several days later, all the electronics were stolen, along with everything else even remotely valuable. The same day I got it back, a friend of mine told me to check out Craigslist to see if any of my stuff had been listed. I took his advice, and to my surprise I found a loc

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SpamMailBag.com

What is the goal? Well, for me it's simply a social project. I'm curious to see which services and websites requiring sign-ups sell your information and who they sell it to. I'm curious to see which blogs are harvested and which aren't, I'm curious to see which forums are harvested. Let's also see who harvests from digg - digg.com@spammai

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The Future of OpenID (a slidecast)

Don't get OpenID yet? This 35 minute talk from the Future of Web Apps conference will show you how it works, why it's important and a bunch of cool new things that you can build now that you couldn't have built before.

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The (only) Ten Things to Know About CSS

a one-page tutorial that demystifies the cryptic and cranky rules of CSS.

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Six cool things you can build with OpenID

Now that OpenID is starting to take off, this article describes six cool ideas for things you can build using OpenID that you couldn't have built before.

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Hacking Digg with Firebug and jQuery

Using the powerful Firebug Firefox Extension and the lightweight jQuery JavaScript Library to manipulate Digg Posts and Comments.

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Flex - The Future of Rich Internet Applications?

James Ward presents the Flex GUI language at The Web Sig. Is this the future of Rich Internet Applications?

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getElementsByClassName in Firefox 3

getElementsByClassName has long been a mainstay of web developers everywhere - and by making it official (both in specification and in implementation), web applications are going to see a huge jump in speed.

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Official Prototype.js API Documentation Unveiled

The team behind the popular JavaScript library, Prototype, have just unveiled the official API documentation site and blog. Along with the launch of the new site, Prototype 1.5 has been released.

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Simple effects in flex

Flex certainly makes it easy to create cool effects. These non-linear transformations can make your bar-charts bounce towards their updated values. Very cool, and useful for attracting user attention to chart updates.

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Mootools Version 1.00 Rleased

MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented javascript framework designed to make writing extensible and compatable code easier and faster. Mootools lets you get the job done efficiently and effectively.

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New JavaScript library from Dean Edwards (standards!)

Because this library is standards-based it means that you don’t have to learn a new API. It uses standard DOM properties and methods throughout which also means that author don’t have to write any documentation. ;)As a bonus it supports even IE 5 for Windows and Mac.

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Screencast: How to use OpenID

Video showing how to create a new OpenID and use it to log in to different sites without needing to create a new username and password for each one.

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How to Create Digg Comment Style Sliding DIVs with Javascript and CSS

A great step-by-step tutorial on how to create a sliding DIV like Digg uses for burying comments. Anyone from a novice to a pro can implement this easily. The last (similar) post had no animation, and per Digger's requests in the comments, I spent all night typing up this tutorial. Hope it helps!

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Open Source Programmer Rants Against Leeches

"I'm just sick of the f*****g leeches and their incessant drain. take everything, offer nothing, and b***h about the results. what they don't realize is that I didn't write ANY of my code for them. I wrote it for me because I love coding." Do you agree? Or not?

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Tableless forms

Learn by example how to create a tableless css form

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Open source ColdFusion Server

The smith project is a free ColdFusion server and has announced it is about to go open source. With this announcement, could CF finally become a contender is the OS world and take market share away from PHP and ROR?

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NEW IBM's AJAX Toolkit Framework

JAX Toolkit Framework (ATF) provides extensible tools for building IDEs for the many different AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) run-time environments (such as Dojo, Zimbra, etc.). This technology also contains features for developing, debugging, and testing AJAX applications.

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Optimizing HTML Page load time

Google engineer Aaron Hopkins has written an interesting analysis of optimizing page load time.

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10 CSS Tips to Make Your Life Easier

This article shares 10 CSS tips to help make your web development life easier.

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Why HTML renders differently in different browsers

A very thorough article about why browsers render HTML differently.

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Guice User's Guide

Guice (pronounced "juice") is an ultra-lightweight, next-generation dependency injection container for Java 5 and later.

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Tutorial: AJAX Made Easy

A very simple tutorial explaining how to add AJAX functionality to your website with 3 easy steps. Helpful no matter what your technical expertise may be... from beginner to advanced. Take existing features on your site and modernize with this framework. Definitely time invested in this quality article.

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Add OpenSearch to your site in five minutes

"Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 both support OpenSearch as a way of customizing the browser’s search box... No programming required."

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jQuery & Ext Partner to Deliver Integrated JavaScript & UI, Features

The most mature User Interface library for web applications, Ext, will soon support jQuery, the two projectsannounced today.

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I will not throw paper airplanes in class

See for yourself...

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I will not throw paper airplanes in class

See for yourself...

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Five Ways To Return Values From Stored Procedures

This article explains five different ways to return values from a stored procedure and also explains which is the most and least efficient

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You are not a ‘real’ Java developer until…

Sometimes Java is little bit too painful... :-)

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DiggRiver - Updated!

The popular DiggRiver website (Digg for Mobile phones) has been updated! "We've added the ability for previously registered users to Digg stories and will continue to add more features in the future."

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Pandoras Box - Updates!!

Now posts to windows Messenger to show the currently playing song. Control Pandora from the menu by right-clicking on the taskTray icon. New lyrics window to pull lyrics for the currently playing song

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How to Create a Collapsible DIV with Javascript and CSS

Great web development tutorial for anyone from beginners to programming monks. A simple trick that needs to be used more often.

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Why Can't Programmers.. Program?

It's no wonder recruiting good developers is difficult when (quoting the article) "199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can’t write code at all. I repeat: they can’t write any code whatsoever."

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ThinWire Ajax Framework - Now Available Under LGPL

I've been following a very interesting Java Web framework, named ThinWire. It claims to be a framework that allows you to build highly interactive, rich user Web interfaces by writing only Java code (no HTML, JavaScript or CSS). It is not very often that I see a framework that excites me... for business applications, this could change everything.

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Google Summer of Code - Gallery's Call for Applications

The Gallery project is again participating in the Google Summer of Code. We haven't yet seen a big interest though. We'd like to encourage all eligible and interested students to apply before the Monday, March 26, 2007 deadline.

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Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet Collectors Edition

This Ruby on Rails is the Ultimate cheat sheet and a reference guide for RubyOnRailsBlog.com that will be continuosly updated and improved as new features are added to rails and new cheat sheet tips are added to the guide. It is a collection of HOWTO knowledge from the very best guides, apis and source snippets that are concise and easy to use.

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Firm To Give Away $10K In Utah Programming Contest

Mozy, an online backup storage startup, is giving away $10k to the best Utah programmer who enters its computer science programming competition. The firm is running the competition November 4th, in an effort to attract employees to the firm.

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Now they have two problems...

There's a fairly well known quote (among programmers, at least), that goes like this: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. -- Jamie Zawinski

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Community Driven Open Source Web Design

The Open Design Community (TODC) is a group of Open Source Website Designers providing free web design templates helping to make the global internet a prettier place.

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Attributes > Classes: Custom DOM Attributes for Fun and Profit

XHTML gives us the ability to extend our markup with customized, semantically meaningful attributes. The battle between classes and attributes might be a holy war to some.. and unknown to most others. To clear things up, in this article I explain several examples and provide functions for working with your own custom attributes.

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ColdFusion for the JSP Developer

Forget Ruby on Rails; this article outlines why Java developers are turning to a technology closer to home to leverage existing skills to enhance productivity. ColdFusion, a fully compliant J2EE application from Adobe, has all the benefits of a dynamically typed scripting language and is one of the most comprehensive tag libraries on the market.

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Visualizations of 15 Sorting Algorithms

Compare the speeds of different sorting algorithms. Select a sorting method then click applet to watch it sort. Algorithms include: BozoSort, PermSort, StoogeSort, AMSort, BubbleSort, SelectionSort, CocktailSort, InsertionSort, ShakerSort 1 & 2, ShellSort, QSort, HeapSort, JSort, MergeSort

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What if XUL Ran In IE Too?

Steps to convince Mozilla XULRunner to run as ActiveX in Internet Explorer to support XUL and SVG graphics.

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Python 2.5 final released!

This release includes conditional expressions, absolute and relative imports, unified try/except/finally, new generator features, the 'with' statement, new packages: ctypes, ElementTree, hashlib, sqlite, wsgiref. More details are here: http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/whatsnew25.html

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JavaScript templating system - Display HTML blazingly fast

AJAX applications are everywhere, and one of the key issues is the speed of rendering HTML. Using innerHTML is not recommended, but DOM can be slow. This JS template system lets you render HTML much faster than standard DOM, while keeping its flexibility.

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How To Make a Simple IRC bot From SCRATCH In Python!

A great guide on how to make something useful and fun in Python - an IRC bot. A MUST-READ for anyone learning Python!

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Drupal needs your help!

The popular CMS Drupal is revamping their module management system for the next version. Future features include upgrade notifications for modules and better issue tracking through a versioning system. They need 3500$ to support developers involved in the process and they're asking for donations. Support Open Source today!

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MonsterID, an unique image generator.

MonsterID is a method to generate a unique monster image based upon a certain identifier (IP address, email address, whatever). It can be used to automatically provide personal avatar images in blog comments or other community services.

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WordPress 2.0.6 Released

Automattic released it's new version of WordPress today. 2.0.6 contains security fixes, and other notable updates. This release will be the last until 2.1 (which is in beta) comes out. Although they are planning to keep 2.0.x active for Debian, they will update at a faster pace for 2.1. Check Mark Jaquith's site for the changed file package.

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Visualizing Pi (π)

Nice way to visualize Pi...

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The Google PageRank Algorithm in 126 Lines of Python

Vincent Kräutler shows how to implement Google's PageRank algorithm in (only) 126 lines of Python.

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MySQL Cheat Sheet

A fantastic quick reference sheet for when you are working with MySQL from the command line.

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FirePHP - Firefox Extension for PHP Development

FirePHP allows you to take a deeper look at all the work your PHP code does to generate that page you are currently looking at in your Firefox browser. Just install the FirePHP Firefox extension, PHP PEAR package and add a few lines of code to your PHP application to get started. You will see a "FirePHP" tab in your Firebug.

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HOW TO turn your blog in to an OpenID

Turn your weblog in to an OpenID with just two lines of HTML!

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300+ free-use PHP scripts

A nice collection of PHP code snippets with tags

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Ray-tracing 3D app built over the weekend -- Pics, video & source code!

I really kind of blew myself away when I had this working in well under 48 hours. It was just so fun I couldn't stop coding it! You know?! Check out the pics, video and even the source code.

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Click Test! Do you click like other people?

8 different rectangles with shapes inside, just simply click anywhere in the box and go to the next one. At the end see which spot got clicked the most and where you clicked in comparison!

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Top Ten Signs Your Software Project is Doomed

A few months ago I wrote a blog post entitled Top 5 Signs Your Project is Doomed and since then I've considered a few more entries that should be on the list bringing the total to 10.

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New FREE Ruby e-book

I've released my Ruby e-book for free now. Link goes to page with HTML and 150ish page PDF versions. Please note there are Google ads, so use AdBlock if you don't want to see them (downloads have been eating up 3-4GB of bandwidth a day and I need to pay for it). Enjoy and please buy a print copy! ;)

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mb3Digg - Digg goes 3D

Check out my first version of the mb3Digg Engine: A Flash visualisation tool that lets you explore the top digg stories in a 3D environment.

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Ray-tracing 3D app built over the weekend -- Pics, video & source code!

I really kind of blew myself away when I had this working in well under 48 hours. It was just so fun I couldn't stop coding it! You know?! Check out the pics, video and even the source code.

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The Coolest Javascript Website trick ever!

All you have to do is follow these 4 steps (basically go to a site and enter in a piece of java script code). the page reloads and the website graphics go NUTS - all the jpegs fall off their placeholders and fly around in a huge tornado. works on any site - which is the site with the funniest results that you can find?

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Negative Captcha

Here's an interesting thought. The flip side of "prove you aren't a robot," is "prove you are human." Though it's no easier to prove, at least it places the onus of proof on the spam bot and not your human guests. Use CSS and a hidden dummy email field to fake out the machines.

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Javascript Boot Camp Tutorial (from OSCON 2006)

Amy Hoy gave a 3-hour tutorial session on Javascript fundamentals on Monday, and today posted her entire slide stack, source code, and links. From her session's description: "This talk is for everyone who feels their JavaScript skills just aren't up to snuff."

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mSpace: web 2.0 meets web 3.0 meets iTunes

A few things:- a web 2.0 version of iTunes. - a very cool new web 2.0 ajax app that shows how one can easily browse data. - based on web 3.0 technology- the theory behind it- how it is being used by Nasa

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Scalable style switching with Dojo widgets

A nifty technique to switch style sheets and images before the user hits a Web page making it super fast and low bandwidth, it works with Dojo widgets and can be seen in action on Renkoo.

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