"SixApart's Typepad is about to announce Widgets for bloggers. And this is about to simplify the life of million of bloggers who until now had more or less to deal with placing html code in their template to customize and enrich their blogs with third party features." Can I just add... Finally!
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We’ll not quite there yet but if you want a preview how will Google TV looks like then check out http://www.current.tv/google/ where Google produces segments about top searches from Google Search.
Apparently a much higher than average percentage of computer workers are diagnosed with a mild form of autism called "Asperger's Syndrome". This test allow you to filter yourself out as just Geeky or maybe having something to actually worry about.
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Josh was called in to investigate and noticed that one particularly troublesome external IP had gone in and deleted *all* of the content on the system. The IP didn't belong to some overseas hacker bent on destroying helpful government information. It resolved to googlebot.com, Google's very own web crawling spider. Whoops.
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Attendee's at Defcon 12 can't figure out whats going on with thier machines. The 1337 d00dz get pwnd hard. pics and small vid. Very funny stuff!
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The site http://www.phprecovery.com/ is claiming it can recover compiled PHP codes from Zend, Ioncube, SourceGuardian, TurckMM, SourceCop, ScopBin and CodeLock. Looking at the submitted test scripts by users, it seems the decoder can only recover the code but not the comments.
I’m not surprised at all since most of these encoders just compiles the script or even if it uses some sort of encryption the keys are always the same such that you can create a lot of hashes then try to find the collision.
There are now discussions on how will this affect developers who uses encoders to protect their programs; how about those who already deployed their programs, how will they protect them now?
The new programs are phenomenally complex, with scores of buttons and pull-down menus and myriad connections among various applications.
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Most web services do some processing, send back a response, and immediately exit. But in this pattern, they keep the connection open by running a long loop. As soon as a state change occurs, it pushes new data to the outgoing stream and flushes it, but doesn't actually close it.
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Change a cookie or read the comments for someting to add to the URL to see the new interface.
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RTOC is a free statistics script that uses flatfiles to store data.
It includes an onine users counter aswell as a unique hits counter
that stores unique hits for that day aswell as a total. It uses
JavaScript to update itself dynamicly, so that all stats are in
real-time!
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Bill Gates recently gave a keynote at Mix '06, where he got on YouTube and did a search for "Bill Gates".
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In 2007 when Vista comes out Internet Explorer will no longer be intergrated with Windows Explorer
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Who says games aren't good for you? A new study suggests that playing casual games including puzzle games can help you maintain a healthy mind.
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Red Hat released its Fedora Core 5 version of Linux Monday, giving enthusiasts new graphics and virtualization abilities, as well as some desktop utilities based on a software framework from Microsoft.
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Yahoo! Inc. today introduced a new public beta of its instant messaging suite, Yahoo! Messenger with enhanced PC-based calling capabilities.
Consumers in the U.S. can now make low-cost Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls using their PC to call traditional or mobile phones in more than 180 countries
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Telco-grade mobile solutions now being offered to the public for free thus for the first time such solution is no longer limited to large corporations who can afford such marketing edge. Will this be the future battle ground for feirce competition between business?
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A letter worth waiting for ...
"Hi there,
Thanks for your interest in Google Page Creator. We appreciate your patience, and we're excited to tell you that we enabled your account today, so you can start making pages now! To get started, head over to http://pages.google.com and sign in with your Gmail password. We haven't opened up Google Page Creator to everybody yet, so you'll see a message on our home page saying that accounts are unavailable — you can just ignore that.
Google Page Creator is an experiment on Google Labs. Google Labs is where we put projects before they're ready for prime time so that we can start getting feedback from our users. So, please, tell us what you think, what features we should add, what problems you're experiencing, or anything else that can help us make Google Page Creator a better tool for you. We're listening.
This is the only email we'll be sending you — unless you'd like to receive updates in the future.
— The Google Page Creator team"
... and the fruits of patience, please visit my google page at http://alienatednluv.googlepages.com/home
Watch out 37Signals! Another 3-year-old company has released a Community Edition of their framework that is now open-source.
Beyond great asynchronous capability, they've got some pretty sweet objects demonstrated by their drag-and-drop shop, directory explorer, RSS reader, office locator, and more.
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http://corruptedpartition.blogspot.com
MobileCrunch: Think Different? Try Wear Different. NTTDoCoMo's new take on mobile&.
MobileCrunch has an interesting story about NTTDoCoMo’s promotion of mobile technology that doesn’t exist yet; or does it? Considering Japan is always on the edge of mobile technology this could be the introduction or it could be another Mobile 2.0 bubble.
The launch of Windows Vista will not only fatten the pockets of Gates' but it will also bring with it DirectX 10. "It will offer six to eight times the graphics performance of DirectX 9.0"
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Although not officially announced yet Fedora Core 5 is available. LinClips has a screencast (video) of the release!
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Microsoft appears to have concentrated their development effort in Vista on native code development. In contrast to PDC03LH, Vista has no services implemented in .NET and Windows Explorer does not host the runtime, which means that the Vista desktop shell is not based on the .NET runtime.
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A JUDGE has told Google that it must help the American government put through an internet child protection law by handing over private data to the Justice Department.
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An error in McAfee's virus definition file released Friday morning caused the company's consumer and enterprise antivirus products to flag Microsoft's Excel, as well as other applications on users' PCs, as a virus called W95/CTX, Joe Telafici, director of operations at McAfee's Avert labs, told CNET News.com.
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So it appears, someone has cracked the Mac. Sources indicate that a solution has been submitted for review to claim the now $12,000 prize. Furthermore, it appears the source is enlisting additional testers. Guess, its not impossible after all!
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Google has just launched a new service called "Google Mars" that lets you browse the martian land just as you would with Google Maps.
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AIM, MSN, and Yahoo! have someone new to worry about. MySpace slated to launch an instant messaging service based on their popular website. Yet another way for your little sister to get lured into the deep bowels of society.
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VK Mobile has hired NAKED WOMEN to wander the halls of the German CeBIT trade show painted with incomprehensible marketing blather to get mindshare for its cell phones.
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15 year old student, Tom Vendetta has been hired by search engine giant Google Inc. The student will receive a lowered salary, which will be placed into a bank account for future education, said Google CEO Larry Page.
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According to the article published by Silicon.com, UK IT managers are taking measures to ban and purge Google Desktop (GDS) on their networks. It is said on the article that one of the main reason is that the new version of GDS which allows ‘search across computers’ poses an unacceptable risk to many organizations.
Upon just reading the first few lines of the story, I can immediately say this story is just blown out of proportion and a total BS. First of all, on a corporate network setup GDS should never be installed nor anything else should be installed unless its required to perform the task assigned to a project or IT department on general which usually falls in the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) of the company.
In my opinion, any IT company which allows users to install applications such as GDS, Yahoo IM, Skype, mIRC, p2p or any messaging and desktop enhancements in the first place is just plain lame. Of course they are security risk, any application that’s not audited for security and stability is a risk; it doesn’t only compromise security but productivity as well! If search functionality is really needed by a company they should buy a search appliance which is offered by many search companies as well as Google.
(update)
I have received alot of emails regarding this post and i wish to clarify.
- I'm not saying all the mentioned application would be banned, only that AUP shouldn't allow them to be installed on corporate networks. If you are using it on your own personal/home internet network then its fine.
- In special cases such that companies have disjoint internal and external networks then as long as AUP says it wont endanger the secured network then fine, use it.
- I guess my statement is valid only on "general" corporate setup, but if your asking me if this should hold true under speacial network setups in your own offices then your Administrator and IT managers are the ones more capable of determining the suitable AUP for you :)I’m a fan of mech genre movies and games so if you are too then you don’t want to miss the entire Gundam SEED series now playing at YouTube.com, they are all in Japanese but subtitled on English. Thanks for Cremet for uploading the videos!
Just visit this URL: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=cremet&page=1
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