Archive for October, 2008

Live mesh tech preview comes to Mac OS X

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Microsoft has released a tech preview for Mac OS X for their live mesh service. The installation was seamless and worked as expected.

I just don’t seem to get the whole point of mesh, at the moment it only puts a nice UI on the features already offered by live foldershare.

One of the dumbest ideas ever - censoring the Australian internet

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

I’m sorry but censoring the internet simply won’t work. Our government are a bunch of class 1 techo noobs if they actually think this can work, without totally screwing up our internet any more than it already is compared to the rest of the world.

Lock up your websites, gmail’s captcha has been cracked

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

It started as a trickle once before on a forum that I help maintain and turned into a flood as our forum was added to a list that was used by spammers. We upgraded our software, and the spam stopped dead. Well, over the last few weeks it started raining again.

Apparently both PHPBB and gmail’s captcha’s have been compromised, so soon the rain might turn into a flood.

Google needs to address this yesterday, heck even turn off new registrations until it is sorted if they have to.

Interestingly, an akismet type approach may be the best way in the long run instead of the poorusability that is a captcha.

Become a HTML testing ninja with the new Safari web inspector

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

The latest nightly builds of webkit, includes the new improved web inspector. It includes great new features such as:

- A Javascript debugger
- A Javascript profiler
- A resources panel so you can find where your page takes time to load
- Support to look into HTML 5 databases

For all the details check out the post here, then download your latest sword and get testing.