Archive for April, 2007
"Microsoft Australia has defended the company’s User Account Control (UAC) system as being ‘misunderstood’ and said it should be the type of technology that all operating systems aspire towards." — no, Mr Microsoft, no no no. #
"..the RIAA’s affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not." - Proving protection rackets are still alive and well..
"Shortly after joining the social networking site Facebook, I received an e-mail telling me a friend had ‘written on my wall’. Within two clicks I was logged-in and had full access to her account." — Facebook accounts at risk via email?
After some hackery and general pondering over just what sort of feed options are best, the feed options have, err.. grown.
Being as people like choice.. and choice is indeed a good thing, here’s the low-down on the new XML order, in (ironically) no particular order:
I want it all - this is the full give-me-everything deal.. […]
A pretty fly web 2.0 way to present your favicon.ico — the default logo presented in your web browser of choice, next to any one URI. Discovered via a
my.9rules Notes
post.
Not entirely convinced the purpose is at all earth-shattering or life changing.. but it is an undeniably cool applet.
"It’s time we learned the answers to these and other questions about web design. And nobody is better qualified than the readers of A List Apart to provide the answers." — Have your say in the 2007 ALA Web Design Survey.. your view still matters.
"I have received a lot of advice that I should not attend the festival. I’m told that paparazzi will take unflattering pictures, people will be unkind, etc."– Ebert flicks the bird, rather than thumb at those who suggest he shouldn’t attend festivals.
"Text editor + Transmit + CSS editor + Terminal + Books + More = Whoah." Coda releases a new version of their all-in-one web development stuido.. and elegently proves why Microsoft lost the battle years ago. And why Linux has so much further to go.
"Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion." — matt releases a plugin then suggest users on 2.0.x aren’t "serious" about their blogs. What?!
SCO’s Ralph Yarro had the floor yesterday at the Utah Technology Commission meeting proposing that free wireless sites and subscribers should be held responsible should any porn be delivered to minors.." — What *is* it with SCO and their claims?
"Apple’s soon-to-be-launched iPhone will be irrelevant to business users because it is a "closed device" and does not support Microsoft Office, a senior executive with the software giant said.." — as apposed to closed software? .. pot. kettle. black.
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