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sux0rz 2007/12/25 1 min read

Gmail Vulnerability: Has Your Account Been Compromised?

This is a truly scary story : David Airey got his domain stolen because of a GMail vulnerability. Short story: it was (seems it's fixed) possible to create filters on Gmail just by visiting a link or, say, loading a hidden frame on a malicious website. Like, create a filter to forward to evilguy@evilhost.com any email containing the word "password"…

Facebook acquisition, Google decline or Microsoft social network: everybody is making predictions for 2008. Twitter user predictions08 tracks them. Could be fun and interesting for the next few days.

2007/12/25 23h06 #

The World of Hello World: some guy has put together a map of programming languages and rough locations in the world where they were created. Each language comes with its mandatory "Hello World" example. Very cool :)

2007/12/15 18h15 #

Remove All Facebook Ads: the only Greasemonkey script for Facebook you'll really need. No more adds in pages and sidebar, or "sponsored" items in news feed.

2007/12/07 11h46 #

GMail 2007/12/04 1 min read

Gmail Labels: Look, It’s Colorful!

Gmail implemented a very cool feature (or at least it was recently added to my account) in the form of colored labels. You can assign each label a color from a selection, and I find this really handy when you're scanning through all your unread mails at once. I like it. Too bad I'm still receiving various mails that were…

Web 2007/12/03 2 min read

Facebook Prettier Profile URL

One of the lesser advertised and known feature of Facebook is that you can link to a prettier profile URL than the default and rather lame profile.php?id=123456789. For instance, my profile URL is either: Ozh (full profile, sucky URL) or Ozh (short profile public page, slightly less sucky URL). From an SEO perspective it does not change a lot since…

I just found out about Google's Music Search (example). Don't expect anything to find illegal MP3s (although Google can be used for this) but this is a neat tool when researching about a band: their discography, album names and release dates, reviews, even lyrics. I didn't know about this.

2007/12/02 23h07 #

WordPress 2007/12/01 1 min read

Deactivate Your Spam Shields For One Day ?

Some dude is going to deactivate his spam protection (Akismet) for one day, on December 15th, and the idea is actually starting to spread. What a pointless idea… I mean, everyone knows how many spam they're getting each day: Akismet as a WordPress plugin comes with a spam counter. I know I get between 100 and 300 spams every single…

What's wrong with GMail these days? I seem to receive mails hours after they've been sent, and I'm pretty sure I've missed quite a few.

2007/11/29 22h18 #

My Life 2007/11/26 1 min read

Where the Hell is my Perfect MP3 Player ?

Christmas is approaching and I'm thinking a bit about what Santa could bring to me. One gadget I still miss because I've never found the perfect one is an MP3 player. Every time I read reviews, I just cannot understand why every single product seems to miss an essential feature or comes with a couple of bloated concept I don't…