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 […][...] → Read more

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.[...] → Read more

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 :)[...] → Read more

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.[...] → Read more

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 […][...] → Read more

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 […][...] → Read more

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.[...] → Read more

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 […][...] → Read more