Archive for March, 2006

Internet Explorer Exploit

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

I have not been covering security much. But I ran into this Internet Explorer security issue on www.spyber.com. It turns out that that you can read the Clipboard from javascript. You could some pretty nasty stuff with it.

Sorry only browser with Iframe support

OQO in trouble counters

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

OQO has been making great Umpcs for a couple of years. With the launch of a couple of low-cost Umpcs this month OQO is countering by shifting to niche markets. The Oqo costs $2000 and has a 5 inch screen. The Umpcs will cost less than $1000 and have 7 inch screens. The first models […]

eBay Prostores

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

eBay is now offering stores under custom domains. This means that you can have all the features of a regular eBay store: PayPal, Payments, Product Catalog, Inventory Management, Storage Space and Security on your own domain.

Google Moon

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Google has created a little spoof called Google Moon. It is a Google Map of the moon. The spoof is when you zoom in all the way…

Google Dance alert ready

Monday, March 13th, 2006

I have a beta of the Google Dance tool is ready now. It will track the indexing of a web page through the Google Data centers. It will send an email when the page first appears in the index and when it is in all.

SEO tool almost finished

Friday, March 10th, 2006

I have almost finished my first SEO tool. It lets a user track in which Google Data center a URL is search-able. The result of the tracking is presented in a table like this, in that case a track of an Engadget article.
Here is a track of another Engadget article, a Hack-A-Day entry and […]

Windows Live - Dead on arrival

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

The Windows Live Beta is dead on arrival. The page is painfully slow with Internet Explorer and does not seem to load with Firefox. If Microsoft wants to compete with Google even their betas have to reach minimum levels of quality control.

Google Service of the day - Google Drive

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

There are numerous rumors about a future service called Google Drive. This would compete with other online storage solutions. There is no clar leader in this category.
The Google Drive should not be confused with Gmail Drive which is a hack that allow users to store data in Gmail.