The weird thing is that the code renders correctly in Firefox, Opera, Safari and even IE7, but when accessed with IE6, it pops in a fatal error mshtml.dll. Special thanks to Hamachiya2 (a Japanese blogger) who actually discovered this.
With such a big launch and so much media attention it’s only natural that the iPhone has drawn the eye of hackers of all sorts. And it didn’t took long until the first hacks were revealed for the iPhone.
For example if you remove the SIM preloaded in to the iPhone and replace it with an older, disabled SIM, you can use the iPhone as a WiFi device, without any need of being connected to a telephone network. Or even better take a look at this video that shows an iPhone that can make phone calls using a Australian Telstra SIM.
Yahoo! has launched their new advertising platform called SmartAds. And they want to win the market by advertising their new ads customization system. This basically means that the platform will take in consideration known information about the user, such as gender, location and online interests when it displays ads.
So we can expect to see highly relevant ads in terms of content, background, text color and geographic specifications. This means that men and woman will get different version of the same product ( such as different versions of the same car ) and the ads will contain colors that appeal more to each sex. Also ads will contain other relative content such as logos and other visual elements.
Here are some of the features included in SmartAds:
Carrying the personalized advertising experience from the ad to the landing page
Good for the customer, good for business.
Easier to reach and effectively address niche markets with specific, relevant messages
Improved customer engagement and response
Simplify the execution of micro-targeted online advertising
This is the first of many changes that Yahoo! has to make in order to get out of the slow downfall they’re having lately, I was really anxious to see some changes after Terry Semel left.
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As we all know Google just keeps coming up with new and crazy ideas, and this is one of them. So what they’ll basically do is to offer financial support to those who prove worthy. But before thinking of all the money you’ll make, there a couple of things you should know. Such as the fact that the program is only to gadget developers that meet the following:
This program is restricted to people who have developed a Google Gadget in our Google Gadgets directory that generates at least 250,000 weekly page views.
So you can obtain $5,000 grants to help you develop an existing gadget or you could get a $100,000 seed investment to help you develop brand new gadgets. And you don’t even need to reside in the US to benefit from Google Gadget Ventures (though if you want to go for the big $100,000 pot you’ll need to start a company in the US), all you need is a good idea and to be over 18.
So why are they doing this ? In their own words, to:
“help create an ecosystem where developers can spend more time doing what they love — building great gadgets”
After Digg API was launched, the API Visualization Contest was also announced. The main idea was that you should use the Digg API and the Adobe Apollo platform to create a Digg visualization. Voting closes tonight so let’s take a look at the favorite finalists, here’s the “official” description for each of them (the order is random by the way):
D’Lite is an Apollo application that utilizes Digg’s API to retrieve their amazing data, information, and processes. Some of the cool features of this application include pagination, favorites, network detection, and smart auto refresh.
DiggGraphr Desktop is a desktop application written in Apollo that lets you browse Digg stories in treemaps. The application also allows you to customize certain features as well as choose the channels you are interested in.
Reddit isn’t one of the most popular social news websites out there, but its presence is commonly known. However, reddit’s developers don’t seem to put pretty much thinking in their job, as this story demonstrates. They seem to forgot adding ANY type of validation to the submit form (the most used feature on the website itself). From the security point of view, this is a major flaw that needs to get fixed.
Basically, you can enter anything you want there and nothing can stop you. If you’re smart enough, you can use XSS to retrieve usernames and passwords or to execute malicious code in your favor.
At the time I’m writing this, the bug is still not fixed, the submit form still allowing me to play around. What’s more intriguing is that reddit’s owner found out about a similar exploit on Yahoo Combinator a while ago. Although that one was checked and quickly fixed, reddit.com is still vulnerable at this very moment.
I e-mailed a suggestion to Google a few months back, saying that it would be useful if we had extended options related to our GMail signatures. Currently, everything I have is forwarded to my GMail account, I have about a dozen, probably more e-mail addresses, and about 4 external POP accounts that I fetch my e-mails from. At the time, I asked for the possibility of having different signatures for every account, based on our preferences (obvious required feature if you ask me), the possibility of having images in our signatures as well as HTML code, and the option of having the e-mail signature above the reply (by default, the signature was placed at the bottom, below everything).
Well, as I did expect, they never replied, but today I stumbled upon an interesting Firefox extension called “Better GMail”. I strongly recommend you to use it if you’re a Firefox user. Not only for the signature features, but it has many extra options you can configure. You can even change your GMail’s theme if you like.
Anyway, back on track, my requirements were solved. With this plugin, you will be able to add HTML code in your signature, and you can use images (remotely uploaded to a FTP then referred to using the HTML code). As for the above quote signature, there’s a checkbox for that under Gmail Settings that solves the issue.
Overall it’s a pretty good extension. Too bad you have to configure it for every PC you’re using, since it’s browser-based and not located in any way in your GMail account. See the two useful links below if you’re willing to try this extension and when you do, I’ll be more than happy to hear back your opinions.
