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Ringing around the world at the right time

If you travel a fair amount as I do and also need to ring people up who may live on the other side of the world it’s not always easy to remember what the best time to ring people is.
Well, fear no more, you’ll never make a mistake again with the World Clock Meeting Planner […]

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The spying CD

A CD from Sony that can tell how many times you have copied it !!!
I can remember that Martin, a flat mate at University, used to leave his copy of New Scientist hanging around in the kitchen for us to read. Since that time I have often bought a copy and now check the website. […]

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Spying on your visitors

Jeremiah Grossman demonstrates an issue with CSS and visited links which allows sites to verify the sites you have visited prior to theirs.
The issue/bug/vulnerability isn’t new, as comments explain, it was first discovered in 2002 and is well documented here at the seclist.org site.
CSS has a feature that can be abused to exactly […]

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WebWag : your personal page

A personal page service that allows you to choose what and where you add content, isn’t new, but when it just does that, then it quickly provides more than the others, with more freedom in the what (you add) area.
I recently finished work on a plug-in that provides personal page functions, so I appreciate the […]

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Zeo’s profile on Technorati

By pure coincidence while I was trying to find a link to Zeo’s hack for the wp-admin page, I tried Google after Technorati (as you can see from the tabs) but just before closing the Technorati page I recognized the photo of the member at the bottom left. A quick mouseover confirmed it was Zeo. […]

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Multi-browser site testing

I have just published an article that covers the subject of testing your site/pages and the compatibility with different browsers, several different services and solutions exist. I aim to cover as many solutions as possible in the article.
The main areas of the article are :
- Hardware based solutions
- Software based solutions
- Standalone solutions
- Remote Testing […]

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AJAX Write and Sketch and Tunes

Well I just came across this AJAX based Word Processor system called ajaxWrite that can actually read and write MS Word documents and several other formats. It is AJAX based so it just works directly in your browser, it’s really cool !
  
But I then realised that this was just the tip of the iceberg. There […]

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FireFox Crop Circle Celebration

For the cool guys and girls from the Oregon State Linux Users Group, celebrating the 200 million download milestone, the decision was made to better the previous events with a really memorable one. What better than a crop circle of over 45,000 square feet.
So August 2006, only one year and nine months after the launch […]

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The fight of the free in Newspaperland

London is the place to be for free newspapers. Soon there will be three free newspapers for Londoners to choose from !
The Guardian’s opening paragraph :
Newspapers are dying, but no one can accuse them of going quietly.
London is home to a “free frenzy” in Newspaperland. Next month there will be three free newspapers for commuting […]

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Web 2.0 Bubble and Star Bubble

So what do film stars and Web 2.0 have in common ? Read on to see why value is not always where you think it is !
While checking out CNN I came across an article called “Beware the return of the Web Bubble”, which turned out to be about media companies potentially spending too much […]

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