Tag: internet

Over the last few weeks I've playing playing with an exciting new technology known as OpenID. Do you remember Microsoft Passport and it's opposite number, Liberty Alliance? Well; we all know that these services weren't all they cracked up to be. They claimed to be "distributed log-on services", but in actual fact they were centralised …

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Abnib now supports "feed hiding" of the "community" feeds (RockMonkey, Troma Night, Gallery). Just click the "hide feed" link at the bottom of a post of the type you don't want to see. This feature by demand of Jon.

In other news, Blue Dragon is proving somewhat popular, with 7 registered players (plus me, but I …

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People have asked me for GMail invites again, but one of these people's @aber.ac.uk e-mail address doesn't seem to be working, says GMail, so here are some "ready to pick up":

Invite 1 (used) Invite 2 (used) Invite 3 (used) Invite 4 (used) Invite 5 Invite 6 Invite 7 Invite 8 Invite 9 Invite 10 …

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Got home videos? Send them to Google! That's the message that Google co-founder Larry Page is trying to put out.

In anticipation of launching a "video search" system, Google wants a stack of material on which they can test their "video spider" - a program which will hunt for keywords (spoken, or on-screen) in video material, …

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Do you remember Ceefax, that wonderful service from the BBC that seemed so cool until you discovered the internet? Well I do. And so does a Dutch consultant who set up a system, on the web, for searching Ceefax pages.

Well; in any case; I thought that his site was fun (in a nostalgic kind-of way) …

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A PhD student in San Deigo has written a fascinating paper which will spook internet anonymity freaks - Remote Physical Device Fingerprinting - which describes how a physical computer can be uniquely identified on the internet, regardless of operating system, IP address, or data sent, just by looking carefully at it's TCP packets (which contain …

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I'm sure you've all seen the recent Internationalized Domain Name exploit, which affects most web browsers (except for Internet Explorer - shocker! - because it doesn't yet have the power to support internationalized domain names): if you haven't, why not visit paypal.com - looks just like the real thing; doesn't it: the browser bar says …

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As you may all know, I'm a die-hard supporter of the Opera web browser, despite many of my friends now claiming that Firefox is superior. I've been following the Mozilla project for a long while (haven't we all), and on the many occasions I've tried Firefox (and it's grandparents) I've always been unimpressed. It's always …

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There's a lesson here for any business with a web site:

I'm sure that you may be familiar with Freedom Sport & Surf, the sports goods shop on Alexandra Road (opposite the carpet shop formerly known as Rumbletums Cafe). Well; they had a website - FreedomSportAndSurf.com. But they let the domain name expire, and it's been …

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Following up yesterday's rumours, it can now be seen that, officially, LiveJournal has been sold to SixApart. The details look pretty good - the service will remain much as-it-is, nobody will be 'migrated' to TypePad or MoveableType, and - better yet - LiveJournal might actually (finally) get some much-needed new features, such as trackback (which …

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