The current HP scandal is the consequence of what is known as "pretexting". Over at the washingtonpost.com there is an article that covers the shady procedure of "pretexting" to obtain information about a person. Although you may like myself, be astonished and unaware that executives of the same company engaged in spying upon each other […]
Take a look at the recent advert for Apple's iTunes & iPod, featuring Bob Dylan. The advert plays with the well known shadows concept commonly used in both iPod and iTunes ads, however each person in the ad like Dylan is recognisable regardless of the shadow effect... Enjoy 🙂
Taking a look at the online photo industry may well give you the answer... If you look at the new battle between Flickr (Yahoo) and Picasa (Google) then you could be faced with what will be happening soon in blogging. Google is putting the heat on Flickr with its Picasa 2 beta that I have […]
The Economist is carbon-neutralized. The magazine decided that for its 16 page 'Green' section it would make a difference, not just in words, but in actions. The idea sprang to life in the latest edition of The Economist, with a special environment section called "A survey of climate change". The latest issue of the magazine […]
Have you taken a look at the new and very pretty web site at IE7.com ? No, oh well please do it's really worth the trip from here to there, it's a great advert 🙂 Link from the man in blue.
The BBC has compiled a very interesting set of statistical charts combined with key event dates, giving a better idea of their impact on the statistics. It is nicely presented and works well with the key dates, accompanied each time with an image and brief description. An interesting choice of statistics indicating which areas have […]
Part of my family live near Leeds, while my close family live in France. I was looking to compare prices for flights from Paris to Leeds and a little green thing caught my eye next to the results on Google. My mum's flight from Leeds to France a few weeks ago was just after the […]
I just came across a very interesting Google Video from Google. Luis von Ahn, a Carnegie Mellon professor, discusses the Captcha concept used to stop automatic systems from filling in forms and how currently Spam companies are trying to get around it. Captcha is used to describe a system that allows a computer to automatically […]
Google, via it's evangelist Adam Lasnik is starting to provide SEO classes. As you can see here the seminars are cheap and open to all. It begs the question about Google asking people to create web sites for people and not for their robots. However, it is true that the best idea is to build […]
I just came across this photo set of the same view using a time lapse intervelometer device. I was lead to it from a remixed version over on flickr : by 'narphorium' (he explains how he did it in the comments with Photoshop) Do check the original and the remix, both are really good pieces […]
Yes pun intended, the minister from the UK government that decided to create an open environmental Wiki that 'all' could edit must have been reading all the web 2.0 hype about getting people involved without any authentication required. Well the result is pretty impressive in that the site was defaced and lead way to numerous […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
