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Archive for September, 2010
University of Florida Security Fail
I love it when, while rummaging around old websites, I find links to events that are relevant to the current day on accident. Today, I bring to your attention a security incident that happened at the University of Florida. Quite frankly, I’d love to break down the incident of what happened, but I really think [...]
Proprietary App Stores Bode Trouble for Android
It is rare that I find myself genuinely concerned when I read the tech news. I am quite often bemused, or even annoyed – but rarely concerned. However, today, I am concerned. On TalkAndroid today there’s an article discussing Amazon’s intent to open their own Android App Store. This article also brought it to my attention [...]
UPDATED: Web Version of Twitter temporarily dangerous.
It seems there’s an exploit in the web version of twitter allowing someone to do some pretty nasty things if you move your mouse over a link. Some users are even blacking out their malicious tweets so you can see the dummy link. Please note that this exploit activates simply by moving your mouse over [...]
Easter Eggs: The programmer’s joke.
Programmers like jokes, but for this one to make any remote sense to any of the non-geek friends that I have reading this blog, let me try to do a little bit of background. So, one of the fun things you learn about when you run your own web server – after you learn about [...]
Cellphone Frustrations
Since I was 15, I’ve owned a cellphone of one kind or another. This past summer, as most of my regular readers know, I made the jump to the smartphone world with my purchase of a Google Nexus One. This was an expensive purchase, but one that I didn’t mind making under the impression that [...]
I’m not dead yet!
I’m not dead… but school has been kicking my butt over the last few weeks. So I apologize if I’ve disappointed anyone with my silence, but I hope to have some tasty goodies post on here very shortly. For lack of anything technically related, I think it is appropriate for me to give a short update on [...]
Apple is learning their lesson
Many apologizes for not getting a blog post out yesterday – or even getting a substantial post out today. The nature of being a student means that sometimes you hit bad weeks. But, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to comment on Apple loosening their restrictions on app developers. CNN Money reports that Apple is taking efforts [...]
Apple’s Ping smells familiar
Good Tuesday to everyone. I hope all of you had a relaxing labor day. So, as I’m without smartphone recently — I’m having to go to more effort to get to my news. Naturally, I hate going to more effort, so it hasn’t been happening as regularly as it should be, I suppose. Regardless, I [...]
What is HTTPS?
Greetings and good Wednesday to you my friends. I hope you’ve been having a less hectic week than I have. In order to take a break from what else I have going on by continuing my practice I started last week of using Wednesdays to explain some basic concepts in Computer Science. I find that [...]
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