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About Yoghurts…

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:35:30 +0000

[From About Yoghurts | Bonkers World]

Experience Dad’s internet

admin — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:14:57 +0000

Experience the beginings of the Internet on http://telehack.com/

Easily create HTML5 animations

admin — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:11:59 +0000

link: Hype 1.0 allows you to create slick, animated websites in HTML5

OSX – Quickly switch between function keys mode

admin — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:55:08 +0000

Palua on the Mac App Store

BigBrother is watching you…

admin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:45:11 +0000

Did you know that your iPhone is registering all your movements in a SQLite database?
And that this database is included in the iTunes backup?
And that it is not encrypted?

And the best: there is a tool to follow your latest movements around the globe:
petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub

How to properly handle anti-piracy

admin — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:44:23 +0000

I just stumbled on this article on Androidpolice:
Fake App Gets Uploaded To Pirate Android Markets, Megatrolls And Embarrasses Those Who Download ItIt seems, that the developers of the “Walk and Text” Android Application have found an extremely effective way against piracy.

Their 1.54$ app that they sell through the Android Store is widely pirated and the .apk installer file can be downloaded from the usual shady sources on the web.

Now there is a new version out there (done by the App developer or someone else) that does the following:

Show a dialogue saying that it’s cracking the Application
In the meantime, all of your personal data is forwarded to a remote server (IMEI, phone number, your name, …)
Then the compromising SMS is sent to ALL of your phone contacts
In the end another dialogue tells you to go buy the app

So in the end you look stupid and your next phone bill is likely to be gigantic.

Even if I don’t approve the publication of any Virus/Trojan or Spyware (why does this send all of your data to a server?) and sending humiliating and unsolicited SMS, I still think that this is “an original” way to deal with people who think that you work for free to bring them good applications.

Google vs Apple – Tablet Wars

admin — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:53:59 +0000

“Google says it will delay the distribution of its newest Android source code, dubbed Honeycomb, at least for the foreseeable future.”
and

“To make our schedule to ship the tablet, we made some design tradeoffs,” says Andy Rubin

It seems that Google had to take some serious shortcut to get Android Honeycomb out of the door in time – to beat (or at least keep up) Apple in the run for the release of a “truly magic tablet”.

Now it comes back to bite Google, because they have to delay the release of the source code of Honeycomb (which is supposed to be Open Source) because they couldn’t prevent that users put Honeycomb on phones “and [would be] creating a really bad user experience. We have no idea if it will even work on phones.”

This seems like some nice case of “Honeygate” to me
On the other hand: Kudos to Google for maintaining the effort to invest in Open Source projects.

How OSX came to be

admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:54:13 +0000

Swiss Love Their Macs

admin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:25:57 +0000

I always knew it: Swiss Love Their Macs
Switzerland toppes thae list with 17.61% market share.
Luxembourg, USA, and Iceland are also countries with high Mac market share, all above 15%.

Google Launches New Search App for iPhone

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:45:20 +0000

Remember the Google Mobile app for iPhone? With an official post on the company’s blog a few minutes ago, Google announced a major new version of the with a completely new look, new features and a new name: Google Search for iPhone. Simple as that, the app packs all the functionalities from the previous version in a new UI, easily accessible for everyone and built on top of iOS 4′s multitasking and fast app switching capabilities.

link: Huge Update: Google Launches New Search App for iPhone

40th anniversary of the computer virus

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:15:36 +0000

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world’s first computer virus.

Read the rest over at net-security.org.

IE 6 : Holding down the fort

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:07:14 +0000

Looking through the stats on my site, I stumbled on the browser statistics.
There were still 37 visits in the last month that used Internet Explorer 6.

Interestingly the major chunk of this did come from the US, Switzerland, Italy and France.
And not as you might think from China or India as stated by Microsoft statistics.

Add New Multi-Touch Gestures To Any iPad For Only $4.99

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:40:16 +0000

Cult of Mac explains how to enable Multi-Touch Gestures on your iPad by simply buying XCode from the AppStore.
I have tested this and it works as advertised.

Find the full explanation here.