Latest IE Exploit Has Microsoft Telling Users To Use Firefox
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 | Hack, IE8, Microsoft, News, Unusual | No Comments
Looks like the IE exploit that was released a few days ago is a lot more serious than anyone thought. How serious you might be asking? Well, it’s serious enough to get Microsoft flooding media outlets advising users to switch to ‘an alternative browser.’ That’s pretty intense!
According to slashdot,
The flaw, which affects all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, is manifested via malware and has infected over 6000 sites thus far. Microsoft states: ‘The vulnerability exists as an invalid pointer reference in the data-binding function of Internet Explorer. When data binding is enabled (which is the default state), it is possible under certain conditions for an object to be released without updating the array length, leaving the potential to access the deleted object’s memory space. This can cause Internet Explorer to exit unexpectedly, in a state that is exploitable.’”
Damage control!
Send Free SMS Messages Through Gmail
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 | Beta, google, News, SMS, Software Update | 1 Comment
Here’s a new (err..somewhat new) feature for Gmail that has just been released via Google Labs, Free SMS messaging to any phone in the United States through it’s integrated chat feature.
To send a SMS message to one of your friends (or enemies, whichever you feel like reaching out to), just enter a phone number in the search box at the top of the chat window found in the bottom left hand corner of your Gmail interface and select “Send SMS.” Once you’ve entered in a phone number for a contact name, it is automatically saved, meaning you’ll only have to update phone numbers once.
Currently it’s only being tested on US-based cell phone carriers, but hopefully this will be expanded as the ‘kinks’ are worked out of the system.
They’re not the first online chat service to offer this type of free messaging, but hey, one more feature for those of us who use Gmail/Gchat regularly is always an added bonus!
Once you’ve added the SMS number, chats through the service appear in the same interface anyone familiar with the current Gmail chat service will recognize:
Free Gmail Stickers – Get ‘em While They’re Hot!
Monday, December 8th, 2008 | Funny, google, Promotion | No Comments
They just posted over at the official Gmail blog that apparently the engineering team had recently suffered from a bad case of holiday spirit and decided to print up in bulk some of the homemade stickers that had been circulating through the office. Everything from some wacky Gmail keyboard shortcuts, a bunch of shiny envelopes, a robot and even a friggin’ unicorn. Yes, a unicorn.
So, if you want some free Gmail stickers of your own, all you have to do is send a self-addressed stamped envelope (with short note if possible) to:
Send me some Gmail stickers already
P.O. Box 391420
Mountain View, CA 94039-1420
I so want the unicorn:
Recent Finds – NinjaFollow, The Fish Puzzle, Ajax Effects + More
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 | Hack, Open Source, photo-manipulation, Tools, Twitter, Utilities, Yahoo | No Comments
NinjaFollow
Need to unfollow or follow Twitter users in bulk? This website is for you. Quick and easy tool that utilizes Twitter’s API to mass-follow/unfollow
Coudal – The Fish Puzzle
Have some time to waste? Good, you’ll need it!
20 Ajax Effects You Need To Learn
Tutorials and source code, just how I like it.
Smush.it Image Optimizer
Quick and easy website that will optimize your images for viewing on the web. It’s an open-source project run by one of the members of Yahoo!’s “Exceptional Performance Team” – The same group that put out their YSlow Firefox application!
Enjoy!
Rep. Charles Rangel and The Pair Of $40,000 Websites
Friday, December 5th, 2008 | Funny, News, Random, Unusual | No Comments
The Politico has just reported that New York Democratic Representative Charles Rangel has paid his son nearly $80,000 for two horrible looking campaign websites. While it is technically not illegal, if I was paying taxes in the state of New York I probably wouldn’t have appreciated paying for that.
Here’s the only one that they listed, www.nationalleadershippac.com , but judging from the design & execution, I can’t imagine the other being any better.
This is so bad that I think it might resemble those old MS Frontpage templates. Not only that but images are blurry, improperly cropped and there are spelling/grammatical errors throughout the site!
And to think that this is what a $40,000 website looks like! My favorite part is in the left sidebar, I’ve taken the liberty of taking a screen shot of it for you. What kind of professional would ever go live with the following still on the site:
$40,000 and he couldn’t even out-source it for $200 to any number of the cheap freelance sites that are available? Thats amazing!
According to The Politico,
“Steven Rangel’s firm was paid roughly $2,500 on a monthly basis—less than the firm that had previously managed Congressman Rangel’s Web and on-line operation (Network Politics)—and the firm’s fees included money for Web advertising designed to promote traffic to the Web site.”
Ouch!
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