Though the recent iPhone 3.1 update added support for protecting against phishing sites, there were concerns that it didn’t catch any. But, as it turns out, that’s mainly because activating the feature requires a few more steps that most users didn’t know about. The Anti-phishing database is initially downloaded only when three conditions are met: […]
Folks, I ran into a odd issue on Friday, which I was finally able to resolve today…. Â With Safari v4.03 and Snow Leopard v10.6.1, I was having Safari lockups with any Flash content…. I ran the 10.6.1 updater, rebooted, and then discovered the issue. Â Here\’s the steps I took to try to resolve this issue… […]
This is what is wrong with the number crunchers running everything. Let\’s gather more information, so that we can sell it to other people, \”absent-mindly\”, forgetting that they are hurting people in the process…. Ars technica is reporting on the ruling from the FTC about the software shenanigans of Kmart and Sears. The marketing geniuses […]
Back in 2007 Matt Bailey of SiteLogic took look a the analytics behind the ‘Red-Shirt Phenomenon’ in the original Star Trek series, where the guy in the red shirt who is beamed down to the planet with Captain Kirk is the one who always dies. It was found that red-shirted crewmembers tended to die in […]
The simple fact is that large set of data can be used to ascertain certain things. For example, using NetFlix\’s data set, the most popular movies among men over 40. But consider when that data set becomes huge… How many restrictions would be needed to find an entry that is yours? Even if it\’s made […]
Otto42 of OttoDestruct, a key WordPress developer and supporter, reports that there is an ‘attack’ on older versions of WordPress right now. The number of sites hit by this is growing every hour. Protect your WordPress blog now: UPDATE NOW!!! Update your WordPress blog before you continue reading this post. That’s how critical this issue […]
AT&T has announced that on September 25th it will begin offering MMS service to its iPhone customers, solving one image problem and exacerbating another.… (View the rest of the article at iPhone MMS hits US on September 25)
A Mugging on Lake Street A veteran investigative reporter looks into his own beating and finds himself confronting harsh and lingering questions of race BY JOHN CONROY \’In my next conscious moment, I was dimly aware that I was facedown on the pavement. There was blood in my mouth.\’ I was ambushed on the […]