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Kayodeok's Headlines for January 2005

Monday 24 January 2005

Security

• Technology Fueling Wave of Phishing Scams
• Hackers Eavesdrop on Phone Networks to Steal Data
• How To Handle a phishing attack
• Protect your online identity and privacy with Ciphire Mail

Web Development

• Amazon Web Services has a blog via Research Buzz
• Firefox 1.1: Updates on the new Preferences Dialog Box
• Google Increases Maximum Number of Query Terms to 32 via Search Engine Watch
• Bookmarklet to highlight nofollow links
• Follow On No Follow: Will "Fully web-expressed writing" Suffer?
• Inheritance vs Cascade via 456 Berea Street
• IE and italics problem via 456 Berea Street

Commentaries

• Bridging the IT Cultural Divide, Part 1
• Here's an inside look at how the unusual Linux business model increasingly threatens Microsoft

Tips

• A Cool Tip For Editing Data Directly on Excel Charts
• Jon Peltier's Excel Charts Tutorials
• Home Computer Magazine tip: An easy way to create new folder in Windows Explorer
• XP SP2 breaks Captive-NTFS. How to work around this

Utilities

• AutoHotKey is a simple yet powerful hotkey (shortcut key) scripting language for Windows, supporting both mouse and keyboard macros

Gadgets

• Russell Beattie does a mini-autopsy on the Mac Mini

Thursday 20 January 2005

Security

• How Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) identifies a program as a spyware threat
• Safe E-Mailing for Dummies
• 'Evil twin' hotspots are a new menace for Internet users
• Trojans masquerade as Microsoft AntiSpyware
• What Hope for Federal Anti-Spyware Legislation?
• Microsoft Reverses Plan, Will Patch Media Player
• German court rules email blocking 'illegal'

Web Development

• CSS: Redundancy vs. Dependency
• Accessibility From The Ground Up: A Primer for the Web designer
• PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Released With New Windows Port
• PostgreSQL Gotchas via delicious
• MySQL Gotchas via delicious
• Preventing comment spam with rel="nofollow"
• nofollow, no love: Google admits they are losing to spammers via Anne Van Kesteren
• Is rel = "nofollow" really as !important as that?
• Let no fellow nofollow, lest we all lie fallow
• A nice way to visualize which links use the new "nofollow" relation is to include a special user-stylesheet into Firefox
• The perils of using XHTML properly
• Accessibility: The Firefox browser and JAWS - at last!
• Apache 2 with SSL/TLS: Step-by-Step, Part 1

Commentaries

• The State of Windows Security

Tips

• Using a Least-Privileged User Account
• Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator, Part 2
• How To Surf Securely using WiFi: Securing Your Starbucks Experience
• Getting practical about wireless security, Part 1: Building a wireless sniffer with Perl

Gadgets

• Toshiba Connects Cell Phones with PCs
• HOW-TO: Use your CDMA cellphone as a USB modem

Monday 17 January 2005

Security

• 180solutions Joins Consortium of Anti-Spyware Technology Vendors
• 180 Talks a Big Talk, but Doesn't Deliver
• Your Rights with Windows Media DRM
• Blaming the User: MS & WMP Adware Installations
• Torvalds Criticizes Security Approaches
• Microsoft Word & Excel (All Versions) RC4 Protection Implementation Flawed
• Internet Explorer Handling of %20 Allows Spoofing

Web Development

• Getting Lost in Cyberspace: A presentation on accessibility problems with site navigation via 456 Berea Street
• Block vs. Inline, Part 1 via 456 Berea Street
• Block vs. Inline, Part 2 via 456 Berea Street
• Block vs. Inline, Part 3 via 456 Berea Street
• Untold Mysteries of CSS via 456 Berea Street
• Information Management: How to use Gmail as your second brain via delicious

Windows News

• Seven Longhorns to debut in May 2006?

Open Source

• Installing Debian From Scratch

Programming

• Laziness, Impatience, and avoiding Excel: Drafting up a budget with Perl instead of Excel

Gadgets

• Momentum Is Gaining for Cellphones as Credit Cards
• Mac Mini Details - RAM, Hard Drive, Wireless

Culture

• Will Newspapers Like The New York Times Miscalculate Their Value in the New Media Universe?

Thursday 13 January 2005

Security

• Investors Supporting Spyware
• What Advertisers Use WhenU?
• Guess What - You Asked For Those Pop-Up Ads via Ben Edelman
• Video files appear that download malicious application when they are run
• Bugtraq: WMV (Windows Media Player) trojan in wild
• Third Parties Offer IE Vulnerabilites Protection
• McAfee automates Google hacking
• Microsoft: No Plans to Tweak DRM Download Mechanism

Web Development

• Adding Generated Content in CSS2 via CSS Vault
• How to display <ul> elements as a flat comma-separated list
• Experimental del.icio.us Posting Interface Thing Generator via delicious
• Yahoo! Desktop Search

Tips

• Windows XP a Goner? First Aid for your Windows PC

Utilities

• RunAsAdmin Explorer Shim

Science

• Spacetime wave orbits black hole via Jason Kottke
• The Indonesian earthquake decreased the length of each day by 2.68 microseconds via Jason Kottke
• A Morse code for human cells

Gadgets

• First Mac Mini Dissection
• Introducing Mac mini

Culture

• Apple's Tipping Point: Macs For The Masses via Forever Geek

Monday 10 January 2004

Security

• Extremely High-Level IE6 Vulnerability Found
• McAfee automates Google hacking
• Microsoft's Anti-Spyware Conflicts Of Interest
• Is Microsoft Violating the Gator EULA?
• High-Risk Flaws Flagged in IE, Mozilla
• Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities
• Mozilla/Firefox File Download Dialog Spoofing Vulnerability

Web Development

• From Lists to Social Content Engines via delicious
• Turning a list into a navigation bar
• 20 Year Archive on Google Groups
• Navigation blindness: How to deal with the fact that people tend to ignore navigation tools
• Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any webpage to change it's behavior via Simon Willison
• Greasemonkey: Hacking the Web with JavaScript via Simon Willison
• Web Applications - The Wave Of The Future

Windows News

• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition RC1 tested
• Microsoft's Red Menace

Tips

• Windows Media Player: WMP mini FAQ

Utilities

• SiteDigger 2.0 searches Google's cache to look for vulnerabilities, errors, configuration issues, proprietary information, and interesting security nuggets on web sites
• View your desktop as a list
• MS AntiSpyware vs Ad-Aware vs SpyBot

Culture

• When Personal iPods Become Business Tools...
• New York Times Planning A Subscription Fee?

Thursday 06 January 2005

Security

• Microsoft debuts Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)
• Definition of a Security Vulnerability
• Windows Media Player Adware: A Case Study in Deception
• Claria's Practices Don't Meet Its Lawyers' Claims
• SSH Port Forwarding
• SQL Injection Attacks by Example
• More Resources for SQL Injection Attacks

Web Development

• ASCIIMathML: Translating ASCII math notation to Presentation MathML via Simon Willison
• Google-Scraped Dictionary
• Writing an Extension for Firefox via Isolani Linkblog

Windows News

• Gate's Computer Crashes at CES via Simon Willison
• Hey, My TV Just Crashed! via delicious

Commentaries

• In The Beginning Was The Command Line, Updated
• The Command Line in 2004
• Remember back when siblings could share their Christmas presents? Those were the good old days, all right, before Digital Rights Management came along

Open Source

• Gentoo for All the Unusual Reasons

Science

• How your brain is like the Internet

Tuesday 04 January 2005

Security

• Microsoft Readies 'A1' Security Subscription Service
• Trojan Horse Christmas: How to safely use your new Trojan Horse
• The Other Side Of Spyware: How much analysis and objectivity goes into determining what is spyware and how much is hype?
• Wardrivers can now palm a detector that not only spots Wi-Fi networks and details their signal strength, but reveals the name of each available network
• Adware Installed Through Windows Media files
• Media Files that Spread Spyware

Web Development

• Guide to Unicode, Part 3 via 456 Berea Street
• The secret benefit of accessibility Part 1: Increased usability via Isolani Linkblog
• The secret benefit of accessibility Part 2: A higher search engine ranking via Isolani Linkblog

Commentaries

• Who REALLY protects the Internet?
• The Shadow Internet

Open Source

• Knowing Knoppix: The first guide to Knoppix for the complete beginner

Tips

• TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows

Utilities

• ieCapture - the PC cousin of iCapture via delicious
• My Favorite Smallware via Jeremy Zawodny

Programming

• Architectural manifesto: Designing software architectures, Part 1 - On the importance of process
• Architectural manifesto: Designing software architectures, Part 2 - On the role of the architect
• Architectural manifesto: Designing software architectures, Part 3 - How to write a requirements specification

Gadgets

• Samsung Debuts World's First Phones With Speech-to-Text Capabilities
• Holographic projector for your future PDA