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Archive for April, 2009
Adobe Extends Flash Platform to Digital Home
Silicon, OEM, Cable and Content Partners Embrace Adobe Flash Platform for Televisions, Set-Top Boxes and Blu-Ray Players
So, basically, Flash available on new TV sets. Endless possibilities. Click here to see the press release.
Time to patch Google Chrome
Earlier this month, a problem was discovered in Google’s new web browser, Google Chrome, that would have allowed an attacker to launch and run scripts on a compromised machine. The issue, originally discovered by Roi Saltzman of the IBM Rational Application Security Research Group, had been given a security rating of “high.” Interestingly enough, although the attack takes advantage of security issues in Google Chrome, the initial entry point for the malicious code would have taken place in Internet Explorer.
Goolge has now released a patch for this issue. If you want to make sure your browser is up-to-date, click through for the instructions.
(article from readwriteweb)
Flu
| Worried about Swine Flu? Keep this links at hand: Official news on the WHO website: http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/ Online map: http://healthmap.org/en |
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And a very nice wiki that people can update regularly (best resource):
http://flu.wikia.com/wiki/Flu_Wiki
And real time google maps:
::norai.net is gone for photos only
During this weekend I have been working on both sites, tokao.com and norai.net. I decided to focus ::norai.net on what is best: photography.
::norai.net has been up since 2000. The actual domain was bought in early 2002. It has always been a mambo/joomla CMS and a lot of energy went into it at the beginning but lately little updates. I even closed the community, forums and registration. It was packed with tools, experiments that nobody was using, so I decided to concentrate on photography only. Say bye to the old ::norai.net and say hello to the new one.
Brightkite
I would like to talk a bit about a very promising web application and also great iPhone application that has been out there for a while but has not been very successful in terms of people using it.
It is true that we are surrounded by Social Apps. For iPhone, web, such a facebook, twitter, amongst many others, so I guess it is not easy to get a place under all this giants.
Brightkite is a service that for the US uses SMS (not in Switzerland…) that lets you “check in” at various locations out in the real world and then see who else is there, has been there, and who is nearby. You can check in via text, web,or iPhone, but text is easiest if you’re using a traditional cell phone.
So you might think that similar tools are out there. Twitter in the iphone using apps such as Twinkle or Twitterfon already take your location, but this are add-ons for twitter.
In brightkite you can select your level of privacy so for instance your trusted friends can know exactly where you are, your friends the city where you are and the rest nothing. You decide when to “check in” your location. You can post updates in a Twitter-like fashion and upload photos to your Brightkite-enabled stream, available at a URL in the format of brightkite.com/people/username. The newly launched “Wall” feature makes Brightkite ideal for conferences and live events as it allows anyone to display the live stream of notes, photos, and checkins at any one place in a large, full screen view that can be shown on any monitor, projector, or TV. You can even link it with your facebook account.
Give it a try.
toi.tokao.com is just tokao.com
When I first bought this domain, the first thing that came to my mind was to call it toi.tokao.com, that in Spanish (slung) would be something like “I’m crazy”.
After some years I realised that for the English community and friends, the fact of adding this “toi” to the beginning was just making things more complicated.
I just changed the google api key and the httpd.conf file so whenever we have in the url www.tokao.com or toi.tokao.com or just tokao.com it will all go to the same place.
toi.tokao.com -> tokao.com
Now the blog is just tokao.com easier. I have to think what to do with norai.net because I do not update the main site, I mainly have my primary email server, my http://norai.net/photos and my norai.net/gallery amongst many others, but norai.net main page has no activity…
Voodoo
Sebastian’s voodoo. If you can click on full screen and watch it in HD. Cool movie.
2d bar codes
Now you can to to 2d sense and create a free account.
You can download a free app for your iphone and start creating links and 2d bar codes, that when you take a photo with your iphone triggers an action: going to a map, sending email, dialing a number, going to a web… you name it.
This is the bar code for this blog.
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope released
“Jaunty Jackalope” is the code name for Ubuntu 9.04, which was released on 23 April 2009. See the Jaunty release schedule.
See also the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Jaunty, which took place on December 8th to 12th, 2008 on Google Campus, Mountain View, California, USA.
And check the technical overview for the latest update link and technical information about Jaunty.
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