Is Safari 5 a game changer?

Yesterday marked the beginning of the Apple WWDC 2010, the release of iPhone 4, the iOS 4 and a general wow effect, mainly over the iPhone’s new Retina display and video talks called FaceTime. Apple didn’t want to steal iPhone’s thunder, so it quietly released Safari 5, but in fact, it’s the biggest leap for this browser since years. But let’s first look on what is new.

Exploiting Gmail webmail for phishing

I recently noticed that a certain Gmail webmail “feature” enables you to convince the receiver that the email was sent by someone else than you. This exploit is really easy to fix by Google, but apparently it would also change the way they display senders completely – would, sort of, be like a step back to the era of email addresses as identification. Here’s how it works.

Opera Mini is hot in the App Store but is it really a hot app?

Opera Mini hit the App Store a few days ago and became an instant hit in every country. I downloaded it as soon as it was available and tested until today. In short, it’s not a surprise Apple applied it – there actually are plenty of other web browsers in the App Store. And it’s also not a surprise Opera Mini isn’t better than Safari. Why exactly? Continue reading.

Twitter @Anywhere platform quick introduction

Twitter announced its @Anywhere platform on the Chirp conference and I decided to give it a quick try on my blog. It turns out the platform is extremely easy to start with, has 3 primary and very useful features, and it takes only 15 minutes to implement them on the site. In this post I’ll guide you through the improvements I’ve made using @Anywhere.

TextOne - an SMS replacement for iPhone and iPod touch

I recently started playing with an iPod touch. It a pretty useful device. I chose it over iPhone because I travel a lot and would go broke from data roaming charges. I don’t miss the phone calls, since there is Skype. But I do miss SMS, or rather something similar but cost-free. At just the right time my company, ProcessOne, released a cool and simple app just for that called TextOne.

Update of automatic tweet plugin for Expression Engine

A while back I wrote about my plugin to automatically tweet about new blog posts in Expression Engine. Well, recently those of you who follow @f055 on Twitter might have observed that the announcement of my last blog post about Google Buzz was tweeted every couple of hours. That’s because there was a bug in my plugin.

What’s wrong with Buzz?

It all started with Twitter. And a bit of a Facebook. Got spiced up by LinkedIn and Yahoo Meme. We had Blellow on the way, Friendfeed, even the recent hype – Foursquare – can count in. Instant micro-exhibitionism, so you can generate all the buzz you need. But wait. Now you have the actual Buzz, for all your social pleasures. Enjoy?

Google phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6.0 and what does it mean?

As a Google Apps admin I have received an email today about Google planning to stop supporting IE6 in Docs and Sites, starting March this year. They plan to eventually stop supporting that old browser on all of their services including GMail. The transition begins this week, as they will be displaying upgrade requests on said services to the users who still browse with Internet Explorer 6. What does it mean for Microsoft, Google and the Web?

Using Apple Time Machine with an ordinary USB stick

I was looking for an optimal backup solution for quite a while. By optimal I mean fast, daily, portable and inexpensive. I looked at some online backup solutions, but they all failed at several gigabytes of data, not to mention the monthly payments for premium options and very questionable security – it was hard to find an encrypted online storage, and to make matters worse SSL wasn’t a solid standard but a “marketing feature enhancing security”...

Run Windows apps on the Mac using WineBottler

I recently stumbled upon an interesting application called the WineBottler that emulates Windows apps on the Mac. It’s similar in the behavior to Codeweavers Crossover, but it’s free and open source.