Nothing worse than having your pricey toy rickrolled.
First iPhone worm rickrolls jailbroken phones
We sort of knew this would happen as soon as we heard about that iPhone wallpaper hack in the Netherlands — a hacker named ikex has created what’s apparently the first iPhone worm, and it’s currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia.
If you want to access your home media library from the road, this looks like it might be helpful.
Orb for Mac finally arrives, streams media from OS X to any internet-connected device
Orb for Macintosh has finally hit the streets, bringing with it OS X 10.5 and 10.6 compatibility that enables any and all media from iTunes to be sent out over the internet and consumed on any outside device with access to the web
The geniuses over at OUseful.Info are at it again. In this case, helping you to dissect and route Twitter feeds through the Internets.
What’s Happening Now: Hashtags on Twitter Lists « OUseful.Info, the blog…
I’m still waiting on the API (though a draft spec has been posted) so I can have a go at creating lists automagically from hashtag groups (various posts), but in the meantime, here are a couple of little toys that try to spot what’s going on within the context of a particular list.
A scalable, enterprise class database engine of your very own. A nice alternative to Azure.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
Amazon RDS gives you access to the full capabilities of a familiar MySQL database. This means the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing MySQL databases work seamlessly with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period. You also benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your relational database instance via a single API call. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources you use.
So the folks at the Inquirer break down a little analysis done by Groklaw regarding the EU anti-trust objections to Oracle owning MySQL as part of the acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
The thinking is that Microsoft’s hatchet men are behind some of the objections being raised, since an Oracle-owned MySQL would almost certainly be real competition in the market where Microsoft SQL Server likes to play.
The delay in the merger deal is causing Sun some difficulty … with friends like Microsoft, who needs enemies?
Oracle’s sun acquisition war continues – The Inquirer
Thus, though Microsoft probably has little vested interest in purchasing MySQL for itself, Microsoft is pulling all of its resources into use to ensure that the EU Commission – its last chance to stop the deal from going through – brokers an agreement with Oracle to sell off MySQL to an organisation with less weight than Oracle, and one with a software stack considerably less than its own.
So remember when Microsoft paid a hefty sum for a small slice of Facebook pie that valued the social service at $15 billion? After yesterday’s round of announcements, only Microsoft’s Bing has the nod to rifle and index the social activity of their pricey chums.
We’ll see how Google responds. I’m guessing with oodles of cash that re-values Facebook beyond $15 billion. Either that or they’ll starve Facebook of search traffic. Carrot or stick?
But the deal is a definite blow to the dominant search engine, since–for the first time–data will be available on Bing that are not available on Google.
It looks like you can mostly expect this to work with foks who signed on to OpenSocial. As the article points out: don’t expect it to work with Facebook.
Web 2.0 Summit: Marissa Mayer Shows Off Social Search, Results From Your Social Networks
There’s a new Google product called “Social Search” that is launching soon in Google Labs. This is a new feature that allows you to see results for queries from people in your social network. This works by using your Google Profile. If you fill it out with the other social networks you’re a member of, such as FriendFeed, Google will scan who you are connected to and give your results from those people.
Not for everyone, but if your need for speed, ease of maintenance, and security top your need to easily add content dynamically – it may be for you.
Five reasons to use a static site generator instead of WordPress – Guestlist
The basic idea is that your website is composed of a number of layouts, pages, and blog posts, which Jekyll stitches together into a set of static files during a single build step – not at runtime. This gives us a couple of neat advantages over traditional hosted publishing software like WordPress, which generates pages dynamically.
Sounds like an easy way to set up a test environment.
Download MAMP 1.8.3 – One-click-solution for setting up your personal webserver – Softpedia
MAMP is installed in the typical Mac fashion: very easily. You can install Apache, PHP and MySQL without starting a script or having to change any configuration files!What’s more, if MAMP is no longer needed, it is sufficient to delete the MAMP folder and everything returns to its original status (i.e. MAMP does not modify any of the “normal” OS X).
Chrome wins, but not in every category.
Performance Comparison of Major Web Browsers
The latest versions of the five major most web browsers (Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0, Opera 10.0, and Apple Safari 4.0) went head to head under six performance indicators: JavaScript speed, average CPU usage under stress, DOM selection, CSS rendering speed, page load time, and browser cache performance.
