IS IT A BIRD, IS IT A PLANE, NO IT’S A NEW ICON.
Decided to quickly update the icon so it looks a bit more appealing, instead of the standard blogger icon. Also Firefox 3 is looking good, hopefully by Firefox 4 they’ll have decent OS X Keychain support.
Or maybe Opera will beat them. The race is on Firefox and Opera.
Now that I’ve seen the iPhone pricing plans from Optus I’m pretty sure I want to get one. I’ll only get the cheapest capped plan of $19 a month to start off with and if I need more I can increase it. I only send about 5 sms a month and maybe one phone call, so I’m sure it’ll be alright.
I’m disappointed with Optus, because I expecting some real competition with the Telstra Sidekick which has unlimited data. The iPhone only comes with 100mb data on the cheapest plan and on the $79 plan comes with a gigabyte. I suppose I’m only going to be using this for a bit of IM or small research, not to torrent off or anything silly. I have wifi at home and I can always borrow from wifi hot spots.
I’m looking forward to using bluetooth and gps on the iPhone, and the possibility of geo tagging photos. I hope to see some nice applications in the iPhone App Store, and I hope most of them are free. I have an iPod touch and I have really liked the Installer.app, so hopefully someone can get that working on the iPhone 3g.
Uh. These posts are starting to get Yum9me sized.
I’ve been playing with Google Analytics for a little time now on my blog, and I find the overall use of this feature nice. It allows you to see what type of audience is reading your site, where their visiting, and from which site they came from.
I’ve been messing around with my OpenID, which blogger runs for me, on OpenID enabled sites like Propeller and Magnolia (both digg alternatives). Which has been quite fun. I also found Plaxo, which seems to sync all your contacts (OS, email server, email client, IM services) and it created a generic profile that allows you to have your youtube, last.fm, myspace, facebook, twitter, digg …. (The list goes on) stuff all in one places. It basically puts every Web 2.0 app in one place and includes calendar and address book syncing with several services. It seems really new so it’ll be nice to see how it turns out.
When pasting some items on Pastebin.ca, which I do quite often, I noticed an OpenID flavored login box, I further explored their site and noticed that they also do a image and file hosting service too, which I’m going to use for the moment. Skitch is a handy app to have, to take screenshots and upload to the net, allowing you to highlight certain aspects of the screenshot easily. A one click image upload feature is really handy, and I have enjoyed Skitch so far. I suggest you check these out.
I’m generally pleased with Bloggers OpenID simplicity.
I used Mail.app’s automatic filler type thing in today, which allowed me to fill in a contact details just by their signature. It was extremely easy, and all I had to do was select home instead of work for one phone number. Very pleasing experince.
yum9me later this week talked about backing up data and online storage solutions. After my hard drive wipe, I thought I’d try something a little differnt. I got a free account at iDrive, whic offers 2GB upload for free, which is plenty for me to upload my school work. The user interface is really nice and the upload speed is amazingly fast. It also does incremental backups to save time and bandwidth. The scheduler feature works excellently and even sends me an email once a backup is done.
The only thing I do hate is the fact that you can’t change the colour of the little menu bar icon. Which is really annoying because I had a nice forest/tree theme going on. If you’re going to have something so out there, please allow people to change it, if not stay with the standard black icons. Speaking of which, here is my solution.
In finder goto /Applications/IDriveforMac/IDriveMonitor.app/Contents/Resources using the goto folder function in the go menu. Open up IDriveMenuIcon.tiff in your favorite image editor and change the colour or what not.
Dreamtilt for non Australian readers is a cheap dial-up ISP for Australia. Now being a fairly well established ISP you would think that they would have decent web coders for their user login parts of their sites. Think again, several weeks back I stumbled upon a poorly written login function on their site that allowed the use of a simple SQL injection (text book styled), that allowed access to login without a valid username and password. The exploit could have been used to edit or delete (lets just hope they keep backups at-least) tables. Now the exploit has been fixed after I contacted the site via email (only took them a week to include one simple function) so I guess I can talk about this now. It got me thinking, how many dodgy programers are out in the wild. Considering that this a simple thing and any web developer should test or sources of injections before releasing a site to the public. I am by no means a programer, except for the occasional script for work.
I suggest you read http://thedailywtf.com/ if you have time. Most dodgy programs end up there.
And Dreamtilt, well done.
I’ve been looking for a phone/pda to splash a bit of money on, since I have bought anything geeky in awhile. I’ve made a short list of features I want it in it. Here is my little list:
As you have have noticed, I’ve started using blogger with a custom domain, I also you google hosted gmail. This means I need to make mx records to google hosted, and I also need to create a cname for theskorm.net to ghs.google.com. One minor, small fault with this, you cannot mix mx and cname records together. Luckily afraid.org has a nice web forward feature, which means I put blogger on www.theskorm.net and forward it :>.
Basic php script that checks ports on your server and reports back to the user. Fairly Simple, havn’t really made the code friendly so it isn’t recommend for people that don’t know php. Here it is. Feel free to do anything you want with it, although a small note to the author (me) would be nice. If you wanna see a demo of it working check out [dead link] . Also you might wanna grab the stylesheet - [dead link] . And here is the sauce/source - [dead link].
