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Camtasia for Mac OS, a nice but very limited beginning
I had been an avid user of Camtasia for Windows until 2006, when I switched to Mac, so I was pleasantly surprised when I read a TUAW post announcing that Techsmith were porting it to OS X. It has been a long-missed app on the Mac, with other contenders available, such as ScreenFlow, not as [...]
Growl notification script for Mac OS Mail
After I created a script to enable Growl notifications for Entourage, complete with subject, from and the first part of the email, I have adapted the script to work with Mail. The reason is that I have dumped Entourage – in fact, I have dumped Office and gone with Mail + iWork, now that Snow [...]
So where are the beautiful Mac OS weather station apps?
I got started with weather stations with a cheapo Huger WM-918, even though my interest in meteorology has been growing since a young age. It was fun to predict thunderstorm based on natural factors such as the behavior of ants and flies, or the flight patterns of certain birds – all of this, once you [...]
Worrying – spam on TheFunded
So I was checking through the backlog of TheFunded RSS entries for interesting posts and reviews, and found – wait for it – spam! And not just one post, but six, all by different users by names like Felicia or Kassidy. Here is a screenshot of the spam posts in question (click for a full-size image) [...]
Congratulations, Benchmark Capital
Success is what defines Benchmark Capital, who turned $6m into $5b between 1997 and 1999 with their investment in eBay, and have now completed two transactions, the sale of FriendFeed to Facebook, and of SpringSource to VMWare for $400m. A big round to you guys, well done! TechCrunch has more details on the deals.
Fix your WordPress 2.8.3 NOW!
It appears than an input validation vulnerability is present in wp_login.php, used by WordPress 2.8.x to validate logins and reset passwords. An attacker can bypass the emailed password change link validation by submitting a crafted input to the password reset function in wp_login.php, as described here. The fix is at the bottom of the article, [...]
Garmin ANT+ Agent 2.1.2 has issues
Check out this post: https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?t=274 If you are running the latest release, downgrade to the previous one otherwise uploads from a Forerunner 405CX will invariably fail.
Thoughts after the Menorca TechTalk
After Whisher was acquired by wifi.com in mid-January, I was to continue working as CTO for the new venture as part of the deal. Since I had worked on the technology since the very first day, it made sense that I continued to oversee the development of the new phase of the project. In April, [...]
One reason why Apple took the space out of iPhone 3G S and made it 3GS
In essence – search engines. A search engine will mix results of searches for “iPhone 3G” and “iPhone 3G S”, but maybe not so much for “iPhone 3GS”. Google seems a bit immune to this effect, other engines not so much.
Fifty Tech Startups You Should Know – A Better Scoring System
I read with interest the list of the top 50 startups to watch by BusinessWeek after a post by Martin Varsavsky on Facebook. I think there are considerations not taken in the list, such as how much money every point earned cost, which would measure how good the brand image, PR and relationship with its [...]
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