GoSkimming, the new iPhone app by Cumbria Tourism has been released on the iTunes App Store last week. This the first iPhone app I have worked on with New Vision Group and Buzz Interactive. And best of all – its free! About the app: Stone skimming is a worldwide pastime, although depending on where you [...]
The brilliant minds behind WordPress have released version 2.8.5 last night, dealing mostly with security issues. The main fixes of WordPress 2.8.5 are: Trackback Denial-of-Service attack fix Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins Retiring of [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, the brilliant minds behing Adobe released beta versions of ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder to its Adobe Labs members. This latest version of ColdFusion features a greater integration with the popular Flash platform, including AIR, Flex (and Flex Builder) and Flash Media Server, making it easier for developers to create rich [...]
Mozilla Labs has just released the first alpha of Firefox 3.6, code-named Namoroka, built on top of Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 layout engine. With it, Mozilla promises JavaScript improvements, startup time speed-ups, visual tab previews and behavior tweaks, capability for additional CSS3 properties, among the most notable changes. The startup time and JS speed improvements are [...]
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The great minds behind WordPress discovered another vulnerability yesterday: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. That would mean that the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password [...]
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WordPress has just released an update to their popular blogging-software: WordPress 2.8.3. This is a security update and it is therefore highly recommended to update the WordPress installation immediately (you should be seeing the “Please update now” ribbon on top of the screen when you log into your wordpress blog. Download WordPress 2.8.3 from here.
The team of Mozilla Labs have done it – the download counter shows more than 1 billion downloads of Firefox! What started as a rewrite of the old Netscape browser has now become the second most used browser world-wide, with an almost 23% market share (according to stat counter’s figures). The recent release of FireFox [...]
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Over the last week or so, the discussion “should we continue to support IE6″ has been gaining more and more momentum. Digg, Mashable, Techcrunch and other websites ran features about why IE6 should be given the boot, websites like facebook and youtube are starting to phase out the browser, hinting users to upgrade their browser. [...]
