Articles tagged with 'Beta'

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Today, we’re going to take a look at SwitchPlanet.com, a stuff trading service. With their mantra “use more … waste less!”, SwitchPlanet proudly proclaims,

SwitchPlanet is a social media trading website where members can switch their old DVDs, CDs, Games and Books with other members for free.

Social tools such as friends, groups and forums are available to help members communicate between trades.

Members also support various charities via our SwitchFunds program.

SP is a great way to enjoy media/entertainment for the cost of postage.

Didn’t take long for Safari to take the headlines again. Yesterday, Safari generated a fair amount of press by releasing a Windows beta version. For better or for worse, this brought about the close scrutiny of many people. Naysayers were quick to respond, telling that even Mac users don’t use Safari.

To make matters worse, security experts tested and subsequently released information of its vulnerabilities - for both OSX and Windows beta. Porting to Windows represent a double edged sword, you’ll get a slice of the market share while security exploiters will pay more attention as well. Were it not for the decision to port Safari to Windows, we believe that Safari would’ve remain relatively more secure (in the ’security by obscurity’ sense).

Sources:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=283
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9728500-7.html
http://larholm.com/2007/06/12/safari-for-windows-0day-exploit-in-2-hours/
http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/06/niiiice.html

You read it right - we never thought it would happen but it did. Safari now supports Windows (XP & Vista). It is released under public beta 3 so expect a some bugs here and there. With this latest move, Apple has up the browser wars a notch.

Our experience with it has been quite good overall. Take note that we’ve never used Safari before so there might be a few things that we’ve missed.

While browsing DivX’s website, we’ve noticed a posting on their ‘DivX Labs’ section along the lines of “Want to beta test some super-secret DivX stuff?”. The post was accompanied by a blurred logo … playing hard to get are we? Never one to turn down an indirect challenge of intellect, we put on our cyber-detective hats and hacked into their system and obtained the unblurred logo. By hacking, we mean checking the source code, and noticing:

Today, Google hosted a developer day for 5,000 developers worldwide at San Jose convention center. The highly anticipated Google Gears - an open source browser plugin which enables the creation of offline web applications via Javascript - was unveiled.

From gears.google.com
Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features:

• A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
• A database, to store and access data from within the browser
• A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background

We’re back. Problems have been plaguing our servers the past few days, so we didn’t get to post new articles. Meanwhile, our laboratory has been busy reworking our frankenstein creation, the feeds digest and giving it a new bride. Many thanks to those who have pitched in their suggestions which, we’ve taken into consideration when reworking the Zhongg Feeds Digest.

The feed url has been changed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/MalaysiaTech. To those who have subscribed to the earlier feed, the old feed will redirect to the new one, no worries :). We’ve hooked up with feedburner to provide better compatibility and statistics. The rest of the fixes are rather minor, best that y’all give it a go to see them changes.

Following the 31 Malaysian Tech Blogs post, we wondered if there’s a way to view all the blogs’ feed as one instead of subscribing to 31 feeds. Long story short, here’s our Frankenstein creation :

Zhongg Feed Digest
URI is at: http://www.zhongg.com/scraper.php http://feeds.feedburner.com/MalaysiaTech

(subscribe to the feed to have a look)

If you are here you probably already know what Joost is, so I’ll just skip to the point. Everyone wants an invite but certain people are taking advantage of the situation and making the rest jump through hoops. Enough of contests, lucky draws, registrations and all that bullshit.

Here are 50 links to decent people who give away their invites with minimum effort from you. All you need to do is just comment on their blog or send an email. Don’t just select the first link listed here, randomly choose one that has lesser comments which will increase your chances of getting an invite. Thank the kind chaps on your way out

well, it’s been quite awhile since I last blogged due to various commitments and lack of materials. Time passes, people change, people blog. Having gone through many versions and styles of blog, I hope that this one will stick, no promises though! So without further ado, I bring you the first post…

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