March 31, 2010 |
Linux/Unix
Skipfish is a new security scanning tool from Google that tries to find vulnerabilities in your webserver.
It can be installed either locally or on your webserver.
The easiest place to install Skipfish is on Linux, so I’ll go over installing it on Ubuntu.
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March 22, 2010 |
Blogging, Digital Security
Google released a free website scanning tool called Skipfish. Skipfish accesses your entire website’s URLs and tries to find problems from a huge list of tens of different security problems.
Click through for more.
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March 14, 2010 |
News
A number of sources are reporting Facebook has surpassed Google as the most visited site in the US.
Read on to find out why I think this is a loss for the open Internet.
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March 3, 2010 |
Linux/Unix
Chromium is the open-source version of the Google Chrome web browser. It excludes some of the URL-tracking stuff in Chrome.
Here’s how to install it on Ubuntu.
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March 2, 2010 |
News
Google has bought Picnik, a free online image editing website.
Picnik has grown to become one of the most popular web-based photo editing sites.
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February 16, 2010 |
News
Google Chrome’s been out for Mac since December, but now they’ve released a new beta version with extensions and other features.
Click through to see a video of the new features.
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February 11, 2010 |
Digital Life
Google announced that they are going to be building high-speed networks 100x faster what most people have today.
They’re going to price their broadband service competitively to what other companies are charging.
I say it’s about time.
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February 10, 2010 |
Digital Life
Google introduced what they’re calling Safety Mode for YouTube. YouTube’s community guidelines are already pretty strict, but Safety Mode takes it a step further.
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February 4, 2010 |
Digital Devices
The one big complaint against Google’s Nexus One cell phone was that it didn’t have multi-touch like Apple’s iPhone did.
Not anymore.
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February 2, 2010 |
Digital Devices
Google took many years to come out with a phone after Apple’s iPhone, but it looks like they’ll only take a few months to put out their tablet after the unveiling of the Apple iPad.
Now we have some pictures to preview the planned tablet’s UI.
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