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When in the Cloud, Trust – but Verify
Quite a lot has been written about the importance of due-diligence in a cloud environment. Sometimes the importance of security and compliance-related vetting in the cloud is easy to justify, like when you’re evaluating off-premise public cloud hosted at a … Continue reading
Pastebin updated to V3, releases Windows app
Pastebin is a very popular website aimed at coders and other nerdy types, which allows them (or should I say, us) to paste and share snippets of code with lovely syntax highlighting. It has recently undergone a major overhaul which … Continue reading
How to check for water damage before purchasing a used iPhone 4
“Checking for water damage is pretty simple and something everyone should do before forking over your hard earned cash for a second-hand iPhone 4.” If you’re trying to save some money and are in the market to purchase a used … Continue reading
Zen Coding high-speed HTML shorthand plug-in updated
Zen Coding made quite a splash when we first covered it almost a year ago. For those who aren’t familiar, Zen is a fantastic form of shorthand for quickly hand-coding HTML. And today, a new version is out! Here are … Continue reading
Ask DLS: What’s your primary Web browser?
Competition is a good thing, and the browser arena has been a fierce arena for years now. There are at least four “major” browsers each vying for your attention, along with lots of smaller spin-offs (SRWare Iron or Flock, anyone?). … Continue reading
Extraordinary 298-Million-Year-Old Forest Discovered Under Chinese Coal Mine [Science]
American and Chinese scientists are flabbergasted after discovering a giant 298-million-year-old forest buried intact under a coal mine near Wuda, in Inner Mongolia, China. More » IXYS ITRON IRON MOUNTAIN INORATED IOMEGA INTUIT
Google Caught With Hand In Safari’s Cookie Jar
Google is one of four online advertising companies that have sneaked around the privacy settings in Apple’s Safari Web browser to track user activity, according to research from Stanford University graduate student Jonathan Mayer. All four surreptitiously submitted a Web … Continue reading
iSites overhauled, now lets you publish cloud-based HTML5 iPhone apps in minutes
iSites — a zero-code cloud-based ‘app creator’ — can now generate HTML5 apps that work on iOS devices. With this new feature, dubbed ‘InstantApp’, you can now design a single app in your browser and publish it natively on Android … Continue reading
Help Bob make money in Sticks, a fun physics game
Sticks is another one of those rare games where the intro is actually worth watching. It introduces you to office worker Bob, who is basically a wage slave fantasizing about a better existence. Then, on his way back home from … Continue reading
Line Grapefruit is a tricky Flash “path” game
Okay, see that snaking line coming in from the right on the screenshot? That’s you. And see those large round circles? Those are supposedly grapefruits, only they won’t sit still – they keep moving up and down and cutting across … Continue reading