Progressive Coder
ABC News: Online Identity Theft Ring Out of the ‘Shadows’
> June 29, 2006 ââ¬â The man who administered and co-founded what federal law enforcement officials described as one of the largest illegal online centers that trafficked in hundreds of thousands of stolen credit card numbers was sentenced Thursday to 32 months in prison.
The co-founder of [...]
While reworking my HTML in ClockingIT to support TaskList reordering with Drag and Drop, I ended up with some strange padding around empty LI’s used to make sure a tasklist never ends up empty (to work around a dropOnEmpty problem with Prototype/Scriptaculous). After several hours of trying just about everything, it seems IE decides that [...]
As I get more and more spam, and Akismet is unable to catch it all, I’ve installed wp-hashcash which is a really good idea. I wish there was some similar functionality for phpBB, as my forum gets even more spam. And you don’t want to see my inbox, it’s horrible after a few years with [...]
We’ve been hard at work lately and we’ve implemented a new design which we’re both very happy with. I’ve also ripped out domTT and created my own tooltips implementation, as domTT was way overkill and created all kinds of problems with stuck tooltips. I’ve also changed the ajax working indicator into something I think gives [...]
DivX Shiny New Features
> We here at DivX like to spend our time making things work faster, better, and with some serious style. With that in mind we’ve just finished a whole bunch of work on the DivX decoder, including many performance quality enhancements that we know you’re going to love!
Got to say the sharpening [...]
Scandinavia pressures Apple’s iTunes – Yahoo! News
> STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Denmark, Norway and Sweden plan to force Apple Computers Inc to break the exclusive link between its iPod music players and online iTunes store.
> The three Scandinavian countries have decided to take iTunes to their respective government mediators, or ombudsmen.
> At present, the only portable [...]
The Local – Companies sue Sweden over Pirate Bay raid
> Ten companies which had their servers confiscated during the police’s raids against file-sharing site The Pirate Bay plan to demand compensation from the Swedish state.
> The companies say they will hand in demands for between 10,000 and 200,000 kronor each to the Chancellor of Justice [...]
Microsoft clamps down on “vistatorrent” site | News.blog | CNET News.com
> With Microsoft having a tough time getting the Vista beta quickly into the hands of all those that wanted it, some folks thought they could help out.
> They set up vistatorrent.com, redistributing the code on their own.
> Microsoft’s response? Thanks, but no thanks. The [...]
broadband û News û RIAA Targets YouTube – Best not hum that ABBA song on video…
> The RIAA & MPAA are taking a strong interest in YouTube videos of copyrighted content the past few months, judging from activity in our forums. Users are increasingly receiving the same DMCA takedown request letters frequently dished out to [...]
Google Browser Sync
> Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings ââ¬â including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords ââ¬â across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.
More goodness from Google. They’ve been busy lately, but then, [...]