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Category: Internet

  • Click prohibition

    The dontclickit.com web site is an experience definitely interesting for all who (like you and me, no doubt) are used to intereact with a web site using the click of our mouse. This special web site – it is a research experiment about man-machine interfaces – is 100% usable without ever clicking on anything. It’s…

  • Ted Stevens isn’t the less tech savvy Senator

    Alaska senator Ted Stevens has become the epitome of I-have-no-clue-about-technology US Senators after his describing Internet as “series of tubes” (and don’t dare sentence them to ignominy if you’re -like me- from France, a country where President Jacques Chirac failed to remember a few years ago the name of this little rodent we use with…

  • Le Monde goes to WordPress

    The blogs of Le Monde (French major newspaper) just moved to a new level. From their previous TypePad-supported architecture, they are now using WordPress. Good confirmation of the world-class quality of WordPress as a blogging software. Source: Toni’s Garage.

  • Happy Birthday SpamAnti.net!

    Happy Birthday SpamAnti.net!

    Yes! It has already been 10 years since the inception of SpamAnti.net. It started on Compuserve then migrated to various hosting solutions. The name changed several times (from Spam Anti to Spam.Anti to SpamAnti! to SpamAnti.net), but I kept the same will to find easy practical solutions to the permanent flooding of our mail boxes…

  • YouTube wipes 30000 out

    Even if it may not really be linked to the Google buyout, YouTube announced that it had removed nearly 30000 videos from its web site after the request of Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) who detected infractions about the copyrights they manage. You had to admit that a significant part…

  • Security bug in Opera 9.0

    Security bug in Opera 9.0

    A quick security information newsbit about my prefered web browser (Opera): Security outfit iDefense just found a bug, that would have significant security implications, in the recent Opera versions 9.0 and 9.01. Version 9.02 is immediately available on the site and corrects this.

  • DNS service: Pingability

    A web service for those of you willing to check their DNS declaration: Pingability quick DNS check.

  • Free icons of good quality

    Mark James, a part-time web developper, produced more than a thousand slick little icons that are distributed freely on famfamfam.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, which means that if you want to use them, you only have to remember to state clearly that Mark James is the author and…

  • Internationale Zurich Gruppe – it is illegal in Sweeden

    IMPORTANT: After my precedent post about the Internationale Zurich Gruppe, it appears that a very important development happened a few days ago with a Warning (“mise en garde”) produced by the very official Finansinspektionen, from Sweeden. If you look at the comments back into my original post, you’ll see that people are having a very…