Everybody knows the tiny orange icon in they address bar of your browser and more and more people started actually clicking it. Feed readers like Google Reader, Netvibes modules or desktop applications like Liferea are becoming more popular and the Open Source and Free Software communities apparently all share some kind of affection for blog aggregating planets. Typically, Web feeds are .xml based, machine readable documents syndicating html information that applications like the mentioned readers pull from the server and display in human readable form, while there are other uses like fetching torrents to use in p2p downloads, news aggregation is the most common scenario for the ordinary person. Read more…
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perception, personal, rss, web feeds
Managing your identity and even proving your identity wasn’t always as easy as today where popular identity and single sign-on solution OpenID is supported by a variety of services, platforms and websites and as support grew, so did the number of providers. Wordpress.com and Blogspot for example provide OpenIDs to their users enabling them to prove their own and their blog’s identity. Other providers like myopenid do nothing but providing OpenIDs together with some basic profile page.
Folks with their own website or self hosted blog can use so called id delegation to link your website to the OpenID provided by those third party companies and projects, and this leads us to a problem, maybe even nightmare for those really concerned with the safety of their data and identity. OpenID, as mentioned above, is not only a way to prove your identity but can be used as a single sign-on solution for numerous websites and trusting others with this sensible data might not be a very good idea when you think about it and especially not if you are concerned about the control and integrity of your personal information. Read more…
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delegation, free software, gpl, identity, myphpid, openid, security, self-hosted, single sign-on
When I started using Gmail some years ago I wasn’t really trying to keep my inbox clean. I marked some of my mails read, but somethimes I was even to lazy for that. Over the time all those unread and and un-archived emails added up to a couple of thousand messages plugging up my inbox and I just couldn’t be bothered cleaning up the mess up, just because they were so many — a vicious circle. Read more…
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clean inbox, filters, gmail, howto, label, mark unread, move to archive
original picture by Elke Wetzig, CC-SA-BY 2.0 Germany
As it turns out Stallman doesn’t like web applications, he doesn’t like them at all and says that using GMail and its kind is “worse than stupidity” and just as bad as proprietary software. Read more…
Gimp Tutorials, IT, J-Blog, Real World, Ubuntu, www
evil, freedom, fsf, gmail, stallman, web apps, worse than stupidity
What comes in mind when you think about Webkit? Apple, Open Source, KHTML, Safari, Chrome, SPEED
As a friend urged me to give the Webkit nightlies a try I was first hesitating not wanting to install another Browser let alone Apple’s not-so-cool update application, which tries to get every single on of their products on your machine, well that’s another story. In the end, as I was bored as usual I gave it a try anyway and I would not be disappointed. Read more…
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benchmark, build, charts, chrome, development, firefox, nightly, safari, webkit
Within short time I got added by the Joker, the Riddler (are we seeing him in the next film?), Two-Face, Rachel Dawes, James Gordon and Gotham Cable News of which the the last two show each a website. GCN’s website even features some links to other websites, all being gotham or batman universe related and apparently being distorted by the Joker. Read more…
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batman, characters, gotham, james gordon, joker, list, the riddler, twitter, viral marketing, websites
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