A German court ruled excessive use of meta-keywords in HTML unlawful. Meta-tag keywords may still be used if they are in strong relation to the page. The decision does not address more popular search engine spamming methods of today — as meta-keywords are ignored by Google, they are rarely used as core strategy for Search Engine Optimisation
airpwn is a utility demoed at Defcon 12. It replaces every image loaded by a user of a WiFi network with a choice the infamous, mentally scarifying goatse
or equally scary tubgirl
— via boingboing
The International Electrotechnical Commission has formed a working group to draw up standards that will ensure compatibility between micro fuel-cells. Toshiba is among several that are developing such devices as alternative power sources for handheld electronic devices. Development of a standard could mean the micro fuel cell could be launched in music players, digital cameras, and other devices as early as next year
Telstra is eyeing its 33,000 public payphones for new wireless base stations as part of a plan to create a national high-speed wireless data network
The Phone Safe is a work-through phone-sheath that you wear on your forearm. Worn with a jacket, it can also act as a concealment device — via boingboing
In response to a 24 year old prize challenge from the , a number of engineering students at the University of British Columbia have designed a human powered helicopter. The prize requirements are three minutes flight at three metres, with only human power, and the team, led by UBC’s Mike Georgallis, plans a test flight next Tuesday. Unfortunately, before the rotors were able to produce enough buoyant force they hit each other and the attempt failed
MySQL has created a version of its popular open-source database software for Linux on IBM’s Power processors
Sony have announced that the PlayStation 3 will use Blu-Ray technology, a next-generation optical disc format which can hold 25GB on a single layer and 50GB on the dual-layer discs
, as many people have been speculating. What Sony hasn’t said for sure is whether the PS3 will be backwards compatible with DVD movies and PS2 games
British citizens who want a new passport are told to look straight at the camera and keep their mouths shut
Yep, U2’s new album Vertigo
, due out in November, was stolen at a photo shoot. The guys are gonna release it to the iTunes music stores if it turns up online elsewhere, like on file-sharing networks. And I’m guessing if they can find it online too. Hmm…
Apple has taken the G4 powermacs off the web store. Yeah you can still check out their specs and whathave you, but click on the buy now
graphic. I defy you to purchase one on this site, you just can’t. This means that work will now be purchasing me a G5 instead! (insert numerous sarcastic damnings of all sorts).
Next week will go down in history as the only one where I actually want to go to work. This one was the one I least wanted to go back to work as I spent the previous week doing life drawing and painting classes at The Rocks.
And finally, checkout how mac fans are showing their love ‘n’ support for Steve Jobs.
How many other CEOs of other huge techy companies spark such a public response?
321 Studios, the maker of software that enabled users to copy DVDs and computer games, folded Tuesday under the mounting weight of lawsuits by deep-pocketed movie studios and video game producers
Simple queries using Google can turn up a handful of sites that have posted credit card information to the web
mozilla.org today released minor upgrades to three of its major products. Firefox 0.9.3, Thunderbird 0.7.3 and Mozilla 1.7.2 are all now available. These three new releases were created to correct four possible security vulnerabilities in past versions of each product
Anyone who has copied songs from a CD onto an iPod or computer hard drive has fallen foul of Australian copyright laws, which critics argue are failing to keep pace with technological change. Copying music for personal use is generally okay in the US and Europe. But not in Australia — via BoingBoing
Though iTunes and Linux have been pursuing solo careers, CodeWeavers hopes to get them to make music together. I wish it better luck than the appalling Windows version of iTunes, just try getting that piece of shit off your PC without a crash
A string of high-profile flaws in browser software prompted the Mozilla Foundation to announce that it would offer a US$500 bounty for every serious bug found by security researchers
Telstra has signed a deal with Microsoft that appears to add further credibility to the theory that the best way to negotiate with Microsoft is to explore moving to Linux
Apple’s Jobs has cancer surgery
Poor Steve. At least they found the tumour in time by the looks of things, and he’ll be back in time to see the new iMac G5 line rolled out. All black turtle neck sweaters are to be rolled down at half mast.
On a brighter note, new iPods. Yep new click wheel, bigger capacities, longer battery life and cheaper.
On a selfish note, work has given the go ahead to buy me a mac, W00T! It aint a G5 like my first preference, but hey a dual 1.25Ghz G4 with 20″ Apple Cinema Display is not to be snezzed at, especially the monitor, very happy about the monitor (insert happy dance with a couple’o cart wheels*).
*cart wheels and dancing may not actually take place.
Five types of memory cards were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child’s toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy. All came through with flying colours. They didn’t survive the extra tests of being smashed by a sledgehammer and nailed to a tree, but it was still possible to retrieve photos from the xD and Smartmedia cards
Two years after Microsoft executives began urging managers to outsource software development work to India, a Washington state technology union says the company has sent increasingly high-level jobs overseas, including some related to Longhorn, the next version of Windows — via Triode Internet
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