Here’s a small collection of recent news items that may be of interest.
- Virtual Router and Connectify – Make your laptop a hot spot. An alternative to the MiFi.
- Newsweek: A decade in review
- Panda Cloud Antivirus Available for Download
- Intel Swears That It’s Gonna Stop Its Firmware From Bricking Any More SSDs
- YUI Storage Utility Presentation
- Man-In-the-Middle Vulnerability For SSL and TLS
- The World’s Wittlest 320GB Hard Dwive
- The First USB 3.0 Flash Drive Is a Wide Load
- Won’t someone PLEASE think of the hard drives?!
- Performance drain: The first public perception test of the Windows 7 era
- AT&T Sues Verizon Over “Map For That” Ads
- Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It’s Bad. Very Bad.
- Allmyapps Bulk-Installs Your Favorite Apps, Makes System Rebuilding Less Painful
- Firefox Passes IE6 In Browser Share
- The Machine SID Duplication Myth
- Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death? – A look at company growth rates
- The Tech Aboard the International Space Station
- Dell Rugged Laptops Not Quite Tough Enough
- Dutch Hacker Holds Jailbroken iPhones Hostage For €5 Ransom While Exposing Security Vulnerability
- Homemade USB Charger Runs Off a 9V
- Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy
- RIM Is Definitely Developing a WebKit (Read: Decent) Browser
- Droid vs iPhone: The Comparison Chart
- Would you like a _ with that $? New library gives JS what it should have
- Cookies for Comments – A new approach to comment spam
- jQuery Dev Bemoans Overwhelming Spam On Google Groups
- Intel X-25M G2 SSD “TRIM” Firmware Pulled Due to Data Corruption Problems in Windows 7
- Microsoft Opening Outlook’s PST Format
- Ninite Bulk-Installs Great Free Windows Apps
- Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users
- Microsoft’s move to counter LAMP: WebsiteSpark
Newsweek takes a look back at the first decade of the new millenium.
I continue to be a big fan of jQuery. I’ve recently came across several plugins, two books, and some great demos. jQuery is growing fast, getting better, and still has a enthusiastic community that’s ready to help. Here is my updated list for September 2009…
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