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Safari 4.0 (Mac) Breaks Keychain

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

» [Safari 4] PubSubAgent wants access to KeyChain Tim’s Weblog: “”

A bunch of support forum posts seem to confirm it too – that Safari 4 (possibly 4beta -> 4.0 upgrade) breaks the Keychain linkage — hopefully there’ll be a fix soon.

More Google Malware Woes

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

According to Safari 4 this blog is back on the Google malware list, though the Google Website Owner tools (which look neat) don’t appear to flag any warnings, and it’s not clear why that would be the case. The report sounds pretty innocuous, though oddly it shows up as being for: 74.222.134.0, which nslookup doesn’t report [...]

Blackboard buys Angel Learning – Washington Business Journal:

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Blackboard buys Angel Learning – Washington Business Journal “Education software maker Blackboard Inc., which was losing money a year ago, reported a break-even quarter and announced plans to acquire fellow education software maker Angel Learning Inc. for $95 million in cash and stock.”

Another one bites the dust…

CoolIris nee Piclens

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Just updated their Safari plugin – seems to work great in Safari 4.0 Beta. Also added a nifty embedded flash viewer that has lots of the same visualizations and whatnot.

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From Twitter: Facebook Meets Life Realities

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Its a bit creepy when Facebook shows you the birthday of a friend who has passed away. The FB kids weren’t thinking about death and divorce.

http://twitter.com/gwachob

Microsoft & Desktop Web Apps

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Hmm… been a while since I vanity blogged

I was using my Mac with the Universal Access panel’s VoiceOver turned on (which is really annoying if you don’t tweak the verbosity settings) as part of some accessibility testing that I was doing with Sakai.

An interesting side-effect of my testing came when Microsoft’s MyDay panel [...]

Ira from Mellon & Community Source

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Ira Fuchs from Mellon is talking about Community Source, and the larger dynamic within the community — successes, attitudes, opportunities, and risks.

zotero is interesting, both as an example of an open-source project that like Firefox has had viral adoption, with a strong community marketing and communications effort. I also wonder if there’s a convincing Sakaibrary [...]

Dominos Gets Actionable Intelligence

Friday, March 14th, 2008

So I was ordering a pizza today from Dominos (been a while, but being car-less around lunch tends to limit options) and noticed that they have just about the coolest web feedback system for an order I’ve seen:

So, not only can I see an estimated delivery time, but if I leave the browser open (which [...]

Pop!Casts: Adrian Bowyer

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

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A machine that builds itself? Adrian Bowyer, leading researcher at the University of Bath, shows us that this seemingly fantastic idea is not far from becoming reality. The self-replicating rapid prototyper, or “RepRap,” could have dramatic effects on people in developing countries.

(Via The Pirates Dilemma.)

The thought of being able to take any design, and automatically [...]

The Ed Techie: What Mailbox limits reveal

Friday, November 30th, 2007

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Grainne posted recently about the frustration of continually getting the ‘Your mailbox is over its size limit’ in our OU email accounts. I can’t tell you how annoying this – sometimes I am just trying to send a quick response to someone before I have to dash out of [...]

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