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Akamai’s Blaze buy and what is says about today’s web
gigaom.com
Look ma! It's all so rich and dynamic. Akamai said it purchased Canadian web site optimization company Blaze Wednesday, ahead of its financial results call. In acquiring Blaze, content-delivery network leader Akamai offers an excellent example of how the web is changing as we access it from more devices and as...
Microsoft debuts on{X} for Android, promises to 'automate your life'
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Well, we can't exactly say we saw this one coming. Microsoft has today taken the wraps off a rather ambitious project dubbed on{X}, which is available exclusively for Android smartphones initially (support for more platforms is planned), and offers a range of tools that promise to help "automate your...
Hate CAPTCHAs? Catcha turns website security into a game of ‘spot the cat’
thenextweb.com
CAPTCHA is one of the most frustrating security features on the Web. Despite their best efforts to keep nasty bots from creating user accounts, post spam to forums and the like, those funny-looking letters often baffle the most keen-eyed of humans too. Catcha is a far better (and more fun)...
Microsoft-developed on{X} is a flexible automation tool for Android
www.theverge.com
Our phones are capable of collecting so much information (for good or ill) that it's a shame not to use it to make our lives easier. That's the reasoning behind on{X}, a programming tool that lets you to set automatic actions for your Android phone. Similar in principle to...
Google's bots learn to read interactive webpages more like humans
arstechnica.com
Google feeds its search engine's index with site data from a virtual army of "bots"—Web-crawling applications that scour sites for content. But in the past, Google's bots hit a wall when they ran into interactive content that was loaded through JavaScript—especially on pages that use Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)...
Google beefs up Apps Scripts for Docs
arstechnica.com
Google announced a slew of new features this afternoon for its Google Docs suite, hailing the addition of 450 new fonts for creating pamphlets and invitations in Docs, but also mentioning some new features for its application scripting language that will allow developers to build some interesting programs on...
Amazon to Launch TV Comedies
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Amazon has become the latest technology company to catch the Hollywood bug, announcing that it is soliciting scripts to produce its own comedy and children's TV series....
Artist Johannes Osterhoff broadcasting his iPhone use online for a year
www.theverge.com
Even as phones and browsers raise privacy concerns for ordinary users, some people have extended their devices to broadcast every moment of their lives. Artist Johannes Osterhoff's latest experiment gives the public regular glimpses of what he's been doing on his iPhone. Using two scripts on a jailbroken phone,...
Amazon Studios accepting submissions for comedy and children's series
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Amazon just announced that it's expanding the scope of Amazon Studios' development efforts by accepting submissions for children's and comedy TV series — anyone is invited to send scripts to Amazon, and the best will be aired on Amazon Instant Video. This new program will work much like the...
Steve Jobs Almost Killed One Of Apple's Biggest Ad Campaigns (AAPL)
www.businessinsider.com
Few advertisements are as instantly recognizable as Apple's silhouetted iPod campaign, but at least one person didn't like these ads at first: Steve Jobs. When the late Apple CEO was first shown the ad mock ups by Chiat /Day, the agency who came up with the idea, Jobs dismissed it...
5 Common Tracking Problems: How Troubleshoot & To Fix Them
searchengineland.com
I spend a lot of time trying to figure out exactly what is wrong with some clients’ analytics installs. Unlike types or broken code, or misspelled words – issues with tracking scripts don’t always raise their hands and scream, “Hey dummy, you deleted the </script> tag!” I thought it would......
Sony PlayMemories Studio now live, gives PS3 media editing
www.electronista.com
Sony's hinted at PS3 photo editing suite has reached North America through PSN. PlayMemories Studio on the PS3 both provides a more efficient, timeline-based way of organizing photos and videos than the stock interface as well as a way to edit them on the game console. Along with art filters,...
Cloud is a corporate strategy, not a tactical solution
gigaom.com
As an IT community we are still stuck in the past relative to the strategic nature of cloud. Many of us are looking at the adoption of cloud as just another technology, and are leaving the decisions on how to adopt, own, and manage the cloud up to engineers. But...
AT&T.com Security Vulnerability Discovered; Customer Phone Numbers Revealed (Update)
techcrunch.com
A vulnerability has been discovered on AT&T’s website which allows anyone to look up the phone numbers of AT&T subscribers, provided they have the subscriber’s email address. The issue involves a form on AT&T’s site where a subscriber can input their email address in order to recover their forgotten AT&T...
IFTTT's ESPN Olympics coverage channel offers personalized event notifications
www.theverge.com
Last month, IFTTT brought its web 2.0 automation service to the home with its integration with Belkin's WeMo range, and now it's planning to offer personalized scripts that provide the latest coverage of the 2012 London Olympics. Dubbed the ESPN Olympics coverage channel, it can be "triggered" by real-time...
'Triggers' iOS app uses your phone or tablet's sensors in simple scripts
www.theverge.com
We're always open to tools that help with automation or basic tech literacy, so our test of iOS app Triggers entailed a swift journey from joy to disappointment. Triggers uses the same basic idea as web automation tool If This Then That, allowing users to set a condition ("phone...
If You’re Blocked From the Internet Monday, It’s All the Estonian Crime Ring’s Fault
betabeat.com
FBI agents look just like this, right? (Photo: IMDB) On July 9th, hundreds of thousands of individuals around the globe will be blocked from the Internet. It’s the final phase of Operation Ghost Click, an FBI investigation into the DNSChanger virus. Last year, the agency and other international authorities apprehended a...
Optimize slack boot process / init scripts ? - Page 4 - LinuxQuestions.org
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@spyced Here's the first iteration of the JS shell: http://bit.ly/bYRE2t Needs some build scripts, etc, but it will work (0.5 only for now).
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@spyced Here's the first iteration of the JS shell: http://bit.ly/bYRE2t Needs some build scripts, etc, but it will work (0.5 only for now).
This bodes well for me! RT @jaykul @RoyOsherove: Build scripts can be great RT @Q @RoyOsherove http://bit.ly/9BHeLI
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This bodes well for me! RT @jaykul @RoyOsherove: Build scripts can be great RT @Q @RoyOsherove http://bit.ly/9BHeLI
Foursquare Hacking » Mayor of the North Pole
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At some point last week, I devolved into a 12 year old hacker, and I spent many spare hours (and my computer’s spare cycles) abusing the system with a set of scripts operating fake accounts. Not only did I add new venues like the North Pole, but I started...
10 Wikipedia Encyclopedia Usability Userscripts
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Wikipedia; Almost every Internet user has heard that name before and chance is they have been – intentionally or not – on the website of the popular online encyclopedia at least once. Wikipedia is a good starting point to look something up on the Internet. Most users access the site...
Botnet pierces Microsoft Live through audio captchas
www.theregister.co.uk
'Look at these delineations!' The prolific Pushdo spam botnet has found a new way to penetrate Microsoft's Live.com by exploiting weaknesses in the audio captchas designed to prevent automated scripts from accessing the popular email service.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing...
Macros for Google Spreadsheets
googlesystem.blogspot.com
If you wanted to use macros in Google Spreadsheets, there's a good news: Google Apps Script is now available for all Google Docs users. That means you can write scripts for performing repetitive actions, creating custom functions or even adding advanced features to Google Spreadsheets.You can try one of the...
Twitter May Soon Auto Translate Your Tweets
thenextweb.com
It looks as if Auto Translate could be coming to Twitter, if these screenshots are anything to go by. These shots, seen in the wild by App Scout look to offer translation within the tweet.The results page (from one of Wednesday’s trending topics, “Bloodbuzz Ohio”) allows a user to filter...
20 Really Useful Scripts & Components on CodeCanyon http://bit.ly/9DfA3l /cc @feedly
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Jetpack Page Mods vs. User Scripts
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PHPBuilder.com, the best resource for PHP tutorials, templates, PHP manuals, content management systems, scripts, classes and more.
Facebook Acquires a Third Startup, Shuts it Down
mashable.com
Facebook appears to have made a third acquisition — this one smaller than its two previous buys. What’s more, Facebook has shut down the company’s service immediately.Octazen is a Malaysian company comprising two employees. It provides scripts to import a user’s contacts into a website upon sign up, reports...
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