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Month: October 2014

  • Ebola.com for sale

    Jon Schultz, president of Blue String Ventures, is apparently the worst kind of domain squatter. His company wants $150,000 for the ebola.com domain name. Schultz, in an email to CNBC:

    Ebola.com would be a great domain for a pharmaceutical company working on a vaccine or cure, a company selling pandemic or disaster-preparedness supplies, or a medical company wishing to provide information and advertise services

    The same company’s been capitalizing on people’s fears with other crisis related domain names. It’s unclear if these people sleep well at night.

  • Dropbox wasn't hacked, change your password anyway

    It might be a good idea to change your Dropbox password, because some 7 million accounts are allegedly out in the wild. Dropbox, already in trouble with the data loss snafu, says they weren’t hacked and that you shouldn’t worry, but naturally you should, and also consider turning on two-factor authentication. Better safe than sorry, after all.

  • KIT visar upp sig och söker folk

    KIT är det nya Bonnier-projektet grundat av Peder Bonnier, Robert Brännström och Fredrik Strömberg. Peder och Fredrik har jag jobbat en del med i samband med Odd Alices arbete kring Bonnier Tidskrifters flytt till WordPress.

    Underrubriken till KIT, på deras webbplats, är “det du behöver”. Det är förstås en missad möjlighet, för rätt undertitel skulle förstås vara “den nya grejen”, det vet väl hela mediesverige? Trots denna fadäs ska det bli kul att följa projektet.

  • Dropbox lost some data

    Bad news everyone, Dropbox confirms that some users of older desktop Dropbox clients using the Selective Sync feature have lost data. Most of it is said to be restored, but not all of it.

    In light of all of this, we’ve taken the following steps to ensure the Selective Sync bug won’t affect anyone else going forward:

    1) we’ve patched our desktop client so this issue doesn’t exist in Dropbox anymore; 2) we’ve made sure all our users are running an updated version of the Dropbox client; and 3) we’ve retired all affected versions of the Dropbox client so no one can use them.

    We’ve also put additional testing in place to prevent this from happening in the future.

    This is a good reminder that cloud sync isn’t the same as backing up.

  • Domäner auktioneras ut av .SE

    349 tidigare spärrade domännamn auktioneras ut av .SE under hösten och vintern.

    Samtliga domännamn har varit spärrade sedan 2003 då det blev möjligt för vem som helst att registrera .se-domännamn. När det gäller domännamnen med landsnamn har de varit reserverade för respektive land, vilka vid flera tillfällen fått information om möjligheten till förtur att registrera domänen. Intresset för detta har varit relativt litet och därför anser .SE att det är bättre att någon annan som vill kan få möjlighet att registrera.

    Auktionerna sker på Tradera och hittas här. Är du nyfiken på vilka domäner det rör det sig om så finns det förstås en lista (PDF). Lycka till!

  • How did the FBI find the Silk Road server, really?

    Fascinating piece on how the FBI found the Silk Road server and thus its owner, or rather, if there was foul play involved in the discovery.

    The FBI also provided the defense with the traffic logs from the Silk Road server, but Weaver didn’t like the look of those either. He suggested that the logs didn’t show the FBI getting an IP address from a leaky CAPTCHA, but a PHPMyAdmin configuration page.

    So now another question arises. If the FBI didn’t find the server because of a leaky CAPTCHA, how did it find a PHPMyAdmin page instead?

    Lots of unanswered things according to this report, that’s for sure.

  • Apple Pay to launch on October 18 according to report

    Macrumors reports that Apple Pay is around the corner.

    An internal memo addressed to Walgreens employees designed to prepare them for the upcoming launch of Apple Pay suggests that Apple’s new payments service might be going live on Saturday, October 18.

    It’d make more sense to launch on October 16, after the Apple event (my predictions can be found here), but then again perhaps Apple want some time to get the Apple Pay enabling version of iOS, 8.1, out to the masses first. We’ll know soon enough, and please remember to treat this as a rumor for now.

  • Jonathan Ive and Xiaomi

    Jonathan Ive’s now famous quote on the Xiaomi copy-cats, from Vanity Fair Summit, is spot on:

    I’ll stand a little bit harsh, I don’t see it as flattery. When you’re doing something for the first time, you don’t know it’s gonna work, you spend 7 or 8 years working on something, and then it’s copied. I think it is really straightforward. It is theft and it is lazy. I don’t think it is ok at all.

  • Håkon Wium Lie talks about CSS

    Håkon Wium Lie is the father of CSS. Opera recently published an interview with him to commemorate CSS’s 20th birthday.

    Bert Bos reviewed my intial proposal. His background and focus was a bit different from mine, but when he wrote up his own proposal we quickly realized that two proposals could be combined into one. At that point, the web project was being kicked out of CERN and W3C was formed. I was starting up the European branch of W3C at INRIA and Bert was hired immediately. Most of CSS1 was hammered out on a whiteboard in Sophia-Antipolis in July 1995. Bert is still working for W3C in Sophia-Antipolis. Whenever I’m struggling with a difficult technical problem, I wish Bert and the whiteboard were there.

    There are some interesting tidbits in there, so check it out if you want to learn a little web history.

  • Jag förutspår Apples oktoberevent

    Den 16 oktober ska Apple övertyga oss om att köpa nya iPad-modeller, samt säkerligen Macar och annat. Jag har skrivit en essä om saken på TDH.me.

    The tagline, “It’s been way too long”, hints at a new iMac, I think. The fact that Apple’s using the rainbow colors makes me think there’ll be color variations of the new iMac yet again. All speculation of course. I’d also expect a Mac mini, but I don’t think there’ll be anything particularly interesting in terms of design there, just a bump and possibly some minor tweaks.

  • Predictions for Apple's October event

    Predictions for Apple's October event

    There’ll be an Apple event on October 16, and it’ll be livestreamed for all to see. The previous event, announcing the iPhone 6 models and showing off the Apple Watch, was a major fuckup for most viewers, so Apple’ll want to get this one right.

    The tagline, “It’s been way too long”, hints at a new iMac, I think. The fact that Apple’s using the rainbow colors makes me think there’ll be color variations of the new iMac yet again. All speculation of course. I’d also expect a Mac mini, but I don’t think there’ll be anything particularly interesting in terms of design there, just a bump and possibly some minor tweaks.

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  • Archer drops ISIS

    There’ll be no more ISIS in the excellent animated FX series Archer. Series creator Adam Reed, in piece at The Daily Beast:

    “We won’t say ISIS anymore, and the only visual representation of it will be that sign rolling off the show,” said exec producer Thompson. “It’s just the most awful thing, and we didn’t want to have anything to do with it. There were people online saying that we should address it and say, ‘Oh, I can’t believe these guys have co-opted our name.’ That’s the way South Park would do it, coming after them and saying, ‘These assholes stole our name,’ but that’s not the way the Archer universe works, where it’s all our own creations. In our universe, they don’t exist.”

    Reed also said that they were hoping ISIS would just go away. No such luck unfortunately.

    I was wondering how long Archer would keep the ISIS name, given the headlines and horrors that most people associate with it these days.

  • How to beard

    I was steered onto a short but possibly helpful piece on beard care, as in that thing that covers every male hipster’s face. There are some gems there if you’re struggling to grow a beard.

    Everyone grows a different beard, some have a fuller beard and some have patches where there is no hair growing at all. If that’s the case, embrace the way YOUR beard is growing. It’s your own style. If you have patches, embrace them and make the look your own! I always hated that I have a slightly red beard as well as that my mustache is completely white/blond compared to the rest of my beard — I always thought it looks bad, now I’m trying to embrace it. Every beard is unique & special on it’s own.

    It should come as no surprise that this was via Jim Dalrymple…

  • Snart kan du registrera domän.com.se

    15:00 den 15 oktober kan du registrera domäner av typen domän.com.se. Jag har svårt att se vitsen med detta, men motiveringen från domänens webbplats är väl lika god som någon:

    Är .com och .se upptagen? Varför inte .com.se? Det finns ett antal miljoner .com och .se-adresser och det blir svårt att hitta bra lediga namn. Nu kommer en ny chans.

    Är du intresserad så hittar du registrarer (läs: återförsäljare av domänen) här. Själva domänen hanteras av ett brittiskt bolag.

  • Amazon to open store in New York

    Paywalled WSJ report says that Amazon will open a physical store in New York in time for the holidays.

    Amazon’s space at 7 West 34th St., across from the Empire State Building in Midtown, would function as a mini-warehouse, with limited inventory for same-day delivery within New York, product returns and exchanges, and pickups of online orders.

    It’s probably more about marketing than actual sales.