Google Earth Becomes Google Water

Google Earth Becomes Google Water

Google Earth just hit version 5. Among the new features are: the ocean floor is now available instead of the blue thingy you can now see older satellite images of a particular place (we now have the 4th dimension) More info on the new Earth version on G blog, including a video. Or go straight [...]

Web development security tips (PHP)

I’ve seen a lot of hacked websites lately (most because of SQL Injection). Almost all the security problems occur because us web developers assume that the users will act naturally and because we’re lazy to keep testing all the input data or wonder what if?. This is not a how to hack article, but it [...]

Chrome still not good enough

Due to recent troubles with my laptop, I’ve turned to my desktop PC again and decided to try out Chrome since FireFox wasn’t installed. I got to the point where I was accustomed to the new browser interface quite well. Then the bad stuff began: some pages looked weird. Probably Webkit doesn’t read a particular [...]

Selling your ad space

Selling your ad space

A couple of months ago I’ve decided to start selling a part of my advertising space directly. My initial price was pretty low, but still higher than what I would normally get with Adsense for that particular ad block. Overall it was a good choice. Of course there are some disadvantages: you have to talk [...]

Why Gmail is better than Yahoo! Mail

Why Gmail is better than Yahoo! Mail

… or why I use gmail for business and yahoo mail for fun. 1 – Detailed popup messages While using an instant messenger (either Yahoo or Talk) you are informed each time you receive a new message. While Yahoo chose to give dumb messages such as X new emails, on Google you can read the title, [...]

DELL XPS M1330

DELL XPS M1330

I’ve been wanting to write a review for this toy for some time. Apparently I am either too lazy or don’t have enough time for it. Let’s keep it short and structured: Configuration Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 HDD 250 GB 3 GB RAM nVIDIA 8400 GS 13″ LED display fingerprint reader 0.3 Mp web [...]

Google’s new favicon

Google’s new favicon

Ever wandered what success is? It’s when everybody blogs about you when you change your favicon. So here are the ones I know of: Later edit: post on google blog

PHP: sending emails whenever an error occurs

Problem PHP, by default, displays an error directly in the user’s browser. Something like this is common around the web: Notice: Undefined variable: name in /abc/public_html/index.php on line 29 This is not so useful because if someone else caused this error you have no way of knowing about it and because potentially sensitive information about [...]

Google Reader redesign

Google Reader redesign

Google Reader just got a facelift. After Gmail’s recent theme introduction this is another good news. Full story from the horse’s mouth.

Let me google that for you

Let me google that for you

Let me google that for you This is a great website for those who prefer to ask simple, dumb questions before searching the web. After entering a search phrase you are given a custom URL. By accessing it you’ll see a search done manually (even with the cursor) for you. Useful for handing out on [...]