10 PRINT CHR – One line of code generates one book
Can you write a book which has its basis on just one line of BASIC code? It seems you can, and it can also be very entertaining. Such book is 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10. Yes, that is the actual name of the book. Book is available on http://10print.org under Creative Commons, and printed … Read more
Evernote – site wide password reset
Unless you have already noticed, Evernote has issued a site wide password reset as a security measure. Some suspicious activity was discovered – presumably to obtain unauthorised access to user accounts and password data – and as an pre-emptive measure passwords for every account were reset. You may notice this if you have any Evernote … Read more
Twitter, Facebook and now Google+ too are suspending accounts
During past couple of months, and especially last weeks, I have been reported of countless cases, where someones Twitter or Facebook accounts have been suspended. Now this has been spread to Google+, too. In all cases I know, all users have been plain normal users, who use their account from various computers and mobile devices. … Read more
Facebook is downshifting
Recent reports on market share have shown that number of users in Facebook is declining in some countries, and phase of rapid growth has been passed. This has happened in countries where Facebook’s share is more than 50%. Other people may think what they want, but I am not that suprised on this phenomena, for … Read more
Dropbox removes public folder sharing for new users
Reading about this got me a flashback. About one month ago I wrote about how file sharing could move to these cloud based data storage. Of course, people have shared files through them all the time, but considering that ISPs are regulated to block traffic to known torrent servers, it would be possible and probable … Read more
Happy Old Filesharing Days Are Here Again!
There has been lots of fuss over P2P networks and file sharing in general. In some circles it seems to over escalate to the point where even using P2P networks or downloading torrents labels you as some kind of criminal. This of course is ridiculous, since many totally legal electronic files are distributed with P2P … Read more
Nigerian scams have moved to Libya
My custom programmed spam filters are so tight, that I haven’t seen those ‘Nigerian email scam’ style mails in a long time. But now it seems that set up has moved to Libya. I guess the recent events in Libya give a fertile ground for all kinds of scam entrepreneurs which may even sound convincing … Read more
Klout is a-changing
Couple days ago there was a drastic change in Klout. The algorithms calculating the actual scores were changed, which meant that most individual Klout scores changed too. There has been a lot of heated discussion on this matter, and many people have been very disappointed and even angry about this. It seems that some people … Read more
Data flow increases every day
During Web 2.0 Summit it was revealed that during 2010 there was more data transmitted over Internet than all previous years combined. And this increase will probably just grow exponentially, unless this sudden increase was due to the rise of smartphones and will settle after couple of years. But certainly data transmit will just grow … Read more
