Archive for November, 2005

Nov 14 2005

Google Analytics

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With all the Google watching and speculation that goes on, I’m surprised noone saw this coming. (Or if they did, I didn’t hear about it…) Well Google have now released Google Analytics – a free website statistics tool that webmasters can install on their site to monitor and track visitors. This looks very cool but […]

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Nov 10 2005

More on the Sony RootKit problems

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For those that haven’t been following this, you really should be – this is turning into a major story! It all started with a post on Mark Russinovich’s blog, and it just keeps gaining momentum. I’ll update this post wih the latest news… Suzi Turner from ZDNet provides a good summary of the whole situation, […]

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Nov 08 2005

Battle of the home pages – Netvibes wins

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There’s a bit of a boring trend in the internet world at the moment. It seems that Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have given up on coming up with new ideas, and instead just keep copying each other with every new product that gets released. It started with each company trying to outdo each other with […]

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Nov 06 2005

World famous photographer

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A funny thing happened yesterday, I was using Google Images to search for photos of something and I decided to type in my name for fun to see what came up. As I was browsing through the results I spotted a few thumbnails of photos that I had posted on the excellent openphoto.net website and […]

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Nov 06 2005

More bad copy protection news

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I blogged recently about copy protection on CD’s doing more harm than good and Mark Rusinovich has proved this again by discovering a rootkit that is installed when playing some Sony Music’s CD’s on your computer. You can read Mark’s findings on his blog (http://www.sysinternals.com/Blog/) and doing a google search on the subject reveals how […]

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