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Category Archives: Elsewhere
The Vibration API
Part of Mozilla’s WebAPI, to controlling vibration of (handheld) devices: The idea with the Vibration API is to be able to give the user a notification, in a game or other use case, by telling the device to vibrate. It accesses the native vibrator and tells it how long it should vibrate. First was called …
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Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers
It all started innocently enough. I was thinking of implementing a Path Mac OS X app as part of our regularly scheduled hackathon. Using the awesome mitmproxy tool, I started to observe the various API calls made to Path’s servers from the iPhone app. It all seemed harmless enough until I observed a POST request …
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Siri vs. Scotland
Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film
Black
Dutch ISP XS4ALL was ordered to block several IP addresses and domain names (presumably) linked to The Pirate Bay (full list here). In response, they blacked out their homepage. Roughly translated from Dutch: For the first time in history a Dutch ISP was forced to revoke access to a foreign site. The Den Haag court …
psd.js
Impressive new addition to the list of javascript codec/file format implementations: psd.js is a general purpose file parser for PSD files created in Photoshop. Given a PSD file, it can parse out information such as image size and color modes, image resources, layer info, image contents, etc. Written in Coffeescript. Works in modern browsers and …