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Security Vulnerability of the day: Skype
Security researchers discovered several serious security and privacy flaws in Skype that even a ‘high school-age hacker’ could use to track not only users’ locations over time but also their P2P file-sharing activity. The security team warned that this information could easily be used for “stalking, blackmail or fraud.” And For example, they tracked one …
Are we Mobile yet?
A Book Apart: Designing for Emotion & Mobile First
Using CORS with All (Modern) Browsers
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) works by adding a special header to responses from a server to the client. If a response contains the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, and if the browser supports CORS, then there is a chance you can load the resource directly with Ajax – no need for a proxy or JSONP hacks. Using CORS …
Share Count JS
Remember The Milk, now with Siri Support
You can now use Siri on iPhone 4S to add tasks to Remember The Milk. Just ask Siri to remind you (e.g., “Remind me to pick up the milk”), and that task will be magically added to Remember The Milk. Cleverly enabled by sporting a CalDav server on RTM, and then adding it on your …
Fullscreen HTML5 video
HTML5 video has come a long way but still lacks consistent codec support and the ability to go fullscreen, until now of course. Webkit nightly, Chrome dev and Firefox nightly have added the ability to put HTML5 videos, and other elements, into fullscreen mode using The FullScreen API Interesting write-up on how to use the …
Animate.css
animate.css is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and general just-add-water-awesomeness. To use them in your project, simply add the class to the element, or call the animation yourself in your CSS file. The classes and the animations have the …