Archive for December, 2006
Google Patent Search released
What’s best than introducing new service, simply by summing up what services you already have. Google have their search engine, and Google Book Search technologies both applied to come up with the Google Patent Search . The new service allows people to search for the full text of U.S. patents and browse through them just [...]
Monkey Island Cartoon…
Its now almost 10 years since the last worthy Monkey Island game sequel, and 17 since the start of the monkeying era. Since 1997, and the fans are eagerly waiting for a Monkey Island sequel. The cries were heard and a frustrating Escape From Monkey Island, by all means do escape it, was released. Most [...]
ViewDo shows you how to do it
few years back in my college days, a friend told me he has a graduation to attend and he doesn’t know how to wear a tie. He said he looked for it on the net and couldn’t find anything. I thought its kind of funny. Apparently, I was too naive. ViewDo does it for you. [...]
Bye Bye Google Search API
It was never complete great, it was never carefully taken care of. It was something that’s done once and left for Beta forever. Google Search SOAP API has been (quitely) taken out of service for good. No more users are accepted in the program, and pretty soon we are likely to see existing ones not [...]
IE7 optimized for Google released
When Microsoft provided the IE7 browser developer APIs, they didn’t think Google would actually use it against them. Google have officially released an IE7 version optimized for Google, with Google as the default page, Google Toolbar included, and Google as the default search engine. Interested people can download it from here. While it might sound [...]
Again, MS Word Code Execution Exploit
A third MS Word code execution exploit has been posted that allows code execution on the victim PC by opening the infected word document. While Microsoft have not yet publicly confirmed the vulnerability, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued a warning in this regard. More on the story comes from eWeek.
Dark Day for PHP
Open Source PHP security specialist and member of the PHP Security Response Team, Stefan Esser have had enough, and resigned! The security expert says in his blog “The reasons for this are many, but the most important one is that I have realised that any attempt to improve the security of PHP from the inside [...]