Vanity

Linkeracy 12 October 2008

Test the strength of your email security – CNET check out how easy it is for someone else to recover YOUR password.

Lifehacker’s hivemind give you the best five media converters but …

UPDATE: MPEG StreamClip from Squared Five is an amazingly excellent tool to

to open and play most movie formats including MPEG files or transport streams; [...]

(N)ettiquette

According to the Wikipedia the RFCs (Request for Comments) “are a series of memoranda encompassing new research, innovations, and methodologies applicable to Internet technologies”. Many of them are now obselete but there are a few which still have something to offer.

One that is still important, despite not being updated since 1995, is RFC 1855. This [...]

Why I Won’t Join Plaxo, et al

From Boing Boing:

In the popup that appeared, the NoScript extension was blocking some JavaScript. Clicking on the button to enable the code revealed that the JavaScript was hosted at — gasp — Plaxo (no linkee for them), the company that enlists its users to send spamalicious address book related emails. So from the looks of [...]

Your Inbox

Your inbox is a metaphor for your life.

I read the article and was immediately consumed with guilt and depression.

Clean Up Your Inbox

From 43 Folders.

For those of us who occasionally get a bit slack in the Inbox department.