Rants About Software

Updated on January 18, 2010 by Errornix

Updated on January 27, 2010 by Errornix

If the buzz is any indicator, Apple is getting ready to reveal iPhone OS 4.0, along with it's new tablet. Apparently, the new iPhone OS and the OS for the tablet will be very similar, so Apple has been hesitant to reveal the iPhone OS until the tablet has been revealed.

Before the new OS is revealed, I figured I'd post a few things that I would like to see Apple do.

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There's been a lot of talk lately about Real-Time Search. During the past few months, Google has added a real-time area to it's search results, Facebook and FriendFeed now retrieve real-time results, and new search engines devoted to real-time, such as Collecta, have sprung up.

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We all saw this coming. After years of providing free web hosting services, Yahoo is finally closing the door on GeoCities.

Long gone are those nostalgic moments of doing a Google search only to find a geocities page (complete with an ugly tiled background, and animated gifs) that hasn't been updated in 10 years.

Before it went down, I managed to snap a quick screen shot of what was left of the original Memories of Hyrule page.

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Earlier this week, several high-profile Twitter accounts were hacked.

Here's what happened. Some kid was trying to hack the account of a popular Twitter user. He did this by conducting a basic automated dictionary attack. The attack ran all night and the next morning he had access to the account. It wasn't until then that he realised that the account was actually for a Twitter administrator. So from there, he was able to access anyone's Twitter account. His newfound administrative rights granted him access to the accounts of Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Bill O'Reilly, Facebook, The Huffington Post, and more.

Let's look at what Twitter did wrong.

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I'm a little bit late for the party on this one. That's okay though, I'm never on time for anything.

So as you probably already know, Google has launched a browser, and I've got to be honest, I'm not impressed. It's not a bad browser by any means (it's certainly better than Internet Explorer), but this is Google we're talking about! Certainly they can do better than this!

Here's my breakdown of Chrome.

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[Originally published 01/29/08]

I just sat down with my morning coffee to check out the latest IT news and this is the first thing that I read. Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website has been hacked and the content has been leaked on BitTorrent.

::sigh::

Please learn to use secure passwords, people.

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