Archive for July, 2005

Google Search History

Posted by Phil on July 26, 2005 | Comments (1) | Trackbacks (0)

I’ve had Google’s personalised search running for a while, but I never realised how cool the search history function was. One of the things it shows you is a calendar of your search density.

Google has also slicked up the interface to the personalised homepage, and rolled out the ability to add miscellaneous feeds to [...]

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Axioms

Posted by Phil on July 22, 2005 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

A terrific essay by Ryan Tomayko on the design principles that underlie the web.

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Greasemonkey Vulnerability Explained

Posted by Phil on July 20, 2005 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Simon Willison lucidly explains the security issue with versions of Greasemonkey prior to 0.3.5.

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Flow Destroying

Posted by Phil on July 18, 2005 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Flickr has introduced a new authentication mechanism for their api. I can see why they’re doing it (so that Yahoo users can use flickr without needing to create a flickr account) but I can’t help thinking that the implementation, at least as far as flickrfox is concerned, is going to be clunky and intrusive [...]

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