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Apple's Leopard hacked in 30 seconds

Apple's Leopard has been hacked within 30 seconds using a flaw in Safari, with rival OSes Ubuntu and Vista so far remaining impenetrable in the CanSecWest PWN to OWN competition. Read more »

Google reduces cookie lifespan by 30 years

Google has tipped its hand to privacy advocates and agreed to cut the lifespan of user cookies by up to 30 years -- instead, the search giant will implement a rolling two-year auto-renew policy. Read more »

Exposing software flaws -- no easy job

Security researcher Christopher Soghoian reflects on the hard work that comes after finding a vulnerability. Read more »

Microsoft frees Visual Studio 2005 Express

The stripped-down version of Microsoft's development tool will be available at no cost indefinitely. Read more »

Microsoft extends tool giveaway

Microsoft has decided to continue indefinitely a free development tool offer it launched last year to better attract hobbyists and students to Microsoft's software. Read more »

The big Digg rig

Digg became one of the top sites for tech news because it lets Web-savvy geeks decide what's newsworthy, offer up stories they like and vote on their favorites. Now rankings spammers threaten to destroy the social media balance. Read more »

Sun CTO: 'The world needs only five computers'

Industry lore likely is wrong to attribute to IBM Chairman Thomas J. Watson the famous misjudgment that there's a world market for five computers. But Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos thinks the idea will pan out eventually. Read more »

Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programming

Can one man and a mantra of "radical simplicity" change the world of Web development? Read more »

Builder's August Top Ten

Have you missed any of the hottest technology development stories published in the past month? ZDNet Australia's Builder channel can help you keep in touch with the top ten stories of August. Read more »

IE flaws allow Web ad attack

An adware purveyor has apparently used two previously unknown security flaws in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to install a toolbar on victims' computers that triggers pop-up ads, researchers said this week. Read more »

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This pair of ADO tips will help tweak VB code

Tweak your VB code for more speed and efficiency with these two ADO tips on using a firehose cursor and raising errors from stored procedures. Read more »

Two Visual Basic tips to make your life easier

These techniques from Builder.com will help you access Visual SourceSafe programmatically in VB6 and write a CPU monitoring counter in VB.NET. Read more »

VB Tip: Customise your program's system menu

A Visual Basic form's system menu normally displays a set of default commands for window-related commands, such as closing, minimising, or maximising the window. A program can add its own commands to this menu. Read more »

VB tip: Open the CD-ROM door

When your program makes use of the CD-ROM drive, it can be a nice touch to open and close the door under program control. We'll show you how in this article. Read more »

VB tips: Making Windows transparent in 2K and XP

The WS_EX_TRANSPARENT and the WS_EX_LAYERED attributes in VB6 let you create transparent windows, which can save screen space. Here's how. Read more »

Managing and parsing your Apache logs

Apache server logs contain a wealth of information about the visitors to your site. We show you a few basic tips and tricks for managing and parsing those log files to find the wheat in an ocean of chaff. Read more »

Process the command line with CLI

Still writing code to parse command line arguments? In this article we look at using the Command Line Interface to get the job done. Read more »

Find free certification resources

When you're strapped for cash, you have to go back to the basics to obtain the certification study resources you need. Here are some tips for finding free study aids. Read more »

How to work with nebulous RFPs

Vague RFPs are a fact of development life, so you need a strategy to deal with them. These tips will help you create a plan to keep your clients happy. Read more »

Use this outline when creating a Project Management methodology

Don't waste your time and resources putting together a massive methodology template that no one will ever read. Here are some tips for creating a meaningful methodology. Read more »

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Six video podcasts to help you ace Photoshop

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Mastering Photoshop and other image manipulation programs can be a handy addition to your toolbox of skills as an IT pro. Get started with these engaging (and free) video podcasts. Read more »

Dealing with the ego elephant in the room

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Egomaniacs, swell-heads, know-it-alls, showboats, show ponies, narcissists, ego-trippers, big heads, and peacocks – work with one of these? Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

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    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

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    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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