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Internet Explorer gains modicum of HTML5
Internet Explorer fans can now get a taste of the video elements in HTML5 without having to switch browsers. Read more »
Internet blackout 'only the first step'
The Great Australian Blackout is in full swing this week, with over 180,000 unique visitors to the site, 150,000 of which just in the last three days. But the organisers of the campaign are already looking to new protests. Read more »
Apple's Snow Leopard due 28 August
Snow Leopard isn't so much about adding new features as it is about refining the code in the Apple operating system. Read more »
Netspace's green box: Caption contest
Netspace regulatory and carrier affairs manager Matthew Phillips has a lovely big green box. But what's inside? Tell us to win a double DVD box set of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films. Read more »
Conroy's big red button: Caption contest
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, a lab coat and a big red button. What could be going on here? Tell us and win a Plantronics microphone and headphone set. Read more »
Win MSDN subscription and REMIX tickets
We've got a full MSDN subscription and four tickets to Microsoft's REMIX conference in Sydney next week to giveaway. Enter here! Read more »
Bing to hit Australia next Wednesday
The local versions of Microsoft's latest crack at Google, a new search engine called Bing, will go live in Australia and New Zealand on Wednesday in beta form. Read more »
Search giants join to tidy up web addresses
The average person likely won't even notice, but Webmasters can rejoice that Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have banded together to support an unofficial standard for steering search engines in the right direction. Read more »
Android to hit Australia on 29 Jan
The first mobile phone running Google's Android operating system will hit Australia on 29 January, with a company called Kogan Technologies announcing the imminent release of an Android-based handset it calls the "Agora". Read more »
Google denies disassembling Vista code for Chrome
The source code underlying Google's Chrome web browser suggests Google used a reverse-engineering technique called disassembly to figure out how to use a useful Windows Vista security feature, but the company has denied doing this. Read more »
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Anti-social media: Is this social media stuff really the future?
Hype aside, what does social media mean and how should a savvy executive approach it? Read more »
Explore the Semantic Web's standards and real-world applications
Here's an overview of the Semantic Web standards RDF and SPARQL and a look at two real-world applications that have emerged from the Semantic Web concept. Read more »
Configure Apache to support multiple SSL sites on a single IP address
With Apache 2.2.12 and support for the SNI (Server Name Indication) extension to the SSL protocol, you can configure name-based HTTPS sites, just as you can name-based HTTP sites. This article introduces the new Apache feature. Read more »
Paranoid cookie management
How much paranoia you employ in web cookie management determines how much work you must put in, and which strategies you'll use. Read more »
Monitor your system for threats with rsec alerts
This article gives an overview of the monitoring and reporting tool rsec, which can help you keep a close eye on your system's security without having to pore over log files. Read more »
Get started with the security tool OSSEC
OSSEC is an open source, solid, cross-platform security tool for intrusion detection. Read more »
Getting started with Firefox Extensions
No browser is perfect -- eventually enough annoyances will build up to the point that you wish you could do something about it. Thanks to Firefox's extendable architecture and a healthy dose of JavaScript knowledge, you can begin bending the browser to your will. Read more »
Quickly Install a LAMP server on Ubuntu
Here are some quick and easy steps to installing a LAMP server on a running Ubuntu machine. Read more »
Should web developers keep up with browser statistics?
This article explains why developers may want to keep up with web browser statistics and describes where to find this information. It also discusses how browser market share impacts your development work. Read more »
Two approaches to redirection in ASP.NET
ASP.NET provides a few ways to move to different pages. Here's a look at these options. Read more »
Blog (35)
Google to dump Gears
-- Google is about to pull the plug on its Gears project, while Mozilla plans to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support in future versions of Firefox. Read more »
LinkedIn platform opens up to developers
-- LinkedIn opens up its platform to developers, a new W3C draft gets published, and another iPhone virus emerges. More news in the Roundup. Read more »
Windows 7 in the spotlight
-- After months of hype, Windows 7 was finally released early yesterday morning. Read more »
W3C releases mobileOK
-- W3C has released mobileOK checker, an open source tool for checking the suitability of websites for mobile devices. Read more »
Microsoft's vision of meshing
-- The main topic at this year's Microsoft Tech.Ed keynote was the combination of Live Mesh platform and Software plus Services -- Microsoft's version of SaaS. Read more »
The 2008 Trends and Threats to Internet security
-- I recently came across the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, which outlines issues affecting internet security, including application vulnerabilities, phishing, malware and spam. Read more »
Spry Game
-- At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Read more »
One ID to rule them all
-- OpenID is an open-source mechanism enabling you to use a single online identity to log-in to different websites that support OpenID. Read more »
Conference season open for Web developers
-- Are Adobe Air, Microsoft Silverlight, Google Gears, AJAX, and the semantic Web some of your favourite things? Now's the right time to put in that training request because May and June are full of great local Web developer conferences. Read more »
Aussie software pros code for the Fred Hollows Foundation
-- Software professionals in Australia have coded together a blitz Web-based charity campaign to raise money for the Fred Hollows Foundation -- donations are now open. Read more »
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Microsoft shows off IE9 previewThis week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »
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In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »
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