“A Nice Piece of Glass” — This is totally awesome. Look out for Google fanboys claiming this is the next best thing since sliced bread. Now I have to watch for the DBs that wear these and drive, and the clowns that get distracted to look at these douchebags while on the road.
I haven’t tried it — I can’t, somehow they managed to make the thing incompatible on Nexus phones — but even if I could I would keep my distance given that it’s earned an average of 2.2 stars on Google Play. Wild guess here but I bet there has never been, nor will there ever … Read more
It was revealed in 2009 that with just five requirements, one of which is a cold beer, another being a freely-available piece of code called SSLstrip, you (or the Iranians) may execute a man-in-the-middle attack on your victim’s network by listening for, intercepting and siphoning information from HTTPS/SSL requests, the sort your victim’s browser may … Read more
First things first. I don’t have a Blackberry Playbook, HP Touchpad (I sold it). I don’t have Android Tablet with ICS or up installed. I sold them on eBay and bought a nice Surface Pro for me. That puts my tests incomplete, but they gave me a basic idea. Since Playbook and Touchpad have minimal … Read more
Rumor has it, amazon could be paying about $26 million for the voice recognition app Avi. This sure wouldn’t be the second time Amazon has been caught running around buying voice recognition technology, it would see this is really important stuff to them. A Siri competitor? Or perhaps something a bit more serious? From where … Read more
There is not many people left on the planet that don’t know about the power of smartphones these days and gamers are taking notice with devices like Samsung’s Galaxy S 3 and soon to be released 4th edition. These devices pack tons of processor power and large 5 inch HD screens. Why not take advantage … Read more
If you resell or lend your Google Glass, at least the developer version that is being shipped, you are violating the TOS and you are entitled to lose your Glass, and you won’t get reimbursed or supported. The TOS say: ‘If you resell, loan, transfer, or give your device to any other person without Google’s … Read more
Microsoft and Google have revealed that the longer your site takes to load, particularly beyond one second, the significantly more likely your overall traffic including engagement and retention will suffer as viewers like you ain’t got time for slow responses to your stimuli. One second should be the target, the magic number. I’ll settle for … Read more
I just watched an ironically-long lecture by Google’s Ilya Grigorik who is part of their Make the Web Faster initiative. Most fascinating lecture I’ve heard, maybe. You might want to watch it too; but if not, let me try to give you the takeaways. You could have guessed the gist of this, but not its severity: The […]
To my dismay I‘ve learned that Chrome for iOS does not display WebP images. Safari doesn’t either of course, so to my knowledge the only way to be able to sort of view websites on iOS using WebP with no javascript decoder is to use the low-rated Opera Mini for iOS. But that browser not only makes up just 1/400th of all iOS traffic to […]
Oh happy day! In light of “new data that shows that WebP has valid use cases and advantages” Mozilla Firefox developers have decided to explore supporting the awesome format natively in Firefox. WebP, in short, is an open image format developed by Google in their valiant effort to speed up the web, however after three … Read more
I’ve got Verizon FiOS, fast, yet my loving wife can barely watch her cute kitty Youtube clips in dinky 240p – unless she tethers through her phone (tmo). Me and my obsession with North Korean documentaries, same deal, I can barely skate by on 240p, and it still buffers something fierce […]