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Jul 10

Legal action on Zombie Cookies filed in US court



Lawsuit filed in San Francisco district court after firms resurrected deleted browser cookies.

…A legal challenge has been launched in the US against a number of websites amid claims that they were engaged in “covert surveillance” of users.
The lawsuit alleges that a number of firms, including Hulu, MTV, and Myspace, used a Quantcast Flash application to restore deleted cookies.
Cookies are text files used by web browsers to store user data.
The lawsuit says that the application was creating so-called “zombie cookies” from deleted files.
Quantcast has not responded to a BBC News request for comment.
The term “zombie cookie” was coined after the issue of traditional browser cookies being undeleted by Flash was brought to light in a 2009 paper by US researchers.
The study found that more than half of sites surveyed used flash cookies to store information about the user, with some using it to “respawn or re-instantiate cookies deleted by the user”.
“Flash cookies often share the same values as browser cookies, and are even used on government websites to assign unique values to users,” the paper…

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27
Jul 10

Is Google Watching You? New Plugin Will Let You Know [APPS]

Another rad browser plugin called Google Alarm hit the Internets this week, which alerts you every time your personal info is sent to Google’s servers. How

…t this something we try not to think about? We know it’s happening and we (or most) try to keep it clean just because anything posted on the internet is fair game even if you delete it. Those that don’t play with caution may find themselves burned. The smart thing…watch what you post and what information you offer up… BostonDave”I always feel like. Google is watching me”(obscure 80s music reference) insidmalIf anyone gets this and is “surprised” by how many times it goes off, then you don’t know the internet very well :-) MarkMashable uses two Google Analytics databases, does that mean two the alarms?BTW.. I’ve been using Analytics Helper Chrome plugin which detects if Google Analytics script is installed on the current page, no more no less.https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hfi… MarkMashable uses two Google Analytics databases, does that mean twice the alarm?BTW.. I’ve been using Analytics Helper Chrome plugin which detects if Google Analytics script is installed on the current page, no more…

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26
Jul 10

Ostrich: A Safari extension that’s really a Twitter client

Are you a Twitterholic? Then at the very least you need to take a look at Jérôme Gravel-Niquet’s interesting implementation of the social networking phenomenon as an add-on for Apple’s default Mac OS browser.

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26
Jul 10

Designing and Testing for Multiple Browsers

The easiest way to ensure cross-browser compatibility is to code according to W3C standards. A number of issues to consider when designing for multiple browsers.

…Testing for Multiple Browsers
In the past decade, the web browser landscape has changed dramatically. At the end of the browser wars (Netscape vs Microsoft Internet Explorer), Microsoft was victorious, and Netscape seemed to lay floundering with no hope for recovery.
After Netscape’s quiet descent into the open source world, releasing Mozilla, and its eventual resurgence with Mozilla Firefox, developers who had become lazy, coding only for Internet Explorer (IE), were faced with a new dilemma.
Microsoft ending support for its IE version for Macs also helped to usher in a new browser from Apple: Safari. Add Opera and now Google Chrome, and the chance that coding for one browser and actually having your site look the way you intended on all the others, becomes very slim.
Browser market share aside, it is just part of web design best practices to make sure your website can reach as wide of an audience as possible. That means developing sites that work on desktop browsers, tablets, netbooks, screen readers, and…

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26
Jul 10

Major Flaw Found in Apple’s Safari Browser

Unfortunately, Apple didn’t appear to realize that it was necessary to screen what it allows to access this data. Security researchers revealed that a simple web form can grab much of this data - first name, last name, work place, city, state, and email address — no questions asked.

…security, as it is not possible to compare the vendors based on number of vulnerabilities alone. Apple’s supporters were quick to attack the report. AppleInsider writes:Not all vulnerabilities are equal: Secunia outlines five levels of criticality ranging from minor not critical issues to extremely critical problems that can result in remote exploits without any interaction from the user, and for which active exploits are already known to exist. Yet Secunia’s vulnerability report totals throw all these various types of flaws together into sums that are frequently used for meaningless comparison purposes.It’s ironic that almost simultaneous to the report another significant security flaw in Safari aired. Safari Apple’s browser software has oft seen releases so buggy to the point that they were unusable. Safari 5 certainly offered some improvements in that department, but it apparently doesn’t fair particularly better in the security department than past releases, including Safari 4 which had a flaw so severe…

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Jul 10

CloudCanvas – A Free HTML5 Image Editing Suite

CloudCanvas enables creative people to make digital art, design and other rich media right in the web browser. Without the need of any plugin. The best thing I

…SVG this suite is quite promising with the first looks.

It also supports HTML5 and doesn’t run on flash, also its been already optimized to work on an iPad for the touch drawing and illustrating works which makes the image editing much more easy and fun.
Some of the Features of CloudCanvas are :
Raster graphics
These are the principles and elements of raster or bitmap graphics.

PAINT
BRUSHES
TEXTURES

Vector Graphics
These are the simple or primitive shapes in which vector graphics are based.

ELLIPSES: That includes circles, too.
RECTAGLES: That squares fit here as well.
POLYGONS: Object with more than 2 straight sides including regular polygons like the octagon or hexagon.
LINES: These are straight single lines.
POLYLINES: Straight connected lines.
CURVES: These are lines bends in them.

Page Layout
Desktop or Weptop publishing capabilities like never before. You place it onthe the page and…

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20
Jul 10

BlackBerry 6’s WebKit-based browser bests the competition

Uh oh, looks like they’re still in the game!

…It’s been almost a year since RIM picked up Torch Mobile and locked its newly acquired division in a closet, telling those coders to not come out until BlackBerry had a world-class browser. Early tests from Salomondrin, the self-described “007 of the Phone World,” indicates that those tired engineers can now finally go home and get some sleep. The new WebKit-based browser, a part of BlackBerry OS 6.0, managed a score of 208 on the Acid HTML5 tests, measuring browser compliance and performance. Meanwhile the iPhone 4 scored 185 and HTC’s Incredible pulled down 151. Mind you, benchmark performance doesn’t always equate to real-world browser responsiveness, but regardless this is good news for CrackBerry addicts. The only question now is: when will they get their fix?

Update: The browsers were run through a suite of tests, and the above scores were actually from The HTML5 Test!…

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19
Jul 10

Billiard Applications for the iPhone and iPad Touch

The advent of online billiard games as computer downloads and browser based games have brought some very good and graphical applications to people.

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19
Jul 10

The First Browser with Indian Roots Comes From Bangalore

As Firefox, IE8, Chrome, Safari and Opera browsers compete to emerge as the ‘best than the rest,’ here is another entrant from India aiming to make it big in the industry.

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17
Jul 10

How to install Firefox 4 beta1 in Ubuntu | Crystal Konsole

Chrome is already in version 5 and its growing lightning quick. They’re already working on version 6 and it will be out soon. Mozilla outbroke the browser market once ruled by IE.

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Once upon a time, there was something called Microsoft Internet Explorer
Then came Mozilla Firefox IE is now almost forgotten.
But then came Google Chrome. But is firefox going to be forgotten? No way! There’s more to come.
Chrome is already in version 5 and its growing lightning quick. They’re already working on version 6 and it will be out soon. Mozilla outbroke the browser market once ruled by IE. But then with the introduction of Google Chrome, it faced some serious competition and is now struggling hard to top the list. Now Mozilla is coming up with version 4. Firefox 4 is now in beta version and you can try the beta version here.
Firefox 4 has slimmed down and acquired chrome-like look by shifting tabs to the title bar. It also embodies a better Add-on and extension manager. Significant improvements seen in handling Javascripts. Supports HTML5 and many more.
Here’s how you can Install Firefox4 on Ubuntu 10.04.
Step 1 : Go to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/ and download the Firefox 4…

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