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FriendFeed – Another authentication tale!

December 17, 2008
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FriendFeed appears to be a Twitter clone that improves on the original, it allows you and your friends to chat about ...

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Spanish HTML literals

December 13, 2008
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I was completing some Spanish translations this week and got a bunch of errors in QA (missing characters), I basically ...

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How OAuth helps us all!

December 12, 2008
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I have had a series of posts recently about various, supposedly responsible, Social websites asking for my username and ...

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Windows Live SkyDrive @ 25GB

December 03, 2008
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Sweet!!   Technorati tags: Live Sky Drive ...

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Windows Live Mobile Falls Short

December 03, 2008
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There are a gazillion great things about the new Windows Live updates that are just pure social love. I have the ...

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Why do you need my password?

November 24, 2008
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I got some random text from a relative asking me to go this website, at which point I was confronted by the following ...

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Zune Pass, now Lease to Own

November 20, 2008
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The recent updates with Zune have been great so far, the Zune software itself is even faster, the Zune Social site has ...

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FSUtil – File System Utility

November 13, 2008
3 min read

I was starting to see some significant slow down in the performance of my Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Basically ...

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Google Chrome

November 11, 2008
2 min read

Over the last few months I have installed more beta software on my main machine than I should have. This is always a ...

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