Category: Apps
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Hyper-local Weather Forecasts
The future is here. Today the Weather Network rolled out “PointCast” a service developed in house (over the past 15 years!) that provides 1-km forecast and weather data. That’s a screenshot of my weather at home vs the “Winnipeg” weather station (likely) 10km away at The Forks. As you can see, it’s quite different. From…
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Gawker Hacks [update: no Digsby]
If you missed it, Gawker Media’s username/password database was hacked and paswords decrypted! This is very very bad. Lifehacker, has a comprehensive post about the compromise. They only left out one little piece of info, your password may have been exposed even if you’ve never logged in to a Gawker site. Multi-IM client Digsby is…
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I ♥ Instagram
Instagram is the latest little app to gain popularity with iPhone-nerds everywhere. The app takes all the good parts of online photo sharing and condenses them into a really slick package. They’ve included a good selection of dorky filters that will make almost any subject a lot more interesting than it actually is. Combine this…
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Firesheep: A Valid Reason to Fear WiFi or How To Hack Your Wife’s Facebook
Just in time for Halloween, a developer by the name of Eric Butler has released Firesheep – a truly terrifying security tool. It’s so simple to use it makes script kiddies look like rocket surgeons. All you have to do is install the Firefox extension, that’s it. With the extension installed at the click of a single…
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Google Chrome, Now More Piratey
Sometime in the past 24hrs my copy of Google Chrome updated to version 6. Along with a more native UI, it now sports a bold red skull and cross bones when you visit a site with an unverified SSL certificate. How awesome is that?!