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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 […] Continue Reading
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Mint Canada Fail
in WebsitesIn this week’s episode of Canadian Tech Roundup I touched on the fact that mint.com has not done one bit of Canadian localization. I’m really disappointed that we had to wait 4 years for a Canadian version of the product, only to receive something that hasn’t been localized. Anyways here’s an example of the kind […] Continue Reading
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Canadian Tech Roundup – Episode 1
[podcast]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/480185/podcasts/Canadian%20Tech%20Roundup%20-%20Ep1.mp3[/podcast] Here it is everyone, the first official episode of the Canadian Tech Roundup. In a classic blogging cliche I’m going to apologize for the content of this post in advance. We’re still learning a lot about podcasting, but please have a heart, take a listen. Show Notes: The first 4 stories were covered in my latest […] Continue Reading
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Canadian Tech News: October 19th – Why US Apps Hate Canada, Toddler Photos, Windows Phone 7, dot-ca
It’s been over a week since the last Canadian tech news roundup, so I’ll jump right into it: Michael Giest: Why are U.S. net services slow to migrate north There are countless examples of web services that take years to get here and even more that never make it. Michael Giest has an interesting column […] Continue Reading
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Double Dagger. Not Double Dragon.
in CultureBeen listening to this band a lot in the past week. Check out the video. (I hate to do this but…) more on myspace. Double Dagger – No Allies from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo. Continue Reading