Date: 04/27/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: yahoo, google

Free video delivery service, which heightens competition with Google and Yahoo, is already being used by some.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6065873.html

Date: 04/28/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft, google

There is no "secret circle" of competitors hatching plans about how to attack Google, Microsoft's CEO says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6066303.html

Date: 05/03/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: software, google

A published report says that the software giant is mulling such a pact to compete against Google.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6067840.html

Date: 05/04/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, browser, security, web, google

I'm pretty new to php, and this may be the dumbest question ever asked, but it's freaking me out.

I have a contact form on a website in php and it works perfectly fine. Once in a while, however, I will get 5-6 emails at once, all sent from the form, with weird email addresses (i.e. with the domain name of my site) that fill in all fields with the email address and the message is some sort of garbled version of a story by Hans Christian Andersen -- (I only know this because I googled the lines).



I have the form automatically send me an email that fills in field so that I get an email like the following if someone has an issue with the website:


Someone has a website issue.

A user, $name, has an issue on the page $url

The issue is: $message

They are using $browser as a web browser and when asked if they would like a follow-up they said $followup.
Their email address is $email




But I will sometimes get emails like the following:


Someone has a website issue.

A user, blood7007@mydomain.com, has an issue on the page et
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=c4ac4da924461ca45d3cbd03ebe2afb9
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: a brother
bcc: bajfla2@aol.com

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--c4ac4da924461ca45d3cbd03ebe2afb9
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"us-ascii\"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

what a struggle his soul had passed through. he disputation continued. ilhelm was in one of his eloquent moods. he doctor regarded the etters of the andering host as one of the most perfect books in
--c4ac4da924461ca45d3cbd03ebe2afb9--

.


The issue is: blood7007@mydomain.com.

They are using as a web browser and when asked if they would like a follow-up they said blood7007@mydomain.com.
Their email address is blood7007@mydomain.com.



All of the emails are also blank carbon copying to the same address, the aol one as listed above.


So, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how and why these are sent, if it's a security issue, etc... and what I should have in place to prevent it, if it's possible.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/446812.html

Date: 05/04/06 (Mozilla)    Keywords: rss, google

I have seen both a greasmonkey script (currently installed) and a bookmarklet (used previously) that place a "Play" icon next to any mp3 on a page in Firefox. (For more information on the bookmarklet, google for "playtagger" by del.icio.us)

I subscribe to a few mp3-blogs via RSS in my Thunderbird, and was wondering if there are any similar plugins, extensions, or workarounds to do the same thing in Thunderbird.

Little Help?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/359875.html

Date: 05/11/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft, google

Google execs say Microsoft has a history of "not playing fair," but they're too busy creating new products to pay too much attention.
Photos: Google Press Day

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6070983.html

Date: 05/10/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web, google

Announces update to Google Desktop, as well as several new products designed to enhance information gathering on the Web.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6070912.html

Date: 05/10/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: google

CEO Eric Schmidt maps out the future of search and his company, and he asks Google when he will die.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6070774.html

Date: 05/12/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: browser, web, microsoft, google

The Microsoft chief says there could be more behind Google's gripes about the Web browser's default settings.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6071433.html

Date: 05/15/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: web, google

Okay, I tried Google, and other lj communities, now I'm hoping you can help me. 
I was living a roommate who had a Mac. (OS X G5?). I had many, many files stored on it. The roomie moved out, and eventually put all those files onto a DVD disk. Now I have a PC. I was able to successfully transfer most of the data (images, iTunes, text, etc,) onto my computer.
BUT...
All the internet links I had saved on the Mac are weblocs, and I can't open them on my pc. I tried to find ways to convert them, but all the info I found was for people who had Macs, and wanted to work offline, and much of the "help" was in technospeak, and I was lost. :/
Is there a way to exract the url's from the weblocs, without using a Mac? (I no longer have access to one!) Thank-you in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/923602.html

Date: 05/15/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: yahoo, google

Yahoo, Google and Snap.com are using new technologies to yield more dynamic answers to search queries.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6072066.html

Date: 05/16/06 (Security)    Keywords: spyware, google

Free Scandoo service tags results of Google and other online searches to help fend off spyware and unwelcome content.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6072478.html

Date: 05/17/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: html, java, google

Google has released GWT - a java window toolkit which converts your java applications (using the toolkit API) to javascript (incl. AJAX) and HTML. What follows is a brief review of the features and some thoughts. But first lets see why Google thinks it is important. Java technologies offer a productive development plaform, and with GWT, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-web-toolkit-a-brief-review/

Date: 05/20/06 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: yahoo, google

This is off-topic, but I figured that people here would know a thing or two about IM's as well...

How come whenever I'm looking for a replacement for a 3rd party IM client (like Trillian or Gaim) I always fret about what I'm going to be getting myself into? Thus far, I've been perfectly happy with 3rd party clients. But they can be somewhat spotty with their file-transfer, voice & video service.

But every time I look at ICQ, Yahoo, MSN or AIM; I always feel like I'm about to sell my soul or something. I know that I'm going to get a bunch of ads with ICQ & AIM. I think I've gotten a little spoiled with the 3rd party ad-freeness. With Yahoo I'm not looking forward to all the extra stuff I'm never going to use. And with MSN, I fear the whole 'Big Brother' thing.

They all kind of share the ads, 'big brother' & too many useless extras feel. It's the main reason I've always gone with a 3rd party. Plus I have friends on all then networks, and I can't pick just one to go with. It's kind of messed up in a way, splitting up the world like that by creating so many different IM standards that do not talk with eachother.

I've tried out a few other great programs:
Hello is an IM and a image sharing program. All encrypted so it's really safe.
Skype is a P2P Voice & Text program. Also encrypted, very safe.
Google Talk is kind of like Skype, but stripped down.

The problem with these programs is that no one really uses them, for one reason or another. I would have figured that Skype would have really taken off, but all the other IM programs are seeing how they've fallen way behind, so now they are starting to offer things that Skype has. Google Talk is very streamlined, but you have to have a Gmail account to use it, which I guess is the problem for most people getting into it. And Hello, while functioning very well as an IM program, is mostly about sharing pictures.

So, I am at a loss. All the 1st party popular IM programs feel like they are draining my soul. All the non-pop 1st party IM programs are not used enough. All of the 3rd party IM programs have too many bugs or weirdnesses in them.

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I'm willing to try about anything. Maybe I'm just being overly odd about this, perhaps one of the popular first party IM programs are okay. Can someone give me the low-down?

Thanks. (x-posted in my journal)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/opera_browser/54598.html

Date: 05/23/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, google

Google Inc. will begin distributing online video ads later this week, diversifying beyond the static text ad messages that generate most of its profits today. Video ads, announced late Monday, will affect thousands of Web sites that rely on Google AdSense to post contextual ads on a web page. The video ads can last for as long [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-ventures-in-online-video-ads-for-adsense/

Date: 05/23/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: php, java, google

They say a picture is worth thousand words. Let the picture speak for itself. java   ruby   php    This is a trend report on search volume. Source: Google Trends

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-versus-ruby-versus-php-trends/

Date: 05/23/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: google

Internet contacts company adds a calling feature to its contact service. Can it make itself heard over Google, AOL and others?

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6075815.html

Date: 05/23/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, google

Hey all,

I have a script that generates files using the fopen($file,'w+') function to create files that may or may not already exist, and it seems to be working fine but with one small gotcha--the permissions are for whatever reason set to 644 (decimal). This isn't a huge problem except that it doesn't give me enough permissions to edit the file using ftp or ssh (i.e. I can still get at it with another php script, but I can't modify it directly).

I've tried using the chmod($file,077) command, but it's obviously disabled as it has no effect. I do not have access to the php.ini file, although I do have ssh access to my directory on the machine. (I do not have a sudo password.) I tried using the chmod command in unix, but of course I don't have high-enough permissions.

I've googled a fair amount and haven't come up with too much other than the already-mentioned and failed chmod commands and functions.

Anybody know how to get php to create a new file with more liberal permissions?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/452321.html

Date: 05/24/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: google

Rumors are rife about Google’s venture into lucrative online music store market, thereby competing with Apple’s highly successful iPod. Declan finds that Google has added /music to its robots.txt file, potentially indicating the site can come up anytime. He also found searching for google.com/music shows the site. Normally when a site is unavailable it gives a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/prepare-for-google-music-store-gmusic/

Date: 05/24/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: google

Meet Omid Kordestani, Sr. V.P. Google, who made merely $288,874,396 last year. You may be interested to know the salaries of Sergey Brin & Larry Page, co-founders of Google - $43,726 and $35,045 respectively. Google CEO & Chairman Eric Schmidt makes $26,375. Want to work for me Eric? I will pay you more. As for the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/silicon-valley-executive-salary-survey-google-leads-the-pack/