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I wish the article's author had done a little bit of background work to find references to the CCC presenter's research. Here is the paper published last year describing the resear…

I agree that it looks bad, but I think they are getting a huge flood of new signups and imports based on all the news around Yahoo potentially shutting down Delicious. All parts of…

I guess it all depends on how valuable the service is to you. For me, the one-time signup fee seems minimal for the value I get from a service that I use nearly every day. I've use…

If you want to do some digging yourself, here are some suggestions to get started. How and Why to Sniff Smartphone Network Traffic http://www.messagingnews.com/onmessage/ben-gross/…

The company says the service is opt in this press release: http://www.location-labs.com/press_article.php?newsid=80 and in the comments here: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/21/locat…

"The topic of SSL certificates is a bit arcane, but the much of security of our everyday online purchases depends on SSL. Yet, fewer services use SSL than one might hope. It is pos…

It is common for people I talk to complain that it is a pain to email complete web pages from most browsers. This article lists are best options I found. My favorite is to first re…

Here are the best options I found for emailing full web pages from a browser. My personal favorite is to first clean up the page with the Readability bookmarklet. Please let me kno…

I wrote an article "Validating Email Address in Web Forms - The Hazards of Complexity" that discusses several comprehensive email validation libraries and common problems with comp…

This article started out as a set of notes for myself, but I ended up finding so many resources, I thought other people might find it useful, so I wrote it up. There details and re…