Archive for April 27th, 2008


Apr 27

Mr Uptime: Firfox extension to monitor your website & blog status

Mr Uptime is an Firefox extension, that lets you watch the status of any given website or blog. If you come across a website/blog, experiencing downtime, you can add the website address in the watch list, and Mr. Uptime will keep trying to reach that website in the background while you continue surfing on other websites. When
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Apr 27

Monitor websites & blog that don’t offer Atom or RSS Feeds

What if, you like a website or blog, that doesn’t offer site Feeds, but you want to get notified, as soon as the site contents updates. Here’re few free tools & services that do the job for you. Update Scanner:  A Firefox browser extension, to monitor web pages for updates. You can choose how often the site will
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Apr 27

WordPress 2.5.1: How to reset password manually

WordPress 2.5.1 was released with over 80 security/bug fixes, and lots of performance enhancements. However, there was one bug, that crept up right after its release. According to a ticket filed in WordPress Trac, when a user resets their password, the password reset link received in the email does not work. The error message that
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Apr 27

3G iPhone expected on June 9

The 3G iPhone will be announced June 9, the likely date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, analysts said in research notes on Thursday. The 3G iPhone will be the "first of an impressive wave of new products" from Apple, wrote Citi analysts Richard Gardner and Yeechang Lee. They also expect
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Apr 27

Race-to-Zero: Defcon contest for Hackers

There will be a new contest called Race-to-Zero, at the Defcon hacker conference this August, one that antivirus vendors already hate. The contest will invite Defcon hackers to find new ways of beating antivirus software. Contestants will get some sample virus code that they must modify and try to sneak past the antivirus
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