FireFox 3 RC2 now available

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 5th Jun, 2008

I’ve just upgraded my browser to Release Candidate 2 of FireFox 3 which has some bug fixes over the previous version. I had some problems with Beta 5, but have been using RC1 without any issue ever since it was made available. It seems like there’s quite a bit of effort put into the quality [...]

Application Virtualisation

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 8th Apr, 2008

I came across a great post on Adam Hall’s blog talking about aspects of application virtualisation. I’ve only come across this recently to tell you the truth, with the rollout of SoftGrid here at IOMG, and have been pretty impressed with what the package achieves.
So what is application virtualisation you may ask? It’s a process [...]

AJAX attacks and how to mitigate against them

Posted by: Owen on Monday, 18th Feb, 2008

Excellent post on The Register entitled Reduce your exposure to AJAX threats, which talks about three pieces of advice you need to keep in mind when developing AJAX applications. There’s nothing new in terms of security principles, just an application to the fact that a good portion of AJAX applications work on the client’s browser [...]

Facebook to get an IM

Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 26th Sep, 2007

I read with interest this morning that Facebook was going to be getting an Instant Messaging client (IM). It would be fun to have something that was integrated into the whole Facebook experience and the feature list included:

No Registration
No Initialisation
No Download
All your friends in one IM

Sounds too good to be true? Well, further digging indicated [...]

Google Gears hits the street

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 31st May, 2007

Google is making a move into the offline application space (you know, traditional Windows applications) by releasing Google Gears, a browser add-on that lets developers take online applications offline. The first app to take advantage of this will be Google Reader giving you the ability to catch up on your feeds and read them offline.
If [...]

SecureZIP - The next generation of ZIP

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 24th Apr, 2007

PKWare will always have a place in my mind as being the people who brought the ZIP compression algorithm to the masses. Their then flagship product, PKZIP, had practically become the de facto standard for compression and was used by everyone I knew.
It seems like PKWare have now made their presence felt in the data [...]

Password protect Word and Excel documents

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 15th Mar, 2005

Need to password protect a Word or Excel document? Here’s how you do it …