That is freaking sweet. Amazon wishlists hide whether you’ve received something during dates leading up to birthdays, etc. That way you won’t know if someone bought you something for Christmas!
That is *so cool* Seriously! I was worried about that because if I buy someone something off their Amazon Wishlist I would be worried that they would know what I got them. Now I don’t have to worry!
Seriously guys, it’s hard enough guessing what you want! build an Amazon wishlist so I can figure stuff out easier.
Mine are:
Earlier today I discovered I had a quandry. I want to be able to track my runs to see how far I go, where I go, how long it takes me, what kind of altitude changes I experience, current speed, airspeed of coconut laden swallows, and that kind of thing.
Because I don’t have a Google Android phone I have to make due with my Sprint Mogul. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad phone. It’s just not an awesome phone either.
After a little bit of poking around I found a free piece of GPS mapping software called GPSVP. I downloaded and installed it, and could not get a GPS signal. Durr.
Here is the solution.
It now connects to the GPS satallites just fine.
To use the software, just start it up and go about your business. After you are done with your run, it generates a “track” file. Then simply upload that using GPS Visualizers Google Earth or Google Maps converter.
Tada! You now have a cool record of your run! Including distance, altitude, etc.
Update! Tom Wright sent me an updated script for it with a preview pane! I’ve updated the original JS file! OK, so I’ve been slacking lately… But I found I had need of a thesaurus and figured ubiquity would be a great place to start. The command is simply “thesaurus word” and it opens up a thesaurus.reference.com page with the, you guessed it, word :-D. Not sure how much time it will save, but it is nice for pulling up quick references. Future revisions will include a preview pane… Maybe.
Ubiquity is probably the most revolutionary application I have ever seen. I wish I could go into more details, but check out their video. You must.
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
So my new blog has been up for half an hour and I already found a great post to share.
The article is called “Common Security Flaws in PHP Applications” and it is worth a read.
An interesting though on md5 hashes, don’t just salt them with a salt, salt them with a timestamp of when that user was last active. This basically causes the md5 hash to be nearly impossible to duplicate.
He also touched on sanitizing POST variables but didn’t go into too much detail, so here is a discussion about POST sanitation from nystic forums that should be useful.