Archive for March 24, 2006

the accidental teenage webcam promoter

A teenager went through a breakup (hmmm my 2nd break-up related post) and cheered herself by playing with the features of her webcam, that can change the appearance of the person by placing glasses, moustache, hats and even change the person into a unicorn, car, shark etc.

Well her 75-second video was viewed by 155,000 people (which i think is more interested in the effects) and gave exposure to the Quickcam Orbit MP by digital toolmaker Logitech.

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Firefox bug broke up engagement of 5 years

A bug in Firefox which allows different users in Win XP to see each other’s visited sites prompted a woman to leave her fiance of 5 years after discovering he’s been visiting online dating sites.

Steps to reproduce bug.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create 2 unique user accounts (for steps sake, let’s call the two accounts Joe and Mary) in Windows XP Home.
2. Logout and sign-in under Joe.
3. Open Firefox and go to an e-mail site or to jdate.com or wherever.
4. Attempt to log-in to the site so that Firefox will ask whether or not you want your password saved.
5. Choose not to save the password.
6. After successfully logging in and having selected the “never save password” option, logout.
7. Log-in as Mary and open Firefox.
8. Browse, browse, browse… but you don’t really have to. Just go to “View Saved Passwords,” click on the tab that will show you sites to never save passwords for, and you’ll see whatever painful site Joe denied to save a
password for.
9. Break-up with fiancé.

Read the bugzilla report here.

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AjaxWrite.com - online ajax word processor

You can open up word documents on this website, edit them and save them back. I tried with one of my doc and the text alignment was gone but still, this is a good start for a no-hassle and quick editing especially on a computer without any MS Office but the keyword here is AJAX.

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Go to ajaxwrite.com.

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