Archive 11. December 2009

Either Mark Zuckerberg got a whole lot less private or Facebook’s CEO doesn’t understand the company’s new privacy settings. - well, that's a surprise. (in my case, things are open because my Facebook profile serves only as a super aggregator, collecting almost exclusively public content, so stricter security settings don't make much sense there)

JavaScript web workers: use visitors to your website to do background data processing for you. : programming - crazy idea: set up JavaScript workers for distributed computing on websites. Every visitor participates in the calculation of some data. Of course, unless they use something like NoScript or PithHelmet and filter out the stuff.

The Tumblr Backup app is ready for its first beta... - for those who use Tumblr and have a Mac, there's now a backup tool. I might check it out for my small image Tumblr.

Fingerprint Readers on Linux Laptops and Notebooks - because my company notebook has one. And surprisingly: it works! The new Fujitsu S-Series boxes are very Linux-friendly.