YouTube has a few easter eggs that are good for a laugh or two. The arcade game, Snake With any YouTube video, you can press up while it's loading to play the game Snake. You can also hold the left arrow key down so the video rewinds to the beginning and then press the up arrow key to more reliably get the game to load. Then you have classic snake. Eat the apples (blinking … [Read more...]
Archives for 2011
WordPress Warns: Popular WordPress Plugins Given Backdoors and Pushed Out
WordPress.org warned tonight that a few popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) for self-hosted WordPress blogs were suspiciously updated today. Upon closer inspection, the updates did not appear to come from the plugins' respective authors and the changes made to the code included backdoors to allow others access to the site. Since becoming aware of these … [Read more...]
Firefox 5 Lands Without A Bunch of Fanfare But Brings Do-Not-Track
Remember when Firefox 3 was released and there was a big deal about setting the world record for number of downloads in a day? Well, the same hoopla hasn't come to town with Firefox 5's release today. Trying to keep up with Google Chrome frequent release rate, which has a stable version at 12 within its 3 years of existence, Mozilla is increasing the pace of major releases. … [Read more...]
Get 25GB of Storage in the Cloud Free with Microsoft’s Relaunched SkyDrive
Microsoft announced yesterday that it has rebuilt its cloud file storage service, SkyDrive. It's touted as being faster with HTML5, has improved layouts for different file and photos, and using Internet Explorer 9 and Windows 7, you can pin SkyDrive to your Desktop for quick, easy access. The jump list can also allow you to get to tasks that are buried a little bit with a … [Read more...]
Google Doodle by Takashi Murakami Celebrates Summer and Winter Solstice
Today's Google Doodle celebrates the Summer Solstice with a doodle by Takashi Murakami in a fun, cute anime/manga style. It seems the Southern hemisphere is also getting a dose of cuteness with the doodle for the Winter Solstice. I wonder if they'll be reversed in about 6 months. … [Read more...]