After HP & Microsoft’s security tool, Google’s gotten onto distribuing a Security Audit tool. Here’s Ratproxy which is a passive web security audit tool based on the observation of existing, user-initiated traffic in complex web 2.0 environments.
Detects and prioritizes broad classes of security problems, such as dynamic cross-site trust model considerations, script inclusion issues, content serving problems, insufficient XSRF and XSS defenses, and much more.
Some of the key features ( from Ratproxy’s documentation) :
Twibble mobile is S60 application to send your tweets to Twitter. Tried it on my N82 and it works great - a small problem I had was that the screen scrolling was painfully slow - but I liked the way twibble allowed to switch between a data network and sms to send tweets. Twibble also allows you to tag your location to your tweet based on the in-built GPS unit on your phone. The location tagging feature is optional, so you can turn it off when you don’t want others to know your location.
Features of Twibble mobile include:
post messages via your mobile network (WiFi, UMTS, GPRS), or using text messages (SMS).
auto refresh: twibble can retrieve tweets automatically after a given time period.
optimized to generate as little data traffic as possible. Only new tweets are fetched to reduce data traffic.
integrated timeline: Tweets and direct messages are displayed in a single list sorted by date. There is no need to retrieve tweets and direct messages separatly, or to switch between various lists.
open web links contained in a tweet (via phone browser).
re-tweet (forward) of tweets.With a few clicks you can re-send a tweet you received without re-typing.
quick @replies
you can add friends
mark tweets as favourites: Useful on the road when you want to mark a tweet for later reading.
cancel network requests (twibble is multi threaded)
Here’s the latest product from Psiloc called Connect, which allows your S60 application to smoothly transition between 3G/Edge connections to Wifi connections saving costs on the data plans.
Key features of Psiloc Connect:
Psiloc Connect always makes sure you use the fastest possible connection
Psiloc Connect allows you to save some money, by not using 3G data connectivity when WLAN is available
Psiloc Connect handles access point switching in the background for you, no more of that tedious tasks
Psiloc Connect allows you to connect to the Internet in a smart and convenient way. By defining the Psiloc Connect access point in any application you prioritize the way that application connects to the Internet. Psiloc Connect will choose the best available WLAN connection, if no WLAN is available, it will connect though the 3G/GSM access point defined in the application, or if you please it will only use WLAN connections to keep you connected.
Magento is an ecommerce platform on PHP which is quite feature rich. This platform is based on the Zend Framework. You can take a look at a Magento store and the admin demo over at their demo section. Some of the notable features of this platform are:
Analytics and reports - integration with Google Analytics, RSS feeds on Orders and feedback, Sales reports
Catalog Management & Browsing
Customer Accounts - with order status, default addresses, wishlists and dashboard
Order Management - edit, create and fullfill orders, print invoice and packing slips
Microsoft has just lauched Live Mesh which provides a platform to connect various devices to share information.
Microsoft has taken the wraps off a Technology Preview of its new Live Mesh platform, which promises to connect disparate devices so they can seamlessly share information. But beyond the surface, Live Mesh portends that Microsoft doesn’t just want to compete on the Web; it wants to be the Web.
Hardy Heron is just hours from getting released. Congratulations to the Ubuntu team in advance on getting this release out.
Can’t wait to get a hold of this release. For those of you who’re planning on upgrading to this new version from your existing 7.10 release, here’s a set of handy instructions from ubuntu-tutorials.com to guide you through the update. This article shows you how to go about the upgrade using the update manager
Finally a scrobbler for Symbian S60 phones - now you can scrobble what you listen to on your mobile to last.fm. To check if your phone is compatible, head over to a comprehensive list of S60 Phones. You don’t have to be online all the time for your tracks to be submitted to Last.fm. Mobbler will queue up the tracks you’ve played and will send all of them online as soon as you go online and connect to last.fm
Here’s a new addon called Zementa for Firefox, which suggests content for your blog as you create your posts. This plugin currently works for Wordpress (hosted and self-hosted), Typepad and Blogger. The content suggested by Zementa are all copyright cleared so you don’t have to go trolling for content and licence issues for your blog.
I’ve installed this on my blog to see how it works, and the suggestions given by this seem to be pretty good. It adds new sidebars to the Wordpress Edit post screen for the sugestions presented.
In this article image on the right, the in-article links and the related article links below are all from Zementa’s plugin.
Just out a few hours back - The Google App Engine - it’s a preview release, and I was late in getting to this news and missed out on the initial invites - but have added myself to the invite queue.
PHP devs may curse Google on this since Python is only supported language out here in Google App Engine territory.
Google App Engine gives you access to the same building blocks that Google uses for its own applications, making it easier to build an application that runs reliably, even under heavy load and with large amounts of data. The development environment includes the following features:
Dynamic webserving, with full support of common web technologies
Persistent storage (powered by Bigtable and GFS with queries, sorting, and transactions)
Automatic scaling and load balancing
Google APIs for authenticating users and sending email
Fully featured local development environment
Google App Engine packages these building blocks and takes care of the infrastructure stack, leaving you more time to focus on writing code and improving your application.
