Archive for the 'Internet Tools' Category

UK building Big Brother Data Silo

Okay, iv often wondered how much it would take to build a massive database system capable of storing every text message, voice call, email, website visited and data transmitted for a two year period, the maths in my head said the government couldnt do it (and still there is a hint they might not be able to)…

But in the mean time, say hello to Big Brothers new Personal Privacy Killing Database ;

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/ukgov_uber_database/

Now, try telling me this isnt a little but creepy !

Facebook Apps Overkill

I took this screenshot off a friend of mines Facebook profile this morning, not gonna drop any names of who it belongs to (but i will admit its a women, sorry but the female of the species does seem more inclinded to click the ‘add app’ button it seems). On my Dell 24″ display it has to scroll about 2 full lenghts of the screen to detail them all and on 10Mbps broadband it took nearly 2 mins to actually load the graphics for all of them.

If anyone needs more proof their are too many random stupid and pointless applications for facebook, then look no further !

Bedpost… Web 2.0 App which tracks your sex life

Okay, iv seen two girls one cup (strangly didnt affect me that badly), iv seen the vid of the girl being thrown through a basketball hoop, iv seen a kid trying to scare his mate by jumping out of a bin, only to get smaked in the face and knocked out…. But all of these things didnt quite prepare me for finding an online application which ’supposedly’ tracks your sex live and gives you insights into your bedtime activities.

Bedpost, a web 2.0 application that remains in alpha, aims to give you insights about your sex life. By entering in partners, time durations and tags to describe your “doing the horizontal” data, the app appears to build a calendar of stats and averages. Other multimedia functionality includes uploading photos of partners, in case you’d like to brag to yourself about your previous conquests. The creator states:

I built it for myself about 4 years ago, and this is the culmination of years and years of thinking about how to make it available to the world. … Before long, you’ll have a rolling history of your sex life on which to reflect.

im not 100% about this kid, anyone who goes to the extreme of creating an online based web app to track his sexual activity has gotta be a little strange (i mean dont get me wrong, the little black book some guys have is appealing, but this is just odd). But lets put that to one side for a second and just assume this kid was an enthusiastic programmer who thought ‘what the hell, i want my perverted nature to be digitalised’ i can somwhat understand the development of a private application which allows you to track your own sexual activity, but then to migrate it into a public server… Im not sure if its pure genious or the most disgusting thing iv heard of.

Either way, i look forward to hearing that the backend database of this site has been cracked, thats gonna be an interesting day for many-a-beta tester lol !

MultiFireFox 2.0 (OS X Only)

Given the fact that lots of folks are downloading FireFox 3 as of late, I thought this might be a good time to highlight MultiFireFox 2.0. MultiFireFox 2.0 lets you run up to 5 versions of FireFox side by side.

Why would you want to do this? If you’re a web developer you probably want to check your work in FireFox 2 as well as 3. MultiFireFox also lets those of you who don’t want to jump into the new version of FireFox get your feet wet with the new hotness (or should that be the ‘new wetness?’), but keep FF2 close at hand.

MultiFireFox 2 is free, so you can’t beat the price and runs on OS X 10.4 and above.