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Fighting SPIM
Have you ever received an instant message that prompts you to click on a mysterious link? Or been asked to share your IM account information, only to have it used to spam all of your friends? Messaging spam, sometimes called SPIM, is a type of spam targeting users of instant
Opera Unite vs. Windows Live, or: How will the client-server future look like?
Opera Unite, released as Beta on 16 June, can transform any computer into a web server. How might the underlying idea this affect our daily web usage? Once upon a time, web servers were invented. These used to serve first static, then dynamic content to clients, to us. The basis
How-to: Backup and restore your Plus! preferences
The other day I was once again thinking of useful add-ons adding functions in Messenger. I went around and played with the “Import/export preferences” option inside the Messenger Plus! preferences. From what I saw, the option is creating a binary *.pld file containing your settings. You would have to export
Twitter OAuth API now live
Now, I’ve got a new dance for y’all called the Soulja Boy. Oh, wait, no, sorry. The OAuth beta is now open to all developers, though. This was the small tweet by Alex Payne, Twitter’s API Lead, announcing the general availablility of OAuth for Twitter, last Monday. OAuth, designed for
Hotmail POP access now worldwide
After the unexpected Hotmail outage, POP access is now available to all Windows Live Hotmail customers worldwide! How to use POP with Hotmail I will show you the example of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, but other mail clients are similar. Click “Tools”, “Account Settings…”. On the “E-mail” tab, click “New…”.
Hotmail POPs up in some places
Windows Live Hotmail is rolling out a new build, including POP and SMTP access from any mail client (including iPhone). Hotmail has been supporting POP and SMTP for Hotmail Plus users for a while, but the demand for a general availablility of Hotmail POP access has been high, especially with