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Articles and Reviews from Voodish

Welcome to our Articles section, we try and update this section at least twice weekly, so check back regularly for the most up to date info. Our sections include Accessibility, Future of Computing, Internet Tools, Tea Break and Web Development.

Sep 25 2008

Firefox 3.0.2 update fixes security bugs

Critical security advisories for Firefox are described as: “Vulnerability can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing.”

Firefox critical advisory MFSA 2008-41 is described as “Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution,” while the second critical advisory MFSA 2008-42 is described as “Crashes with evidence of memory corruption.”

Sep 24 2008

Techies fight back

Over worked and under appreciated by their employers, many top end IT bods are fighting back in the worst way possible; sabotaging corporate networks!

Sep 23 2008

Metamorphosis video shows stunning visuals

Metamorphosis is programmed entirely in Processing by ‘noob’ programmer (self describing), Glenn Marshall, it’s a fantastic piece of work that has been unedited and is 100% generative. It has to be watched to be appreciated.

Metamorphosis from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.

Sep 23 2008

Create, Evolve, Explore, Share - SPORE

The latest game from EA has turned about to be something a bit different from the usual gore fest - and really is something for everyone to enjoy, basically Spore is your own personal universe.

You can create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations, sculpt worlds, and explore the cosmos. Spore is made up of five games, each corresponding to a stage of evolution: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. Each stage presents different challenges and goals.

Sep 21 2008

New Commodore Laptop

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Although I’m old enough to remember the Commodore Vic 20, which shipped with a staggering 5Kb of Ram, and have happy memories playing games such as, Radar rat race, this new commodore laptop is not exactly exciting.

Sep 20 2008

The DIGG death list expands

It’s seems every now and then , DIGG seems to invoke a mini revolt from their community; the latest offering being over 80 power users scrapped from the database!?

Sep 20 2008

Cybersquatting on potential bank merging domain names

Domain names for the merged Bank of America/Merrill Lynch as well as for Lloyds TSB/HBOS have been snapped up. Amazingly one domain name is selling on Ebay, with a starting bid of US$1,500 and with 3 bids now over US$2,000 !