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Weekly Tech Roundup for December 2, 2011

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Weekly Tech Roundup

This week’s Tech Roundup includes Carrier IQ, network printer security, an icon web font, and IPv6 progress.

IPv6 Web Domain Support Up 1,900 Percent in 2011 – A 1900% increase seems like a crazy amount but there weren’t that many to begin with. Still, progress is progress and I’d say having 1/4 of domains using IPv6 is pretty good progress.

Two on Carrier IQ:
Carrier IQ: How the Widespread Rootkit Can Track Everything on Your Phone, and How to Remove It – Do you have an Android phone (or iPhone)? You might want to check it out to see if you have Carrier IQ, which can snoop on everything you do with your phone.

Check If Your Android Phone Has Carrier IQ, No Rooting Required – If the idea of rooting your phone is scary or you have no idea what that means, check out this article instead. You can download an app that will check to see if you have Carrier IQ on your phone. It sounds like future versions may have the ability to remove it without the need to root your phone.

7 Ways to Protect Your Printers – There’s been a lot of talk this week about your network printer being vulnerable to attack. If you’re wondering what that means and what you can do about it, take a look at this article.

24 ways – It’s back for 2011! This is the “advent calendar for web geeks.” Each day in December you get a little dose of web design & development goodness.

Fico, a font with icons – This is kinda fun and it could be very useful! It’s a web font that is just icons of commonly used graphics like heart, plus, arrows, star, camera, etc.

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Weekly Tech Roundup – July 29, 2011

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Weekly Tech Roundup

I read a lot of blogs. I subscribe to a lot more blogs than I have time to read. Sound familiar? If you're like me, you don't have time to read everything you want (if you do, please tell me your secret). In an effort to reduce the chaos of life, I do two weekly article roundups: one for technical things and one for small business things.

Here's a roundup of the most interesting tech articles I found this week. Enjoy!

The State of the Web – Seriously, laugh out loud hilarious (and true). As expected from The Oatmeal.

WordPress 3.3 Proposed Scope – See what is scheduled for the next version of WordPress. Some of it is wishlist, but there are a few things that are slated as top priority, such as updates to the media uploader, that I’m excited for. They’re planning to drop support for IE7, too, but not in version 3.3. We’ll have to wait for 3.4 for that.

Most IT pros say their websites, networks will support IPv6 by 2013 – Well, this is huge and pleasantly surprising news. I guess that whole “we’ve run out of IPv4 addresses” finally sunk in! Some key figures from the report:

  • 70% of IT departments plan to upgrade their websites to support IPv6 within the next 24 months
  • 65% say they will have IPv6 running on their internal networks by then (24 months)
  • more than 90% said IPv6 is “fundamentally important to the Internet”

Do you have IPv6 yet? Do you have plans for IPv6? (No idea what I’m talking about? Contact me.)

Girls Go Geek… Again! – As a fellow Geek Girl, I found this article fascinating! Did you know 42% of the software developers and 34% of the systems analysts in America were women in 1987? The article includes a Q&A with an incoming senior at Johns Hopkins University about her history and experience with computer science.

A simple introduction to web accessibility – A quick primer on web accessibility, covering visual, hearing, motor, cognitive disabilities.

Comic Sans Criminal – Another fun website to close the roundups this week. Are you a Comic Sans Criminal? A little history, a little fun, a little true.

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Weekly Tech Roundup – June 10, 2011

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Weekly Tech Roundup

I read a lot of blogs. I subscribe to a lot more blogs than I have time to read. Sound familiar? If you're like me, you don't have time to read everything you want (if you do, please tell me your secret). In an effort to reduce the chaos of life, I do two weekly article roundups: one for technical things and one for small business things.

Here's a roundup of the most interesting tech articles I found this week. Enjoy!

10 useful .htaccess snippets to have in your toolbox – If your website runs on the Apache web server, these are some tweaks you can take advantage of. Unless you run your own web server, double-check with your hosting provider before trying to implement any of these. I know a lot of providers have many of these as options in their control panels.

IPv6 Guide for Home Users and Small Business – This is one of the better articles on IPv6 I’ve seen geared toward home and small business users. If you’re still wondering what the heck I’ve been talking about with IPv6 the past couple weeks, this is the article for you. It talks about the areas you need to look at and briefly describes each one (networked devices, website, mail, DNS). Make sure you also check out Test IPv6, linked in the article, to see if you and your Internet provider are ready to go.

Reader Poll: Is your company ready for IPv6? – These results aren’t good. As of this posting, 40.22% of respondents answered “No,” 38.04% “I Don’t Know,” and only 21.74% “Yes.” For the record, my answer was yes. :)

FontDeals – Smashing Magazine said it is like Groupon for Fonts. If you love fonts, this is a great way to get a whole slew of fonts for cheap. The site says they hope to offer 4-6 bundles per year. I didn’t see any fonts I had to have, but I’ll definitely be watching. There are 13 days left on the deal so you have time to decide. No way to sign up for notifications, though.

Bacon Ipsum – Designers and developers that are familiar with “lorem ipsum” will surely get a kick out of this web tool. It’s the same idea, a text generator for placeholder text. But this has an interesting twist: it’s all about meat! Not quite as versatile as some, but you can choose the number of paragraphs to include and if you want “all meat” or “meat and filler.” There’s also an option to start with “Bacon ipsum dolor sit amet…”

About Obsolete Features in HTML5 – A quick article on how obsolete features are handled in HTML5. Might be a relief if you are taking a rather old website and updating it. You don’t have to worry about the pickiness of XHTML.

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Weekly Tech Roundup – June 3, 2011

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Weekly Tech Roundup

I read a lot of blogs. I subscribe to a lot more blogs than I have time to read. Sound familiar? If you're like me, you don't have time to read everything you want (if you do, please tell me your secret). In an effort to reduce the chaos of life, I do two weekly article roundups: one for technical things and one for small business things.

Here's a roundup of the most interesting tech articles I found this week. Enjoy!

Intel’s Ultrabook signals first steps into mobile – Intel is moving into the tablet market with the PC Ultrabook. They are saying it will be an affordable tablet, although they don’t state pricing in the article. I’m still holding out for a second generation Android tablet; after they get all the kinks worked out.

World IPv6 Day: Will users feel the stress of the test? – World IPv6 Day is coming up next week. Great to see there are companies and agencies participating that plan to leave it on. Really, they’ll need it eventually and if their test is successful what is the point in turning it off? What’s difficult about this is if everything goes well, no one will notice. It’s hard to get movement on an issue where you don’t notice any difference. How will you participate in World IPv6 Day next week?

Skype, Vonage Calls Made by 24% of Web Users: Pew – Really interesting results of a recent study on VOIP (Voice Over IP, or Internet phone) usage. “Nearly one-quarter (24 percent) of U.S. adult Web users, or 19 percent of all American adults, have made calls online using Skype, Vonage or some other VOIP service.” It seems usage is really growing.

Cisco Offers 2015 Networking Forecast, Expects Wi-Fi to Exceed Wired Traffic – Get ready to hit the zetabyte mark. Cisco is expecting to see significant Internet growth in the next few years.

By 2015, the traffic across global IP networks every five minutes will be the equivalent to the data size of all movies ever made. There will be six million households globally that are consuming a terabyte of data each month.

The full report is here: Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2010-2015. Lots of stats for those of you that love numbers.

FaceNiff Is the Firesheep for Android, Hijacks Facebook Sessions with One Tap – This article talks about Facebook in particular but if you click through to the app page, it says it “allows you to sniff and intercept web session profiles over the WiFi that your mobile is connected to,” which says to me it’s more than just Facebook. So what this means is if you are on public WiFi with your phone and you’re not using HTTPS to connect to Facebook (or Twitter or any other website that requires a username & password), you could be at risk. Take a look at the article for some solutions to keep you protected.

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Weekly Tech Roundup – May 27, 2011

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Weekly Tech Roundup

I read a lot of blogs. I subscribe to a lot more blogs than I have time to read. Sound familiar? If you're like me, you don't have time to read everything you want (if you do, please tell me your secret). In an effort to reduce the chaos of life, I do two weekly article roundups: one for technical things and one for small business things.

Here's a roundup of the most interesting tech articles I found this week. Enjoy!

Scientists set record in data transmission speeds – 26 terabits per second!! Can you even imagine?

With 26 terabits per second, it would have been possible to transmit up to 400 million telephone calls at the same time.

Technology is such an amazing thing when it’s not driving us crazy!

Lack of IPv6 traffic stats makes judging progress difficult – We’re approaching World IPv6 Day (June 8) so I think that’s why I’m seeing a huge influx of IPv6-related articles. In my previous career I spent most of my time managing IP address space and caring about IPv6. Not so much now, although IPv6 availability was the tiebreaker for my choice of a new hosting provider. This is still an important topic and one of the struggles I saw in my previous capacity was getting the folks that weren’t in the middle of it technically and politically to understand the issue and care. It really can’t be wrapped up in a soundbite. Bottom line is this: everyone needs to support IPv6 and if you don’t start thinking about it soon, it’s going to be really painful down the road. I tried to find a good, simple explanatory video on YouTube but had little luck. This is the best I could find: What is IPv6? The video is from 2009 so all references to “when we run out of IPv4″ are actually now.

If you’re interested in more: What if IPv6 simply fails to catch on? and The 6 biggest misconceptions about IPv6. If you have any questions or concerns about your IPv6 readiness, please feel free to contact me or post a comment below.

Now More Than Ever: Just Write – WordPress.com has dropped support for IE6. Maybe WordPress.org self-hosted sites are next?

Internet Rules At Center Of ‘E-G8′ Forum In Paris – The G8 is discussing Internet governance. Another part of my previous career. Boy, I don’t miss talking about policies and Internet governance! This is a big deal, though, and something to keep an eye on. This isn’t just about net neutrality in the States – this is Internet governance on a global scale. Also: Sarkozy Seeks Global Net Rules and G-8 Leaders to Call for Tighter Internet Regulation.

Lost Type Co-op – A new font foundry. It’s a very cool idea: you pay what you want and the font designer gets 100% of what you donate. Which means, yes, you can get an awesome font for free. But, really, if you like it and use it wouldn’t you like to give the creator a little something? I’m certainly going to consider it for my new projects.

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