WARNING!: Palm Pre Case Magnets – Magnets ≠ Safe For Computer August 11th, 2009

Derek Kessler of PreCentral.net just disclosed some very interesting information on their blog.

Apparently, putting his Palm Pre, which so happens to have a Touchstone back cover, caused his MacBook Pro to go into sleep mode. This is because Apple’s mechanism for sleep mode is initiated by magnets; so when Derek’s Pre hit the right palm rest of his MacBook – it turned off.

Tags: evan • hard drive • kessler • macbook pro • palm • palm pre • samek • sleep mode • touchstone

[UPDATED]Google Security Hole – YouTube Login Logs You Into Gmail Too August 10th, 2009

So I believe I have found a security hole in Google’s login systems, and why they need to unlink usernames with YouTube accounts, or they need to at least address this issue. I’ll be brief.

Tags: Account • blog • evan • gmail • google • ip log • passwords • samek • security • security hole • user names • usernames • youtube

Presenting the Dawn of a new URL Shortening Servce – http://pd.am July 31st, 2009

It’s with great pride that we announce the official public beta release of our newest service, pd.am, Pixel Dreamer’s Automatic Minifier!

Our service provides you with not only a pd.am minified URL, but can also include URLs shortened by a number of competitive services such as bit.ly, tr.im, is.gd and TinyURL.