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And the new SkyDrive isn't just about the name change, there's also a revamped UI and some new features as well. Among the changes are support for drag-and-drop file uploads to ease batch transfers, the addition of a "Also on SkyDrive" which shows the folders of other Skydrive users that you've browsed and a new embed option for sharing files on your blog or website -- similar in function to Zoho's new Viewer, which we [reviewed yesterday][4]. - -But SkyDrive isn't really a Zoho Viewer competitor, rather it competes with the likes of Omnidrive, box.net, Google's [new paid options][3] and others in what is already a crowded market. - -As with similar services your account offers public and private folders for storing and sharing and you can also set read/write permissions for folders so other users can upload docs to your account. - -Microsoft describes the service as "a personal hard drive on the internet," but at 500 MB, hard drive isn't exactly the image that comes to mind. Which is too bad because otherwise the service is quite nice, easy-to-use and integrated with your Windows Live account. - -There's also the chance that, at some point, Microsoft will offer an option for Windows users to automatically backup key documents ala the .Mac services from Apple. - -However, until Microsoft adds some more compelling features to the mix, the current storage space limitations make SkyDrive a bit of a cripple in the field -- you're probably better off with other similar, more generous services. - -For more info on how SkyDrive works here's a demo video from Brandon LeBlanc at the Windows Vista Blog: - -<embed src="http://images.soapbox.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf" quality="high" width="432" height="364" wmode="transparent" name="msn_soapbox" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="c=v&v=1e598918-03f0-4a3b-a2d4-a2adb33694f5"></embed> - -[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/microsoft-ramps.html -[2]: http://skydriveteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!977F793E846B3C96!124.entry -[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/ -[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/zoho-viewer-spa.html - diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Fri/imov.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Fri/imov.jpg Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 6a47f66..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Fri/imov.jpg +++ /dev/null diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Fri/imovie.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Fri/imovie.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9599f2a..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Fri/imovie.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -Apple's recently announced iMovie '08, part of the [new iLife suite][2], features a radical redesign of a very popular program. In fact, it's not so much a re-write as a completely different program. - -Naturally not everyone is going to be pleased with the new iMovie, which Apple seems to have anticipated. To avoid creating panic among users, the company has made the previous version of iMovie, iMovie 6 HD, [available as a free download][1]. - -In addition, when you install iLife '08, rather than overwriting your existing copy of iMovie, it will be moved to a folder named "iMovie (previous version)." - -Of course there will likely be little or no future for the old version of iMovie, but at least you can upgrade to '08 without fear of losing your existing app (note that this is not true for iDVD or iPhoto which will be overwritten by the update). - -As for what changed in iMovie, the main thing that may bother existing users is the absence of the traditional timeline for arranging clips. There are also major changes to how music and other auxiliary files and clips are edited. - -On the plus side iMovie '08 does have some nice new features including the ability to mix and match video formats and resolutions and support for the AVCHD format used by those hot new hard disk camcorders. - -And I should note that the iMovie 6 download is free to anyone, so even if you never upgraded from earlier version you can now grab it and take advantage of the HD support and other improvements over iMovie 5 and earlier. - -[1]: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html -[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/apple-debuts-il.html
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At the moment the site times out for most requests, probably due to the massive amount of press and inbound links the release has generated. - -With a bit of patience you might be able to get the site to load, or bookmark it for later because Spock already has the gushers gushing. - -Like Wink and other people-oriented search sites, Spock isn't so much interested in documents about people, as you would get when searching Google, but the actual people themselves. Spock's spiders attempt to crawl the net and then its algorithms aggregate all the data about you into one spot. - -The result, in those cases where Spock makes a correct match, are simultaneously impressive -- a complete portrait of your total web presence -- and thoroughly creepy. When Spock was first announced earlier this year a number of people snickered that *stalk* would be a better name. - -But the truth is, that's killing messenger. All the data Spock crawls is already out there, but you may be in for a shock the first time you see it all in one place. - -Pulling data from social networks -- MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and others -- Spock then condenses and extracts what it considers the most important information about you -- namely your occupation and age, though depending on what you've listed on your various accounts, it may have even more details. - -From the search results profiles you can then click through to vote for whether or not the information is correct, click through the relevant page or add tags to people. Just about anyone can edit information on just about any entry. - -If you sign up for Spock, you can claim and manage your own entry or create one if Spock doesn't yet know about you. - -Aside from the slow servers, Spock looks as though it might be genuinely useful -- if nothing else it might serve as a wake call for those who don't realize how little privacy they have left themselves. - -[1]: http://www.spock.com/ diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/streetviews.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/streetviews.jpg Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 5af282e..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/streetviews.jpg +++ /dev/null diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/zillafuzzy.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/zillafuzzy.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 51f2603..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/zillafuzzy.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -Mozilla recently announced at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas that it would [release a series of security tools][3], known as fuzzers, which have previously only been used internally, to the internet at large. - -The move is designed to give outside hackers easier ways to test for security flaws in Firefox and other web browsers. Fuzzers are tools that poke, prod and sometimes outright attack a piece of software to test its robustness and identify potential vulnerabilities. - -Mozilla has thus far released a [Javascript fuzzer][2] and already Claudio Santambrogio of Opera Software [reports][3] that, using the new tool, Opera was able to find four bugs "one of which might have some security implications." - -For those concerned that these tools might be used in the wrong way by some, Mozilla says that it has worked with Microsoft, Apple, and Opera to make sure they were okay with the release. "All of these browser vendors reviewed the tool and let us know that they were okay with the release," says the Mozilla blog. - -The truth is, the really nefarious crackers have their own fuzzers anyway and, as the Opera announcement testifies, these tools are far more likely to help end-users in the form of patches than cause problems. - -[1]: http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2007/08/02/javascript-fuzzer-available/ -[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=jsfunfuzz -[3]: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2007/08/03/fun-with-the-fuzzer |
