Mac OS X Tip of the Week: Super-fast Way to Email a URL
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When you come upon a cool website and you want to email the URL to a friend, there&#146;s no faster way to do it than to follow the method spelled out in this week&#146;s tip. You&#146;ll love this tip.
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New subscription service links Web mail with the desktop e-mail client.
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New tools let users create customized folders and share their favorite links via e-mail or RSS.
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Does your email program accept hidden JavaScript commands?
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Jim Plush has posted an offifical release announcement about his latest contribution to the PHP community - a debugging tool combining PHP (through the myBIC framework) and the Firefox FireBug extension.   I put together a couple pieces of technology to give the PHP community a debugger/profiler that should make life easier in the "web2.0" world. Are you tired of echo'ing print statements in your ajax calls? Writing to log files? Firing up big ol debuggers just to see what the value of some array is? Well look no further than the new MyBic PHP Debugger.   The tool is a smaller part of his larger MyBIC framework and can do things like writing log files, echo information back out to the screen, and communicate information back out to the Firefox user. There is a standalone version of FireBug that will be posted for those that don't want to have to install an entire framework to use it.   Keep an eye out (here and on his blog) for the links to the release when it's posted. In the meantime, you can check out a screencast [mov] of the package in action or just the screenshots in the blog entry.
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IF, LIKE ME you get sick and tired and hassled whenever Microsoft Outlook throws a wobbly you might be inclined to try out Mozilla&#39;s Thunderbird as an email client.
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Mike Wallner has thrown together some stats for the latest edition of the pecl/http package to test its response performance.   The results surprised me, because it clearly shows that the performance drop for starting the PHP engine and doing the neccessary negotiation to provide caching is not that bad.   There's a chart of the results as well as a full PDF with all of the stats the graph maps out. He includes the legend to make the graph easier to understand.
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On his site, blogZero, Douglas Clifton shares his method for authenticating a Googlebot in both Perl and PHP. Basicslly, making sure that the bot hitting your server with the user agent containing Google is, in actuality, really from the search engine.    Following a tip from Russ I was pleased to find an interesting post on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog titled How to verify Googlebot. In a nutshell, it explains how to use the Unix shell program host to authenticate that an IP address copied from your Web server log file really is a Googlebot and not some email harvester (or whatever).  I decided to take this a step further and demonstrate how you can automate this procedure using a scripting language.     He looks at methods using both programming languages and decides on showing off the PHP version first. It uses a simple method, made even easier by two of PHP's internal functions, gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr. The Perl version relies less of the "higher level" that PHP's functions use and opts for making an actual Socket object to handle the incoming request.
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The free Thunderbird e-mail client from Mozilla, which complements the group's Firefox browser, combines advanced e-mail sorting functions, first-rate spam filters and lightning-fast performance.
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I have five email in-boxes, three of which are consolidated into Entourage, Microsoft&#39;s (Nasdaq: MSFT) mail client for the Mac.
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Based off of a previous article from Mike Willbanks, Stuart Herbert has posted some of his own thoughts on tuning and tweaking your applications for the best performance you can get out of them.   There's some good advice in there, and I thought it'd be a good idea to quickly add a bit more detail about the separate approaches that Mike raises.   He goes over the APC caching, memcache, the "gzip trick", the "Not Modified" header and optimized SQL statements.   He also mentions one thing that Mike didn't mention - a split between static files (no PHP needed) and their dynamic cousins. Having a more pure Apache (no PHP installed) can help give a minute jump in speed that, depending on the size of the site, could really add up from a user's perspective.
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Mac OS X âLeopard is powerful, polished and carefully conceived. Happy surprises, and very few disappointments, lie around every corner. This Leopard has more than 300 new spots â and most of them are bright ones,â declares David Pogue (New York Times). He points, for example, to two âroutine-changingâ features. Time Machine, which offers âthe shortest setup of any backup system in history.â And Quick Look, which lets you âview the contents of a documentâs icon at full size, right at the desktop, without having to open the program that created it.â Pogue says âitâs fantastic.â
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Richard Thomas comments on a "funny little PHP 'virus'" that he's noticed coming to him via emails:   Got an email that claimed to be from my host, it used a generic return address and talked about security upgrades and such and how due to new policy to help keep a secure data center I was required to upload and run 1 of 2 files in a zip attachment, the first was a php file the other was an asp file.   Of course, it wasn't from the host, so he investigated a little further to find out exactly what was going on with the file. Basically, it was a modified nsTView file with some added emailing and password discovery code. The code was "hidden" though - through a base64_encode call on one side and then decoded it on the other to cause the server to execute the code. He even posts and example of what the base64ed code might look like.
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Recently posted document throws a little light on a key feature of the next edition of Mac OS X.
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Following the launch of its Firefox browser, Mozilla delivers an E-mail client. A calendaring application may be next. By John Foley.
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What kind of E-mail is landing in Martin Taylorâs in-box right about now? Itâs probably not unlike some of the messages Iâve been getting in response to a story I wrote about Steve Ballmerâs Oct. 27
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Mobile e-mail device for business travelers extending its reach.