Archive for January, 2008

YMail

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I am, as of today, an official developer on the YMail.app project. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks you’ll see the app moving forward, with at the very least, a version that works with the latest version of Yahoo! Mail. To make things more interesting, this is not an official Yahoo! product YMail.app on [...]

iPhone tariff upgrade

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Received some rather good news from O2 today:  the £35 per month tariff that I’m currently on is being upgraded in February: Free minutes:  from 200 to 600 Free texts: from 200 to 500 Pleasing! O2 tariffs for iPhone

Phishing prevention

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I recently found out that Yahoo! have launched an anti-phishing mechanism called The Personalized Sign-In Seal. This simple system protects your login details from fraudsters by applying an image of your choice to login pages. After applying an image, you essentially have a login page unique to you that cannot be spoofed. A very simple [...]

Removing distractions

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One of the things that I find difficult about using my Mac for study is the amount of distractions. Simply by being connected to the internet means there is a whole world of procrastination waiting for me. When I need to focus on writing an essay, there is a very simple little tool that helps [...]

Things I Hate About Microsoft Word, Part I

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If you click on a URL pointing to a PDF document in a Word document, a progress bar appears at the bottom of the application. It says “Word is preparing to load this document:”. The bar then takes a few seconds to fill up, during which you are thinking “okay, so Word is going to [...]

Investigating Lua

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I’m getting involved in an open source Mac project, YMail, and as part of my research I’ve been checking out Lua.  From the Lua homepage, “Lua is a powerful, fast, light-weight, embeddable scripting language.” The project is a Mac interface to Yahoo! Mail, and we need a nice way to deal with the mainly text-based [...]

Hack Social

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So, today at Yahoo! we had the Hack Social, a chance for engineers to meet with product managers in order to brainstorm ideas for mini-projects. In particular, the project, or hack, must be put together in a 24 hour period that runs 7th-8th February: Hack Day. It’s the fifth time such an event has run [...]

My blog

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Well, here we go.  Another day, another blog. Â