I am not too convinced about how long I am gonna carry on doing this but I am finding PhishTank mildly addictive! PhishTank is the new website that is trying to fight back as a community against unscrupulous sites that are involved in phishing.
PhishTank is a collaborative clearing house for data and information about phishing on the Internet. Also, PhishTank provides an open API for developers and researchers to integrate anti-phishing data into their applications at no charge.
What will be very interesting to see will be how the community grows and how their API is utilized. A wordpress plugin anyone?
Saved Search is a feature introduced back in version 0.9 of Thunderbird and offers further customisation and can increase productivity. Much the same as Smart Folders in Outlook, Saved Search allows you to really customise your Thunderbird experience by saving searches that you regularly do. Drilling down to the finest details and save these for future use, the real advantage of this system is they work in the same way as individual folders that you set up, yet keep the mail in the Inbox or original folder.
Russell Beattie, the eminent mobile / tech blogger, has sadly hung up his blogging gloves over the weekend. Well informed and articulate, Russell has decided to call it a day and has written his last post on his notebook. He says he hasn’t necessarily gone for good and I certainly hope this to be the case.
Russell was probably the first blog that i started reading and for the last two years have enjoyed ‘hearing’ his thoughts and opinions on the cutting edge of mobile design, ui and technologies (and Yahoo!). While I am sad to see him go I really do want to say thanks for all the effort he put in making it among the first headlines I’d Rojo and even making it to my netvibes homepage (gasp!).
My All Peers beta invite arrived today, the FireFox extension, utilising BitTorrent, which allows me to share files with friends from directly within my browser. The downside is I now have to wait for my activation keys to arrive….. Watch this space!
One of my only gripes with the indispensable tabbed browsing in Firefox is the lack of a save feature. I get quite into my browsing sessions, having up to 8 or 10 tabs open at one time and being forced to close because Firefox crashed or for any other reason can be a real inconvenience. While this saving your browsing session has been available in Opera for some time, it still looks as though it will be a while for an official release to incorporate this feature.
