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Re:AWS Marketplace on Thursday April 19, 2012 @05:39AM (#3862134)

Does anyone have a clue why Amazon never pays any attention to graphic design if its pages/products?

Re:Secuity flaw in Google Chrome? on Saturday February 25, 2012 @05:10PM (#3633982)

I guess it's ok. But they should make it more obvious when you first log into chrome.

Re:Secuity flaw in Google Chrome? on Saturday February 25, 2012 @05:02PM (#3633963)

I think the security flaw here is that google is keeping your password unhashed somewhere on their servers.

Secuity flaw in Google Chrome?

Posted by skid on Saturday February 25, 2012 @04:53PM
from the self-post dept.

I was at a friend's party a week ago and he was playing music on youtube. I mistakenly logged into his Google Chrome (this is a recent feature) with my google account and logged out immediately when I realized my mistake.Some days later I logged in and connected my own Google Chrome with my google account. I got all the friend's bookmarks, which is ok. A day later, I opened the browser and...

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Re:Create - A new kind of web editing interface on Monday December 12, 2011 @08:25PM (#3345900)

I was working on something similar to this (sorry, no showcase). There's a jQuery extension included for working with contentEditable text selections and formatting text with tags. I think it does a better job with overlapping tags and it merges anchor tags with same hrefs correctly. It does not work on IE < 9 (I think IE9 supports the gecko contentEditable api). You might find the code useful .

Link to jQuery extensions: https://github.com/skid/wimp/blob/master/js/jq-extensions.js

Re:Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @10:34AM (#2513932)

Isn't the point of this approach to be _difficult_ to switch back and forth? Next thing you know there will be a chrome extension that swaps your hosts file and you will be separated from procrastination by a single click.

Re:Your Username Will Now Serve as Your Password and Your Password as ... on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @08:47PM (#2330177)

It's silly how this is actually becoming the truth. People use the same password and different usernames for different sites. In the end, remembering your username becomes the problem :)