How to Buy a 65″ Plasma for $.99
Think your website is secure? Think again. Many hosting companies still provide their clients with older, insecure shopping carts. Hacking these carts is trivial, even though Visa and Verisign call them “secure.” Check your site before the Christmas rush begins.
Open letter to Steve Ballmer from a Linux user
An article that sums up how most Linux users feel after the Novell saga. Funny and well worth a read!
Spreading the AJAX love
You may have heard that the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) makes AJAX development easier, but now we’ve made it even easier to dive into AJAX. GWT 1.2 supports development on Mac OS X. While GWT has always supported targeting a wide variety of web browsers and production systems, with today’s announcement, GWT fanatics are now free to develop on the operating system of their choice.
So if you or a friend have an ambitious web application in mind — especially if you’re already familiar with Java development — feel the AJAX love: check out GWT.
Google Calendar adds searchable public events
from Lifehacker
Google Calendar has just added a splendiferous new feature: the ability to search public events.
Now you can use Google Calendar to find all sorts of nifty events going on in your local area, and add what looks like a good time to your own calendar. And it works both ways: if you have an interesting public event (even if it’s just that wild tea party you’re throwing for your cats), you can add it to Google Calendar shared events. — Wendy Boswell

