It may be years before the new internet protocol IPv6 takes over from the current IPv4, but a security researcher is warning that many systems -- corporate and personal -- are already open to attack through channels that have been enabled on their machines to support IPv6 traffic.

What it does

LinkedHot is an application that allows webmasters and others to check the link popularity of any given site by checking the number of inbound links that the site has from popular search engines. Simply enter the URL of the site you are interested in, click “submit”, and the LinkedHot engine quickly calculates the number of incoming links that the site has from Google, Yahoo, del.icio.us, Digg, Stumpleupon, Reddit, Technorati, and others. Since many search engines use link popularity as a factor for determining page rank, this is a quick and easy way for webmasters to check how their site, or the competition’s site, is doing.

In their own words

“LinkedHot is a free Webmaster tool for checking a web site link popularity among well known social sites. Unlike most common link popularity web sites, LinkedHot uses the links from some of the most well-known web 2.0 social sites.”

Why it might be a killer

This is one more practical tool that webmasters will be happy to add to their box. The engine can be used for tracking how you are doing and also to give you hints on what you could be doing better.

Some questions

Perhaps the only complaint is that during testing, the engine was a tad bit on the slow side, taking almost a full minute to generate results. Will they be adding other sites into their search?

Updates

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What it does

LinkedHot is an application that allows webmasters and others to check the link popularity of any given site by checking the number of inbound links that the site has from popular search engines. Simply enter the URL of the site you are interested in, click “submit”, and the LinkedHot engine quickly calculates the number of incoming links that the site has from Google, Yahoo, del.icio.us, Digg, Stumpleupon, Reddit, Technorati, and others. Since many search engines use link popularity as a factor for determining page rank, this is a quick and easy way for webmasters to check how their site, or the competition’s site, is doing.

In their own words

“LinkedHot is a free Webmaster tool for checking a web site link popularity among well known social sites. Unlike most common link popularity web sites, LinkedHot uses the links from some of the most well-known web 2.0 social sites.”

Why it might be a killer

This is one more practical tool that webmasters will be happy to add to their box. The engine can be used for tracking how you are doing and also to give you hints on what you could be doing better.

Some questions

Perhaps the only complaint is that during testing, the engine was a tad bit on the slow side, taking almost a full minute to generate results. Will they be adding other sites into their search?

Updates


 » original news

A blind five-year-old pianist from South Korea has stunned the music world. Yoo Ye-eun, who was born blind and adopted in 2002, has never had a formal piano lesson but can play any song after just one listen.

I just wanted to document this somewhere but whenever I work on a CakePHP project, there's always the debug info that sits at the bottom of the page. It's big and bulky and once I'm off the default CakePHP styles, it's usually pretty ugly.

I've done various stylings but I finally took a moment to implement a really simple idea: Fixed position the table and then use hover styles to toggle the visibility. It's still not a perfect solution but darn close and certainly good enough for my needs right now.

.cake-sql-log {
	position:fixed;
	top:99%;
	z-index:10;
	width:100%;
	background-color:#000;
	color:#FFF;
	border-collapse:collapse;
}

.cake-sql-log caption {
	background-color:#900;
	color:#FFF;	
}

.cake-sql-log:hover {
	top:auto;
	bottom:0;
}

.cake-sql-log td {
	padding:3px;
	border:1px solid #999;
	background-color:#EEE;
	color:#000;
}

You'll see a red sliver at the bottom of your page and as you move your mouse over it, voila, there's your debug info. It'd be nice to actually have a Firebug plugin that could have CakePHP debug info pushed to it automatically. (Maybe one day I'll work on that!)

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

So we heard some really over-eager folks have decided to get a jump on the iPhone 3G line -- a really, really big jump. Obviously, we had to head down and see if it was true... and it is. Right now, about ten people have started a line outside of Apple's flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York. Word is that the family at the head of the queue are attempting to break some kind of record which involves their baby -- which kind of sounds a little intense if you ask us. On the other hand, you didn't hear Greg Packer complaining, right? We're going to wrangle some of these cats for an interview and video, so stay tuned! For right now, check some more pics after the break.

Update: So it appears that this group is all together, and we're about to talk to their "spokesman." We're not ruling out the possibility of this being some kind of stunt, but we should know more very soon.

[Via GearDiary]

Continue reading iPhone 3G lines start at the Apple Cube... one week early

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Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services.

IOzone lets you benchmark your filesystem performance, seeing how well record IO occurs for files of various sizes. With IOzone you can see more detailed information than the read, write, and rewrite figures that Bonnie++ reports. IOzone is great at detecting areas where file IO might not be performing as well as expected.

PDF gets ISO certification as a new standard.

Posted by Ron Adler and Janis Stipins, Software Engineers

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we've improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology.

In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was also presented in another way that search engines could find.

Now that we've launched our Flash indexing algorithm, web designers can expect improved visibility of their published Flash content, and you can expect to see better search results and snippets. There's more info on the Webmaster Central blog about the Searchable SWF integration.