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Hotmail will start fighting spam — starting with legitimate mail

Microsoft pushes spam-filtering technology
If your e-mail does not have a Sender ID, Microsoft wants to junk your message.
This is nice. Starting this November, Microsoft will start marking legitimate mail as spam if the sender refuses to adopt their Sender ID technology. I don’t know whether my mails are tagged with the right information and frankly […]

Feed me Spread Firefox points ;)

Please click this button so that I earn Spread Firefox points. I know this is a shameless plug and I don’t quite know what to do with those points yet (just signed up… ), but hey, I guess it won’t hurt ;) . And I read they’re perhaps looking for developers for a new site, […]

Seagate to the rescue in an Orwellesque world…

This morning I read the newspaper. I read about the dutch police that slowly compromises our privacy. Sure, crime is a problem, but among the things I read were about face recognition (i.e. having yourself photographed in your car everytime you pass certain checkpoints), license plate recognition… keeping track of someone’s internet activities, mobile phone […]

I hear you, Richard!

There are times that I’m ashamed to be a European. Especially today. European politics are a fraud, pretending to represent the people. Pretending. Those with real power aren’t the voters. Real power comes with money. The mantra of the free market is still omnipresent in European politics and the only ones really benefitting are large […]

Safari’s <input type=”search”>: it could be done so much better…

As seen on Bartelme’s Design weblog there is a new search feature in Apple’s Safari as of late. It utilizes a new element <input type=”search”>, which is a standard <input type=”text”> disguised as a neat Safari search field. Validation be damned, it degrades to a normal input field on non-Safari browsers, so everyone is happy, […]