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iPhone hacked?

Security researchers claim they have found a hack to get confidential data from the iPhone.

By creating a malicious html page, and then pointing the phone’s Safari web browser at it, the hackers were able to access all sorts of private information from the phone. Not good news for private individuals – but even worse for organizations when you consider that recent research estimates that more than 50 percent of staff regularly copy files from the corporate network to their personal storage devices.

Read the full article here

(from watchyourend.com)

Ajax Plug-ins for Wordpress

Pete Cashmore has posted a list of 30+ Ajax plugins for Wordpress that he considers good.

Here’s a sample:

• AjaxWP – Adds AJAX to all aspects of your WordPress site speeding up the load times.
• Alexa Rank – Display your Alexa rank with pride.
• Ajax Comment Preview – Allows readers to preview their comment before submitting.
• asTunes – Retrieves data from your Audioscrobbler/last.fm profile and posts it as a list on your blog.
• Codebox – Side scrolling box for displaying code snippets.
• Crossroads – Adds thumbnails and comments from your Flickr account.
• FireStats – Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.
• Google PageRank – Allows you to display your Google Page rank on your blog.
• Hardened-Trackback – Generates a single use trackback to help fight trackback spam.
• imgViewJX – Refreshes an image on your main page from a selected directory.
• Live Spell Checker – Adds a spell checker to the admin area to check your posts with.
• Plug ‘n’ Play Google Map – Adds any post you make with longitude and latitude to a Google Map on a separate page. Very useful for blogs writing restaurant reviews or about events.
• Wordpress Mailing List – Have a mailing list? Let readers subscribe and unsubscribe simply from the front page of your site.
• WP e-Commerce – Adds a shopping cart to your WordPress powered site.
• WP-Polls – Adds fully customizable polls for your readers to take.
• WP-Post Ratings – Allows readers to rate your posts.
• Zorpia That’s Hot Box – Allows visitors to send posts they like Zorpia.com and vote on their favorite articles.

Uniform Event Model: Making IE think W3C

Tavs Dokkedahl has written a small script that makes IE conform to the W3C DOM3 Event recommendation (at least the part that FF supports).

The Uniform Event Model adds support for the capture, atTarget and bubbling phases and provide most of the EventListener interface including among others the addEventListener, removeEventListener, createEvent, initEvent and dispactEvent methods. All handlers are passed an event object with almost complete information according to standards. See the list of features for detailed information on event flow, methods and properties.

(from ajaxian)

Wicked Pissah Games

Check out Bit-101’s new project Wiked Pissah Games. There’s only one game so far, but I expect good things to come.