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tripwolf – new version
The online travel platform “tripwolf” left the beta phase and started with a new layout yesterday. The new design is easier to understand and much better structured than the old one. The free iphone application was released about two months ago and allows users to access information of 50.000 tourism places worldwide on their mobile phone.
Tripwolf is an Austrian start up company. It provides information for more than 400.000 sights, hotels, city plans and pictures. It is possible to get in contact with more than 40.000 user, share travelling reports, photos and personal experiences about your trips.
embed PDF
I am tired of starting the acrobat reader every time when I want to check out an PDF file. I tried to embed them directly into my page and came to this very simple solution:
Include this short source code into the <body> of the html code of your page.
<embed src=”sample.pdf” width=”xxx” height=”xxx“>
adobe acrobat reader has to be installed on the pc you are opening the homepage with. The rest is just working out fine!
if there is not the correct link to the PDF file or the acrobat reader is missing, the space just stays free.
here an example:
adobe starts office-suite acrobat.com
Adobe started its online Office-suite and ended the beta test phase. From now on the service is liable to costs. There is still a free version but here are some functions which are blocked. The suite includes the online text tool Buzzword, the meeting room ConnectNow with screensharing, CreatePDF to create PDF-Files, Share for simple exchange of files and the online harddisk My Files. The applications Tables and Presentations will start soon.
Acrobat.com is based on Flash and works online in a browser. With Adobe Air, it is possible to use it offline as a desktop application.
facebook starts “name-url”
Facebook user who want to see a name instead of the number in the url when visiting their profile can choose a personal nickname from Saturday on. The registration starts at 13th of June 2009 at 12:01pm EDT (6:01 am MESZ). The names will be given by the “first come, first serve” principal.
The registration is possible under http://www.facebook.com/username/
Till the start a countdown is shown on the page. So get up soon to get your favourite username!
more information: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=90316352130
phishing attack on facebook.com
In the last days I got a lot of massages with the same subject “look” containing an url from my friends. Referring to golem.de hackers try to phish facebook user’s login data. Never klick on the url! You are getting to a copy of the facebook site, which seems to be the same and there is a 1×1 pixel bad iframe! The ISC (Internet Storm Center) warns not to visit the site!
So allways be sure, that you are on the real facebook.com site and change your password in short intervals!
add icon in url
during setting up this page i was confronted with the problem embing a logo into the url. here is a short explanation:
