I haven’t given it a try yet, but the new SQL penetration-testing tool sqlmap looks both awesome and scary. Check out the video for a demo of it being combined with Metasploit to exploit and run a payload on an insecure … Continue reading →

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the long-weekend if you get one. The weather has been fairly shoddy here but @antoniamoreno and I still managed to take a quick visit to Willen Lake, where the first Peace Pagoda built … Continue reading →

I’ve swapped back to DuckDuckGo this week after hearing news that its traffic is sky-rocketing. I used to like it but gradually drifted back to Google; it’ll be interesting to see how I get on now with the new UI … Continue reading →

I was really surprised by the news that you can now share Hipstamatic photos via Instagram. The two products aren’t identical, but it suggests Instagram is thinking about being more of a generic photo-sharing service. However Instagram is massively lacking … Continue reading →

Tweetbot is the first (I think?) iOS client to implement the Twitter Streaming API, ahead of Twitter themselves. Only available for iPad on Wifi, it allows you to see new tweets posted in realtime. Sparrow have released their new iPhone client. … Continue reading →

Quiet week again this week, I’ve hardly shared anything on Buffer/Pinboard/Twitter. The weird thing is I always feel like I am sharing lots of links and posts, not sure why… Of course, the big news this week was Apple announcing … Continue reading →

This week (at work) I helped successfully launch ‘The Times Crossword BETA‘ to the Mozilla Marketplace as part of Mobile World Congress. Let me know what you think! Raspberry Pi launched this week in partnership with two suppliers – RS … Continue reading →

Either this week has gone by really fast, or I just haven’t been sharing much, as my Pinboard/Buffer/Twitter timeline are remarkably empty! I guess I’ve been pretty busy at work finishing off our latest project which you should be able … Continue reading →

The big surprise news this week was Apple announcing OS X Mountain Lion being launched this summer. Nothing massively ground-breaking but I’m excited about getting an integrated Notification Centre (bye Growl?). Trying to remember all these common grammar mistakes is … Continue reading →

Advanced Data Structures, a Computer Science module at MIT, looks like a great course with a great lecturer. All lectures will be available online with video and synchronised lecture notes, so it’s worth a look! I cannot get enough of … Continue reading →