Links & Thoughts & Stuff

Es gibt zwar keine Prinzessin zu retten, aber das Abenteuer hat’s trotzdem in sich. Du läufst durch eine bunte, digitale Welt und sollst den universellen Zugang zu deiner Website finden. Es gibt 24 Hindernisse. Bereit?

Super XS: Die Barrierefrei-Checkliste

Just post a short video with your phone numer on the internet and see what happens. This guy recieved more than a million phone calls until now. Idiot or genius? Your decision!

Ever wanted to try out all these evil security threats everybody is talking about? Well, here’s your chance at the Web Application Hacking Sandbox.

This is a support site for listeners of the Mighty Seek Podcast – Hands On Series.
The Hands On Series is designed to give the step by step of Web App hacking as taught in classes that can cost as much as $3000 for a 3 day course. All for the low low price of… FREE.

Give it a go and learn something new every day

via High T3ch

These days you can get everything on the internet, even a new identity. By the way, that’s one thing you can’t get from my employer, the New Identity AG

Back to the topic: The Fake Name Generator does not only generate fake names, but complete identities. You can select your gender, country and name set and generate a name, address and even phone and credit card numbers. Here’s what they say about their service:
There are a ton of uses for this service. Here are a few examples:

• Quality test data can be hard to come by, especially with laws (such as HIPPA) preventing use of real data. We can quickly and affordably generate test data to help you develop your application.
• Many websites, such message boards, are poorly designed, making it difficult for visitors from foreign countries to sign up for accounts. Using fake information, you can easily fill out the sign up forms and log in to the site.
• Use fake information when filling out forms to avoid giving out personal information.
• Generate a false identity to use as your pseudonym on the internet. This allows you to keep your real life and your internet life seperate.
• Get ideas for names to use for characters in a book or story.
• Generated credit cards can be used to test basic client-/server-side validation techniques without accidently processing a real card.
• Generated national identity numbers can be used to test basic client-/server-side validation techniques without risking disclosure of real information.

And here’s some example generated data:

Yvonne F. Lange
Brandenburgische Str. 789
74906 Bad Rappenau

Email Address: Yvonne.F.Lange@mytrashmail.com

Phone: 07066 52 67 47
Mother’s maiden name: Wirth
Birthday: September 23, 1942

MasterCard: 5133 8535 3018 8672
Expires: 8/2009

The simple service is for free, but you can also bulk order for a small fee.

Check it out and see you soon anonymously

Play Quake in this amazing shockwave game..

The last time I wrote about puzzles I featured Sudoku, a japanese alternative of training your brain. Today I found the next generation with Kakuro: It’s about numbers, too. But it is more advanced – give it a try

For all those people who need a description look at Wikipedia.

Today I read about Google Maps to have detailed satelite pictures from european countries from now on. Great

Google Maps

Check out which pages link to you. Thanks to schoeppchen for this great hint!

P.S.: The real reason I post this link is that I no longer have to search my bookmarks for it

A new search engine is coming up called Pixsy. The creators want to establish an equal alternative to the Google empire but with a slightly different approach: The ressource of Pixsy is not the world wide web but RSS feeds and online media sites. Additionally the website of Pixsy makes use of the AJAX technology to give the user a more application like experience.

Pixsy collects content from thousands of providers, resulting in millions of searchable photos and videos for you to search and browse. We started this company because traditional image search engines take a mathematical approach to searching and delivering content to users, with the focus entirely on relevancy. Additionally, the web is becoming more and more visual, with millions of images being created and added to thousands of sites each day. The Pixsy approach is “Freshness + Relevancy” and our goal is to collect, index, and organize this material so you can search for the latest content across multiple providers.

Pixsy: Visual Search

Play this pretty cool adventure where you take control of a stickman and have to lead him through levels – the way Super Mario did it. I like it

Fancy Pants Adventures