Today I’ve noticed the magnifying glass in the Google search results which displays an instant website preview if you click on it. That’s a cool feature and makes webservices like websnapr (legally) superfluous if there’s an open API 
The same questions every 6 months. Do we win or do we lose one hour? What should the current timezone be on my mobile phones, UTC+1, UTC+2, GMT+1 or GMT+2? Is UTC the same as GMT or do they differ in the summer?
I always have to fight with my phone settings. In the winter it’s easy because the winter time is the “correct” time – UTC+1/GMT+1 – but the daylight saving time is more tricky. On the one phone the timezone mustn’t be changed because it’s able to set up the daylight saving time correctly (by a manual trigger) but on another phone I have to change the timezone to UTC+2 because it doesn’t offer a menu for the daylight saving time. To only change the time regardless the timezone cannot be done as synchronising all my calendar and appointments with the pc – ehm, sorry, with the mac – might not work anymore.
For the cold period my setup is done correctly, yippiieh .
CSO reports on 1.5 million stolen Facebook IDs for sale.
A hacker named Kirllos has a rare deal for anyone who wants to spam, steal or scam on Facebook: an unprecedented number of user accounts offered at rock-bottom prices.
Researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense group recently spotted Kirllos selling Facebook user names and passwords in an underground hacker forum, but what really caught their attention was the volume of credentials he had for sale: 1.5 million accounts.
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Once again I have some trouble with my backup drive today. The problem is that at any time the connection to my external hard drive gets interrupted. This is very bad if Time Machine, the backup software, is writing to the disk at the same time and there’s absolutely no rule when this appears. One more bad thing is that the system recognizes the lost connection but it hangs up until the cable is unplugged. It looks like the hard drive is going into a sleep mode but you can still hear the disk rotating. There’s a WD Caviar Green inside and after my research I’m sure that the case is the evildoer. This is a MacPower Pleiades 3.5″ FW400/USB I bought in last August.
These and those have the same problem with their Pleiades case and here’s a video of a guy getting nervous like me:
Cycling for three hours made me hungry.
