Hotmail Hacked

Microsoft Hotmail and MSN Live accounts was fully exposed on this 1st October by an Annonymus user on PasteBin.com forums. This report was detailed and first given by NeoWin.net blog.

Password and security questions change is not only suggested as recommeded solution.

More @ Sky News

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Technology/Hotmail-Password-Hacking-Microsoft-Investigating-Claims-Details-Of-Thousands-Of-Accounts-Put-Online/Article/200910115400022

Quick fix for sites breaking in IE8

Internet Explorer 8 has support for a emulators that will run a previous version of IE, if the site specifies so.

Usually older sites will break on IE8, but there is a very simple solution that involves very little coding, even knowing that is not the best solution.

Add on your site homepage the following:

<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=EmulateIE7? />

This will force the IE8 to emulate it’s atencessor, IE7 making the website works fully again.

This solution is the solution presented and used by WordPress.org developers at the moment.

Have fun.

Using Microsoft Techonologies with PHP

I have just watched the PHPArch webcast: Connecting PHP to Microsoft Technologies. I’m still not as much fond of interconnecting Microsoft Technologies with PHP since Microsoft Technologies still not cheap, heavy and restricted (not open source), therefore more and more often you seen a growing need for it. Using PHP with a SQL server is becoming every day more and more common.

From the webcast some technlogies where presetented, but from all of them the ones that you might, at this moment, have some good use for are:

• Live Maps
• Windows Live Messenger
• and maybe the webslices

Anyway, all projects and technologies discussed today are available at http://php.miniprojects.org. Check them out and if you have an need for using Microsoft Technologies, then, they should help.

Have fun…

I’m a PC

I admit that this has nothing to do with PHP or web development (at least not directly), but have you seen the “I’m a PC” adverstisement created by Microsoft in response of the MAC campaign? At first, when you see it on the TV it’s not so catching, maybe a bit interesting, but when you hit the ad campaign of their website – http://imapc.lifewithoutwalls.com/ – things change in a way that make viral campaigns envy this one.

When I first registered this site I only tought about trying to find myself on the pictures of the site, but, after a while a got an email saying that my picture was in Times Square, New York.

Wow. Stop right there. That’s insane cool. I have never imaged that a simple TV with web application campaign could be so viral (when I mean viral I’m saying that in word of mouth this have reached a number of people over 50 in a single hour, now imagine this same word of mouth going on from the first 50 people that received this…).

For now, if you want to admit that you are a PC just go to their website and register. You might have the same surprise that I did and have your face on a big billboard over Times Square or in some banner ads in other cool sites such the MTV ones.

This is cool. I’m a PC and I was in Times Square billboard in a Microsoft Ad.