It appears that the person who took control of the Google Blog last night merely registered the blog...and how did they do that? Simple, Google deleted their blog by accident. This then opened the door for anyone to register that address. So I guess it wasn't as big of a deal as everyone thought it was, but it was funny anyways.
The image above was the result of the Google Blog being hacked just a short time ago. A friend of the hacker made a post on Digg which quickly made it to a Front Page article. I guess the hacker broke into the blog by guessing the password (they say the password was related to Microsoft). The Google Blog is currently replaced with a cached version of the blog, which is why there are no images.
Not that I am a big fan of the Yahoo! Toolbar, but I do know there are a lot of people out there that use it. Anyways, they have updated it and it does look like it has a nice feature set now. Similar to the MSN Toolbar it now has tabs for Internet Explorer 5 & 6.
Like most people you just want Adobe Acrobat without all the bloat. Well, just follow the link below to download the Enterprise Edition of Adobe Reader. This installation is as simple as it gets: no download manager, no Yahoo! toolbar, and a simple licensing agreement. Normally you have to put in your email address to get the link to this download.
Now, this is by no means a REAL fix for the Firefox memory leak, but it certainly does appear to help it quite a bit. This little fix will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, and as a result it will take up less than 10MB of memory while minimized. So far, from my experiences with using this today, when you maximize Firefox it will obviously increase the memory usage.
I'll keep this short and sweet. Shutterfly is giving away a 128MB memory card for taking a quick survey. This is the IMPORTANT part though, make sure when you are taking the survey that you select Windows XP for your operating system and Internet Explorer for your web browser. If you do not do this then they will say that the memory card will not work for you! Other details don't seem to matter.
An individual over at Download Squad has found a way to get the new Google interface that is pictured above. This interface was released months ago to random users (or what appears to be random) but not everyone could try it out. This is a cookie 'hack' that will trick Google into thinking you were meant to test it out.
Microsoft has released an Interim Build for Windows Vista today. The information on the ISO:
Microsoft denies the claims that Smarthouse made last Friday stating that Microsoft was planning to rewrite 60% of the Windows Vista code and that they had to pull Xbox programmers to help finish the product on time.
Since Microsoft isn't going to be able to pull off their holiday season release date of Windows Vista then hopefully Adobe will be able to cover them by releasing the next edition of Creative Suite.
