Update: Gmail chat has been updated with a tabbed smiley interface and new emoticons. In addition to the standard Gmail Chat emoticons listed in a previous article here, some hidden smilies have turned up. Whatchamuhcallit They’ve added a cool equal, slantmouthy face =/. Yeeesh, That Had To Hurt If you wince, you need this one. [...]

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If you use WordPress be careful. An example Google Code Search search going around is “username file:wp-config.php” which happily displays username and passwords in WordPress config files… if they’re in compressed archives or a publicly accessible directory. Same goes for other configuration or settings files. For instance, connection strings in web.config files (connection string file:web.config), [...]

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Google Labs has released a Code Search tool (google.com/codesearch). You can limit the results to languages (lang:), particular licenses (license:), files (file:), and packages (package:). Regular expressions are supported as well. Language support appears to be limited to the following: Ada, ASP, Assembly, Basic, C, C++, C#, Eiffel, Erlang, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Lex, Limbo, [...]

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