Technology

Google has unleashed Google Caffeine, a snappy new name for a snappy new product that apparently speeds up it’s already infamously fast Google Search. A testbox has been set up at http://www2.sandbox.google.com/

A quick test of the search term “Adam Lee” results in half the search speed, but less than half of the results. Apparently, part of the code includes sacrificing results for speed. This is not something I am worried about though as I am not going to look at number 40,000,000 in the list and 10,000,000 suits me just fine (the numbers represent the amound of entries corresponding to my previously mentioned search term).

I believe the hype and new release are perfectly timed to stem the rise of the Microsoft-Yahoo underdog team. Microsoft obviously has a keen interest in making Bing better, and it has made some improvements that have shown results, including a rise in market share since Bing’s birth. Google is basically saying, “this is my territory, get out!”

Ok so I made this program in my spare time in VB that will jiggle your mouse pointer violently… I am also uploading the source code if you want to use it.

jiggle

source code

Public Class Form1
Private Declare Sub mouse_event Lib “user32.dll” ( _
ByVal dwFlags As Int32, _
ByVal dx As Int32, _
ByVal dy As Int32, _
ByVal cButtons As Int32, _
ByVal dwExtraInfo As Int32 _
)

Private Declare Function SetCursorPos Lib “user32.dll” ( _
ByVal X As Int32, _
ByVal Y As Int32 _
) As Boolean

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
While (True)
mouse_event(1, Rnd() * 10 – 5, Rnd() * 10 – 5, 1, 1)
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10)
End While
End Sub
End Class

Javascript is an amazing nifty little tool. Let me show you some examples, if you want to quickly look at someone’s website’s cookies, all you have to do is type the following into the URL bar: “javascript:alert(document.cookie)};. A link is given as an example. There are, of course, more naughty things it can be used for such as form injection and such. My personal favorite is the infinate loop.

The infinate loop can be manually created by typing the following into the URL bar:

javascript:while(1){alert(“hello”);}