Hash It! – Stop overloading your brain with passwords
As a happy long-term user of the Password Hasher extension for Mozilla Firefox I got used to being able to use different secure passwords per web site without having to take the burden of remembering...
View ArticleAndroid: Maps API Key Issues
When using Google Maps from within your Android application you need to obtain an API key in order to be able to retrieve Maps data at run-time. This API key is derived from the fingerprint of the...
View ArticleHash It! Updated to Version 1.0.2
It has been a while since I last worked on Hash It!, but thanks to the bug report of an attentive user I just uploaded a new version (1.0.2) of Hash It! to the Android Market. Bottom line: Hash It! now...
View ArticleJava Method Signature Name Mangling
As with any modern programming language that supports method overloading, Java uses name mangling to distinguish methods that share the same name, but only differ in their parameters. Now, actually...
View ArticleHash It! 1.1.0 adds ccSLD support
A couple of days ago I visited the UK and also took my Android smartphone with me. After accessing some loal .co.uk web sites I quickly noticed that Hash It! would not figure out the right site tag for...
View ArticleHash It! 1.2.0 Adds Site Tag History and FroYo Apps2SD Support
Today marks another important milestone for Hash It!, your friendly password memorization brain extension. While you can conveniently use Hash It! from your preferred mobile web browser via its “Share”...
View ArticleBugs, bugs, bugs…
Well, it seems that some ugly bugs made it into version 1.2.0 of Hash It!. Unfortunately, it took five days to notice… Anyway, a new version (1.2.1) is out now, which should hopefully solve these...
View ArticleHash It! 1.3.0: Master Key Caching, Private Key Support and Improved Usability
Many people seem to get a productivity boost during the holiday season – open source projects all over the world are pushing out new releases these days. Hash It! is not an exception, so I am proud to...
View ArticleUpgrading Cassandra 0.6.x to 0.7.0
Just a brief recap of what manual steps are needed to upgrade Cassandra from 0.6.x to 0.7.0 using Debian packages: Convert /etc/cassandra/storage-config.xml to /etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml using the...
View ArticleFixing Double-Click Interval for Java Applications Under Linux
If you are using any Java applications (such as IntelliJ IDEA or RubyMine) under Linux / KDE you may have wondered why their response to double-clicks is somewhat sluggish or unreliable. As it turns...
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