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espo··on Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
A similar service is Pushover. They have an e-mail gateway that allows you to send e-mails to your custom Pushover e-mail address and have it be converted into Pushover notifications. Each user has a @pomail.net address assigned when their account is created, and additional addresses can be created with custom options for each one such as a default sound. Highly recommend it.
espo··on Google SMS search has been shut down
If there really is a market for this, it shouldn't be too hard to recreate with the help of twilio and google APIs. The problem is getting paid, maybe you could charge a monthly fee or the users could agree to receive 1 ad for every X searches?
espo··on Coinbase Merchant Data Leak?
Proper access control on your web site.
espo··on PushingBox - Notifications in the cloud
An example on how to use this service is here: http://makeprojects.com/Project/Notifying-Doorbell/2165/

That project will help you to hack your doorbell to send Push notification to your iOS-device and an email with an attached picture when somebody's at the door.

espo··on Solving FizzBuzz with CSS
You mean like this CSS-implementation of Rule 110? http://eli.fox-epste.in/rule110-full.html
espo··on Mythbusters Banned From Discussing RFID By Visa And Mastercard
The statement (from 2008) has since been redacted by Adam.

'MythBusters' co-host backpedals on RFID kerfuffle: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10031601-52.html

espo··on Show HN: I made a site that rings a bell every time you have a new customer
Im hitting ESC in vim all the time. Is that a bad thing?
espo··on AWS Free Usage Tier now Includes Microsoft Windows on EC2
The free tier is only for new customers. If you've been using AWS for years, you will not get this offer to test a Windows-server in the cloud.
espo··on Who's your SSH buddy?
My SSH buddy is iSSH from the App Store. Always available when I need him.
espo··on The massive security hole in Google two factor authentication
Regarding #2: I´ve created a proof of concept in C# on how you can create this app yourself. Feel free to try it out: https://github.com/esp0/googleAuthNet
espo··on How To Safely Store A Password
If you are doing this, then the hash IS the password. That means if someone steals your database, the could log in as all of your users just by tweaking the client-side JavaScript with grease-monkey or similar.
espo··on Should I Change My Password?
That's because you're supposed to enter an email-address, not a password.
espo··on Screenshots using vector graphics (gtk3 apps only)
You can connect without https, that seems to work: http://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/archives/494-Better-PDF-...
espo··on 100 Oldest .Com Domains
.arpa still exists and is used exclusively for technical infrastructure purposes. While the name originally was the acronym for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), it now stands for Address and Routing Parameter Area.

arpa contains also the domains for reverse domain name resolution in-addr.arpa and ip6.arpa for IPv4 and IPv6, respectively.

For details, see section 3.5 in RFC 1035 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt)

espo··on Sex with someone from the future is hazardous to your health - with experiments
There is also a link to some very kinky ducks in that article. Worth a read: http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/12/22/kinkiness...
espo··on This Guy Has My MacBook
Yes it does. The light on the MBP is wired to light up when the camera has power.