Adam Stiles

If you've wondered what I've been up too...

Since 1998, my major focus has been the NetCaptor browser. It was the first tabbed browser, and just about everyone else has copied the idea (including IE7?). In July last year I started moving in a new direction. My friend Blake Hayward and I founded CollectiveTrust Solutions, Inc. to build a world-class anti-phishing platform and software applications. 

I think we've succeeded. The product has been in beta and pilot with several customers since October and performed beyond our expectations. While other app miss a significant number of attacks, our product catches new sites over 99% of the time without using a block list. The application is remarkably effective - it just works.

More information on the company and the product will be forthcoming, but I wanted to give y'all some warning as I start blogging on phishing and fraud issues.

I've been using Google Desktop Search with the GDPlus hack since December. The original GDS didn't allow me to search text files (read source code) for any file type other than .txt. GDPlus hacked GDS to for it to index arbitrary file extensions as text files, great for indexing Delphi, C++, PHP, Python, or other source code files.

With the new GDS release and SDK/extension mechanism makes it easy for programmers to create plugins to GDS. Larry ported his text-file indexer over to the new plugin format. There is something nice about using the official GDS release instead of a hacked version. Thanks Larry!

Here's my additions to Larry's indexer config file:

Oh yeah - a NetCaptor productivity tip. Searching with GDS is as easy as adding...

... to QuickSearch.

Happy 10th birthday to Yahoo!

There's something special about free ice cream.... The Stiles family took advantage of Yahoo!'s ice cream giveaway at our local Baskin-Robbins yesterday. Of course I had to create Yahoo! IDs for Nancy and the two older kids (Claire's only 1 so she has to share). I'd estimate that 75% of the people who came through while we ate had a Yahoo! coupon.

I wonder how many new Yahoo! accounts were created yesterday so the owners could get free ice cream. Hmmm....