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Fire Hydrant broke and created spectacular fountain in Costa Mesa, California. (UPDATED)

UPDATED:

Water main Fire hydrant broke during the rain and created a 40-foot fountain on a strip mall parking lot at the intersection of Baker Street and Bear Street in Costa Mesa, California today. Numbers of bystanders captured the video on their iPhones. The video footage should hit the Internet by now.

A few cars are parked directly under this impromptu fountain. One care was reportedly suffered major water damage.

Water Fountain Baker Bear Costa Mesa California 20140228 1750

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Google’s Matt Cutts is hunting for Scraper Sites

Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted:

If you see a scraper URL outranking the original source of content in Google, please tell us about it: http://bit.ly/scraperspamreports

IT is truly frustrating to see your original contents stolen by these scraper sites. That’s an outright theft. It is relatively to find these scrapers, there are a lot of scraper blogs on WordPress.com.

Dan Barker replied and hilarity ensues:

.@mattcutts I think I have spotted one, Matt. Note the similarities in the content text: pic.twitter.com/uHux3rK57f

Dan Barker Replies to Matt Cutts

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Google Hangouts 2.0 for iOS

Google releases Hangouts 2.0 for iOS.

What’s New in Version 2.0.0

  • Fully-optimized for the iPad, including picture-in-picture video calling
  • Animated stickers that help you share exactly how you’re feeling
  • Record and send video messages up to 10 seconds long
  • Send a map of your current location
  • Optimized for iOS 7

Google Hangouts 2.0

Google Hangouts paired with Google Voice on iOS devices make one great VoIP phone.

As of this writing, Google Hangouts on Android still doesn’t allow users to make phone calls.

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Apple releases fix for SSL Vulnerability in OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion and Lion

In the morning of Tuesday, February 25, 2014 Apple releases fix for SSL Vulnerability in OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion and Lion.

The fix for SSL Vulnerability is included in OS X Mavericks 10.9.2.

Safari on OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 passed the goto fail test.

OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 Safari goto fail test

OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 Update

This update:

  • Adds the ability to make and receive FaceTime audio calls
  • Adds call waiting support for FaceTime audio and video calls
  • Adds the ability to block incoming iMessages from individual senders
  • Improves the accuracy of unread counts in Mail
  • Resolves an issue that prevented Mail from receiving new messages from certain providers
  • Improves AutoFill compatibility in Safari
  • Fixes an issue that may cause audio distortion on certain Macs
  • Improves reliability when connecting to a file server using SMB2
  • Fixes an issue that may cause VPN connections to disconnect
  • Improves VoiceOver navigation in Mail and Finder

For detailed information about this update, please visit: About the OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 Update

Security Update 2014-001 (Mountain Lion)

Security Update 2014-001 (Lion)

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The SSL Vulnerability is currently present in iOS 7.1 beta 5 build 11D5145e. According to an Apple engineer, a new build of iOS 7.1 beta is coming “really soon”.