Mac Quick Tips Podcast
19/06/10 12:46 Filed in: News
A good video podcast full
of Mac tips from Apple, even I learnt a thing or two!
Link
Link
Adobe Flash Vulnerability
07/06/10 07:44 Filed in: NewsSoftwareSoftware
& Updates
Adobe has
announced a critical vulnerability exists in
its current version of Flash Player which can lead to
Flash crashing and the attacker taking control. It
also affects Adobe Reader & Acrobat. They report
that the attack is actively being used.
Crash goes Flash, again, or was
that an attack?
The release candidate for the next version appears not to
be vulnerable.
So, either sit with the current version with its security
implication, or upgrade to some Adobe preview software which you can download
here.
Can’t imagine why Apple don’t want Flash on
the iPhone/iPad.
Update:
Adobe has fixed the hole. Download.
Facebook round up
02/06/10 07:10 Filed in: Comment
For those who like to read
the warnings on cigarette packets, a roundup of Facebook
stories:
Macworld US: Facebook bug could give spammers names, photos
Reuters: Facebook and other media costs UK billions
BBC: Details of 100m Facebook users collected and published
BBC: Germany officials launch legal action against Facebook
Macworld UK: Suspicious Facebook app attracts nearly 300,000 fans
BBC: New Facebook Social Features Secretly Add Apps to Profile
Techcrunch: Purported interview with Facebook employee Details use of ‘Master Password’
BBC: Man Killed Wife in Facebook Row
BBC: Facebook Killer Guilty of Murder
BBC: Shock at Sydney Teenager’s ‘Facebook Murder’
Macworld UK: Sophos: Facebook hoax sex video hits users
Macworld UK: Facebook fixing embarrassing privacy bug
Wired: Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s time for an Open Alternative
The Wall Street Journal: Facebook, Myspace Confront Privacy Loophole
Ars Technica: Privacy Groups Complain to FTC over Facebook Privacy Tweaks
Reuters: Face-to-Face time makes us happier than Facebook
BBC: Facebook downplays privacy crisis meeting
New York Times: Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options
All Facebook: Infographic: The History of Facebook’s Default Privacy Settings
Macworld US: Europe chastises Facebook over default privacy settings
BBC: Facebook changes are ‘not enough,’ say groups
Ars Technica: Report: Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers
Ars Technica: Understanding the latest Facebook privacy trainwreck
Benedelman.org: Facebook Leaks Usersnames, User IDs, and personal details to Advertisers
Macworld UK: Facebook admits censoring content in Pakistan
PC World: 4 Reasons to Worry about Privacy on Facebook
Quit Facebook Day: We’re quitting Facebook
Network World: Facebook users warned of sexy ‘Candid Camera Prank’ attack
Macworld US: Lifejacking’ exploit fools Facebook users and Friends
BBC: Facebook “clickjacking” spreads across site
Reuters: German minister sees Facebook fined over privacy
BBC: Boy detained for Facebook insult murder in London
Of course, it’ll never happen to you.
Updated periodically.
Macworld US: Facebook bug could give spammers names, photos
Reuters: Facebook and other media costs UK billions
BBC: Details of 100m Facebook users collected and published
BBC: Germany officials launch legal action against Facebook
Macworld UK: Suspicious Facebook app attracts nearly 300,000 fans
BBC: New Facebook Social Features Secretly Add Apps to Profile
Techcrunch: Purported interview with Facebook employee Details use of ‘Master Password’
BBC: Man Killed Wife in Facebook Row
BBC: Facebook Killer Guilty of Murder
BBC: Shock at Sydney Teenager’s ‘Facebook Murder’
Macworld UK: Sophos: Facebook hoax sex video hits users
Macworld UK: Facebook fixing embarrassing privacy bug
Wired: Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s time for an Open Alternative
The Wall Street Journal: Facebook, Myspace Confront Privacy Loophole
Ars Technica: Privacy Groups Complain to FTC over Facebook Privacy Tweaks
Reuters: Face-to-Face time makes us happier than Facebook
BBC: Facebook downplays privacy crisis meeting
New York Times: Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options
All Facebook: Infographic: The History of Facebook’s Default Privacy Settings
Macworld US: Europe chastises Facebook over default privacy settings
BBC: Facebook changes are ‘not enough,’ say groups
Ars Technica: Report: Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers
Ars Technica: Understanding the latest Facebook privacy trainwreck
Benedelman.org: Facebook Leaks Usersnames, User IDs, and personal details to Advertisers
Macworld UK: Facebook admits censoring content in Pakistan
PC World: 4 Reasons to Worry about Privacy on Facebook
Quit Facebook Day: We’re quitting Facebook
Network World: Facebook users warned of sexy ‘Candid Camera Prank’ attack
Macworld US: Lifejacking’ exploit fools Facebook users and Friends
BBC: Facebook “clickjacking” spreads across site
Reuters: German minister sees Facebook fined over privacy
BBC: Boy detained for Facebook insult murder in London
Of course, it’ll never happen to you.
Updated periodically.
Claim Chowder: “BP’s Brands”
I tend to agree a lot with
articles on Daring Fireball, so was slightly saddened to see
such a reactionary comment about BP. My response isn’t
nationalistic, subscribing to Mark Twain's views on that, more pragmatic. BP
clearly didn’t create the situation on purpose,
or haven’t been trying to rectify it which is in
everyones best interest. Stating you’re going to
avoid BP’s petrol/gas stations seems impractical
considering they also supply products for
road surfaces etc.
Should we also boycott the roads themselves? Do people still boycott Exxon? How about Shell in Nigeria and their plans to drill off Alaska? I’m sure with a bit of research all oil companies have done something you’d not approve of. Of course it wasn’t so long ago BP were being heralded when they discovered oil near the US reducing the countries reliance on imported oil. People tend to forget quickly and if the nearest place to buy petrol is BP, is there much logic driving further and use more petrol?
If you really want to make a difference, how about not driving at all?
Should we also boycott the roads themselves? Do people still boycott Exxon? How about Shell in Nigeria and their plans to drill off Alaska? I’m sure with a bit of research all oil companies have done something you’d not approve of. Of course it wasn’t so long ago BP were being heralded when they discovered oil near the US reducing the countries reliance on imported oil. People tend to forget quickly and if the nearest place to buy petrol is BP, is there much logic driving further and use more petrol?
If you really want to make a difference, how about not driving at all?
Bus driver birthday surprise
In a time when most news is
bad news, this is one of the most heartwarming things
I’ve seen.
Link, via Neatorama.
Link, via Neatorama.
Flash bang wallop
“We also know first
hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs
crash.” said Steve Jobs’ in his
recent post regarding Adobe’s Flash.
I concur:
I concur:
One of
many
Adobe report Apple
05/05/10 09:50 Filed in: Comment
Bloomberg: “U.S. antitrust enforcers
are considering an investigation of Apple Inc.
following a complaint from Adobe Systems Inc.,
according to people familiar with the
matter.”
Cry babies.
via, Daring Fireball
Cry babies.
via, Daring Fireball
Steve Jobs - Thoughts on Flash
29/04/10 17:20 Filed in: News
Eyjafjallajökull
There is a
cloud of ash from the Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull
volcano drifting over the UK and parts of Europe,
creating travel chaos and causing Kenyan farmers to throw away Mangetout meant for
the UK (apparently they don’t eat it).
It’s silly of me to suggest they’d be
better off feeding their own country and keeping
their precious water? Of course, of course, sorry! This
is a global economy, we want to eat out of season
vegetables and they want to sell them and buy iPods.
Silly me!
It does have its upsides: Pollution levels must be down, those living under flight paths have some peace most of us take for granted. Eurostar is doing booming business, which can’t be bad after they had a terrible 2009 and the UK holiday market must surely be up!
It’s sad then to realise it won’t last long. Even if the volcano were to spue out more ash than it is now, you just know eventually the airline industry will find some scientist who’ll disagree with the current science,“It’s all okay, It’s really not that dangerous!”. Then it’ll be back to service as usual with fingers crossed nobody crashes. Hey, if the sky was on fire they’d say, “It’s not that hot!”.
The funny thing is, people who are desperate to go on their holidays wouldn’t care less if it were dangerous because they're all so grumpy now they'd fly through hell if it meant getting to some beach. Because that really is life or death stuff.
Update:
Like 9/11, volcano plane ban may hold climate clue, via Reuters.
Airspace Rebooted, via Vimeo
Planes or Volcano?, via Information is Beautiful
It does have its upsides: Pollution levels must be down, those living under flight paths have some peace most of us take for granted. Eurostar is doing booming business, which can’t be bad after they had a terrible 2009 and the UK holiday market must surely be up!
It’s sad then to realise it won’t last long. Even if the volcano were to spue out more ash than it is now, you just know eventually the airline industry will find some scientist who’ll disagree with the current science,“It’s all okay, It’s really not that dangerous!”. Then it’ll be back to service as usual with fingers crossed nobody crashes. Hey, if the sky was on fire they’d say, “It’s not that hot!”.
The funny thing is, people who are desperate to go on their holidays wouldn’t care less if it were dangerous because they're all so grumpy now they'd fly through hell if it meant getting to some beach. Because that really is life or death stuff.
Update:
Like 9/11, volcano plane ban may hold climate clue, via Reuters.
Airspace Rebooted, via Vimeo
Planes or Volcano?, via Information is Beautiful
iPhone 4.0
Apple iPhone OS 4
Event
“Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs give a sneak peek into the future of the iPhone OS. See the video-on-demand event right here, exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG-4.”
“Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs give a sneak peek into the future of the iPhone OS. See the video-on-demand event right here, exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG-4.”
Hiatus
29/07/09 13:12 Filed in: News
Due to ongoing moving
shenanigans, Mister Mac is on temporary hiatus.
See you soon.
See you soon.
iPhone 3GS
The iPhone 3GS (S for Speed
apparently) will be released on 19th June.
It’s faster, comes with an updated camera, 3MP with video, voice control, a digital compass, remote wipe.
The hardware remains looking the same so that old case of yours will still fit.
Details
There was also a lot of iPhone software demoed.
Find My Phone allows you to find where you put your phone down even if it’s in mute.
TomTom are releasing an app taking advantage of the built in compass and GPS turning the iPhone into a proper turn by turn satnav.
It’s faster, comes with an updated camera, 3MP with video, voice control, a digital compass, remote wipe.
The hardware remains looking the same so that old case of yours will still fit.
Details
There was also a lot of iPhone software demoed.
Find My Phone allows you to find where you put your phone down even if it’s in mute.
TomTom are releasing an app taking advantage of the built in compass and GPS turning the iPhone into a proper turn by turn satnav.
iPhone OS 3.0
09/06/09 07:19 Filed in: NewsSoftwareSoftware
& Updates
iPhone OS 3 will
also be released on 17th June, a free update to all
iPhone users and is compatible with the original iPhone.
I’d think of version 3 as the first proper version with features you’d have thought would’ve been included at the start, but also adds a few things to move it forward.
Cut/Copy/Paste is finally here as is landscape in all the main apps. You can now finally search using Spotlight.
Peer to Peer gaming so you’ll be able to play along with friends with iPhones.
MMS which shall make some happy (never cared about it myself).
Finally your notes are now synced, it’s been so annoying that wasn’t there at the start.
You can now shake to shuffle like other iPods.
It also adds tethering, making it easy to connect your computer to the net when you’re not near any wifi.
Details
I’d think of version 3 as the first proper version with features you’d have thought would’ve been included at the start, but also adds a few things to move it forward.
Cut/Copy/Paste is finally here as is landscape in all the main apps. You can now finally search using Spotlight.
Peer to Peer gaming so you’ll be able to play along with friends with iPhones.
MMS which shall make some happy (never cared about it myself).
Finally your notes are now synced, it’s been so annoying that wasn’t there at the start.
You can now shake to shuffle like other iPods.
It also adds tethering, making it easy to connect your computer to the net when you’re not near any wifi.
Details
Mac OS X 10.6
09/06/09 07:12 Filed in: NewsSoftwareSoftware
& Updates
Snow Leopard or Mac OS 10.6
is set to be available in September for a price in the US
of $29 (no UK price yet, but I’d guess they’d
just change the dollar to a pound).
Snow Leopard is more an improvement of what underpins the OS, making it faster and actually giving you back space on your HD with a few UI improvements.
Details
Snow Leopard is more an improvement of what underpins the OS, making it faster and actually giving you back space on your HD with a few UI improvements.
Details