Archive for August 1st, 2007
Apple Product Anouncement Next Tuesday
So I know that I already told you about the Apple product event on the 7th and that it was all about the Mac, but what will it be? Well according to Fake Steve Jobs we are going to see new iMacs, the entire internet is predicting this.
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Scan This Guy’s E-Passport and Watch Your System Crash
RFID expert Lukas Grunwald says e-passport readers are vulnerable to sabotage. photo: Courtesy of Kim Zetter A German security researcher who demonstrated last year that he could clone the computer chip in an electronic passport has revealed additional vulnerabilities in the design of the new documents and the inspection systems used to read them.
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Linux Vs. Mac: Which Is The Better Alternative To Microsoft Windows?
If you’re a Vista-wary Windows user who would rather switch than fight, should you move to a Linux distro or Apple’s OS X?
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Pie charts being replaced by “pixel charts”?
An interesting infographic trend: Square blocks of color are now being used to represent percentage-based statistics instead of the traditional pie chart. Some recent examples are shown here.
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Microsoft releases Remote Desktop for Mac 2.0 beta
The Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft has made good on its promise for an RDC update, and has issued a 2.0 beta today as a Universal Binary. As a bonus, the Mac BU has also released an update to the Office Open XML file format converter that has improved conversion of Word documents.
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Apple’s 5.5G iPods receive stealthy price cuts
“While everyone’s busy trying to figure out which particular shade of brushed metal Apple’s new iMacs are going to show up in, a few major online retailers have quietly trimmed 5.5G iPod prices.”
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iPhone Reverse Engineering Opens New Door to Total Unlock
The iPhone Dev Team keeps closing up on their total unlocking target: they just announced that they have reverse-engineered the software which controls the iPhone’s radio communications. The team has now a new way to search for the key to make the JesusPhone work with other carriers…
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