Symantecis report looked at the number of operating system patches, and the shortest average time for patch development for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, and Sun Solaris over the past six months. The conclusion was that Windows had 39 vulnerabilities, 12 considered high priority or severe, with an average fix time…
Apple Hot Deals Update For B&H, GadgetLocker
The new B&H Photo Video Hot Deals page has offers on the 5.1 Surround Sound/Dolby Digital/Dolby Pro Logic FireWave system from Griffin Technology, the G-Drive Q 160GB eSATA external hard drive with FireWire 800/400 and USB 2.0, LoJack for laptops (1-year subscription) from Computrance, the Creature 2 40-watt 3-piece speaker system from JBL, Quicken 2007…
Miglia Announces TVMini Express TV, USB Tuner [UPDATED]
Miglia announced on Thursday the immediate availability of the TVMini Express, an inexpensive USB TV tuner for users in the UK. The device, which is a digital SD tuner, comes with equinuxis digital tuner software, The Tube. Features include: Watch and record TV shows Real-time information of what is playing on each TV channel Export…
Living Without Safari Week 3: Opera
Where I found Firefox to be a capable Web browser, and OmniWeb good enough to make me comfortable abandoning Safari, Opera was an exercise in pain. In fact, I was forced to break self-imposed rule number 3, No launching Safari “just to check this one page.” Living in a single browser is non-negotiable, more than…
MadTV Spoofs Steve Jobs and George Bush
A MadTV skit of Steve Jobs and his new product unveiling, iRack,has been posted at YouTube. Itis a lighthearted and clever look at Steve Jobs throwing everything into iRack. Wait. Perhaps itis George Bush throwing everything into Iraq. “Mr. Jobs! The iRack looks unstable!” “Trust me,” he said. Michael McDonald, a MadTV cast member for…
Just A Thought - Mail Weirdness
I like how Apple handles email. I have a .Mac account so mail on my Mac is the same as the mail on my .Mac mail account, which is very convenient because I can see it anywhere there’s an Internet connection. It’s done through the magic of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) which is…
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #96: AirPort, Networking, and Vinyl... Yum!
Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For March 19, 2007 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Enhanced Version (courtesy of eval(unescape(‘%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%6d%6a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%40%6d%61%63%6f%62%73%65%72%76%65%72%2e%63%6f%6d%3e%4d%69%63%68%61%65%6c%20%4a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29’))Michael Johnston). John and Dave answer AirPort questions, delve into the finer points of Networking, help you transfer your vinyl to iTunes, and more! Sponsor: Audible: Get a 14-Day FREE Trial of…
Blackfriars: Apple Marketing for the Time Poor
A significant difference in the marketing approach by Apple compared to Microsoft is driven by Appleis minimalist design and interfaces, according to Blackfriarsi Marketing. In contrast, Microsoft is all about giving lots of options, and that shows up as well in the design of its Websites. Some analysts think this determined by the difference between…
MicroNet Announces Platinum NAS 4.0 Network Storage System
MicroNetis Platinum NAS 4.0
Prey
Reworking an Old Formula Despite the fact that the first person shooter genre makes for about the best selling title on any platform, certain risks are present in designing this kind of game. If itis been done before, the title can be dismissed as routine, typical or boring by the player base. Prey by Human…
SpamSieve 2.6 Adds Thunderbird Support
Michael Tsai announced on Monday that his SpamSieve software has been updated to version 2.6. The new version has significant enhancements: SpamSieve now works with Mozilla Thunderbird. Improved detection of image spams and phishing messages. Made various message analysis improvements to increase the accuracy of the Bayesian filter. AppleScripting the whitelist and blocklist is much…
Using Keywords in iPhoto Part II: Keyword Assistant
If you arenit familiar iPhotois keywords, my last Quick Tip will help to get you up to speed. The Keyword Assistant menu in iPhoto
Crash Course: Recording
Do recording studios and their proprietors still offer value to their customers? Can a studio and its proprietor enhance an artistis strengths? Is a “real” studio always the best choice? It also claimed that audience questions would be answered with practical advice. Iim pleased to report that it did all that and more. The panel…
Analyst: Apple Ready to Lead In the Digital Living Room
Mr. Munster estimates there are about 110 million iTunes users – the key market for AppleTV. In comparison, there are only about 12 million Windows Media Center users, even though the software is pre-installed on about 23 million PCs. Based on those figures, Apple already has a 10x head start over Microsoft in gaining control…
Miglia Announces TVMax+ TV Tuner and Recorder
The Miglia TVMax+
Using Keywords in iPhoto
Keywords are a great way to help keep all of the picture you store in iPhoto organized. You can quickly narrow down a long list of images to just what you want – as long as you remember to assign keywords ahead of time. Hereis how: Click the keyword button in the lower left corner…
The SXSW Festival and Conference 2007: Film
Weire talking about three totally separate but overlapping festivals and conferences, spanning the course of ten days, and taking place in dozens upon dozens of different locations in downtown Austin. Most of the conferences take place at the cavernous new Austin Convention Center, while most of the music, movies, and multimedia exhibitions take over almost…
Living Without Safari Week 2: OmniWeb
Last week I used only Firefox, and this week, itis OmniWeb. Next week is Opera, and thanks to the overwhelming number or requests for Camino, thatis now on my list, too. Week 2: OmniWeb 5.5.4 OmniWeb from The Omni Group is about the only Web browser for the Mac that you have to pay for.…
A Newbie Experiences Mac Quirks
Mac OS X is considered elegant and intuitive. Even so, sometimes a Switcher not only trips up, but finds some nonsense on the Mac, according to Tom Yager at InfoWorld on Thursday. For example, each document on Windows lives inside its own window with an application menu. When a user closes the last open document,…
Hardware
Whether you to step up to a DSLR or decide to use one of the increasingly capable consumer cameras, one thing should be very clear to you; they donit call it idigital photographyi for nothing. Your camera turns those beautiful sunsets, crunched fenders, and chubby-cheeked smiles into a bunch of ones and zeros, which, in…
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #95: Syncing, Recording, Networking, and Small Business software
Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For March 12, 2007 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Enhanced Version (courtesy of eval(unescape(‘%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%6d%6a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%40%6d%61%63%6f%62%73%65%72%76%65%72%2e%63%6f%6d%3e%4d%69%63%68%61%65%6c%20%4a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29’))Michael Johnston). Today’s mailbag episode includes topics like Syncing, Recording, Networking, and Small Business software, including an impromptu rave about FileMaker by Dave. Don’t miss it! Sponsor: Yojimbo: Your effortless, reliable information…
Apple Releases Security Fix for iPhoto, Version 6.0.6
Apple, Inc. has released a security fix for iPhoto on Tuesday which addresses CVE-2007-0051. The fix brings iPhoto to version 6.0.6. The news was posted on the “security-announce” list at lists.apple.com. The announcement provided these details: Impact: Subscribing to a maliciously-crafted photocast may lead to arbitrary code execution. Description: A format string vulnerability exists in…
ISO Moves MS Office Open XML to Approval Fast Track
The ISO Joint Technical Committee (JTC-1) on Information Technology secretariat, Lisa Rajchel, chose to move Open XML to the fast track five month balloting process after discussing the proposal with the International Technology Task Force. Microsoft proposed Open XML as an alternative standard to the already approved Open Document Format (ODF) – a document standard…
Podcast - Apple Report: CS3 Building Buzz
Direct Link: MP3 Version Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 is on its way, and Jeff is positively giddy. In the Context Machine this week, Ricky asks him what the hubbub is all about. The Apple Weekly Report will be included in TMO’s main RSS feed, and also in its own feed if you’d like to add…
