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Paste Attack

post from Daring Fireball on 26 April 2006 08:19:53 PM. © Daring Fireball

Simple software that does exactly what you expect is better than clever software that attempts to guess what you’re trying to do.

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When Smart Cut/Copy/Paste Attacks

post from Daring Fireball on 26 April 2006 08:19:53 PM. © Daring Fireball

Simple software that does exactly what you expect is better than clever software that attempts to guess what you’re trying to do.

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$60,000 Worth of iPods

post from The Apple Blog on 26 April 2006 06:46:30 PM. © The Apple Blog

I don’t know much about this commercial other than a reader sent it to me. Supposedly the commercial, which appears to be for some sort of Apple/Support store, uses $60,000 worth of iPods to pull of the effect. Nice.

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OmniWeb 5.5 Public Beta

post from The Apple Blog on 26 April 2006 06:06:43 PM. © The Apple Blog

The Omni Group has released a pubic beta of the next version of their OmniWeb browser. Version 5.5 brings some much needed changes to OmniWeb, most notably the switch from the aging WebCore engine to a recent build of WebKit. I have participated in the private beta of 5.5, and its stable enough for me [...]

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Clearing Google searches

post from Mac 911 Weblog on 26 April 2006 02:59:00 PM. © Mac 911 Weblog

Concerned that others might view your Google searches with a less-than-sympathetic eye? Here's how to cover your tracks.

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Tweaking UI in Apps

post from Mac Geekery - Get your geek on. on 26 April 2006 01:50:39 PM. © Mac Geekery - Get your geek on.

I want to remove a checkbox from an iChat preferences menu.

How would this be accomplished?

thanks

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There Will Be No Mac BotNet

There's a lot of people that misunderstand security risks. This includes popular bloggers on popular weblogs, like Infinite Loop it would appear.

And speaking of exploiting bugs, a related report on the increase of malware in the last year focuses on the doubling of Linux threats, but specifically warns that Macs are likely to become "the biggest alternative target to Windows in 2006," between the errors made in system development, the recent processor switch, and the growing demand for zombie machines to spew spam and host malicious web sites, we could have a big problem on our hands.

Aside from being a run-on sentence, this statement is completely horrid in another way: it's misleading. By default, Mac OS X does not ship with any network services running. None. Not a one. Out of the box Mac OS X is not sharing files, running SSH, sharing its printers, or even exposing the CUPS configuration page to anything but the loopback port – and most consumers are running it in that default configuration. If you portscan a fresh install of Mac OS X, you get bupkis.

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