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July 9, 2009

Apple Seeds Snow Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A402

Thursday July 9th, 2009 afternoon; Apple seeds Mac OS X Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A402. The update is available through Software Update and weighs in on 1.31GB.

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As usual, Apple Developer Connection members are bound by the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).

From Software Update:

This Snow Leopard Developer Preview Update is recommended for all users running the Snow Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A394 or later. This update includes general operating system fixes for stability, compatibility, and security.

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Developer Preview is not recommended for casual users and production system since it still contains numbers of software bugs.

Snow Leopard 10A402 Update

July 7, 2009

Microsoft warns of serious computer security hole.

Tuesday July 7th, 2009.

It is the first Tuesday of the month, so there will be no regular updates from Microsoft today. Instead on Monday Microsoft released a warning regarding a serious security hole that affects Internet Explorer on Windows XP and Server 2003.

From the article:

It can allow hackers to remotely take control of victims’ machines. The victims don’t need to do anything to get infected except visit a Web site that’s been hacked.

Security experts say criminals have been attacking the vulnerability for nearly a week. Thousands of sites have been hacked to serve up malicious software that exploits the vulnerability. People are drawn to these sites by clicking a link in spam e-mail.

The so-called “zero day” vulnerability disclosed by Microsoft affects a part of its software used to play video. The problem arises from the way the software interacts with Internet Explorer, which opens a hole for hackers to tunnel into.

According to reports, currently there is no fix available from Microsoft, but there is a workaround.
ht tp://support.microsoft.com/kb/972890#FixItForMe

Interestingly Microsoft might use this announcement to convince people to upgrade to Windows Vista or Windows 7.

June 30, 2009

Apple Seeds iPhone OS 3.1 beta build 7C97d.

Apple Seeds iPhone OS 3.1 beta build 7C97d and iPhone SDK 3.1 build 9M2736a
Build date: June 28th, 2009

There are some API changes, but there is nothing major yet. For those who doesn’t do any development on the iPhone OS should have no reasons looking for the disk image. There are no visible major changes.

No further informations are available yet.

Please do not install this beta software unless you want to deal with the bugs. Plus the beta software will expire at a certain date and your iPhone will be rendered useless until you update to the newer software builds.

iPhone1,1_3.1_7C97d_Restore.ipsw
iPhone1,2_3.1_7C97d_Restore.ipsw
iPhone2,1_3.1_7C97d_Restore.ipsw

June 30, 2009

Firefox 3.5 is Released

June 30th, 2009.

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is officially released with HTML 5 support.

Firefox 3.5 is available for Linux, Mac and Windows Operating Systems.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

Firefox 3.5

June 25, 2009

Anything Goes: June 25th, 2009 Edition.

Woke up this morning, read some emails and figured some silly settings for Entourage to connect to Exchange Server 2007. I then setup the Entourage remotely. In addition to that, I re-encoded a movie short through iChat Desktop Sharing.

Ahmadinejad compares Obama to Bush (Yahoo! News) | It is obvious that both Barack Obama and George W. Bush are Presidents of The United States.
Transformers 2’s $55 million breaks Wednesday opening record (SCI FI Wire) | It is really impressive for a movie that is getting such bad reviews here, here and here. The reviews at Rotten Tomatoes confirm this. Then again it doesn’t matter because it has a great opening day and they’re working on Transformers 3 for 2001 release even before Transformers 2 was released; allegedly. More giant transforming robots and explosions!
RIAA settles suit where defendant had no PC (MacNN) | Yesterday’s news, but it is still worth mentioning. In the eye of RIAA, everyone steals music. The term “PC” refers to “personal computer” regardless of the operating system. It’s not about the whole “Mac” vs “PC” things.
Pirate Bay Retrial Denied (Wired.com) | As usual, the Pirate Bay responded in their blog. What would the Pirate Party do in the European Parliament?

June 24, 2009

Anything Goes: June 24th, 2009 Edition.

I had quite a crazy morning with Outlook and Exchange Server. Then I went to the Apple Store to get a 15-inch MacBook Pro Battery replaced. It only has 70 full-charge-cycles and it lasts about 5 minutes of charge.

Bunch of letters and numbers and punctuations from the series of tubes:

Unimaginable Horror In Tehran Today (ThreatsWatch.org) | Video is from CNN. Contain graphics picture.
Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malware (ZDNet) | Twitter users have been victims of account-hijacking for quite sometimes now. This is not the first time certainly won’t be the last for a foreseeable future. Obviously this is the same trojan aimed at Mac and Windows users. It is way too obvious that ActiveX plugin on Mac OS X is a trojan. Please be careful no matter what operating system you’re using.
SPINAL TAP: ‘Back From The Dead’ First-Week Sales Revealed (Blabbermouth.net) | It sold 10,000 copies on its first week of release. Buy this CD from Amazon.com! (read disclaimer at the end of this post.) It is better than majority of music released this year so far.
Panasonic Begins To Lock Out 3d-Party Camera Batteries (SlashDot) | Printer manufacturers have tried doing something similar. Then again there are a lot of poor quality third party batteries being sold.

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Disclaimer

If you bought anything through Amazon link above, and I get some kickbacks.

“If you buy Spinal Tap: Back From The Dead CD, I can buy this Canon Vixia HV40 HDV Camcorder” to paraphrase the great Robert Schimmel.

June 22, 2009

Anything Goes: June 22nd, 2009 Edition.

It’s Monday and I feel fine. It’s not even close to the end of the world.

News from the series of tubes:

Source Code to UAC Injection Flaw Released (OSNews) | Bad news for Windows 7. Microsoft better get this fixed quickly if they think that this i important. Ah well, I’m gonna stick with Windows XP. Take that Paul Thurrott (a.k.a. Microsoft P.R.).
Apple Sells Over One Million iPhone 3GS Models (Apple) | Is that iPhone 3G S or iPhone 3GS? More importantly, the press release quoted Steve Jobs who is due to be back at Apple this June. The news about Steve Jobs’ liver transplant was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Apple’s ‘Find My iPhone’ works great, but thieves can easily disable (CNET) | I submitted the same concern to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/.
Iran’s Web Spying Aided By Western Technology (WSJ) | It’s a double edged sword.
U.S. Climate Legislation Won’t Regulate Cow Burps (GreenBiz.com) | Seriously, can you threaten those cows so they’d stop burping? Funny headline though. Quoted article from Washington Post.

to be continued…….maybe