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December 17, 2006

MacHeist Raised $200,000 for Charity

Well, it’s official. MacHeist has raised $200,000 for Charity.

As for the charity, well, $190,000 just doesn’t seem like a round enough figure. You guys have done your part; now it’s our turn. We will be filling out the donation total to $200,000. And as pledged earlier, all donations will be made in the name of the Mac community.

This is one of the greatest way to promote any shareware Applications. While not every developers out there agree if this is a good idea, in the end everyone involves in this event reap the benefit. Be it the developers, the users, and the charity.

December 14, 2006

Wikipedia Hacked by GNAA

Approximately around 10:45 PM Pacific Standard Time, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) website was being hacked by GNAA (http://www.gnaa.us/)

Another Fellow WordPress Blogger actually got a screenshot of the hacked Wikipedia main page.
http://vondiggity.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/wikipedia-being-hacked-by-the-gnaa/

Wikipedia was actually fixing the page while it was being hacked.

In the meantime, GNAA posts a press release that somewhat explain the reason behind Wikipedia hack.
http://www.gnaa.us/pr.phtml?troll=gnaa-wikidel

The hack was a retalication against Wikipedia for GNAA article deletion.

At first glance, it seemed that it was merely a change made on the frontpage. But such changes could not be found in the page history. It is unknown if Wikipedia administrators/moderators could selectively delete the page history.

December 14, 2006

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta For Mac and Windows to Arrive on This Friday

Finally, Adobe has officially announced the availability of Photoshop CS3 Beta for public testing.
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200612/121406Photoshop.html

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta will be available for:

Mac OS X – Universal Binary for PPC and Intel Macs
Windows XP
Windows Vista

From the press release:

The software can be downloaded at: http://labs.adobe.com , in the early hours Pacific Standard Time on December 15

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Customers who have a valid serial number for all other language versions of qualifying Adobe products can download the software. Without a serial number, users can still download Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, with the product expiring after two days. Customers must register online with Adobe or have an existing Adobe.com membership account to access the software

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System Requirements
For Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, recommended system requirements are as follows. For Macintosh: Mac OSX 10.4.8 or 10.5, 1 GHz PowerPC® G4 or G5 processor, Intel based Macintosh. For Windows: Intel® Xeon® , Xeon Dual, Centrino® or Pentium® 4 processor, Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher, Microsoft Windows Vista. Both platforms require 512 MB RAM and a 1024×769 resolution screen. Photoshop CS3 beta will expire soon after the launch of Photoshop CS3 in Spring 2007. Details on final pricing, system requirements and availability have yet to be determined.