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Apple Hackers Served A Poetic Warning

February 22nd, 2006

The maker of Macintosh computers had anticipated that hackers would try to crack its new OS X operating system built to work on Intel Corp.’s chips and run pirated versions on non-Apple computers. So, Apple developers embedded a warning deep in the software—in the form of a poem.
Indeed, a hacker encountered the poem recently, and [...]

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Pod Slurping

February 20th, 2006

Abe Usher, a 10-year veteran of the security industry, created an application that runs on an iPod and can search corporate networks for files likely to contain business-critical data. At a rate of about 100MB every couple minutes, it can scan and download the files onto the portable storage units in a process dubbed “pod [...]

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OSx86 :: 10.4.4 First Impressions

February 20th, 2006

Good article that gives the thumbs up to Mac OS X hackers who want to get Mac OS X 10.4.4 (second most recent release) to run on x86 hardware.
It runs like a dream. As soon as I took control of the mouse, I knew it was significantly faster than the previous hacked version of 10.4.3. [...]

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Fixing Firefox and Camino Memory Leaks

February 20th, 2006

A great post over at the Inside Firefox developer blog where the lead developer on the Firefox project talks about Firefox memory leak or “feature” and how to modify the settings to fix it. I run Camino in OS X exclusively and have applied the settings and have noticed a similar performance increase as [...]

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Engadget Mobile Launched

February 17th, 2006

Engadget Mobile, the in-depth and comprehensive mobile phone site was launched on February 14th (Valentines Day) 2006. Engadget Mobile includes all the news the Engadget writers would normally uncover on Engadget with regards to the mobile and cellular space, only this will include an abundance of stories that would generally never get posted due to [...]

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Brrreeeport Search SPAMming

February 14th, 2006

Robert Scoble of Scobleizer.com (aka the Microsoft Blogger) is testing out the Blog search engines (Technorati, Google Blogsearch, Icerocket, etc…) responsiveness by posting a word that no search engine returned results for, brrreeeport.
The time stamped results from Feb. 13th can be found on his blog post, the brrreeeport report and the 14th results can be [...]

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OSx86 Intel Darwine Released

February 13th, 2006

It seems there is now a way for people to use MS Windows programs on their Intel based Macs in the future. Without a released version of VMWare on the market yet for the Mactel systems the developers over at CodeWeavers have developed a workaround solution using WINE to enable Windows emulation quite well. Keep [...]

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RIM Blackberry Software Workaround Update

February 10th, 2006

As a update to the last post regarding the RIM Blackberry software work-around, Business Week has an indepth article about solution.
You can check it out here: http://www.businessweek.com/

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Apple :: Another Video iPod

February 9th, 2006

ThinkSecret is reporting on a completely new video iPod that will have a 3.5″ touchscreen instead of the current click wheel. Supposedly the click wheel will appear and disappear when the screen is touched.
Of note is the supposed release date of April 1st, which happens to be Apple’s 30th birthday.
Might this new iPod integrate PortalPlayer’s [...]

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RIM reveals a workaround for the Blackberry

February 9th, 2006

In order to continue US operation of blackberry devices and servers, RIM has developed a “workaround” software contingency plan. It is a user-installed software update for the devices and backend servers which will show no difference in the way the devices operate in the current day nor will it affect any of the programs [...]

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