According to sources Apple has released a Safari seed to developers that promises a “significant” amount of bug and performance fixes regarding the following areas:
- large plaintext pastes
- photo uploading to auction websites…
Archive for February, 2008
Feb29
New Safari Seeds Continue Performance Improvements, Bug Fixes
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb29
How do I force Windows to assign a drive letter to an external hard drive when attached?
Here is the question I received via email. “I often recieve external hard drives containing large amounts (10-500+gb)of data from vendors. Each time I connect the drive, Windows assigns it to my G: drive which is currently mapped by GP to a network location. Is there a…
Filed in: Software
Feb29
Programming smart cards with the Java Card platform
The Java Card platform is the tiniest of Java targeted for embedded devices. It is an open, interoperable platform for smart cards and secure tokens; the technology is also widely used in SIM cards (it’s used in GSM mobile phones) and ATM cards. Java Card gives users the ability…
Filed in: Security
Feb29
Wintel Vista conspiracy screws customers: Another win for Apple
The latest PC market scandal — that Microsoft, Intel and some PC makers knew that the “Vista Capable” logo certification program was a lie and that some chipsets for popular machines couldn’t support the new Aero interface stuff, must be music in the executive suites down in Cupertino. The story provides more evidence to PC users that there’s a good reason to join the switcher movement to the Mac.
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb29
Every Click You Make, Your Boss Is Watching You
Employees who regularly use company computers to surf the Web, sign on to business accounts for personal e-mail, make calls from company phones or use the corporate car to run errands run the risk of losing their jobs, according to a new survey released by The ePolicy Institute and the American Management Association.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb29
The Feds are data mining World of Warcraft — surely, you can’t be serious?
The blogosphere is abuzz with recent revelation that the United States Federal Government is spending our tax dollars to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft and other massive multiplayer games. That’s right, that undead priest that just healed you could be a Fed. …
Filed in: Software
Feb29
Apple to Allow Free iPhone/Touch Apps Without Special Approval?
Rumors earlier today from iLounge suggested that Apple would act as a gatekeeper for iPhone and iPod Touch applications based on their upcoming Software Development Kit (SDK). As gatekeeper, Apple would individually review new applications by 3rd pa…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb29
Time Capsule Arrives, Early Notes
Image from Engadget
The first Time Capsules have started arriving, and some Apple Stores already have the new wireless backup solution in stock.
First impressions from Gizmodo and Engadget provide the following observat…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb29
Google Gives Voicemail to Homeless in SF Trial Run
Google is working with homeless shelters in San Francisco to let them offer free phone numbers and voicemail boxes to their clients for life. The aim is to let shelters provide these facilities directly to their clients instead of requiring the homeless to register individually for a free phone number and voicemail box as they do now.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb29
SyncWizard Offers Free Cloud Space for Personal Data
A new free Web-based product, SyncWizard, aims to change the way people store and access their own personal data and files. SyncWizard scans PCs or Macs for the most valuable data and uploads it to a variety of Web-based storage sites, then makes it accessible via live, customized Web page. It’s a product of Ajax13, a company helmed by MP3.com founder Michael Robertson.
Filed in: Personal Tech
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