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February 2006

Dave Winer starts another fight

February 28, 2006

I really don’t understand what Dave Winer is talking about here. Here’s an illustration of tech industry interference with RSS. That’s Sam Ruby, the lead of the Atom working group, an employee of IBM, trying to rewrite the rules of RSS 2.0. Do you understand what he’s saying? I don’t. Dave links to this post [...]

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Wired News: Mac Attack a Load of Crap

February 22, 2006

Leander Kahney has written a column on the latest spate of Mac malware scares, and generally – correctly – sums them up as “a load of crap”. People like me are interested in them because they’re novel, and because they (correctly) put to bed the idea that the Mac is somehow completely immune from malware [...]

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Podner: Much ado about nothing…ish

February 22, 2006

A couple of places on the net have linked to a claim by the makers of Podner, a product for converting video into a format ready for the iPod, that Apple has asked them to change the name as it violates their trademark. Reading the actually emails Apple has sent, it seems like this isn’t [...]

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Safari vulnerability – Mail too

February 22, 2006

Heise Online has a further report on the Mac OS X/Safari vulnerability, claiming that it also affects Mail. One user on the MacRumors forums notes that this makes it easy to write a worm that spreads via email. This would exploit the security hole (AKA “user friendly feature”) that Apple introduced to Address Book a [...]

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Critical Safari flaw found

February 22, 2006

George Ou at ZDNet has a round up about the critical flaw found in Safari yesterday that potentially allows a malicious web page to execute a shell script on your Mac. Thanks to JDB for the heads-up on this one. What does it do? To quote George: Heise online is reporting that a new critical [...]

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And today’s Mac OS X worm release…

February 21, 2006

F-Secure finds another couple of Mac OS X worms: F-Secure : News from the Lab – February of 2006. Today we received two more samples of Mac OS X malware.OSX/Inqtana.B and OSX/Inqtana.C are close variants to original OSX/Inqtana.A. About the only difference between variants is the technique by which the worm will start on the [...]

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More Mac OS X Malware surfaces

February 17, 2006

F-Secure notes that it’s discovered the second piece of Mac OS X malware in as many days. OSX/Inqtana.A is a Java-based worm that takes advantage of a hole in Bluetooth – one that’s already been patched in the latest round of updates. This is a common pattern in the Windows malware world, where a round [...]

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Writely gets better and better

February 17, 2006

Writely gets better and better A while ago, I wrote about Writely, the web-based word processor that includes some neat collaborative features, along with the ability to post to blogs and do about a dozen other things. The good news is that Writely just keeps getting better and better, adding features like word counting and [...]

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Testing posting to Typepad from

February 17, 2006

Testing posting to Typepad from Writely.

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Office 2007

February 17, 2006

Given that Microsoft has formerly announced Office 2007 I guess I can start talking about it. I’ve been on the beta programme for a while, and have been using Word 2007 as my main word processor on a day-to-day basis since then. Virtually everything that I’ve written has been in Word – so I guess [...]

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