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May 2011

My final word on the whole “Macs don’t get viruses” thing

May 26, 2011

It’s something you hear all the time when you read forums and comments. Someone talks about malware and instead of saying malware, they say “virus”. And someone pops up to reply “Macs can’t get viruses. Mac Defender isn’t a virus – it’s a trojan“. And it’s true: There isn’t a self-replicating infectious programme for the [...]

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The bit that John Gruber didn’t quote from Rich Mogull

May 26, 2011

The bit that John Gruber left out of his post quoting Rich Mogull on the Mac Defender malware: Windows 7 is actually more secure than OS X I wonder how many of John’s readers will pick up on that.

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New variant of Mac Defender needs no password

May 25, 2011

There’s a new variant of Mac Defender doing the rounds – and unlike the initial versions this one doesn’t require an administrator password to install: Unlike the previous variants of this fake antivirus,no administrator’s password is required to install this program. Since any user with an administrator’s account – the default if there is just [...]

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Is $40m a fair price for Tweetdeck?

May 25, 2011

Alan Patrick thinks not: Is it a fair price – no, of course not, its a Bubblenomics business case. In any “normal” economy, paying $40m for a zero-revenue feature that uses your own platform to organise what are essentially SMS’s with pictures into columns, is completely daft. You can build that for a few hundred [...]

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Why the spec sheet method of buying a computer is dead

May 25, 2011

Poor Charles Arthur. Charles wrote a relatively simple post asking the question of why the Mac has proved to be so successful lately, out-performing the overall computer market and growing its market share. And in response, he got a 500+ long comment thread in which multiple geeks are arguing over how the specs of the [...]

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Dell’s latest laptop borrows from Apple designs

May 24, 2011

Engadget reviews the Dell XPS 15z, which is supposedly a competitor for the MacBook Pro series. The short version: it’s cheaper, not as powerful, but does at least look a bit better than the old chunky XPS series. When Dell tells you that the XPS 15z has no compromises, that’s not quite the case — [...]

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Byword updated with Markdown support

May 23, 2011

Now this is really rather fine. Byword, which is my weapon of choice when it comes to writing pretty much everything, has been updated with support for Markdown syntax. If Markdown doesn’t mean anything to you, then don’t worry about it to much1. If, on the other hand, you want it, you’ll probably want Byword [...]

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Technovia on Facebook

May 16, 2011

If I’ve set this up right, you should now be able to find Technovia on Facebook. Yeah, I know the logo’s rubbish, but I haven’t had time to do a new one yet. Come along, Like it, and all that fashionable social media stuff.

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Why Microsoft bought Skype

May 16, 2011

Cringely thinks it’s simply to stop Google getting it: “Were Google to buy Skype they’d convert those 663 million Skype subscriptions to Google Voice and Gmail and in a swoop make parts of Yahoo and MSN irrelevant. They’d build a brilliant Skype client right into the DNA of Android, draining telco revenue and maybe killing [...]

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Google Music: Not that great

May 11, 2011

Venturebeat gives Google’s music beta a first look: “Music Beta in its current form is far from what we’d expect from a Google product— it’s a web of confusing programs without a lot of instruction as to how to actually get to the music you want to hear.” Actually, that’s exactly what I’d expect from a [...]

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