And so another fine year begins. We’ve got Vista around the corner and Leopard not to far off. Personally, I’m finding it hard to get excited about Vista. I’m actually not too excited about Leopard either, even though it’ll have a bigger impact on me.
What I am looking forward to is digging into some OS [...]
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I came across Stikkit (www.stikkit.com) while listening to a bunch of podcasts over the long weekend. Unfortunately I don’t remember which one. Right now it’s in public beta and is free. They also claim they will always have a free version.
Stikkit is a very Web 2.0-ish website based around a concept similar to post it [...]
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I’ve been using SearchMash (www.searchmash.com) for a week or so. It’s a nice clean ad-free search site. In addition to websites it returns images, blogs, Video and Wikipedia links. If you use Firefox you can add it to the search tool by selecting the dropdown in the tool and select Add SearchMash.
Google’s name doesn’t appear [...]
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Well, I got the Mac version of the Windows Blue Screen of Death a little while ago. But in true Mac style it’s much better looking than the BSOD. No weird numbers or codes. A gray shadow comes over the screen and a nice message, in multiple languages, told me that the machine needs to [...]
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A second security update this week. This time for Mac OX X. Apple release Security Update 2006-008 which “improves security” of Quartz Composer and QuickTime for Java. The info on the update can be found at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798.
It’s a small (2.7MB for PPC) download but it requires a restart.
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Firefox was updated on my Windows machine a little while ago. It’s version 2.0.0.1 and includes 8 security updates, five of which are listed as critical. Critical means code can be run or program’s installed with normal browsing. Here’s a list of what’s included: (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox2.0.0.1)
The update hasn’t shown up on my Mac yet but it [...]
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