Nothing worse than having your pricey toy rickrolled.
First iPhone worm rickrolls jailbroken phones
We sort of knew this would happen as soon as we heard about that iPhone wallpaper hack in the Netherlands — a hacker named ikex has created what’s apparently the first iPhone worm, and it’s currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia.
If you want to access your home media library from the road, this looks like it might be helpful.
Orb for Mac finally arrives, streams media from OS X to any internet-connected device
Orb for Macintosh has finally hit the streets, bringing with it OS X 10.5 and 10.6 compatibility that enables any and all media from iTunes to be sent out over the internet and consumed on any outside device with access to the web
Rumor has it that if you want to keep experimenting with your Leopard Netbook, you should avoid the 10.6.2 update.
Its an interesting addition to 10.6.2. You’d think that fixing the bug that caused user data loss would be enough for one build.
But perhaps Apple has plans for its own netbook, or more likely, doesn’t want any alternatives to compete with its putative upcoming tablet.
Snow Leopard Update Blocks Intel Atom, Kills Hackintoshes | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.2 will break your hackintosh. The forthcoming OS update will not run on the Intel Atom processor, a rather petty move from Apple which, if true, will break many netbooks which have been hacked to run as more than passable Macs.
Updated:
iTWire – Another Mac OS X 10.6.2 developer build: Atom support returns
Hackintosh lovers rest easy: the removal of Atom support from Mac OS X 10.6.2 may just have been a temporary glitch. And there’s news of more fixes that apply to the rest of us.
Updated 2:Earlier Report a Fake, 10.6.2 Still Doesn’t Support Atom
Despite reports to the contrary, current Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard builds do not support the Intel Atom processor.
Too bad. ZFS was a great file system. But just look at the perils of adopting it today.
Apple dumps Sun’s ZFS • The Register
As part of the background, NetApp is suing Sun for patent infringement by ZFS, with Sun counter-suing, and Oracle is buying Sun. The Oracle acquisition has raised doubt over the future status of ZFS, and it’s possible that it may just disappear, becoming a foot note in IT history.Apple is looking for a file system engineer, by the way.
An up-to-date Mac netbook for $330. Pricey if you ask me. And of course its probably something Apple and Dell would hate to find you doing. But it is interesting from and academic perspective.
Netbook hackintoshing used to be an all-day process, with external optical drives, Terminal commands, and numerous terrifying driver tweaks. Today, there are simple software utilities to take care of all this for you. So let’s recap: Since 2008, the hardware has gotten cheaper and better, OS X more mature, and the installation process much simpler. Oh yeah, and Snow Leopard retail costs $30. (Though strict moralists should note that this is intended to be an upgrade.) There’s never been a better time to hackintosh—not by a long shot.
Not that you can’t get stuff like this for free, elsewhere – but it looks like Psystar has found a way to monetize its technology without actually breaking Apple’s EULA (regardless of the validity of said EULA) themselves. No, for $90 (introductory $50) you can buy the software that will let you take the risk of angering Steve, yourself.
It would be ironic if this ended up on the torrents for free download – wouldn’t it?
Psystar releases Rebel EFI installer, further enrages Apple
we submit for your approval a little something called Rebel EFI. Available to you — the consumer — right this very moment, the app will function as a universal installer for any modern OS — provided your machine sports an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, i7 or Xeon Nehalem processor. And of course, “any modern OS” includes Snow Leopard.
For the Mini Enthusiast …
The State of the Mac mini October 2009
We’ve already secured the new 2.26 and 2.53 Mac minis and taken them apart a couple hours after they were announced. Inside, they are designed the exact same as the previous models, just with the upgraded processor and RAM. (see pictures of the last generation minis here)
So this is interesting. The Gulftown is a 32 nm hexacore chip due about Q2 of 2010 from Intel. It uses Westmere cores rather than Nehalem cores, the same as Intel’s earlier Dunnington hexacore model. Unlike Dunnington, however, the 6 cores are native, not just 3 dual cores stapled onto one piece of silicon.
A Mac Pro with 12 cores and 24 threads of execution at 2.4 GHz would be an impressive piece of desktop equipment. Almost certainly 10Gb Ethernet and 8 or 16 GB RAM module support would be needed to keep the cores fed.
If Apple had exclusive use of the chip for any serious length of time, it would either quickly dominate the power user market segment or force the competition to adopt an alternative: AMD’s Thuban.
We currently do not know if all future Mac Pro models will be using this hexacore Xeon or if Apple will keep quad core XEon for the entry level model. This could decrease significantly the price of the first Mac Pro, and maybe convince some Mac users desperately waiting for a Mac Pro mini to finally get one. It is also unclear if the enclosure will be modified or not.
So I’ve been playing around with my Wave test account, and I haven’t reached any firm conclusions yet. I wish there was a gadget for free multi-party video conferences. I wish there was tight integration between Google Groups and Wave. I wish GMail messages could be imported as waves. But aside from those things, its pretty cool. But, as you all know, I don’t have a pricey iPhone, so I would never have found out about this on my own:
Google Wave’s Little Secret: It Already Works On The iPhone
Google Wave, the search giant’s latest experiment in post-email communications, is hardly out the gate, with some of the first 100,000 private beta testers still waiting for their invites. (I just finally got mine today, two weeks after launch). But Google Wave already has a few secrets. The one that surprised me is that even though not that many people can use it yet, Google Wave already works on the iPhone.
Chrome wins, but not in every category.
Performance Comparison of Major Web Browsers
The latest versions of the five major most web browsers (Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0, Opera 10.0, and Apple Safari 4.0) went head to head under six performance indicators: JavaScript speed, average CPU usage under stress, DOM selection, CSS rendering speed, page load time, and browser cache performance.
