Jailbroken iPhones see first Worm

Thanks to my brother Steve for this one!

A lot of people don’t realize it, but when you jail break your iPhone, you aren’t just allowing yourself to run additional applications and do other things. You are actually removing security features that are built in by Apple to protect you, your data, and your phone.

Well, low and behold, looks like a worm has been released and it’s affecting jailbroken phones in Australia. Expect it to hit your area. If you say, nah, it never will, well then I await your phone call so you can pay me to fix your phone!

Here’s the story.

 

Mac Share continues to grow after Win7 Launch

http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/11/01/mac-share-grew-after-windows-7-debut/

Microsoft has not halted Apple’s momentum, according to Net Applications’ October report

 

If Microsoft (MSFT) was hoping that the launch of Windows 7 would halt the erosion of its operating system market share — and curb further inroads by Apple (AAPL)  — there is no evidence that it’s working yet.

In fact, preliminary data released overnight Sunday by Net Applications show Mac OS X’s Internet share growing by 2.73% in October, from 5.12% to 5.26%.

Windows’ Internet presence, meanwhile, fell from 92.77% to 92.54% — its ninth loss in 12 months. Windows 7’s share, however, was more than 2% even before its Oct. 22 general release, thanks to widespread use of early release versions. By Oct. 30 the Windows 7 portion was 2.85%, largely at the expense of Windows XP, according to a separate Net Applications report.

Net Applications, it must be noted, is not measuring share of market in the sense of sales revenue or unit sales. Rather it tracks the presence of various operating systems on the Internet by sampling browser data from visits to its clients websites — some 160 million hits per month. It’s a methodology that tends to favor devices that make it easy to navigate the Web, which explains the relatively high “market share” of the iPhone in the firm’s monthly surveys.

Panda Cub Productions releases iMoo App!

I’m happy to say my friends over at Panda Cub Productions have just released their first iPhone/iPod Touch app, called iMoo!

I was lucky enough to beta this this awsome little program and I must say, it’s a treat! Remember those old cans that you could turn upside down and it would go “Mooooooo”?

Well, this is that can, reinvented, and I must add, even better! You can record your own sounds, tink the can and it even works with the built in accelerometer so you can turn the phone around and around! Written by Steve Riggins, this is a app you must check out!

My young daughter recorded her voice and hasn’t stopped spinning the phone around! Really cool app, definitely check it out!

“Our first application, iMoo, has just debuted on the iTunes store. It’s our flagship product – an iPhone version of the little can you tip over to make a moo-cow sound. Yes! We are promoting cow-tipping with this fun little gem! And it is CHEAP, as in 99 cents cheap.

Buy our cow-can! Visit the iTunes Store here, or peruse our pages on this site here.“

You can also follow them on Facebook or on Twitter!

LA City Council dumping Outlook for Gmail

Awsome!

The LA City Council just awarded Google a 7 million dollar contract to dump Exchange and to start using Google Mail and Calendar.

This is the best quote, ever!

“ the new contract would save the city some $5 million in service costs over five years, in addition to allowing the city’s technology department to shed nine positions.”

Now I’m never happy to see someone lose their job! But we know what these 9 guys were doing all day, removing virus’ and repairing infected computers! (Because even if you have anti-everything protection, new virus’s come out all the time, large companies can not keep up with the antidotes! Go buy a Mac already!)

http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/sns-ap-us-google-los-angeles,0,3801476.story

Its a sign of the times for Microsoft, who just launched their new OS and are already losing a major city’s support for their email system.

Da na na na, da na na na, hey hey hey, good bye Microsoft!

Demo of Windows 7

Don’t buy Movies on your Apple TV

Unless you have it synced up to a Mac with Time Machine!

1. I downloaded a couple movies on my Apple TV.

2. My Apple TV’s hard drive contains NO movies. ALL my movies are (were) on a 500 gig drive in a XP box that is on 24/7. It has iTunes open and the iTunes library is (was) pointed to this 2nd 500 gig HD in the PC.

3. Buy movies on the Apple TV, they transfer off the Apple TV HD to the HD that is (was) streaming to the Apple TV.

4. XP Box died, I pulled out 500 gig HD, put into external dock, its dead too!

5. I open my Mac, open iTunes, say “Check for Downloads” to grab the movies I had purchased. Nope, all available downloads are downloaded. Make sure to backup etc, etc.

So, once you say “purchase” thats it, Apple does not let you “re” download stuff you’ve lost due to hardware failure.

Have to go, re-buying the movies I already bought… on my MAC, so Time Machine will back them up!

Will Microsoft ever be able to do their own thing?

Ok, Microsoft opens their first retail store today in Arizona.

If you’ve ever walked into an Apple Store, you will notice something familiar. Well, the entire store looks exactly like an Apple Store. And, they open the doors with employees clapping and cheering on everyone, just as Apple does with every opening of their stores.

I love this sort of stuff because it really points out to you, the general public, that indeed Microsoft truly is incapable of doing anything on their own anymore. All they do is copy other people’s ideas and put their name on it.

Really sad from a creative standpoint if you ask me. But it also proves one thing. If you are original and the best, people will copy you. Microsoft is obviously copying the best, and that best, is Apple. Do yourself the biggest favor ever, go buy a Mac!

Windows 7 is Out!

Read this!

Also watch this! And get ready to erase your hard drive too!

Adobe Security Updates, Apple Updates iMovie

From Macintouch

Adobe released security updates for Versions 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x of Acrobat and Adobe Reader to address critical vulnerabilities that “could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.” The available updates for Mac OS X are:

• Adobe Reader 9.2
• Adobe Reader 8.1.7
• Adobe Reader 7.1.4
• Acrobat Pro 9.2
• Acrobat Pro 8.1.7
• Acrobat Pro or Standard 7.1.4

iMovie 8.0.5 (iMovie ‘09) improves compatibility with a number of devices and fixes other minor issues, including:

• Improved compatibility with camcorders using the iFrame video format
• Improved compatibility with importing video captured on the iPod nano
• Fixed problems with resizing the iMovie window during playback

Snow Leopard 10.6 Guest Accounts Cause Data Loss?

From MacRumors

Late last week, 9 to 5 Mac noted that a number of users have reported a Mac OS X Snow Leopard bug apparently related to Guest accounts that is resulting in a complete loss of user data. The problem appears to manifest itself on machines which had the Guest account option enabled under Leopard and were subsequently upgraded to Snow Leopard. Users booting their machines have reported that upon start-up, they have been logged into the Guest account. Upon switching to their regular account, the affected users have been finding all of their user data missing and unrecoverable except from a backup.

Further investigation revealed initial reports of the problem in early September, soon after Snow Leopard’s launch.

This could be due to a bug in how guest accounts are managed since data and settings are deleted from these accounts upon logout, but also could be from some corruption in the guest account. So far, it does not seem to be a widespread problem.

If this happens to you, immediately restore using your latest Time Machine backup (or other full system backup), and then go to the Accounts system preferences and disable log-in on the guest account.

One suggestion for preventing data deletion is for users who had Guest accounts enabled under Leopard and then upgraded to Snow Leopard to disable the Guest account and then reenable it. This results in fresh Guest account settings created under Snow Leopard, reportedly eliminating the problem.

Several threads on the issue have popped up on Apple’s support forums, but Apple has yet to make an official acknowledgement of the problem.