safety
iPhone apps: a list of 50, and a warning
Spotted this past week, this list of 50 very interesting free and for-sale iPhone apps for web designers and developers. Have perused several times.
Also, over at the Register, a reminder that some apps can come as wolves in sheep's clothing, so always purchase responsibly and after researching.
Mac users can't afford to be cocky about security
Ron, on our list, has regularly posted good advice from the security people at Sophos. In fact, it wouldn't be a bad idea for subscribers of this BoiseMacs Maclog to also follow Sophos' Graham Cluley's blog.
Upgrade to 10.5.8 strongly recommended
Thanks to Doc on our list for passing this along.
Images including PNG, Canon RAW and OpenEXR could pose a security risk in allowing a hacker to run malicious code. (Sophos reports)
Patch your iPhone!
Thanks to Ron on our list for follow-ups to the post from a few days ago on iPhone security concerns.
The creepy:
Researchers attack my iPhone via SMS
What's top of your To Do list if you've got an iPhone:
iPhone update fixes 'SMS of death' vulnerability (Sophos)
Apple's iPhone OS 3.0.1 update claims to fix the vulnerability through improv
iPhone security SMS (messaging) worry
Thanks to Ron from the mailing list for passing this along.
"If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off. Quickly."Read the full story, iPhone security threat via SMS could be catastrophic if not patched.
Adobe (PDF) Reader issues
Thanks to Mark on the list for the heads up: there are critical vulnerabilities in Adobe's Acrobat Reader. It's suggested that you (a) disable Javascript in preferences and/or (b) use a different reader. Of course, Apple Preview (which comes with the basic software) has been able to read PDFs. It's what's the default PDF reader on my Macs because I find the Acrobat Reader to be "heavy" (though I do have the software).
Think before you download and install - malware HD video software
17 Mac disasters (and what to do)
Excellent find by list-member Ron. Thanks!
How to survive the 17 worst Mac disasters: from won't start to dropped and scratched to sluggish performance.
After the horror (my iMac hard drive died)
Brought over from Emma's Friends, a Mac blog. Originally posted 02/25/2008. Author CF.
It started when I was (as usual) running a zillion different things, having done the 10.5.2 mega update that morning -- but hey, I'd been luxuriating in the faster processing and the maxed-out RAM. What I remember most clearly about the beginning of the incident is that after I rebooted my hard drive icon and the icon of my external (Time Machine) HD would flash on and off, on and off. The dock spontaneously rose and fell a few times then rose no more.