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Oz Cops Say Use Mac, Not Windows For Online Banking
Email is Dead? Oh Really?
Four Reasons To Switch To IMAP For Email
Analyst: Apple immune to Windows 7 impact
More On Snow Leopard Deleting User Accounts After Guest Login
Recording An Acoustic Guitar Into Your Mac
U.S. Army Adopts Apple For New Video Surveillance
Levinson Resignation Means Apple, Google Boards Sever Last Tie
Why Did Levinson Choose Apple Over Google?
MacBook Pro Selling Well at Amazon and Best Buy
Sky Songs Streaming Music Service Hopes To Rival iTunes And Cut Down On MP3 Piracy
How to Install Non-Supported Scanner in Snow Leopard
Oz Cops Say Use Mac, Not Windows For Online Banking
Munir Kotadia of Australia's IT News For Business reports that according to Detective Inspector Bruce van der Graaf from the New South Wales Police who was giving evidence on behalf of the NSW Government at a public hearing into Cybercrime this week in Sydney, consumers wanting to safely connect to their Internet banking service should use Mac OS X or Linux - or an Apple iPhone.
DI van der Graaf, whi is with the Computer Crime Investigation Unit, told the hearing that he uses two rules to protect himself from cybercriminals when banking online: 1) never click on hyperlinks to the banking site and 2) avoid Microsoft Windows.
Van der Graaf also mentioned the iPhone, which he called "quite safe" for internet banking "only capable of running one process at a time so there is really no danger from infection."
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/yaqtxfv
Email is Dead? Oh Really?
Gizmodo's Jason Chen notes thatWSJ is saying email isn't as important as social networks - a conclusion derived from both growth and absolute numbers being on the side of social networking this year, but Chen condends (and your editor agrees) that email is never going to be "dead". In fact, with push email on your phone, it's basically as instant as any of the other networks.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://gizmodo.com/5379855/email-is-dead-oh-really
Four Reasons To Switch To IMAP For Email
Macworld's Joe Kissell says that you may know that your email client uses either the Post Office Protocol (POP) or Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) standard to retrieve your messages asks whether you know why or you should care.
Using IMAP, your email client makes a local copy, but a copy also remains on the server (until you delete it), and IMAP also saves a lot of information about your message, such as whether you've read, filed, or forwarded it. With POP on the other hand, once you download a message, your local copy usually becomes your only copy, and even if you tell your email client to leave a message on the server after downloading it, the server won't know whether you've read or replied to it.
The upside of POP, Kissel nots, is that it uses bandwidth more efficiently, which is a major advantage for folks still on dialup services or other slow Internet connections, and it doesn't impose inbox storage quotas, but he maintains that IMAP offers a host of other advantages, citing four big reasons he thinks you should switch today. Your editor remains not entirely convinced, but you can check out Joe Kissel's arguments in favor here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/143164/2009/10/imap.html?lsrc=top_1
Analyst: Apple immune to Windows 7 impact
Computerworld's Gregg Keizer contends that Microsoft's introduction of Windows 7 later this month won't cost Apple any Mac sales, citing a Wall Street analyst Monday.
Find out why here:
http://tinyurl.com/yfqlnsm
Roddenberry Mac 128 Sells For $8,260 On Auction Block
Airlock Alpha's Michael Hinman reports that the early production Mac 128 given to Star Trek creatoir Gene Roddenberry that was put up for auction last month fetched $8,260 last week during the Profile In History auction in California -- well above the projected sales price of between $800 and $1,200. The computer came with a letter of provenance from Roddenberry senior's son, Eugene W. Roddenberry,
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/ykyj5j7
More On Snow Leopard Deleting User Accounts After Guest Login
MacFixIt's Topher Kessler says:
A number of reports on the internet are now covering the problem where user accounts are getting deleted after people have logged into guest accounts on their system. We covered this a few weeks ago in an initial report, followed by a secondary report that covers some additional details of the issue and potential fixes.
You can check it out at:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10373212-263.html?tag=mncol;title
Recording An Acoustic Guitar Into Your Mac
LoopInsight's Jim Dalrymple says:
Technology is allowing just about anyone to record music without venturing into a traditional recording studio. That's good and bad....
I am a firm believer in recording an instrument when it sounds the best it can be. That means setting up the mics, taking into account positioning, phase issues and everything else that goes along with micing an acoustic guitar.
To read more, click here.
http://www.loopinsight.com/2009/10/12/recording-an-acoustic-guitar-into-your-mac/
U.S. Army Adopts Apple For New Video Surveillance
Appleinsider's Katie Marsal reports:
For security, ease of use and features, the U.S. Army has reportedly turned to Apple hardware for four new video surveillance installations.
According to Security Systems News, the Army now has four video surveillance installations based on Mac OS X and Apple servers. Pat Mercer, security business leader/sales manager with Siemens, said the IT department was initially reluctant to go Mac, but as they explored the systems, it became clear it was the best and most secure option.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/ykbbum9
Levinson Resignation Means Apple, Google Boards Sever Last Tie
Appleinsider's Neil Hughes reports:
Google announced Monday that Dr. Arthur Levinson resigned from the company's board of directors, severing its last common link with Apple's own board.
Levinson, former CEO of Genentech, remains on Apple's own board of directors. His presence with both companies had been the subject of an ongoing investigation by the Federal Trade Commission over anticompetitive concerns.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/yfh6sar
Why Did Levinson Choose Apple Over Google?
9To5Mac's Seth Weintraub reports:
Maybe because Apple makes it rain?....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.9to5mac.com/levinson-chooses-apple
MacBook Pro Selling Well at Amazon and Best Buy
DigitalDaily's John Paczkowski asserts that that Apple has long been a subscriber to the underpromise-and-over-deliver school of guidance theory, so it's not unusual to see research houses raising their guidance on Apple in advance of its fourth-quarter financials
Paczkowski cites Morgan Keegan's Tavis McCourt reporting that the June refresh of the MacBook Pro line and the recent launch of Snow Leopard have juiced Apple sales at Amazon and Best Buy particularly.
For the full report visit here:
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20091012/aaplmorgan-keegan/?mod=ATD_rss
Sky Songs Streaming Music Service Hopes To Rival iTunes And Cut Down On MP3 Piracy
Macworld UK's Nick Spence reports:
BSkyB will next week launch Sky Songs, a streaming music service it hopes with rival iTunes and Spotify in popularity.
The Ł6.49 or Ł7.99 per month streaming options will gives users access to four million tracks and allow either 10 or 15 tracks, in MP3 format, to be downloaded and kept each month. Additional song downloads will cost extra.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?newsid=27398
How to Install Non-Supported Scanner in Snow Leopard
HardMac's Lionel says one of their readers could not install the good old scanner Epson Perfection 1650 which was working perfectly with Mac OS X 10.5 on Snow Leopard, but as a a last chance shot he re-installed it on a Mac OS X 10.5-running computer, then copied manually and to the corresponding addresses/folders all the required files (Apps, Application Support, Profile Color Sync, etc.) onto his Snow Leopard-powered Mac. It works!
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/yzeb35k
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