With the iPad just days away, I just read and interesting post over at engadget. It looks like the Apple/Google break may be closer then we think. If you haven’t been following Apple’s mobile platform you might have missed the lack of flash on the iPhone and the upcoming iPad. I believe in part flash is a pig of a plugin and Apple is in the business of selling content on a closed platform. Google on the other hand is an open platform selling an experience and a different gateway to the web. Google has announced that it will build in the Flash platform as a component of its Chrome OS. There are a lot of similarities between the two companies. They are both innovators and have built their market share by making the best product.
The conflict that will divide the two will be the overlap into the same sectors of technology. As Google has branched out into the hardware sector it has begun stepping on Apple’s toes. Apple has been an end-to-end company from its inception, building the hardware and writing the software to run on it. Google has always been up in the cloud. Providing a service via software running on off the shelf hardware. Now that Google has stepped out of the box it will get more interesting as more components of there hardware platform emerge. Lets hope this won’t turn into another Apple/Microsoft implosion.
There are a lot of ways to download and convert YouTube or for that matter other online videos. Some are complicated and some are pricey, but Tooble is free and cross platform. If you’ve ever needed to add a YouTube video to a presentation or wanted to add one to your iTunes library, give it a try!!! I think you find it a useful addition to your utility war chest.
Well 10.6.2 is out I haven’t updated yet, but the it looks like the seesaw support for the Intel Atom processor didn’t make it in.
The move could present an obstacle for users attempting to configure ‘Hackintosh’ systems. Atom chipsets have been a common factor with a variety of Mac-clone netbooks, although a recent report suggests Apple has rejected the platform from consideration for future devices.
It looks like the unlocked SSH vulnerability has struck again.
This is the first time a worm has been reported in the wild for the Apple iPhone. According to a report by Sophos, the worm, which exploits users who have installed SSH and not changed the default password, hunts for other vulnerable iPhones and infects them. Users are advised to properly secure their jailbroken iPhones with a non-default password, and Sophos says the worm is not harmless, despite its graffiti-like payload: ‘Accessing someone else’s computing device and changing their data without permission is an offense in many countries — and just as with graffiti there is a cost involved in cleaning-up affected iPhones.
NASA has released a great looking new app for the iPhone. If your interested in everything going on at our favorite space agency give it a try!
Among the outstanding features brought by this application are new images from the Hubble Space Telescope, live tracking of space missions such as the Mars Rovers and live feeds about upcoming developments in the International Space Station.
Just saw this over at macnn. It looks like he hacked into their phones using SSH and dropped them a message stating they had been hacked, and was “nice” enough to offer to secure the phone for them, for a small fee. This is a good lesson in security always change the default password for accounts on any connected device. It appears to be an unlocked phone hack, so unlockers beware.
With Apple seeding the 10.6.2 build it looks like they may have disabled the support for the Intel Atom Processor. If that is the case that would kill off the hackintosh netbooks based on the processor. It will be interesting to see if it makes it into the official release or if this is just a bump in the road for netbook hackers out there.
