Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks, HDnet, and dotcom v.1 millionaire is a self-admitted Apple Fanboy. He's gone through several generations of iPods and was one of the first to order the MacBook Air. But what's most interesting is that he's working on ways to embrace Apple's idea of the iPod Touch as not just an iPod, but a mobile wireless platform.
"I just sent an email to the Mavs IT head to see how we fans with ITouchs (and Wifi devices like Nokia among others) could leverage WiFi in the American Airlines Center before , during and after Mavs games, HDNet Fights and other events..."
That's good news, since Apple announced in it's most recent earnings conference call that they way to grow the iPod line is by looking at it as more than just a music playing device.
Bryan Hansen writes "MacSlash,
I've been a professional mac developer for a couple years now and recently I've spent some time on a couple small side-project apps and I'm trying to let people know about my latest effort, Jolt.
If you've ever wanted to delay energy saver from kicking in for just a few minutes so you can watch a YouTube video, read something on the screen, etc without having to touch the mouse, then Jolt is for you. I've always had a fascination with solid and simple user interfaces, so I've designed Jolt with that in mind. One click and its active. I'm also benefiting some charities through this app to let people support some worthy causes.
If you find it useful I'd love it to be mentioned in any way. The biggest problem for mac apps like this is getting the word out that they even exist.
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Anonymous Coward writes "One of the biggest complications/complaints with using Sparse Images in FileVault in Pre-Leopard was the inability to make working live backups of your FileVault while logged in. In Leopard, FileVault is made up of what are called Sparse Bundles. These mountable "directories" contained encrypted data in 8 meg files, which combined make up the encrypted image. In Time Machine, Apple still requires you to log out before it will backup your Sparse Bundle, but you can easily replicate your Filevault Sparse Bundle to another drive or another system using Rsync while logged in. Testing shows that it works, and works very well. This is a true winner for secure geeks everywhere."
Nickus writes "A lot of sysadmins are using Windows or *NIX desktops to do their work. In this article I outline why I believe OS X is a superior platform for all sysadmins."
Michael Coyle writes "Leopard provides a new Guest User account for shared Macs. Upon every login, a new Home folder is created from a template. The newest tutorial at Michael's Mac shows you how to customize the Home folder template so Dock, Application, and System Preferences survive across logins."
posted by petard
on Thursday November 01, @12:08PM
Steven Fisher writes "Mac OS X can run deleted applications. This has potential security implications if the application was deleted because of an exploit."
Having protocol handlers and document associations launch a deleted application without so much as a warning would be undesired behavior for me even if it weren't a security hazard. Until Apple addresses this, don't forget to take the extra step of removing the application from time machine if you're deleting it because of a security flaw.
I don’t think it’s right to characterize this as a security “hole”, though — clearly it’s how the feature is designed to work. If you don’t trust your .Mac account, don’t use it. It’d be nice if there were an option to require your Mac’s password, though — and I question the decision to turn this setting on by default.
Daniel Jansen points us to an article over at lowendmac: "Bill Gates urged Apple to license the Mac in 1984, but it wasn't until 1994 that Apple began to do so - and it nearly cost the company its existence as Apple had to battle with agressive cloners and the rise of Windows 95.
Though I'd argue that saying the clones "nearly cost the company its existence" overstates their impact, it's a nice round-up of what the market looked like 10 years ago.
jtbandes writes "There's nothing Mac fans like better than coming up with ideas for future software — that's why Mac blogger and entrepreneur Phill Ryu has done it again. He's created five mockups of iPhone apps he'd like to see from Apple, including an eBook reader and the iTunes Store."
mrspin writes "Yesterday’s Apple press event saw the unveiling of new iMacs and major updates to the company’s iLife and iWorks software suites. But it also provided further insight into the cosy relationship developing between Apple and Google, with greater integration between the two companies’ product lines. What’s new? iMovie 08 adds the ability to upload video direct to YouTube, and iWeb (Apple’s web page creation software) now integrates with Google Maps and YouTube, along with support for Adsense. Combine these efforts with the existing iPhone tie-ins — Google Maps, YouTube, Gmail — along with AppleTV’s recently added support for YouTube, and we can see how the Apple/Google alliance is strengthening." But will it quell the rumors that Google is working on an "iPhone Killer?"
