Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Additional file recovery tools appear in Apple's Leopard. Developers testing the latest pre-release builds of Apple Computer's forthcoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system have discovered some new file recovery tools and other interface tweaks not apparent from previous reports. File Recovery In... [AppleInsider]

Firefox 2.0 Wins Phishfight Against IE7. An anonymous reader writes "A new study that pitted the anti-phishing technology in Firefox 2.0 against that of IE7 generated some interesting results. From the Washingtonpost.com story: 'Firefox blocked 243 phishing sites that IE7 overlooked, while IE7 locked 117 sites that Firefox did not.' Microsoft responded by pointing to its own supposed comparison study that put it in front of Mozilla and others in phish fighting, but the story notes: '3Sharp, the company that authored the Microsoft study, clearly state on their site that their goal in creating 3Sharp was "to use the robustness, flexibility, and sheer native capabilities of the Microsoft communication and collaboration technologies to enhance the business of our customers."'" [Slashdot]

I think I hosed my page trying to do the isight trick from this page link

I was listening to J Allerd's speech about the Zune release. He mentioned that we should all go to Zune-Art to see how cool the Zune is going to be. I'm unimpressed. It's sterile. The page title is "Page 1" for goodness sake! The ideas that J talked about relating to the M$ team and the Zune sound wonderful. I hope that they make it past this rev in order to develop that. I'll consider a Zune under one of two conditions (and yes, I'm the target market): 1. It's free for a $15 a month or less subscription (like a cell phone) which gives at least one record a month. or, 2. They make it able to operate as a hard disk for backup, let me play and share any type of music that I own (aac, mp3, wma, apple lossless, etc.), integrate podcasting into either the desktop software or preferably the interface, and make a cross-platform client so I can keep my library on both of my machines.