People think that Snow Leopard is a result of Apple being out of ideas

Windows Enthusiasts have worked hard to remain unimpressed with Apple. Despite selling a small minority of the entire world’s sum total of servers, desktops, and laptop systems, the company has maintained a profile larger that it seemingly should. How is it that nobody knows much about new models from HP or Dell, or new software feature in Vista, but everyone hears about the latest products from Apple?

clipped from www.roughlydrafted.com Myths of Snow Leopard 6: Apple is Out of Ideas! Daniel Eran Diler Apple’s limited comments on Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X due in about a year, have opened the playing field for rampant speculation. Here’s a look at a series of myths that have developed around the upcoming release. The sixth myth of Snow Leopard:

Use Your iPod Touch or iPhone as a remote control.

The latest developer release of iTunes has some very interesting things in the "Read Me".

clipped from news.cnet.com Report: Apple homes in on iPod-iPhone remote control Use iTunes 7.7 to sync music, video, and more with iPhone 3G, and download applications from the iTunes Store exclusively designed for iPhone and iPod touch with software version 2.0 or later. Also use the new Remote application for iPhone or iPod touch to control iTunes playback from anywhere in your home--a free download from the App Store.

Free public WiFi --- But no porn. Is it Censorship?

This measure is supposed to stop child porn, and text or images that might be harmful to teens and adolescents. But I doubt this is the main reason that they are setting this measure. ISP's would go bankrupt if the free public WiFi was not limited in some way.

What do you think?

clipped from blog.wired.com FCC Free Wireless Spectrum Equals Censorship Technology Bonanza But as with all free things, there's a hitch. The winner of the spectrum, 25 percent of which must be available for free internet access, is required to filter out pornography and "any images or text that otherwise would be harmful to teens and adolescents."

Mac Virus'

clipped from news.cnet.com I am familiar, of course, with the theory that Macs have such a small market share, ergo, virus writers don't bother with them. But I don't think that's right. Fact of the matter is, me and my fellow Mac users are so damn cocky about being virus proof, that virus writers by all rights should be working overtime just to take us down a peg. C'mon, I know you coders out there are just beside yourself in frustration that you can't zap that smarmy Justin Long with some kind of crippling CPU tumour. You're just dying to yell "Virus-free this, fucko!" as you send the command that will give you the power to make him cluck like a chicken while PC stands there staring with his mouth open!

Os X Finally has a serious Trojan Threat

The only way to be infected is to download and execute the file.

clipped from news.cnet.com Mac OS X Trojan reported in the wild On Thursday, security vendor SecureMac reported seeing new variants of AppleScript.THT Trojan horse in the wild affecting users of Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5.

Bill Gates famous quote to Focus Magazine, "The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs."

This article was written back in 1995 but has been a cornerstone of the Microsoft OS business model ever since.

clipped from www.roughlydrafted.com Bill Gates Defined the Software Market with New, not Better. As the founder of a marketing-driven rather than engineering-driven software company, Bill Gates recognized the shortcut of selling new over better early on. Back in 1995, Gates explained to Focus magazine why his company cared more about adding new features than refactoring code to fix bugs. “The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs,” Gates said. “It’s absolutely not. It’s the stupidest reason to buy a new version I ever heard. When we do a new version we put in lots of new things that people are asking for. And so, in no sense, is stability a reason to move to a new version. It’s never a reason.”

Internet users may not have 'unlimited accesss'. ISP's to start charging for bandwidth.

Remember the frantic, forwarded emails about the government charging a tax on email? People were very upset until most learned that it was an Urban Legend... This is no Urban Legend.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic Some people use the Internet simply to check e-mail and look up phone numbers. Others are online all day, downloading big video and music files. For years, both kinds of Web surfers have paid the same price for access. But now three of the country’s largest Internet service providers are threatening to clamp down on their most active subscribers by placing monthly limits on their online activity