Sure makes me glad I use Macs! I just don’t have to worry about this sort of thing.

New 'Sophisticated' Trojan, Which Is Undetectable, Has Emptied Bank Accounts Worldwide


New Trojan on the loose

MacLife

Oh Microsoft!

Procrastinate much Adobe?
Flash is a deplorable product and I avoid it all that I can!

Adobe Enables Mac Hardware-Accelerated Decoding in Updated Flash Player 10.1

It's about time!


I loved what John Gruber <a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/08/09/msft-pc-mac">had to say on this</a>, “Offense vs. defense.”’
That pretty much sums it up.

Microsoft Compares PCs and Macs

Mac vs. PC lives again

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An emergency Windows software update will close a loophole in Microsoft’s operating system that makes it easy for hackers to take control of a computer using shortcuts
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You know, vulnerabilities are sometimes revealed in OS X as well, but I don’t ever remember any of them being on the same scale of something like this!

Microsoft to patch Windows shortcut vulnerability

Windows is vulnerable, what else is new?

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On top of every BlackBerry, there’s a little sliver of a red light, and it blinks at you when a new message or call comes in. People get seriously addicted to that light, Michaluk said. “You put a blinking red light on a device, and when that light blinks, you jump,” he said. “It’s Pavlovian training, right? For me, really, it’s my connection to my people. And second, it’s my connection to the world in terms of news and everything.” He added: “It’s one of those things that always calls you back to your BlackBerry.” Of course, other phones have ways of alerting people to new messages, too, but none has the same feel as that BlackBerry light, users said.
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This is given as a reason why people still use a Blackberry? Seriously? SERIOUSLY?!?

Why people still use BlackBerrys

Seriously? The blinking red light?

So the numbers say that Android and iOS are neck and neck in the race. I’ve seen some numbers claiming Android is now outselling iOS. But there’s an important note to make here. Like the Windows vs. Mac comparison, Android vs. iOS is a bit of an apples and oranges comparison. Android is a software platform not designed for any specific device but instead runs on multiple hardware platforms. iOS on the other hand is Apple’s mobile operating system for iPhone. It’s a very clearly focused platform in which hardware and software are made to work very closely together.
Considering that Android is available on multiple devices and multiple carriers, it’s not surprising to me that it is doing so well. In my opinion, if you can’t or won’t use AT&#x26;T, an Android device is a viable alternative. Maybe not quite as good as the iPhone in some ways (maybe a little better in others), but none the less a workable alternative. What is surprising is that iPhone is holding it’s own in this lopsided battle. One hardware platform, one dismally inept carrier. This should tell us something.
I believe if Apple would go multi-carrier, make a Verizon/Sprint compatible version of the iPhone, and add T-Mobile’s 3G frequency to the GSM/UMTS iPhone, they could trounce Android.

iOS vs. Android

Apparently, I take reading HTML emails on my iPhone for granted.
And no, I don’t appear to be inundated with spam by loading remote images from spam emails, I mean my email does get filtered before it gets to my inbox anyway.

Microsoft Continues to Screw up HTML Email on Windows Phone 7

Oh Microsoft, are you even trying?

<a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/07/28/personal.data.uploaded.to.chinese.website/">Malicious wallpaper app affects millions of Android handsets →</a>
This is not good for Android and their message of openness. This sort of thing just won’t happen in the iOS app store, at least I’d be really surprised.
I have wavered on this before, but this is a pretty strong argument for the way Apple runs things.

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