You can test the Internet vulnerability of your Mac here:
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?productid=symhome&langid=eng&venid=sym
As expected, the machine isn't vulnerable at all, according to Symantec.
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Trans.: How do they expect to earn money, if they litteraly tell us their products are useless?]
While the Apple Store is closed, Apple just released a press communiqué
CUPERTINO, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple® today
announced that Mac OS® X version 10.4 "Tiger" will go on sale
Friday, April 29, beginning at 6:00 p.m. during special events at Apple's
retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. Tiger has more than 200 new
features and innovations including Spotlight™, a revolutionary desktop
search technology that lets users instantly find anything stored on their
Mac®, including documents, emails, contacts and images; and Dashboard, a new
way to instantly access important information like weather forecasts and stock
quotes, using a dazzling new class of applications called widgets.
"Mac OS X Tiger is the most innovative and secure desktop operating system
ever created," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Tiger's groundbreaking new
features like Spotlight and Dashboard will change the way people use their
computers, and drive our competitors nuts trying to copy them."
Spotlight is Apple's new lightning fast way for users to find virtually
anything stored on their Mac. Much like users can instantly find songs in
iTunes® by name, artist or album, Spotlight searches the contents inside
documents and information about those documents, or metadata, to find just
about anything -- emails, contacts, appointments, images, PDFs, and almost any
type of document, including Microsoft Office documents -- then automatically
organizes and instantly displays the results. Because Spotlight technology is
built right into the core of the operating system, it automatically updates
results instantly whenever files change and enables developers to incorporate
Spotlight technology into their applications. Apple has incorporated
Spotlight search technology into several Tiger applications including Mail,
Address Book, Finder and System Preferences, and several third party
developers are expected to introduce applications with Spotlight search
technology in the coming months.
Dashboard is a new world of beautiful accessory applications called
widgets that appear instantly to give users immediate access to information
like stock quotes, weather forecasts, airline flight tracking, unit of
measure, currency conversions and a phone book. With a single click a user's
favorite Dashboard widgets instantly appear with up to the second information;
with another click they're instantly gone and the user is right back to where
they left off. Tiger ships with 14 widgets, and because Dashboard is based on
standard web technologies such as HTML and JavaScript, it's easy for third
party developers to create new widgets that users can easily add to their
Dashboards.
iChat in Tiger supports the stunning new H.264 video codec for
dramatically better picture quality over the same Internet bandwidth. Users
can now create audio conferences with up to 10 people and video conferences
with up to four people in a 3D virtual conference room, just as if they were
all seated together at a table*. In addition, contacts on a Buddy List can now
see which iTunes song a user is playing and view it in the iTunes Music Store
with just one click.
The new Automator workflow application lets users easily automate
repetitive tasks without complex programming. Users simply select from a
library of more than a hundred customizable actions and drag and drop them to
create an automated workflow, specifically tailored to suit their
requirements. Once created, workflows can be saved and even shared with
friends and colleagues.
A full featured RSS reader is built into Safari™ to provide instant
access to the most current information from leading news organizations,
community web sites and even personal weblogs (blogs) directly from the
browser. Multiple RSS feeds can be merged into one easy-to-read interface to
create a user's own personal news clipping service.
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[edit] the Apple Store reopened without any further (ie hardware) announcements. Tiger is available for preorder and shall ship on the 29th. Let's point out the fact that Apple's trimestrial results will be communicated tomorrow.
Intel announced the specifications of the Wireless USB would be announced in a month. This technology should allow to reach 60 Mo/s data transfer rate at a 3m range, which would render useless the cables we now use for external drives for instancce.
The first compatible products are expected next year.
If some of you still believe the sole way of announcing a product is not important, here are two examples that say it's not the case:
- after Microsoft had announced their Xbox 2 would be announced on May 16th, 6 PM (L.A. time), Sony declared their PS 3 would be presented 3 hours earlier, some miles away from there ;
- same thing applies for AMD and Intel about 64 bit dual core CPUs : after Intel had announced their dual core CPU would be presented on April 22nd , AMD decided their Opteron Dual Core would be demoed on the 21st.
If Apple and IBM want to enter the move, they've got April 17th conference at the Nab to do so.
We are just beginning the test of a Gigadesigns 7447A 2 GHz upgrade.
This card is the first product that will enable a G4 based SP computer to reach 7,000 points under Altivec Fractal Carbon.
We reached exactly 7283,5 Mflops, which is approximatively the same as a 1.8 Ghz SP G5.
The upgrade test will be online very soon.
