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Some links of note...

• What I Learned at (Mashup) Camp: There was one common denominator, however: JavaScript. Nearly everyone was using it in some capacity, and one or two applications were nearly 100% JavaScript.

• Apple pushing Safari downloads on Windows users: It now appears that the Cupertino-based company aspires to use the advantage presented by the Software Update mechanism to muscle its way further up the browser charts at the expense Microsoft's Internet Explorer and other third-party Windows browsers.

• Where By “Interesting”, I Mean “Annoying”: This is disgraceful. It fails the user in favor of serving Apple. It is, in fact, malware-level tactics.

• More Kotoeri (Japanese input) tips: Note that in OS X 10.5, there is a fair amount of (Japanese) Koeteri input method help in English accessible by choosing 'Koeteri Help' in the Input menu.

I'm with Wes Felter.

For those of us Mac-users, the recent Apple Security Update 2007-009 v1.1 has created a lot of havoc on users' machines. After I installed the security update, I restarted the machine and lost access to my Airport wireless card. I took a chance and decided to "reset the PRAM", or reset the MacBook Pro System Management Controller, and my Airport wireless came back as usual.

Comments are not yet fixed.

I installed Leopard on my old PBG4 last weekend. I did a clean install and am slowly moving over prefs and files (iPhoto and iTunes moved over.) In general I like Leopard and it runs fast on my old 1 Ghz machine. There's things I don't like (the 3D dock, the transparent menu bar) but I know that the internal updates are worth the update.

What I cannot comprehend is how Apple could have not implemented Spaces with the ability to have separate desktop images. What's the use of virtual desktops if you can't change the desktop images so you can have a visual reminder of which desktop you are on? It's absolutely incomprehensible to me that I have to have the same desktop image on all of my "Spaces."

One of the biggest changes for me with computing on the Macintosh has been the amount of PDFs I generate. The Mac OS allows any application to "print to PDF" which is an amazing feature for obvious reasons. That and these PDFs are all indexed by Spotlight makes it really handy to search for things that I've saved to my HDD for posterity.

Recently Mac OSX Hints covered a free "virtual printer" called CUPS-PDF, which basically takes a few of the steps out of "printing to PDF" and makes it even easier and faster. I've just installed this new "virtual printer" and can highly recommend it.

For those of us on newer Intel Macs who need to access Windows PCs remotely...

Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 (Beta)

Longish profile of Steve Jobs by John Heileman in New York Magazine: Steve Jobs in a Box.

Now that Microsoft will not be supporting Window Media Player for the Mac, they are providing a free plugin to view Window Media files in Quicktime.

Windows Media� Components for QuickTime

Apple's new Intel-powered MacBook has been released. Including a nice black model!

It's hard to see what the MacBook Pro gets you besides extra screen space.

Anyone out there considering this cool new machine?

Apple - MacBook - Technical Specifications

Brian Krebs at the Washington Post compares Apple's Safari browser to it's competition in terms of browser security. What he concludes is more than a bit troubling.

Over the past two years, after being notified about serious security flaws in its products, it took Apple about 91 days on average to issue patches to correct those vulnerabilities. I also found that almost without exception, other open-source Linux vendors were months ahead of Apple in fixing the same flaws.

A Time to Patch III: Apple