Webstuff

Here’s some webstuff for you. I would have to say Digg is a pretty good source for interesting news. Not necessarily new, or useful, but interesting nonetheless. After all, that’s the whole point of their social bookmarking approach – to see what people in general find interesting.

Anyways, just don’t be surprised that a lot of the things I post would be coming from the said site.

Apple to Release Photoshop Rival

According to an unconfirmed report, Apple is planning to announce a professional photo retouching application, during the special press event scheduled for October 19th…

via digg

Upon reading the article, I truly hope that the whole “Photoshop Rival” thing is because of the hype of the people, and not because Apple intends it to be such. Because if it was, Apple would be an ungrateful SOB company… which I will despise for… about a week, then go back to supporting it (after all it may be FREE) hahahahaha.

Seriously, while Apple truly has better hardware, and the iPod has become a household name, can we at least admit that the reason it never disappeared totally when the PC was at its prime was because of software from companies like Adobe? ¹ Big design firms use Apple products because the software they rely on are created for the Mac platform primarily. Unless Apple intends to do a Microsoft in the near future (which I wouldn’t put past them) I’d say they should give such companies a little respect. But again, we’re getting ahead of ourselves, let’s save our judgement for when it actually launches.

iPod with Wi-Fi in the works.

Apple is working on a wi-fi equipped iPod with networking capabilities and the ability to directly interface with Airport Express base stations for streaming of iPod audio — and even downloading of music from the iTunes Music Store, grabbing Podcasts, et cetera.

via digg

At first, I’d say this was cool because I have wireless headphones that operate on the 2.4GHz frequency – hence it’s digital – hence there’s no “noise” or “EMI” so to speak. WiFi with the iPod opens up a lot of possibilities, but not as useful in the mobile setup – which is what the iPod was created for.

I was thinking along the lines of solving the quality loss of FM transmitters by going digital, but then again the cars themselves would have to have iPod/WiFi support. If you make a WiFi reciever that transmits (via FM I guess) to the radio, then you still bottleneck at the FM part of the process.

So I’m not so hot about this development. It would be a nice bonus though if it could do WiFi especially if you don’t dump all your songs to the iPod. How about making it stream the music FROM the main machine to your iPod so you can listen to your entire library from the iPod. That would be useful as you can move around the house without having to connect your earphones to your laptop… or worse… a desktop!

Explanation of how the MySpace worm worked

A step-by-step guide by “Samy”, the guy who created the MySpace Javascript worm that was featured last week. Includes code samples and explains how he got around the limitations of MySpace’s script-stripping engine.

via digg

Nothiing much to be said here save that it’s so geeky that I love it! Props to Samy for this.

New iPod Ads Similar to Old Psyop Spots?

Yep. They look uncannily similar. However, you wouldn’t catch me using Lugz.

via Joel’s blog

This may very well be the answer to why that new Eminem iPod ad launched with the video iPod was pulled down immediately after being in the Apple servers for a very short time

“Bloggers” may not be eligible for Shield Law protection

A co-sponsor of the proposed Free Flow of Information Act of 2005 says that it’s not likely that so-called bloggers will be granted protection by federal shield law provisions.

via Ars Technica

I honestly have no problem with this considering how much noise is in the blogosphere. There is an infinite amount of content, but not quality content. And yes, I do not include myself in the quality part hahahahaha. It would be nice to have “approved” sites that have legitimate journalistic “accreditation” so that we know if they could be taken seriously or not, and rely on them to bring in the dirt to any organization without fear of getting sued.

Why not have a permit or something? Like e-business permit hehehe. I mean real newscasters/journalists usually have those types of licenses right? (I’m not one, so I wouldn’t know) So it’s something that could be implemented and make everything much simpler.

Trojan masquerades as Skype update

Cybercriminals are trying to lure e-mail users into installing a Trojan horse by making the malicious code look like a Skype update.

via CNet News.com

Just a friendly reminder for Windows users.

Of course I still stand by the fact that you’d have to be a total retard to actually download or run unsolicited appliations from emails. If you get hit by those nasty things because of it, I’d say that you deserve it!

If you feel compelled to check a program out that was sent via email… it doesn’t hurt to try visiting the applications official website (Google it, don’t use the links in the mail) and see if it is indeed legitimate content. Simple huh? It’s ironic that the “simpletons” don’t get that simple fact.

I guess that’s it for now 🙂

Cheers!