Apple Posts Leopard 10.5.1 Update
Weighing in at 109MB, this looks to be a fairly significant update.
Archive for November 17, 2007
Did the NSA put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?
The NSA has always been intimately involved in U.S. cryptography — it is, after all, expert in making and breaking secret codes. So the agency’s participation in the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) standard is not sinister in itself. It’s only when you look under the hood at the NSA’s contribution that questions arise…
Hidden GMail Feature Lets You Search by Language
A post about a hidden Gmail operator that lets you restrict your messages to a certain language.
Hackintosh vs. Mac Pro vs. MacBook Pro Benchmarks
On Tuesday I detailed how how I built a Hackintosh Mac from start to finish on the cheap, but one obvious question remained unanswered: How does my Hackintosh stack up to the Apple-built competition? To find out, I put my Hackintosh, a Mac Pro, and a MacBook Pro through the paces. Here’s what I learned.
Price cut boosts PS3 sales 250-300%
Sony said that it has sold more than 100,000 PS3 consoles in the week ending November 11, an increase of 250 to 300 per cent from the average weekly sales before the price drop.
Blizzard potentially creating privacy issues?
With the November 13th update of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft their anti-bot detection software “Warden”, now makes it impossible for customers to track what they are scanning and could lead to privacy issues.
Music Industry Down 20 Percent by 2011
eMarketer has published some new predictions regarding both worldwide and US music spending, and neither look particularly good for the industry.
A first look at the Firefox 3 visual refresh for Linux
The Firefox 3 visual refresh for Linux is starting to coalesce. Native tabs are back in the latest Firefox 3 nightly build and it will also automatically use icons from the user’s GNOME icon theme in the Firefox toolbar. We tested it with several icon themes and took lots of screenshots
iMac Freezes Fixed with iMac Graphics Firmware Update 1.0
Today, Apple released an update called iMac Graphics Firmware Update 1.0 which specifically addresses the freezing issue seen on recent iMacs.This update is for 20-inch and 24-inch aluminum iMac computers with the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO graphics processor, running Mac OS X 10.4.10 with iMac Software…
Ubisoft threatens legal action over pornographic depiction of Jade Raymond
Read title. There’s a few choice links to the picture in question in the thread. Increase the peace.
Rumor has it that House of the Dead 2 & 3 will hit Wii in compilation disc
It looks like Sega is releasing House of the Dead 2 & 3 together on one disc.
Sony enjoys high sales on the back of a $400 system and Wii shortages
The $400 40GB PlayStation 3 was a smart move, and Sony is reporting record sales. Sony appears to be benefiting from the shortage of Wiis as well.
