Tuesday, February 12, 2002

Radzilla is the name for a Mozilla sidebar collection created for Radio 8 users by Robert Barksdale. He offers a walk-through of the Radzilla concept on his Radio X Neophyte blog... 6:52:47 PM comment

Six New Browser Security Holes for Microsoft. Microsoft has made available a new software patch designed to block six new security vulnerabilities in its Internet Explorer Web browser. Gartner research director John Pescatore told NewsFactor that Microsoft "needs to treat [each vulnerability] as an airline crash." [osOpinion] - It's a feature... 2:02:23 PM comment

Apple spurns proposed MPEG-4 licenses. The company rejects proposed licensing terms for the emerging MPEG-4 video standard, leaving the future of its QuickTime multimedia technology in limbo. [CNET News.com] 2:01:00 PM comment

Web Architect: The Crime of Sharing. John Perry Barlow. I know that this is a fairly obvious observation. That's why I'm stunned that so many kinds of sharing have suddenly, without public debate, become criminal acts. For instance, lending a book to a friend is still all right, but letting him read the same book electronically is now a theft. [Tomalak's Realm] 1:25:56 PM comment

Basic network flaw could disrupt Net. An Internet security watchdog warns that software flaws in a fundamental language of the Internet could leave the Net's basic infrastructure in danger of disruption. [CNET News.com] 1:19:57 PM comment

Adium 1.5b7 has been released, offering a number of bug fixes for the third-party chat client for the AOL Instant Messenger protocol... 12:45:57 PM comment

Apple introduces QuickTime 6; release delayed [MacNN] 12:32:55 PM comment

Bill Bumgarner has been doing some kickass stuff for Radio on Mac OS X. "Now I can post to Radio from any application that has Services. I can take advantage of the spell/grammar checker in Word. Use Project Builder's code formatter. Edit Tables and other HTML markup via WebObjects Builder. Easily post the output of a command in the terminal."  [Scripting News] 11:05:11 AM comment

Apple profiles Ambrosia Software [MacCentral] 10:11:50 AM comment

Dale Carnegie Inc. says no to Macs, OS X [MacCentral] - Apparently someone at Dale Carnegie Inc. thought they were significant in making this announcement, but somehow I doubt the creative professionals and iMac users of the world will be crying over the lack of Mac support from the makers of How to win friends and influence people. If the Mac was really in decline right now, this may be significant. But with the Mac winning converts thanks to new hardware and OS X, who cares about Carnegie? 10:10:20 AM comment

Apple Posts New iMac Ads [MacSlash] 10:04:46 AM comment

New Apple solutions, tips, suggestions offered [MacCentral] - I plan especially to read the small business and digital imaging sections of Apple's solutions pages... 8:37:34 AM comment

New Mac OS X beta of Opera browser available [MacCentral] - This new beta has a little bit of everything, but still no support for Java... 8:14:31 AM comment

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