Wednesday, February 27, 2002

Scripting flaw leaves sites vulnerable. A flaw in a common open-source scripting language, PHP, could allow attackers to crash an Apache Web site or compromise a server. [CNET News.com] 6:47:44 PM comment

Rob Galbraith posted an extensive overview of Photoshop 7.0 for OS X on his excellent photography Web site. What sets this review apart? Galbraith is a photo pro and his expertise gives him an interesting perspective... 4:24:08 PM comment

PB G4 DVD update fixes issues on 550, 667 MHz [MacNN] 4:03:40 PM comment

Mac OS X Eudora About to Expire? [MacSlash] - The way around the error messages that have been plaguing some Eudora beta users under OS X is to go to the beta Web page and be sure to download and install Eudora 5.1b20. It won't expire for another month... 4:02:20 PM comment

No High-Speed Mac Processor Upgrades on the Way. While Apple has brought a system to market that uses dual 1 GHz G4 processors, processor upgrades offered by a range of manufacturers remain stuck at 500 MHz. One such company, Sonnet Technologies, told NewsFactor that building faster chips is not economically feasible yet. [osOpinion] 3:59:53 PM comment

Photoshop 7 offers 'gotta have' tools [MacCentral] 1:21:31 PM comment

Analyst: Apple needs to ship more iMacs. The company's shares fall after a Merrill Lynch analyst says Apple may need to ship as many as 185,000 machines in the next month to meet forecasts for the quarter. [CNET News.com] 1:07:53 PM comment

HTTP a barrier to Web services?. A bedrock of the Internet, HTTP is reaching its limitations and posing a major challenge for Web services, peer-to-peer applications and even security, according to a Microsoft architect. [CNET News.com] Maybe it is just me, but unless someone convinces me that HTTP really needs to go, I am not about to jump on the bandwagon with anyone from Microsoft to lead me down the path to a Microsoft-engineered architecture for the Internet. 1:07:08 PM comment

4D releases WebSTAR 5.1 update. [mac.scripting.com] 11:06:44 AM comment

Chronos offers '34 percent discount for 34 medals' [MacCentral] - I like the idea of this kind of discount. It's fun, and Chronos has some great products. Maybe it is time to upgrade to Personal Organizer from this POS called Palm Desktop... 10:50:33 AM comment

Autologin is a $10 shareware addition to OS X that lets you automatically log in to Appleshare volumes on login... 9:13:22 AM comment

Macintouch has a new reader report about Apple's Java 1.3.1 Update 1. I think it's time to mention the problem I brought up yesterday with my IE no longer working with the Java chat client on Lycos. Big deal, you say? Yep...it wouldn't be a big deal at all, except for the fact that I need to access Lycos chat for my employment... 9:10:03 AM comment

Cocoa backup application for Mac OS X released [MacCentral] - This $13 backup tool is intriguing, and I will do an evaluation of it soon in Mac Net Journal. One big question I have: It is unclear if the program will handle data with resource forks properly... 8:56:15 AM comment

Hack at N.Y. Times exposes sensitive data. The New York Times Company confirms the internal network breach at its flagship newspaper. Reports say databases with personal info of staff and high-profile sources were hit. [CNET News.com] 8:46:46 AM comment

Bill Bumgarner reviews Mac OS X.  [Scripting News] All together, I would say that after reading this review of OS X, it sounds like Bill sees some of the same benefits and shortcomings of OS X that I do. Almost a year after the commercial release of OS X, there is still room to grow and refinements to make before this is the OS for everyone. But I can say one definitive thing: After moving to OS X, there is no going back to Classic. I can't imagine being back in the Mac world of 1999, before I bought the first OS X Public Beta and set off on this new journey... 8:44:40 AM comment

Software Updates: Here are some notable software updates for today, as found on Macupdate.com: - TimeCache X 4.1.6 - A time-tracking and billing shareware application - Lasso Professional X 5.0 - Commercial tool for creating Web sites from database data - DockFun! for OS X 2.0.1 - Use up to 10 different Dock setups with this shareware 8:29:42 AM comment

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