Topic: COMPUTER - on January 15, 2009 at 11:31:38 AM CET
The Netbook Hackintosh Video Apple Made Wired Take Down
Gadget Lab writer and Giz friend Brian X. Chen said earlier today via Twitter that Apple "is suing Wired for my video tutorial on hacking netbooks to run Mac OS X." Updated.
Update 2: Wired got back to us. The official story is that they're not being sued, it was just a misunderstanding by Chen. But Wired has pulled the video after reviewing Apple's complaint about it.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 13, 2009 at 1:02:03 PM CET
Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1
Yesterday we made the Windows 7 Beta available for public download. Hopefully you’re as excited as I am that the beta is here! The Windows 7 Beta is already getting some rave reviews for its new features, performance, and stability. But it is a beta, and with that comes the potential risk that some things may not work as well as they will in the final release.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 16, 2008 at 1:17:46 PM CET
2008's biggest tech crime stories
Underground botnet markets and high-profile spam cases headlined the year in tech crime. One of the most disturbing cybercrime trends in 2008, many security analysts say, has been the emergence of a full-blown underground economy where credit card information, identity theft information, and spam and phishing software are all available for relatively low prices. 2008 also saw major developments in the cases against three major spammers in the United States.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 16, 2008 at 1:09:54 PM CET
Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas
Apple may be famously secretive, but there’s one guy the company has been confiding in for more than three decades now. That would be its Uncle Sam, in the form of the U.S. Patent Office. The company’s patent filings are a remarkable record of Apple’s brainstorms, from its biggest blockbusters to its most humbling flops to concepts that never got off the drawing board. The thirty-eight images that follow include multiple examples of all of the above. Click on the filing dates, and you’ll go to the patents where the drawings originated, mostly at the indispensable and addictive Google Patents.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 16, 2008 at 1:07:03 PM CET
The power of OS X hot keys unlocked
When I kicked off Mac Secrets, the first thing I looked at was "a better way to build OS X preferences." In this installment, I'll be looking at various undocumented aspects of PreferencePanes.framework that happen to be a documented framework.
Moreover, the stuff I'm looking at has got nothing to do with preference panes! Confused? Let me explain.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 15, 2008 at 4:14:11 PM CET
Hack of the Clones: Why Apple Can't Stop the Copies
Just hours after announcing plans to sell a high-end Mac clone, niche electronics reseller EFIX USA changed course in order to avoid a nasty legal confrontation with Apple.
"We certainly don't want to get into a legal battle that's over a couple thousand dollars," an EFIX USA spokesman said. "Potentially Apple could have a legal issue there. They may not have a legal issue, but with all the money they have they might try to make one."
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 9, 2008 at 10:46:25 AM CET
Internetzensur in der Türkei - Es wird schlimmer und schlimmer
Wer in der Türkei das Internet nutzt, kennt das Problem: Viele Seiten sind nicht zugänglich, weil sie als gesetzeswidrig angesehen und von der Regierung gesperrt werden - darunter auch das Videoportal YouTube. Auch wenn viele Türken inzwischen Wege gefunden haben, die Zensur zu umgehen, wächst der Widerstand gegen die Maßnahmen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 9, 2008 at 10:41:14 AM CET
The mouse hits 40-year milestone
The humble computer mouse celebrates its 40th anniversary today.
On 9 December 1968 hi-tech visionary Douglas Engelbart first used one to demonstrate novel ways of working with computers.
The first mouse that Dr Engelbart used in the demo at the Fall Joint Computer Conference (FJCC) was made of wood and had one button.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 9, 2008 at 10:36:20 AM CET
Most PCs Run Outdated, Hacker-Friendly Software
Hardly anyone runs a PC without known holes that hackers can exploit, a Danish security company reports. Of those who run the company's free security-scanning tool, nearly half have more than 11 out-of-date programs.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 6, 2008 at 2:04:20 PM CET
Windows 7 Build 6956 leaked
The impossible has been done again and pirates all over the world are busy trying to obtain the more updated build of Windows 7- build 6956. Just a day after WinHEC China began, an attendee from the conference managed to slip a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) image of Windows 7 Build 6956 onto a portable device and upload it via torrent to the world.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 3, 2008 at 11:46:58 AM CET
Too good to ignore: 6 alternative browsers
When Microsoft, Mozilla or Apple comes out with a new version of Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari, it makes news -- mainly because most of us use one or more of these three Web browsers. In fact, with the exception of Google's Chrome (which made a big splash, mostly because it came from Google), most of the alternative browsers out there tend to get lost in the shuffle.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 3, 2008 at 11:40:46 AM CET
gOS intros OS cloud for netbooks
Another browser-based operating system is joining the netbook gold strike.
On Monday, Good OS — maker of the Google gadget–heavy gOS — unveiled a new quick-starting cloud OS at the World Netbook Forum in Paris.
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