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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10352" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10352">Apple has released security updates for Java in Mac OS X 10.4 and Mac OS X 10.5 to deal with serious vulnerabilities discovered nine months ago and patched by Java developer Sun Microsystems six months ago.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 15 Jun 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10339"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10339', 'show')">Eye-Fi Pro Card Adds Raw Uploads, Computer Transfers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10339" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10339">The latest Eye-Fi memory card, which combines storage and a Wi-Fi system in a Secure Digital container, is aimed at professionals. It can upload raw format images and transfer files directly to a computer without a gateway. Users can now choose which images to transfer, too.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=4" class="category">Media Creation</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 10 Jun 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10305"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10305', 'show')">AT&T Plans for Mobile Data Onslaught</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10305" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10305">The U.S. telephone giant AT&T is upgrading its wireless network in many different ways to ensure that smartphones - mostly the iPhone - don't swamp the network. The company is planning for faster 3G phones and its future 4G network, too.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 28 May 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10258" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10258">A German at a typewriter in 1985 figured out the 160-character limit of SMS for GSM networks with no market research. He looked at telexes and postcards, too.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 04 May 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10241" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10241">Microsoft finally sheds a bit of its past by offering an optional virtual machine with Windows XP installed as part of its upcoming Windows 7 operating system. Sound a bit like Mac OS X's Classic environment?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10203"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10203', 'show')">When iPhone Pushes, Text Message Fees Fall</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10203" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10203">The value of a text message for which a phone company charges a thousand times its cost is tied entirely to the message's reach and interruptive capability. iPhone push notifications may help kill SMS charges.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10158"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10158', 'show')">Wi-Fi 802.11b Standard Expires</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10158" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10158">The original flavor of Wi-Fi, 802.11b, expired at the end of March 31st, 2009. It's time to upgrade.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 01 Apr 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10167"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10167', 'show')">Invisibility App for iPhone Helps You Avoid Undesirables</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10167" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10167">No, the recently released Invisibility app doesn't make you invisible. Rather, it helps you slip away from people you want to avoid by using publicly broadcast identifiers and traces from online sources to warn you of their presence. It's the start of asocial networking.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 01 Apr 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10180"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10180', 'show')">VeriSign Brings Authentication Tokens to iPhone</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10180" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10180">Security tokens can dramatically reduce the odds that a malefactor could access your account on a banking, commerce, or even webmail site. Now VeriSign has built an iPhone application that generates such tokens for several major sites.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 31 Mar 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10152"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10152', 'show')">Sony Reader Gets 500,000 Free Public Domain Titles from Google</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10152" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10152">Google tries to insert itself into the electronic reader market by making 500,000 copyright-free titles available for the Sony Reader Digital Book. Titles, all dating from before 1923, are free to download.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 23 Mar 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10156"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10156', 'show')">Kodak Gallery Joins Parade of Free-with-Payment Services</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10156" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10156">Those photos you thought were safe forever online could disappear in a puff of electrons. Kodak Gallery becomes the latest service that will require regular purchases to keep storage accounts active.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 21 Mar 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10154" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10154">Ted Landau went through a lot of Option key pressing to figure out how to integrate a new simultaneous dual-band AirPort Extreme Base Station with his older mix of 802.11n (rectangular) and 802.11g (saucer) AirPort base stations. He explains how at MacFixIt.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 20 Mar 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10155" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10155">Security researcher Charlie Miller has cut his time to "pwn" (take full control of an operating system via an exploit) from 2 minutes to 10 seconds at the CanSecWest PWN2OWN contest. He was sitting on a previously discovered exploit that he had pre-loaded onto a remote Web site. When a fully patched Mac OS X system connected to the site, he was in charge. He won $5,000 and the exploited MacBook. Miller's find and two other Safari exploits will be turned over to Apple without prior disclosure by TippingPoint, the firm that sponsored the contest.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 20 Mar 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10150" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10150">Apple has revised its guide for planning and building Wi-Fi networks, formerly called "Designing AirPort Networks." The new guide, "Apple AirPort Networks," is a fairly in-depth effort at explaining with step-by-step instructions how to configure Apple base stations for various kinds of networks and tasks.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 18 Mar 2009</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/10151"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10151', 'show')">AirPort Firmware May Resolve Time Capsule Disk Problems</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10151" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10151">The latest version of Leopard combined with a firmware update for AirPort base stations may fix a problem with Time Machine that led to corrupted backup disk images on Time Capsule drives.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 18 Mar 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10112"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10112', 'show')">AirPort Extreme, Time Capsule: Like Two Base Stations in One</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10112" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10112">Apple has caught up with other makers of Wi-Fi gear by updating the AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule base stations to handle connections in both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz at the same time. Other new features include Back to My Mac-style remote hard drive access, and a guest network option.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 09 Mar 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10125"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10125', 'show')">Hands on with a Dual Network AirPort Extreme Base Station</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10125" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10125">Firing up AirPort Utility with a new AirPort Extreme Base Station that can run two networks, one on each of two radios, shows how Apple is managing to squeeze new options under the hood.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 05 Mar 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10117"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10117', 'show')">Answers to Questions about Updated Apple Base Stations</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10117" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10117">We've learned a few more tidbits, literally, about the recently announced enhancements to the AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule. Remote MobileMe access is coming to all previous 802.11n base stations via a firmware update; guest access is not.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 04 Mar 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10118" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10118">This MacJury podcast looks at whether authors are justified in trying to establish a separate right for books to be read aloud using text-to-speech technology, specifically in the Amazon Kindle 2. Chuck Joiner hosts a conversation with Bryan Chaffin, Peter Cohen, Glenn Fleishman, Ted Landau, and Keith Lang.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 04 Mar 2009</div></div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10122" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10122">Glenn talks about the Kindle 2 and Amazon's new Kindle for iPhone application, how easy it is to read on either device, and what makes a book "booky" on Your Mac Life. Also, Peter Cohen, Lesa King, and Mark Gollin.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 04 Mar 2009</div></div></div>
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