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<a href="/article/8737"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8737', 'show')">Another Minor AirPort Vulnerability Exposed</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8737" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8737">Mac OS X may be at risk via the original AirPort Card because of an attack methodology published last week as part of the Month of Kernel Bugs. The attack can corrupt some "internal kernel structures," and causes a kernel panic - a crash</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 06 Nov 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8729"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8729', 'show')">Unpatched Macs Face Bluetooth Root Exploit</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8729" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8729">Security software developer Intego last week issued a press release about a significant proof-of-concept Bluetooth exploit that has been dubbed "Inqtana.d Bluetooth." This exploit works via a flaw in the Bluetooth short-range wireless networking standard, and could affect only Macs running unpatched versions of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (which is why we recommend installing Apple's security updates!)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 30 Oct 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8719"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8719', 'show')">International Haus of Spam</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8719" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8719">Spamhaus is a well-regarded registry of bad actors. The British nonprofit, along with partner organizations, tracks the IP addresses that spew most of the spam issued forth worldwide</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 23 Oct 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8715"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8715', 'show')">Skype Releases Version 2.0 for Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8715" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8715">eBay's Internet telephony division released Skype 2.0 for Mac OS X today. The latest version, in testing for some months, brings video conferencing among Mac users or across supported platforms</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 23 Oct 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8708" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8708">We've been predicting a gusher of ExpressCards, the new slot-loading expansion cards for the MacBook Pro and high-end PC laptops, any time now. Any time now appears to be today</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 16 Oct 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8699"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8699', 'show')">Apple Reports on Options Backdating Problems</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8699" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8699">Steve Jobs apologized last week while announcing the results of an internal investigation regarding Apple's backdating of stock options, in which options were granted on a preferentially low stock price date instead of the date upon which the grant was decided</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 09 Oct 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8700"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8700', 'show')">PocketMac for BlackBerry 4 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8700" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8700">PocketMac last week released the latest version of its BlackBerry for Macintosh software, version 4.0. (For details on the previous version, see "Putting BlackBerries in Your PocketMac," 06-Feb-06.) The software is available at no cost to BlackBerry owners, paid for by Research in Motion (RIM), the firm that makes the BlackBerry device</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 09 Oct 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8702"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8702', 'show')">Sleepless (and Latchless) in Seattle</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8702" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8702">It takes a village to put a laptop to sleep. Over the weekend, a comment from Adam Engst solved problems for both TidBITS Irregular Keith Dawson and me with our recalcitrant laptops</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 09 Oct 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8694"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8694', 'show')">Microsoft Releases Messenger for Mac 6.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8694" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8694">Instant messaging from Microsoft received a significant Mac-centric upgrade last week with the release of Messenger for Mac 6.0. The latest version is a universal binary, offers Spotlight searching of transcripts, and interoperates with Yahoo's Messenger service</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 02 Oct 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8684"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8684', 'show')">The Future Beyond Tomorrow, Courtesy of Adobe</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8684" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8684">Adobe wrote in to tell us that my article about GoLive CS2 being dropped from the the forthcoming Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 bundle and replaced with Dreamweaver 8 was incorrect</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8685"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8685', 'show')">Fission Manipulates Audio Tracks of All Stripes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8685" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8685">Rogue Amoeba last week released Fission, a simple audio-manipulation program which can handle AIFF, MP3, unprotected AAC (m4a), and Apple Lossless format files</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
The fate of Web design and management tool Adobe GoLive has been sealed: the program has been booted from Creative Suite, Adobe's bundle of applications designed for print and electronic production professionals</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8677"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8677', 'show')">It's Not Your Parents' (or Even Your) Television</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8677" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8677">Moderately buried in Apple's iTV announcement last week was the peculiar fact that the future streaming media adapter offers only component and HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) video output</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8670" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8670">Wi-Fi networks are everywhere, but finding them often requires tedious use of the erratic AirPort menu in the menu bar, or a separately running application, like iStumbler, that shows more information than most people require</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8663" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8663">In the classic science-fiction movie "Forbidden Planet," an invisible, rampaging beast has killed all but two members of a colony and attacks a visiting spaceship and its personnel as well</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8655" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8655">Apple public relations director Lynn Fox says that the Wi-Fi exploit demonstrated by David Maynor and Jon Ellch two weeks ago in a video shown at the Black Hat 2006 conference does not represent a flaw in Apple's software or device firmware (see "Wireless Driver Hack Could Target Macs and Windows", 07-Aug-06)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 28 Aug 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8649"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8649', 'show')">Secure Transfer Using Civil Netizen and Pando</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8649" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8649">Transferring files between two people can be an extraordinarily painful process. Email seems perfectly reasonable, but is subject to message file attachment limits for both parties</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 21 Aug 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8627"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8627', 'show')">More, Less, and No Information on Running Windows on a Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8627" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8627">VMware, a leading developer of virtualization technology, will offer an Intel-based Mac OS X version of their virtual machine software, while Microsoft will not revise Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs, the two firms announced today during WWDC</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 07 Aug 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8628"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8628', 'show')">Wireless Driver Hack Could Target Macs and Windows</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8628" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8628">A potentially serious exploit of Mac OS X's wireless networking hardware drivers has had a very limited demonstration. The exploit, which apparently relies on a flaw at the lowest level of the drivers' interaction with Mac OS X's kernel, has not yet been independently confirmed, nor has Apple released a statement on the matter</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 07 Aug 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8630" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8630">America Online dropped a fee bomb last week: You can use their antiquated, funky, irritating software with an AOL account at no cost, as long as you don't want to use dial-up Internet access</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 07 Aug 2006</div></div>
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