Jim Dalrymple:
Apple on Tuesday admitted to being the victim of a hacker attack by the same people that went after Facebook last week. Apple said it is taking steps to help its customers, including releasing an updated Java malware removal tool.
The first comment on Jim’s post is awesome.
Also awesome? That Apple looks out for its customers, even though the issue is with Java, and not OS X itself.
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Jim Grey:
Car logotypes are meant to convey something about the automobile to which they are attached.
Benj Edwards pours one out for a bunch of forgotten Macs.
Most people have a mix of natural abilities, but the gifts we call superpowers often are tempered through training and experience. That is the case for me. My superpowers come as the result of a disease. I am legally blind. […] When it comes to superpowers I am gifted. I have three. LHON might have taken some of my vision, but in return it left me with heightened abilities I would easily trade for the chance to drive a car, or read a classroom blackboard.
Jordan Golson at MacRumors:
New iMac models on the Apple Online Store list a lead time of several weeks to get delivered, while the refurbished models claim to ship in 1–3 days, with $200 and $230 discounts on the low- and high-end 21" models respectively.
If you need an iMac now, this is the way to go.
Bryan Bishop:
The Computer Science Museum is offering the source code for Photoshop 1.0.1 for the Mac with Adobe’s blessing. It’s for non-commercial use, though it’s not something you’re going to be able to run out of the gate — aside from operating system and architecture issues, the MacApp libraries that were licensed from Apple at the time are not included. It consists of about 128,000 lines of code, the majority of which were written in the Pascal programming language.
Anyone who has been following technology since before the Dawn of the Smartphone should remember the Apple Newton. The handheld device was sold from 1993 to 1998, and is regarded as being ahead of its time.
The family of devices all came equipped with (eventually) decent battery life, handwriting recognition and a pen-based UI, and all ran the Newton OS.
Apple didn’t just keep Newton OS confined to glowing green handheld devices, however. In November 1997, just four months before the entire project would be shut down, Apple shipped the eMate 300.
Rebecca Greenfield:
Not all of Musk’s data is entirely convincing and the parts that are don’t point to a malicious plot. In the end, it looks like Broder made some compromises to get from the Newark charging station to the Milford one, in both speed and temperature. Broder may not have used Musk’s car the way Musk would like, but Musk is, for now, overhyping his case for a breach of journalism ethics.
Elon Musk:
When Tesla first approached The New York Times about doing this story, it was supposed to be focused on future advancements in our Supercharger technology. There was no need to write a story about existing Superchargers on the East Coast, as that had already been done by Consumer Reports with no problems! We assumed that the reporter would be fair and impartial, as has been our experience with The New York Times, an organization that prides itself on journalistic integrity. As a result, we did not think to read his past articles and were unaware of his outright disdain for electric cars. We were played for a fool and as a result, let down the cause of electric vehicles. For that, I am deeply sorry.
This week, Lil’ Mikey DJ and I discuss gdgt being bought by Aol, Apple’s slight refresh to its MacBook line and the iPad 4.
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Viticci:
Last Monday, 445 days after my first scan, my PET scan came back negative. This doesn’t mean my journey is over: it means the treatments I have received, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, have been very effective. I will likely get more treatments to “consolidate” – e.g. “wrap up” – everything, but, overall, this is great news. It means I have kicked cancer’s ass.
This is not a post about the lessons I’ve learned. I am still learning. There’s an old saying in Italy that goes like this: “life is a continuous exam”. I believe that’s true. How can I write about life when I’m still learning how to deal with it?