With all of the stuff going on about privacy and phone home apps, I finally decided I need to install monitoring software and find out what my systems are REALLY doing. I am pretty good about not installing software from untrusted sources. With the recent issues with Apple and Sony, I found a decent tool called Little Snitch
January 15, 2006
Apple must be owned by Sony!
There are serious reports of spyware being installed by Apple’s new itunes software.
You can read it about it here
In this article, they state that Apple is serious about your privacy. This is the same company that had a EULA that said anything you uploaded to their website via .mac became their property and you could see vacation slides end up in the next Apple commercial without your permission or owed royalties.
It’s crap like this that make me want to go slap someone. Some developer in the back room is making these decisions without review or legal analysis. This is why open source software should be all you support or buy. At least then we can review the source code and find this sort of stuff.
January 14, 2006
Do my eyes deceive me?
Apple is now promoting their new Intel laptop.
The price is good, but I will be damned if I am going to buy all my software for a third time. If this platform is going to be successful, it will need to be able to run all OSX software.
December 30, 2005
iTrip (don’t waste your money)
If your thinking of buying an FM modulator for your mp3/portable player, don’t waste your money.
They don’t work. Better to spend your money on a new head unit with an aux input.
bloging at 70mph!
Well I am sitting in my wife’s mustang typing away on the mac. I am using my borrowed EVDO card from work and figured I would see how well it worked. I need to add to my geek points, so I figued what better to do it than surf the internet at 70 mile per hour.
For the most part it works great. The latency can be a pain though when your waiting for a page to load. Around Santa Barbara I lost signal, but it didn’t last for long.
About to go through a tunnel, we will see if the signal stays!
Yea! It did. Signal went to zero, but then came back. I didn’t get bumped from my dial up though.
well back to sight seeing before I cause Angie to crash.
