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Phishing Alert: in the past three days UGN Crime Trackers have analyzed more than six phishing attacks utilizing a slightly different ploy than usual. The attack comes in the form of an email that looks like the real thing -- see this important Phishing Alert
Last week, UGN crime trackers issue this alert based on criminal phishing attacks in the past two days spoofing official IRS tax refunds. PLEASE READ AND SHARE
According to CENS, Asustek Computer Inc. of Taiwan has been selected to build 1.2 million iBooks. (No guarantee that they well be called iBook however.) They are expected to have 13.3" LCD screens. (Read More)
Apple has announced that they have purchased 50 acres of land about a mile from its current campus at One Infinite Loop. (Will this be Two Infinite Loop?) The purpose is to open a second campus to house its staff which presently is housed in 30 building scattered all over Cupertino. (Read More)
Ipod, Macintosh Shipments Slow" Isn't that amazing headline from Blooberg? You have to read the article to find out that the shipments slowing refers to drop off from the record holiday quarter. Its second quarter profit actually increased $410 million from $290 year over year and sales increased 34 percent to $4.36 billion over last year. The increase paled with the growth rate that averaged 65 percent in the prior five periods. Read the full story, or listen to the actual Apple conference call.
ScoobySoft has released DMG Packager, that makes it much easier to create a disk image. Besides the actual disk image, which of course could be done with DiskCopy, DMG Packager can be used t preserve its window styling, compressing it and even adding a Software License Agreement.
Get more info and download via Apple Or from SciibySoft
Next time you feel like you're ISP is ripping you off surf over to this site and be reminded how bad it could be. Of course, I actually wonder where they will find the 10,000 people they think they will get for this site. They only charge about 15 times what AOL does. Some might consider this the ultimate user group. See it at: www.millionaires24.com
Court doesn't appear to be leaning Apple's way -- Last week, the California Appeals court heard arguments concerning Apple's lawsuit against some bloggers who Apple accuses of distributing Trade Secrets over the Internet.
A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge sided with Apple and the Appeals Court is reviewing the case. Two of the three appeals court justices seemed to suggest that Apple had not even shown that serious trade secrets had been revealed.
"You don't really claim this is some sort of new technology, do you?" Presiding Justice Conrad Rushing said to Apple's Riley at one point. The appeals court now has 90 days to rule on the case which will probably wind up in the Supreme Court. (Read More)
George Kelion at Feral Interactive has made a special offer to MUG officers. Feral is major developer of games for the Mac market. They are willing to send a complimentary copy of their latest releases to MUGs in exchange for a review. It needs to be either posted on line or in the MUG's newsletter with a link to their web site. The games themselves can be used for demos, as prizes or kept by the reviewer.
In order to participate send the following information to the address below:
* Name of a contact with their position in the MUG * Their e-mail and snail-mail addresses (No PO Box) * An iChat or AIM address if possible
Feral has promised that no information will be given to third parties.
Request your group's copy at : mugs [at] feralinteractive.com Note: George authorized posting of his e-mail address, but I don't want him to deal with any more spam than necessary. See their games!
if you use eBay, PayPal, Amazon.com, iTunes, VISA (or other Charge Cards) CHASE, Wachovia, (or other online banking) ... or even the IRS. No one will help you. You are your own best hope.
Speculation is ramping up once again, that Apple will be setting up its own virtual network in much the same way that Virgin has done. According to Visiongain, a marketing research company, Apple has acknowledged that mobile handsets pose a threat to its iPod business and thus, the thinking is, if you can't beat them join them. (Read More)
According to Jack Kapica at the Globe and Mail, Mercora IMRadio is "about the closest one can come to getting music from Kazaa and still be legal." But it is pretty much a secret. IMRadio pays royalties to the music industry collectives that disburse royalty payments to music artists and it behaves like a radio stations with advertising. Howver, the advertising is displayed on the software, not as audio content.
But it will allow you to search for certain songs or artists, and play them, with certain limitations. Such as the inability to play the same artist more than 3 times in an hour.
The users themselves supply the music library. Also it doesn't provide a way to capture the songs as the play, but they do provide a way to purchase the songs. They are claiming that on average, after 9 hearings of the same song, a user will purchase it. (Read More)
This is our last report in this exercise in futility. Included are this weeks numbers, an unusual spam profile and our apologies to Motley Fool and any other innocents caught in the spammer's web of diabolical schemes. The end. Final Stock Spam Report and Tally
MVCUG Mountain View Computer Users Group
What's HSDPA? ...so you wanted to take your Mac on the road, but didn't want to drag along a static IP account? Well now, the first HSDPA support is available!
MacTech has released an extensive benchmark study of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac running on the latest Intel-based Macs. (Read More)
The next generation of motion graphics for Flash!
A difficult subject made fairly easy
AirPort and Mac Wireless Networks are not as complicated as you think...
So you want to get into eBay -- but don't want to get ripped off?
You've got a digital camera, now -- so are you getting the color you want?
Everyone seems to be bonkers over digital movies these days... so, the question is: why not do it right?
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
- WH Auden
"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." - William James
"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."
- Booker T. Washington
Have a great week... (See last week)
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