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There's been a series of posts in the Apple User Group list concerning one user who has been receiving bounced spam to his box -- being labeled as the "sender" of the spam. He believes his Mac.com email account has been hacked. If you suspect your Mac account has been hacked, here's what to look for.
I don't know who is responsible for this parody, but it really is funny. Shortly after I posted this, Fred chimed in with his favorite "Apple" videos, and points us to his video play list. Now, can you count how many times Steve Jobs has said "boom" in his keynotes? This is all great fun!
The title of this blog posting is actually "35 Absolutely Essential Mac Apps in The Working Day" by Ivan Brkan. It actually is a list of applications aimed at freelancers.
osx.hyperjeff.net claims to have the oldest running and the best-kept list of OSX applications on the Internet. (Read More)
This game is almost as much fun as an S2000 in 3rd at 8,000 RPMs... Are you ready for some real nose-bleed racing action? See the full story...
Tagtraum industries has rolled out version 1.2 of beaTunes - an iTunes add-on for Mac & Windows, popular especially amongst DJs, athletes, audiophiles and iPod users. (Read More)
Dustin Bachrach, a Rice student and developer of Mac OS X applications and the web has posted this list of Unknown Mac Apps. He is at least right about the fact they are not well known.
Daniel Dilger in an article on Roughly Drafted says that Steve Jobs wanted to allow users to make ring tones out of any song that they owned. In fact, he even mentions in the article that it is a relatively simple matter to get any file approved.
MacBook and PowerBooks now get the ultimate protection... See the full story...
On Monday Apple announced it sold its one millionth iPhone yesterday, just 74 days after its introduction on June 29. (Read More)
If you do a lot of graphics, check out Art Text for creating textual graphics, high-quality headings, logos, web banners and buttons. See the full story...
For webmasters and web crafters, this new Flash CS3 Lesson Book Includes DVD with Video Tutorials, filling the training gap for Adobe's less-famous CS product
Even though Mac Mail is probably one of the worst email products on the market, some innovative producers are coming up with effective work-arounds. Maybe now, Mac Mail won't suck quite as bad.
Eric Meyer really is the leading expert on CSS for the web. His new tool, CSS Sculptor, created in collaboration with WebAssist, makes it easy for Dreamweaver users to create Web standards compliant CSS-based layouts
If you have a web site or blog with regularly updated content, take advantage of RSS content syndication. Feed Editor makes content syndication easy for everyone
"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea.
It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off,
and does something about it that makes a difference."
~ Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari
"A weak person has doubts before a decision,
a strong one has them afterwards."
~ Karl Kraus
Have a great week... (See last week)
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