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Think you've got what it takes to design the next iPhone? Design the Next iPhone and win awesome prizes! See the full story...
Dirty, rotten spammers are sending increasing amounts of specially crafted bounce emails that appear to be sent by the message recipient. In reality, it's a way the spammer can successfully skip anti-spam checks. We got hit. You will too.
If you don't use an FTP program, but still love to download stuff off the web -- you'll want to stop downloading and start leeching ...
The editors at YoungJin.com have just authored and released their latest entry in their successful Accelerated series -- 3ds Max 9 Accelerated -- A Hands-on and Proven Learn-by-doing Approach to 3ds Max
OpenOffice has long been a Microsoft Office alternative. Now version 3.0 beta has been released for Mac OS X. See the full story...
Snarb.tk today announced the immediate availability of Cover Stream 2.0, a major update to their popular iTunes controller that extends iTunes Cover Flow to the desktop.
Back in the mid '80s, I founded the Macintosh Business SIG at the Boston Computer Society. We concentrated more than necessary on accounting programs. There really wasn't much of other software available in those days. In this article, Josh Pigford of the Apple Blog has named 30 applications and some alternatives to use in running your business.
This site has the above mentioned 5 alternatives to Photoshop complete with a quick review of each. See the full story...
In the past, we have talked about such book sites as the Guttenburg Project and LibriVox. This is another one. (Read More)
Raising the bar for audio editors -- many are turning to Adobe Audition for functions they can't do in any of the many other programs available. See the full story...
Viveza plug-in works seamlessly within Aperture -- allows Aperture users to selectively control light and color in photographic images without ever having to leave Aperture.
Although Logic Pro 8 introduces many features which improve the program's accessibility and ease of use, it remains a powerful and complex piece of software. Fortunately, you've got Logic Pro 8 Tips and Tricks --
More than 100,000 Beta testers have now proven that there is a real market for privately sharing personal media. A unique new service now available
You can stop sending mail about this problem. Since I first reported on the spam slam, I've received over 100 emails from other users having the same problem. So far, it cannot easily be reported to SpamCop or the other automated spam reporting systems. So, if you're one of the unfortunate email users to be hit by 'backscatter spam' (See article #2 above) here is an easy way to deal with it immediately:
1) Create a folder: in your email program, set up a new folder called "bounces"
2) Filter "Subject": set up a filter which parses the "Subject" line for the following:
* undeliverable
* deliver
* failed
* undelivered
* failure
* blocked
3) Filter "Sender": set up a filter which parses the "Sent By" field. (Some filters will allow multiple criteria. If yours does, you can add this to the "Subject" filter too.)
* postmaster
* MAILER-DAEMON
* localhost
Set the filter to move these emails into your newly created "bounces" folder. From there you can search for the "good" bounces, if there are any. Usually, you'll remember people you emailed to in the past 24 hours or so, and you can visually check those out in the Bounces folder listing. Once you're satisfied no good mail has been filtered, you can simply delete all the spams. For a very small measure of pleasure, Mac users can just select all, and click the "bounce" button to bounce the mail back to the senders. But I didn't advocate that.
Isn't it a true travesty that good people have to put up with this garbage from the bad people in the world. Too bad IPv6 is not fully implemented.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
--Groucho Marx
Books are the shoes with which we tread the footsteps of great minds.
--Franz Kafka
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.
--Ernest Hemingway
Have a great week... (See last week)
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