Garbage In Garbage Out

I’ll admit I’m unfairly targeting Vista, but in this day and age, there’s no excuse for this sort of error message and its mumbly-crumbly error text (”might be useful if…”). Might be useful if Error 0×8000FFFF meant anything to the operator.

The energy saver preference panel in Mac OS X offers a simplistic approach to managing energy saving settings, such as sleep time for the computer and disks. A user might think that by deselecting “Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible”, the drives would be prevented from spinning down. This is not, however, true.

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Today Apple has announced a new multifunction quad-band GSM+EDGE hand-held phone, incorporating Wi-Fi, a wide-screen video player, with MP3 and AAC music player. It automatically senses whether it is held in portrait or landscape mode. The phone itself sports a 3.5-inch screen with 160 pixels per inch (ppi). The entire face is LCD, so all [...]

Parallels release yesterday of a new beta (build 3094) further blurs the distinction between rival operating systems. With the new release, Windows applications appear independently in the Mac OS X dock, and even in the application switcher. Better still, Windows XP apps can be dragged to a permanent spot on the dock, and when clicked, [...]

Reader Mista Carruth threw in some good trash after I took out the garbage on Parallels’ fantastic new beta of their Macintosh VM. Apple continues to deny that they’ll introduce a virtualization scheme at the OS level. Of course, that means nothing. No doubt Apple has a master plan, and perhaps this is it.

A XSS worm is spreading like wildfire through MySpace, infecting user accounts and modifying the profile and pages by replacing links. Like most cyber attacks, the MySpace worm relies upon a combination of approaches. This one is based in Javascript, CSS, HTML and uses Apple’s QuickTime component as a supporting vehicle.

Want the freedom to place USB devices anywhere in a room? Imagine putting your scanner on a shelf behind you, your printer in a cabinet, and your camera, well, anywhere. Sick of cabling up your laptop to multiple devices? Now you can plug in a single USB “key” and connect wirelessly, at an amazing 480Mbps, [...]

Apple offers a suite of subscription services, collectively called .Mac (dot-mac), which offers subscribers an excellent list of features not found anywhere else [edit: Yes, most if not all features can be cobbled together on your own, but we're talking about a cohesive suite here]. Alas, these great features come at a hefty price ($99/year [...]

This is a list of .Mac outtages, compiled directly from Apple’s System Status, which is reported to .Mac subscribers. This list has been created by GIGOBlog’s editors in order to highlight the ongoing number of interruptions of Apple’s .Mac service.
4/12/2007
Due to scheduled maintenance, some members might not have been able to access .Mac Mail for [...]

Today Parallels released a new beta version of their Parallels Desktop for Mac virtual machine environment. The folks over at Parallels haven’t been resting on their laurels, as evidenced by a) the multiple upgrades (both bug fixes and feature enhancements) since first releasing Parallels; b) the radical feature set of their latest beta (build 3036); [...]