Good economic numbers for Apple
Mac and Linux
The numbers are not reality. But allow us to access it from a single prism that ends up being much fairer and more accurate than the problematic issues of meaning and intersubjective search for truth. So taking as an object of statistical study one person can have a fairly adequate picture of the real movements.
Is this what we have done in the state they are today the great magnates of the computer: Microsoft, Apple, and Linux. These three operators now compete for the market of goods and services, bringing to market products daily users worldwide and set the agenda wish to purchase more than one person.
We all know that Microsoft is the giant par excellence. He has made over the years adopted a very positive position given its brand and products for large segments of the population of users. However, over time, Apple and Linux have also managed to make their own achievements, alternative marketing strategies. Linux with its concept of open source, has helped generate a counter-culture that adopts Microsoft and Apple as the giants to be derrotadodos. Apple, by contrast, has been very successful in designers and users with exquisite taste.
And it is this change in market dynamics that has been expressed with the financial results of the last fiscal quarter for Microsoft. Read more
Spywere found in Mac OS X
Dangers of an operating system
Often small events, unconscious acts, slips, or seemingly insignificant, say many more truths than a statement or a voluminous treatise on a particular issue. Here is a small anecdote. ExtraMED anecdote which various consequences and that helps us to reflect on the trigger, why not, a lesson that we should serve all in the use of operating systems.
Yesterday was published a story that had some significance in the journalistic world in which Google said it will stop using Windows computers using their employees. When this news was published could not understand why they had proceeded in this way. However, the recognition of spywere in Mac OS X applications from people from Intego has been able to shed some light on this mystery.
It turns out that this spywere is separated from the virus so far known for his dramatic timing and hazardous congenital your state of constant motion. Better known as OSX / OpinionSpy this spywere activated in the very action of downloading applications. Is not given stonily in the application before the arrival of the agent to download, but exists in the act of downloading. Read more
MonoTouch on your iPhone
The Mono version 2.6 is expected in November, the current 2.4.2.x series has been included in the distributions Canonical why not include these packages? Read more
New in August
OpenSUSE 11.2 M5 (including KDE 4.3 Caizan)
Suse Studio 1.0 (subscription / invitation)
Mac OSX 10.5.8 (now I finally upgrade before 10.6 Snow Leopard)
Slackware 13.0 RC2-current (at 32 and 64 bit)
0.4.1 Helen (microkernel and system support multiple processors)
Security Issues in Mac OS X
In Boston, the conference SOURCE, Dino Dai Zovi has made a demonstration on how to break the security of Apple's operating system. To make the show has used the data memory (HEAP Memory) is not sufficiently protected in order to perform the attack. This problem is currently produced in Leopard but it is anticipated that in the next version, Snow Leopard, will be resolved as data memory will be random.
So far, Mac OS X was considered one of the most secure systems on the market. However this finding may be that serious attacks appear to Mac OS X.
As a curiosity the iPhone OS is not vulnerable to the problem described above.
More details on faq-mac-com .
Interface enhancements in Snow Leopard
Mac OS X has always been known for being quite innovative in matters relating to the user interface. The dock, anti-aliasing fonts on the desktop, create a Human Interface Guidelines (rules that define how applications should behave) and Exposé are some examples of the different technologies that Apple pioneered admitted into its system.
Snow Leopard looks set to bring some developments in relation to that aspect. An example of this is the controversial new interface Safari 4 that although it has received some criticism must be acknowledged that includes elements such as Coverflow innovative enough to display the history or the tab bar at the top (very inspired by Chrome, it must say).
Also the version of QuickTime to bring Snow Leopard will make various changes to the interface since, as we discover in AppleInsider , are going to remove the controls. That is, to open a movie the only thing the movie is displayed only in passing the mouse over the player controls appear (similar to what happens in many players but to maximize the window).
As you approach the time of release of the new system (to be defined), we get to know in detail all the changes that Apple plans regarding Snow Leopard interface and if the innovations introduced in Safari or QuickTime will apply to other components the system.
Qt 4.5
In the beginning (1994) was Trolltech and graphics libraries and expanded the possibilities of free Unix GNU / Linux. Nokia has announced the availability of open source QT 4.5 (apart paradox is to promote open source SymbianOS to compete in the always open and always open Linux KDE complainant of the QT, nothing prevents it by the way). The novelty is that the name is converted to QtDesigner Qt Creator IDE into a very modern 1.0 SDK that supports WebKit, Flash, JScript engine and launches a new framework for improving Cocoa development on Mac OS X. Interoperability and integration with KDevelop will be news from my user experience in a few weeks.
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