Upgrading MarsEdit to 2.o

I did upgrade my copy of MarsEdit to the new version 2.o and honestly, I like the old style better. Yes, the new version does look more like all the new Mac applications but that’s part of the problem, it gets lost in the shuffle. Before it stood out nicely with the sidebar and unique…

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Apple Playing Games With Users Private Information

Breaking news this week, it appears Apple, maker of the wildly popular iPod music player, has been caught embedding users personal information in the music files they buy from iTunes. CNET News.com: “Apple includes customer names and e-mail addresses within song files purchased from iTunes, according to Fred von Lohmann, an EFF attorney. Several tech…

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How to uninstall Virex

If you’ve ever looked at the processes on your Mac you might have seen an application called VShieldCheck running and taking up a considerable (80% in my case) amount of your processor power. What is it? Virex, the antivirus software from McAfee that came free with .Mac account for a number of years. But you…

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Beatles take on Apple

After having been bashed last week by Frances and a new law that says all music downloaded from the web must be able to play on any player, Apple is again getting hit hard and this time by the surviving members of The Beatles. Times.UKThis week the Apple Corps goes to the High Court seeking…

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Apple, Why Doth Thou Stabbest Us In The Back?

I saw this over at Dave Winer’s place this morning so I had to go look see what he was talking about. Scripting News: “Apple is patenting our inventions, again. Oy.” THIS is what he was talking about: Techniques for presenting and managing syndication XML (feeds) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user can modify…

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