Oh whow this is really nice… The iPhone uses its front-facing camera to track the head of the viewer. Since it knows where the head of the viewer is it can actually simulate a 3D display as can be seen in the video below… is that a cool piece of software or what?
Also on the iPad:
Now I will be the first to post hilarious screenshots of windows oddities… just because I think that windows sucks. Big time, that is. Now I encountered a funny thing on my Mac as well.. I was updating my OS and it started downloading. When almost done it showed a very funny estimated time of arrival: -2147483648 hours. So basically I got my update 244978 years ago… Now isn’t that amazing?
Oh wow. You really have to see this for yourself. Is this a cool app or what? Unfortunately I don’t come across much Spanish still from a technological point of view… this is really cool. Download it for free from the AppStore.
Not everything at Microsoft is bad….
He he he, I don’t really need this but I think it is a nice gadget… the Table Connect for iPhone.
Oh wow, I have a new phone. It’s an android phone. The samsung Galaxy S. I had the phone lying around for a month but now it’s finally activated. Still reachable under the same number though. That’s why I had to wait.
Oh boy what a pleasure to work with. It has swype text input. This allows you to just swipe your finger or in my case my thumb over the keyboard. Single finger and fast text input. Very convenient.
Although I do like apple products and I was definitely considering to go iphone4 I decided to go android. First of all: I already have an ipod touch which is basically an iphone without the ability to make a phone call. So getting the iphone would not really be a new experience. So I go for the both worlds option. iOs and android. Let’s see what will turn out to be the better choice. So far so good: I love the samsung galaxy S.
Well as many developers already know: security is a concept, not a product! You can’t just throw “some security” at a piece of software. Security considerations must be part of the original design and development of software. The Pwn2Own hacking contest shows –once again– that there is too little security awareness in current software design. Look at these embarrassing results: all major browsers took a fall: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. Most browser are compromised by popular plugins like acrobat reader
These OS’s took a fall: Windows 7, Windows XP, Mac OS X snow leopard. The only OS that is still standing is Linux. Because Linux is indefinitely more secure? Well maybe but there’s also something else: Linux is an open source OS where highly skilled developers are coding. Changes are reviewed by others before they are merged into the main kernel tree. In other words: security is part of Linux. Another thing is that people who run linux are people who are aware of abuse. These are –in general– not the people who would click on the ‘cute-kitten-movie.exe‘ attachment. So Linux is just not that interesting to Black Hat Hackers. True: Mac OS X is build on an open source OS as well: FreeBSD but the presentation layer and Safari is proprietary code from Apple (except for the WebKit on which it is build).
Microsoft currently runs the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) model. This should make security an integral part of the development lifecycle. Well to be honest when budgets are getting tight and deadlines are running out: documentation and code quality are the first areas that take the fall. So really I don’t expect much from SDL. Especially since MS is trying to develop a ‘catch all’ (silver bullet) security measure inside the kernel… I’m not saying these measures aren’t worthwhile, they are (Linux has them for ages now), it’s just not enough.
The phrase ‘security is a concept, not a product‘ proves its point when you look at the measures current OS’s are implementing to prevent ‘arbitrary code execution’. Windows XP, Windows Vista (still in use?) and Windows 7 has DEP (Data Execution Prevention) and ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization). Both ‘techniques’ should prevent (or make it harder) to execute arbitrary code… but they don’t. Dutch security researcher Peter Vreugdenhil showed an impressive circumvention of DEP and ASLR in windows 7. See: security is not a product…
The good thing is that the hackers are not just updating the vendors on the leaks they found. Instead they tell the vendors how to find the leaks themselves in an attempt to raise awareness.
Some call me a hater, others call me a fanboy… well the truth is somewhere in the middle… I hope… Anyway, I love this new Mac ad.
Whahahaa… nice. The EFF (electronic frontier foundation) has filed a request at the DMCA to allow jailbreaking of Apple’s iPhone. Users must be able to install any software they wish.. not just the software apple approves of.
Just this week apple removed any voice-based application from the App Store to protect their exclusive deal with AT&T because it “duplicates features that come with the iPhone”. This just proves the necessity of people having the right to install any software they want.
Soooo Apple had to respond to the DMCA why jailbreaking would be bad…. well.. hold on tight.. according to Apple the iPhone is not just a phone… it’s a weapon of mass-disruption. I call “FUD“
Now this has to be the ultimate mod for a macbook. EdsJunk cracked his MacBook open and added a second monitor to it. So instead of the dull backlit apple logo you can now display anything on it. Here’s a video of the result… oh boy…
Today I talked about how cool it would be if you could have all your books on an ebook reader with my friends Karel and Bas. It’s definitely something that we would love to have. Amazon just released the Kindle 2 ebook reader. However that would require you to carry around another device. But if you are the lucky owner of an Apple iPhone you can get the Kindle reader for free on your iPhone. Matthew Miller wrote a nice article on this and has some beautiful screenshots. This seems pretty useable but unfortunately the iPhone will drain its power while on a Kindle only a page change requires power. Here’s a nice video of the Kindle 2 and the Kindle software on the iPhone…
I used to be a hardcore Linux user before I got my Mac. Being a Linux / Unix user you are used to scratching our own itch. When I moved to the Mac I sort of got used to having everything integrated and well configurable. Well that is until I installed Java 6. After installing Java 6 the current version (Java 5) remained the active version.
So to scratch my own itch I just set some environment variables and put a few links here and there and I was done. However a collegue of mine ran into the same problem on his wife’s Mac. Since I didn’t want them to go through the same mess I went through I tried another search on how to properly activate Java 6. And I found it right here. Isn’t that brilliant? You gotta love your Mac.
Some days ago Apple introduced the new MacBookPro, you can read a nice report on engadget. is available from apple. People expected a little more from the new MacBookPro and there’s hope. See the introduction of the revolutionary keyboard-less notebook from Apple:
Oh this is nice. Some hackers have been able to boot Linux on their iPhone. A lot of the iPhone hardware is not supported (yet) but it boots and you can enter shell commands (using USB). Nice hack…
Microsoft announced that it has already started working on “Windows 7″ as a successor to the less than satisfying Windows Vista. Microsoft promises a whole new desktop experience albeit based on the same kernel as Vista’s.
The first screenshots from Windows 7 start to appear on the net. Mac OS X users will recognize a whole lot of OS X in the Windows 7 screenshots. It is almost as if Microsoft is admitting that OS X offers a way better user experience than windows since Windows 7 seems to copy every single feature from OS X. Take a look at the screenshots. I still prefer running a Unix operating system but for those who prefer inferior OS technology this might give ‘m at least a decent user experience. I don’t think Windows 7 will be the actual name of the retail product. They should give it a name that is more up to par with copying OS X. Apple uses names like Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Leopard. So I think Windows 7 should be called “Windows Siamese twin cat” or just “Windows Copycat”.