I wasn’t going to blog about this when it first made headlines but now there is a nice continuation so here’s the story. Some lunatic developer, Armin Heinrich — who calls himself an artist — has created an application for the Apple iPhone that does absolutely nothing. The application is called “I am rich” and sells for $999.99 on the iPhone App Store. The idea of the application is that you buy it to show off how rich you are. You will get an application that does nothing but it shows an icon on the application menu. That is where you show off how rich you are.

An application for snobs. I really don’t like the idea behind it and I thought nobody would be dumb enough to actually buy it. But here’s the funny part. One dude claims he bought the application by accident. He clicked on the application, has 1 click checkout enabled and is now the proud owner of an application that does nothing for $999.99.

I don’t think the application says “I am rich”… I think it says “I am stupid”… It has now been removed from App Store.

Oeh er is een nieuwe update voor Apple’s Mac OS X besturingssyteem. De update brengt je OS naar versie 10.5.4. Voornamelijk security updates en een aantal feature enhancements en bug fixes. So is iCal grondig aangepakt op gebied van meeting-requests, cancellations en delegations. Het is goed dat ze de release notes erbij doen want de gemiddelde gebruiker merkt weinig verschil: je gaat van een rock-solid OS naar een rock-solid OS…

There is some nice documentation released for all people who want to ‘harden’ their Mac OS X installation. Apple released its own document to make Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) more secure. You can find the guide from Apple here. A few days earlier the center for internet security released its own guide. It contains detailed instructions for implementing the steps necessary for CIS Level-I & 2 security on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). The guide from CIS can be downloaded through here (crappy registration required).

I used to think that I was a liberal guy. Let people enjoy their freedom as long as they don’t invade other peoples freedom, that kind of stuff. Same goes for freedom of speech and press. I even wrote a post (dutch) against the Dutch government who plan to ban the game “Manhunt 2″ in the Netherlands. But now there is a game that is so terrible that it must be forbidden. It’s not the violence. I can handle violence in video games. It’s not about drinking and driving. It’s not the explicit language, I can handle bad mouthing. It’s not the nudity. I even demand nudity in games. Heck, I played Ms. PacMan for years hoping she would do a strip act at level 99.

No no no, none of that. It’s the insult and stigmata against a certain part of the world population. Poking fun at one’s religion is not funny and should be outlawed. I hope all consoles will freeze. What game I’m talking about? “Grand Theft Auto IV”. Here are some shocking screenshots from the game. Those who are not lightly insulted can see the screenshots below. Remember: the screenshots are from the game and they are not funny. NOT FUNNY!

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