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New in Labs: Advanced IMAP Controls – Official Gmail Blog.

About the Snow Leopard Graphics Update.

I don’t blog very often, so it has to be something pretty special when I do. Our buds over at DataSavers LLC successfully recovered some important data for a very happy owner of a Windows 3.1 machine. He’d been using Golf Digest’s ScoreCard 4.0 software to log all of his golf games, scores, and courses for over 15 years. Over iT!’s Challenge: get this all to work easily on his brand new 27″ iMac. What a challenge! Windows 3.1 running on new Mac is something I’ve never seen in my time as a certified Apple specialist. We decided to leverage DOSBox, a free software currently used by old-school PC video gamers to play classic DOS games. In under and hour of the client’s call (and never having met with him in person), we had him up and running. The bonus… We now have our old favorite game, Wolf 3D, running on our iMacs.  ;)

VirtualBox 3.2 Beta Virtualizes Mac OS X (On Macs) – VirtualBox – Lifehacker.

Windows/Mac/Linux: Free virtualization tool VirtualBox, technically Oracle VM VirtualBox now, has quietly added “experimental support for Mac OS X guests” to a beta release. That’s good news—at least for Mac owners, and those willing to dig into serious Hackintosh tweaks.

Several security companies today warned of a major malware campaign that tries to dupe users into opening rigged PDFs that exploit an unpatched design flaw in the PDF format.

Users who open the attack PDFs are infected with a variant of a Windows worm known as “Auraax” or “Emold,” researchers said.

The malicious messages masquerade as mail from company system administrators and come with the subject heading of “setting for your mailbox are changed,” said Mary Grace Gabriel, a research engineer in CA Inc.’s security group. A PDF attachment purportedly contains instructions on how to reset e-mail settings. “SMTP and POP3 servers for … mailbox are changed. Please carefully read the attached instructions before updating settings,” the message states.

Major malware campaign abuses unfixed PDF flaw – Computerworld.

This update improves overall stability and fixes issues in a number of areas in Aperture 3. The key areas addressed include:

• Applying adjustments such as Retouch or Chromatic Aberration
• Creating and using Raw Fine Tuning presets
• Viewing, adding and removing detected faces
• Switching target printers and paper sizes when printing
• Duplicating Smart Albums
• Repairing and rebuilding Aperture libraries
• Reconnecting referenced files
• Working with GPS track files in Places
• Searching for keywords in the Query HUD or Keyword Controls

The update is recommended for all users of Aperture 3.

For detailed information on this update, please visit this website:http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2518

Steve Jobs issue a press release to publicly confirm why Flash will not be incorporated into Apple mobile devices.

Read more on Apple’s site:   Thoughts on Flash.

Thought this was right on… Dr. Starner Jones’ short two-paragraph letter to the White House accurately puts the blame on a “Culture Crisis” instead of a “Health Care Crisis”.. It’s worth a quick read:

Dear Mr. President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.
While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as “Medicaid”! During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.
And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman’s health care? I contend that our nation’s “health care crisis” is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a “crisis of culture”, a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one’s self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based in the irresponsible credo that “I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me”.
Once you fix this “culture crisis” that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you’ll be amazed at how quickly our nation’s health care difficulties will disappear.

Respectfully,
STARNER JONES, MD

Verizon, the largest wireless provider in the U.S., is reportedly investing in its network to make it capable of handling extra traffic from Apple’s iPhone, a company official said.

In an interview with BusinessWeek, Anthony Melone, Verizon Wireless’ chief technology officer, said his company is prepared if Apple decides to end its exclusive agreement with AT&T in 2010.

“We have put things in place already,” Melone reportedly said. “We are prepared to support that traffic.”

The company official did not, however, comment on the prospect of the iPhone becoming available on Verizon. But various reports as of late have suggested Apple could be working with chip-maker Qualcomm for a CDMA-capable iPhone that could run on the Verizon network. While there is some debate as to whether the phone would be a dual-mode, also compatible with GSM networks, or solely CDMA, reports have pegged the new handset for a possible launch in the third quarter of 2010.

Some analysts believe a Verizon iPhone in 2010 is a very likely scenario. Piper Jaffray believes there is a 70 percent chance Apple will launch the handset in mid-calendar year 2010. With 89 million customers, Verizon would add a great number of potential customers for Apple to expand the iPhone to.

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