Are you ready to find the geek boy or girl of your dreams? The dating service for the rest of us starts up right on queue as the faithful of the faithful, a.k.a. iPhone and Macintosh developers, gather in San Francisco.
The vicissitudes of the company’s war with Apple over Mobile Flash aside, Adobe is still one of the biggest independent software vendors (ISV) on the fairer platform. Moreover, piczilla competes head-to-head with the mothership (i.e. Aperture) in the professional photography space and that’s good for everyone.
Perhaps the biggest Mac-related software release of the 2010 Worldwide Developer Conference pushes Apple’s open standards web agenda and brings browser-specific developer tools to the table, while adding some nifty new features.
The recent news that there really is spyware designed for the Mac generated a bit o’ silliness among free range Mac advocates, as well as the usual cabal of Apple haters. So, it’s true that 7art screen screensavers and at least one Flash audio downloader carry contagion, but you don’t need antivirus to make it go away.
Unlike other recent Flash and Acrobat security red flags, this one’s actually been spotted in the wild, though its use isn’t yet widespread. However, as with previous exploits, such as the Dempsky vulnerability, this one affects the currently shipping version of Flash, but not current betas.
There is hope and hype at Google that their Android tablet will be the major competitor to the iPad, although one would think that they would not do a lot more bragging until they actually built one.
Is anyone surprised that Apple’s shut out the checkbook journalists at Gizmodo? Then again, there might actually be legal reasons why Steve Jobs doesn’t want to look out into the audience and have his gaze met by the eager stares of the perpetrators (My gawd, those eyes! Make them staaaawp!).
Apple being Apple, the next generation Mac mini will more than likely have the same specs as the just-updated consumer/educational MacBook. There is one very important difference and it could be indicative of the company’s future direction vis-a-vis the living room.
It’s not like they need to prove anything, because they’ve always been totally better all along (works with Zune, baby!). Or, perhaps our Windows friends are over compensating just a teeny tiny little bit.
Newspaper magnate Rupert Murdoch, owner of papers such as the London Times and Wall Street Journal, has high praise for Apple’s iPad and his hopes for it as part of the answer to the problems with newspapers today.
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