Even Google can make mistakes… Nine days ago the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that our Street View cars collect for use in location-based products like Google Maps for mobile, which enables people to find local restaurants or get directions. His request prompted us to re-examine everything […]
I have let The Sarah Jane Adventures Season 4 fall to the wayside this season, with all the Doctor Who excitement, so here is a catchup; The trio are in their first year of A Levels, and the storylines will reflect this, Luke Smith departs in the first story, and a new regular character is […]
According to a Google study, 15% of all malware consists of fake anti-virus (or Rogue Antivirus) software. Â What does that mean to the average user, probably nothing, but are you sure that Antivirus warning you just received is really from your antivirus software? Practically, this means that you need to be more aware of your […]
This is a heads-up that we will shortly start landing patches for a new WebKit framework that we at Apple have been working on for a while. We currently call this new framework ‘WebKit2’. WebKit2 is designed from the ground up to support a split process model, where the web content (JavaScript, HTML, layout, etc) […]
We’ve known for a while that Google wasn’t actively improving Gears, their tool that offers offline support for many popular web applications. Now the Official Gears blog explains their transition to the game-changing HTML5: If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it’s because we’ve shifted […]
I ran across this today… Â And was very suprised… 1/21/10 10:10:04 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.keystone.daemon[36803]) bootstrap_register() erroneously called instead of bootstrap_check_in(). Mach service: com.google.Keystone.Daemon 1/21/10 10:10:04 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.keystone.daemon[36803]) Exited with exit code: 1 1/21/10 10:10:04 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.keystone.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds 1/21/10 10:10:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.keystone.daemon[36804]) bootstrap_register() erroneously called instead of […]
After taking a brief holiday break, Apple managed to release the first developer beta of Mac OS X 10.6.3 last week. Among the 221 code changes, there appears to be some initial support for parts of the OpenGL 3.0 spec, though Apple will have a long way to go before Snow Leopard is OpenGL 3-ready. […]
As a general guideline, these temperatures are really the maximum I would consider safe for a laptop… 0-104F (40C) = Cold. 122F – 158F [50-70C] = Typical-ish use, still safe. 159F – 185F [70-85C] = Heavy use, consider moving to flat surface, elevating, or cooling it. 185F+ [85]+ = Hot! Go take a break. If […]