Apple Hackers Encounter a Poetic Warning

Apple Computer Inc. has resorted to a poetic broadside in the inevitable cat-and-mouse game between hackers and high-tech companies.

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What is the reason for PCs being better than Macs.

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The last thing you expect when you upgrade your operating system, is that you will have some of your security silently downgraded. But that's precisely what seems to have happened with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which ignores that you have been keeping Adobe Flash up-to-date and dow …

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Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard has landed. This time around, Apple goes light on the glitz in favor of some heavy work under the hood. John Siracusa dives deep into Apple's new OS offering to see what's new, what's still the same, and whether it's worth upgrading.

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Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X v10.6 Snow Leopard™ will go on sale Friday, August 28 at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple's online store is now accepting pre-orders.

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Twenty-five years after tech geeks were liberated from the PC Empire, they started turning on Apple this week for its technological tyranny. Douglas Rushkoff on how David became Goliath.

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In one of its brilliant "I'm a Mac" ads recently, Apple lampooned the complexity of Microsoft Windows with a dizzying display of fine print that eventually filled up the screen and covered up both characters.

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Got a four-year-old Mac? Forget the newest version of OS X; Apple's Snow Leopard will only be supported on Intel CPUs. Got a PC from 2001? Windows 7 just might run on it. I tested a below-spec PC with the latest version of Windows and saw surprising results.

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An overall satisfaction rating of 80 percent was good enough for Apple to trounce the second-place finisher, Gateway, which scored 66 percent. Forrester surveyed 4,564 U.S.

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Today, the essential question regarding Psystar is unchanged: does the company have the right to sell computers with Apple's Mac OS X Leopard preinstalled, as it has been doing since April 14, 2008?

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Here's another wacky choice: Kay suggests the family will want add Blu-ray capability (which, it's true, is not currently supported by OS X) to the desktop system in year four.

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Microsoft has really been pushing its "Apple Tax" marketing message. First we had the latest round of "I'm a PC" ads. Then we had Steve Ballmer claiming that, in the current economic climate, it makes no sense to pay a premium for an Apple logo.

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"Apple gained about one point, but now I think the tide has really turned back the other direction," Ballmer said, via webcast. "The economy is helpful.

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Fans of Apple computers often boast about superior security. But as Macs have gained in popularity over the past few years, this has brought much more attention from hackers.

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Despite its lack of major end-user features, Snow Leopard could be the biggest OS X update ever thanks to one killer feature - speed and performance that will take everyday computing to the next level.

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iMovie '09 (released as part of iLife '09 and alongside iWork '09) is a revolutionary update to iMovie '08. Since its first public demo last month, the aforementioned Disgruntled Fans have been hooting that it represents Apple's apology for last year's edition.

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Intego has discovered a new Trojan horse, OSX.Trojan.iServices.A, which is currently circulating in copies of Apple's iWork 09 found on BitTorrent trackers and other sites containing links to pirated software.

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Think moving from a Windows PC to a Mac is easy? My experience, and my wife's, may encourage you to think differently.

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What to expect from Snow Leopard if its not the change in user experience.

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Sites such as MySpace, Hulu.com, CrateandBarrel.com and Amazon.com all use Flash cookies to record some kind of information about their users.

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After years of boasting about the Mac's near invincibility, Apple is now advising its customers to install security software on their computers.

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"Attorneys for Apple and Psystar sparred before a U.S.

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Apple is contributing $100,000 to fight Proposition 8, the California ballot measure that would define marriage as only between a man and a woman. The company's announcement today came as the fight over Prop. 8 grows hotly contested, with recent polls showing the race tightening.

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There is a certain kind of excitement behind this release as it may be one of the first applications that truly reveal how good modern hardware really is.

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Apple next-generation Snow Leopard operating system will introduce a massive re-write of the Mac OS X Finder and debut a new feature called ImageBoot, AppleInsider has learned.

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"Those wanting to run Linux apps on their Mac desktops now have reason to rejoice — sort of. The GTK+ software development framework has been ported to Mac OS X, so it's now possible to install and run GTK+ applications on your Mac. But there are some hang-ups.

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