Erica Sadun has posted a great article about ‘running out of Application space on your iPhone or iTouch. It seems you have the ability to fool your iPod or iPhone into thinking that you’ve added a Widgets folder by creating a symbolic link.

It’s interesting that people are running out of space for Widgets even though Apple hasn’t officially opened the platform for development. It’s pretty obvious that people are just itching to start working on applications for these devices, so we can expect a lot of cool stuff once Apple releases the official SDK (supposedly in Feb 2008).

Is it a secret? Are people afraid to talk about it? Since the beginning of this year there has been a growing threat to our security on the Internet. This is nothing new right? It seems there is always something of this nature hanging around. Well, this threat has the potential to wreak pure havoc and so far, it has drawn no attention.So you’re probably wondering what this new great threat is, especially since you haven’t heard much, if anything, about it. It’s called the “Storm Worm”. This worm started by hiding in e-mail attachments with a subject line to really grab your attention. When users open this attachment, their computer becomes infected and enrolled in a quick-growing network of other infected computers forming a “botnet”.

Changing regularly, the Storm’s delivery began as a PDF, then e-cards, blog-comments, and YouTube invites. As of last month, it began attacking websites focused on identifying it such as a malware expert who published an analysis of how it worked. Aside from that, the botnet is mostly silent and does not draw attention to infected hosts, which makes it incredibly difficult to detect.

This Storm has been spreading quickly and steadily since last January, creating a huge botnet and only affects computers running Microsoft Windows. The size of the botnet is unclear but it’s said that “reputable security professionals cite estimates between one million to fifty million computers world-wide.” But as Kevin, a good friend of mine said when we had a discussion about this, “Estimates mean nothing. These worms are always evolving and hitting different vulnerabilities. It could infect 20 machines right after 100 were cleaned up, you just never know.”

John Naughton of The Observer says:

“To date, the botnet has been used only intermittently, which is disquieting: what it means is that someone, somewhere, is quietly building a doomsday machine that can be rented out to the highest bidder, or used for purposes that we cannot yet predict.” The Storm worm may be the new face of malware, not written for notoriety,
revenge, or petty spamming, but as a professional venture in crime designed to maximize profits for those involved.

You can read more about this silent Storm here.

The Chumby is a compact device about the size of a GPS that allows you to access the internet using your wireless internet connection. Instead of lugging around your laptop or always searching for a public computer to access the Internet, you can just toss this little baby in your bag or in your purse and go.

My first thought when reading about this neat little gadget was, “cool idea, but what’s the cost?” They boast that the cost is less than $200.00 which is a great deal, especially since it includes FREE access to the Chumby Network. No subscriptions, no plans, it’s all paid for by Chumby and sponsors who send you widgets to use.

The only downside that I see for this neat little gadget is that you always have to have AC power. The reason for this is because it’s always on; no sleep mode. Luckily they say it takes less than 30 seconds to power up if it shuts down for any reason.

They say that “the Chumby is “open” for tinkering in every way: hardware and software specifications are available online, plus the pattern for crafting new cases.”

I’ll be checking one of these out just as soon as it’s available for me to purchase.

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While I don’t agree with Steve Borsch when he says that “Leopard will be Apple’s tipping point”, I do agree that Apple has and is continuously making headway in the market.
So far, the upgrades included with Apple’s OS Leopard looks to be quite impressive with 300+ upgrades. Being a Mac user, the feature I’m looking forward to the most is Time Machine. I’m always reminding myself to run backups but to actually do it..well that’s a different story. Time Machine looks like it’s going to be amazingly simple to backup; so simple that even the most non-technical user will be happy using it.

Parental Controls included. This is something that many parents today are concerned with. Parents are paying more and more attention to what their children are doing on the internet and what sites they’re visiting. Some of the nice features included are the in depth logging and the bed time and time limits.

Dashcode. This will be of interest to all you web developers. Imagine libraries of thousands of widgets, as well as widgets that provide functionality of any application created. Many of us have no idea what widgets are and really don’t care, but for those that do Dashcode is something to take notice of.

BootCamp. Finally an official feature, and all of the beta support is now ending. BootCamp boasts to run Windows at native speed and has drivers galore (no more searching!).

More upgrades are included and I for one can’t wait to see all of the features as well as ease of use that Leopard has to offer.