Remember back in mid-2006 when some security researcher allgedly found an exploit in the Apple WiFi Driver? As far as I remember, no one really believed him, or the video he produced.
Well it’s out now. Complete from discovery to exploit.
via →A few weeks ago, the iPod Touch came out. Everybody’s writing about it, and I promised not to succumb to the pressure of blogging it.
Anywho, so this poor sod received his, and it’s in the diagnostics program. Some technician must’ve left it there. Think you need a special sequence of “touches” to get to it. Here’s the kicker: There’s a Bluetooth menu item. And something called “Speakers” — which is not the headphones, since there’s a separate option for that. There was some debating just after the launch on Engadget, and it might just be so.
Anyway, SNAFU on the Apple scene. I’m getting mine in a few weeks. (Thanks to Johannes for pointing me at this.)
via →Cool! mads pointed me to an IDLE implementation for Mail.app:
IMAP-IDLE is a plugin for Apple’s Mail.app 2.x. (Tiger version). It opens a second connection for each of your IMAP accounts, requests IDLE mode, and listens for messages from the server. When it receives a message that indicates new mail has arrived, it asks Mail.app to check for new mail. In this way, you get “instant” notification of new mail, rather than needing to wait for the polling interval (e.g., 5 minutes or whatever you have it set to). I have Mail set to “manual check” and let IMAP-IDLE tell it to check for new mail.via →
Sitting here on a couch, writing from my new Macbook. I haven’t written for a long time. Oddly, most of my posts about me not blogging for a long time. So what’s up. Working a lot on Dr. Whatson these days. If you don’t know what that is, then you should look forward to it! We’re launching in a few months, we hope. Oh, I started a company. Avantlumiere it’s called. I also quit my dayjob. I’m going to do some “steady” freelance work for some good ol’ friends in Denmark, that have formed their own company. I’ll also have some time on the side to work on my own things. Got some office space in downtown Amsterdam, so I won’t go crazy all by myself. It’s shared office space, so I’ll be hooking up with some other entrepreneurs, webdesigners and a journalist! It’s gonna be really exciting. I really want to start writing more here, and I’ve gotten a hold of MarsEdit now. That should help with getting more content up here. The new design should too ;-) So long,