Category: Technology

A critical flaw has been found in Photoshop Creative Suite, CS3, CS2, and Photoshop Elements.
It is a flaw in a PNG plug-in that can cause a buffer overflow on a users system.

This is critical if you use these programs. There is no update at this time.

You can read more on CNET, Critical flaw found in Photoshop plug-in.

It looks like the Sony battery has struck again. Acer is recalling 27,000 notebook batteries that were sold with notebooks in the U.S.
Contact Acer to get your new replacement batteries at www.acerbatterrecall.com.

You can read more in the Washington Post: Acer Recalls 27,000 notebook PC batteries

Saw this video on Webnation.
I don’t know what this girls were thinking, but this is a hilarious video.

Well, thankfully the Blackberry outage occured during the evening or I would have been suffering some major withdrawls.
I admit, I am addicted. But it helps me keep atop my work email and I can be connected from anywhere.

If I didn’t have it, my work email would back-up and it would take so long to get caught up. Especially with all the spam that I get.

You can read more from the Denver Post website: BlackBerry outage restored

What gets me is that RIM has not posted anything on their website or on the Blackberry website. This is just poor public relations and customer communications. This needs to be fixed so the consumer knows what is going on.

Well Leopard, the new OS from Apple will now be ready in October instead of June.
They have pulled away developers to help get the iPhone ready for launch.

In an article by Troy Wolverton, “Apple said on Thursday that it was delaying Leopard, the fifth update of its OS X operating system, because it had to pull some of its engineering and quality assurance personnel from that project to help out with the iPhone.”

Well this is a bummer to me. I am waiting until Leopard is out and shipping to buy me a new laptop, either a MacBook or a 15″ MacBook Pro. I just hope that it doesn’t get delayed any longer.

Read Wolverton’s full article, “Apple’s Leopard won’t leap soon.

Well I keep wanting to use the Opera browser as my surfing application, but I just can’t bring myself to using it.
Even though it follows all the standards strictly, not all web developers do that and I am constantly finding that I am unable to get several of my most surfed web pages to work on it.

In fact, there is a known flaw in Word Press that hinders the admin area of my blog if I was to use Opera. One example is that the lines don’t wrap in the box that I am writing this post.

I wish there was an alternative to IE and now even Firefox, but right now I will be sticking with Firefox.

Opera, you just need to be more functional with webpages so you can gain wider acceptance. I think that the demand is there.

Just recently the European Commission was blaming Apple for a limited and convoluted process for obtaining digital music. In Europe there was different prices and restrictions that were placed upon the iTunes music store.
Well the European Commission has now come out and is now blaming the record labels. From an article on CNET, Commission spokesman said, “Our current view is that this is an arrangement which is imposed on Apple by the major record companies and we do not see a justification for it.”

This builds upon the letter that Steve Jobs posted on the Apple website in February and the agreement that Apple signed with EMI yesterday. Finally the record labels are getting their just rewards and it is time to stop blaming Apple.

Times are a changing and there will soon be more choice for consumers. With competition we will have better products and hopefully better prices. In can only benefit us as the consumer.

YEAH!

Apple and EMI announced that most of the EMI catalog will be available in iTunes by the end of the year.
The catalog will be available in iTunes at a slight premium ($1.29 vs $.99 per song). But with that you will get music at twice the quality and DRM free. I think that this is worth the extra cost.

Check out the Apple Press Release on the subject. You can also read about my earlier post on the rumor that was floating around last evening.

Thanks Apple and EMI. Hopefully this will open up soon for other labels.

Apple and EMI Group will be making a big announcement on Monday where EMI is going to sell the labels music DRM free on iTunes. EMI is also looking at other deals with other companies to do this with.
This is huge and will be a great step forward in progressing away from the old music models. Having DRM free music will allow music to be shared on a wide variety of devices and we won’t be stuck with on a device tied to a service we are buying it from.

Speculation is also flowing that there might be a deal for Beatles music. But according to a story by Reuters in the Washington Post, “Apple/EMI in deal, but Beatles not included-source“, the Beatles appear to not be in the picture.

In February, Steve Jobs issued a letter calling for music companies to get rid of DRM. One of the biggest points is that the sell their CDs without DRM and they sell a lot more of them then they do downloaded music. You can see my post here.

Knerdy Corner might start buying music at iTunes now if this goes through in his post Steve Jobs + EMI = ???.

This could begin the tidal wave to get rid of DRM. I can’t wait. Let the revolution begin. I bet the RIAA is starting to quake in their boots.

YouTube pulled a good one with letting some secret video out. Check it out!