Steve Jobs announcing Halo at Macworld in 1999, before Microsoft acquired Bungie.
“This game is gonna ship early next year for Bungie…”
(Source: harpermd)
Malware, on my Mac?
Yup, its more likely than you think.
I got a call last week from a C-level that they were getting a web filter block that seemed to indicate there was an untoward browser toolbar installed. I was able to take a look at it this morning, and was somewhat shocked by what I found…
Sure enough, a funky toolbar had been added to Safari, but not through any of the normal means. Not listed in Extensions, unable to be moved via command-dragging or Customize Toolbar. Nothing in the Internet Plug-Ins, Application Support/Safari, or other folders.
I dug around a little and found this post on the Apple Discussions that included a list of files:
- Application Support/TelevisionFanatic
- Caches/com.mindspark.TelevisionFanatic.Agent.plist
- LaunchAgents/com.mindspark.TelevisionFanatic.Agent.plist
- Preferences/com.mindspark.MyWebSearch.plist
- ScriptingAdditions/TelevisionFanatic.osax
Cleared them out, and all seems well again.
Science in action
An astronomy student carefully monitors progress of an observation in the Parkes Radiotelescope control room. Observing is an exhausting business. You need to keep a careful eye on all the equipment while it’s doing those 50-minute integrations!
When you option-click the Sound menu item in Snow Leopard, you can select the sound input and output devices.
Made a little more progress on EXIFlook, now you get a shiny black preview, content coming soon!
Huge, tremendous, giant props to @synacknet for tolerating my lame questions and helping me patch it all together.
Its aliiiiiiive! Presenting EXIFlook.
This QuickLook plugin is powered by 3 lines of code someone gave me in IRC, and outputs the EXIF data stored in an image. Now I just have to make it pretty. :p
