gdp's Comments

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Are 600,000 infected Macs, including hundreds in Cupertino, part of a global botnet?

Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:15:22 +0000

Installs itself sure but can do very few things before it downloads its payload and obtains admin password. Don't ever grant permissions to anything you haven't run yourself and you're fine for the time being.

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Are 600,000 infected Macs, including hundreds in Cupertino, part of a global botnet?

Thu, 5 Apr 2012 02:02:37 +0000

I'm happy as long as trojans ask for my admin password politely.

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Samsung's mobile design chief profiled, doesn't shy from Apple aspirations but offended by accusatio

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:34:06 +0000

I don't know what the hell he was sketching but he sketched a whole line of iPhone lookalikes.

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Photoshop CS6 Review roundup and free beta download

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:49:14 +0000

No, they don't. To be fair, part of the mark up is often VAT, but the difference is unjustifiable anyway.

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Apple decides what it is going to do with its $100 billion in cash, announcing tomorrow via 6AM/9AM

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:46:50 +0000

I just wish they would stick to not paying a dividend. Investors are about the only group of people who absolutely do not deserve AAPL's cash. Workers in Asia/U.S., customers (in the form of lesser margins), strategic acquisitions, investments in R&D and cleaner production… you name it, anything but the dividend (and I am a shareholder myself).

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Apple removes standard Mac OS X 10.7.3 download due to bugs, offers combined download instead

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:11:06 +0000

You should absolutely always download combo updates and preferably not at the time of release but at least several days if not weeks later. At least that is what a pro would do and this case again shows why...

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : CBS probes Apple's relationship with Foxconn

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:43:01 +0000

It's called leading by example (and is addressed in the report). Apple can easily afford to deal with this (and they will) and that's the whole point. I love Apple (and I own the stock) but I wouldn't think for a split second there is anything wrong with this pressure. Outsourcing should not be about moving to a place where you can get away with stuff you would not be allowed to do here 50 years ago. Especially when you have 40%+ operating margin. It borders on immoral.

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer takes charge of retail division as search for Ron Johnson replacement co

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:52:03 +0000

Relax, it is temporary. It is not like he can manage to do all those things anyway. He is probably mostly overseeing the well established process.

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Jeff Han demos 82-inch Multi-touch display, iMac-sized version too

Sun, 4 Dec 2011 21:01:44 +0000

It has been discussed over and over again and so far nobody has come up with an ergonomic solution. You will either get a terrible headaches if the display is laying on the table in front of you or your hands will fall of because you can't really be reaching all the time with your hands in the air.

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Employees at Apple's keyboard supplier strike due to poor working conditions

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:54:35 +0000

As opposed to what other products? I take this actually as a positive sign (and I'm very sympathetic to their cause), a couple years ago they would not be able to go on strike or would be swiftly replaced. A lot is changing in China. Apple will take this seriously, no doubt, people increasingly care about those kinds of things and in turn are forcing corps to care. They are lucky they work for Apple supplier, was it Dell or Lenovo it would not be even reported.

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Aaron Sorkin "strongly considering" writing Steve Jobs screenplay for Sony

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:33:19 +0000

I love Sorkin's writing. I didn't like Social Network though. Would hate to see only the negative bits picked up... Jobs wasn't a saint but both sides of his personality are often exaggerated.

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Unibody on Ultrabook: Metal on the outside, plastic on the inside

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:00:15 +0000

Ive is the best. I love his passion and having it around me all the time in the form of Apple devices.

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Nielsen Survey: iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone are the three most desired consumer products among kids thi

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:21:47 +0000

I'm not a huge fan of iGadgets but what is it that people find so compelling about non-Apple tablets? I mean is there anything at all they actually do better?

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : What were you doing in 6th Grade? Probably not building apps and doing TEDTalks

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:38:26 +0000

Cruel, but I can't say it was uncalled for.

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Did Motorola just win an injunction barring Apple from selling mobile products in Germany?

Sat, 5 Nov 2011 15:08:03 +0000

Seriously? Deleting links to better informed articles? This might make me reconsider my daily visits here...

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Apple posts full video of Steve Jobs' celebration at Apple's campus

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:16:26 +0000

You can manually open the stream in QuickTime, look for line marked /*snowLeopard url*/ in the source code then copy the link and paste it to QT's open URL dialog. For me it's this one but it probably will not work for you: http://qthttp.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11ajdjnvkjn...

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Apple's new MacBook Pro lineup revealed with faster processors and more storage

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:06:05 +0000

With Thailand under water [donate to your favorite relief organization] with about 40% of world's hard drive production it remains to be seen if there are going to be any hard drives at all in those babies in a few months time. BTW after upgrading my old white C2D iMac with SSD I wouldn't purchase anything with harddrive. It makes the old fella scream again. Highly recommended.

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Jobs told biographer that he cracked the code to building an HDTV

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:25:21 +0000

I'd love to see all the scared faces in Sony right now.

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Steve Jobs' harsh words for Bill Gates and his biological father

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:01:43 +0000

May be, but I rather choose to see him as annoyed by mediocrity and lesser minds stealing his great ideas. I guess that you see things differently (pun intended) if you are a genius. He just didn't bother being sensitive to stuff he didn't care about. A lot of people will sugarcoat everything just to be liked. Just my two cents...

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence : Steve Jobs' harsh words for Bill Gates and his biological father

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:02:58 +0000

He was just stating the obvious if you ask me:) While Gates has many talents, being a visionary or coming up with new ideas for sure isn't among them.