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In observance of “Earth Hour”, 2009 I will be turning all the lights in my house off.

Earth Hour is a chance for you to show your support for energy conservation. Tonight I am “Voting Earth.” So what do you do?

All you have to do to ”Vote Earth“ is turn your lights out for one hour tonight, Saturday, March 28 from 8:30pm to 9:30pm local time, in your city. Your light switch is your vote!

Its more than just “dimming your lights”

Earth Hour is about more than dimming lights for sixty minutes; it’s about making a commitment to reduce energy consumption throughout the year. We want to make sure we minimize our impact on the Earth’s climate through responsible environmental practices every hour, every day.

Show your support for earth hour Tonight!

For more information on "Earth Hour" Visit:

http://www.earthhour.org/

http://bit.ly/gGZ7q

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Microsoft to offer a big reward for this one.

There’s been a lot of activity today around the Conficker worm at Microsoft and across the industry. I wanted to give everyone a quick, high-level overview on what’s been going on today.

First, today we’re making public, the work we and many other industry and academic partners have been doing behind the scenes to help combat the Conficker worm.

-Microsoft

We’re providing information from Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) partners and our Microsoft Security Response Alliance (MSRA) partners and we have posted it to the MSRC weblog in an effort to help customers and other researchers.

Finally, Microsoft has announced a US$250,000 reward for information that results in the arrest and conviction of those responsible for illegally launching the Conficker worm. Individuals with information about the Conficker worm are encouraged to contact their international law enforcement agencies.  Additionally, Microsoft has implemented an Antivirus Reward Hotline, 1-425-706-1111, and an Antivirus Reward Mailbox, avreward@microsoft.com, where tips can be shared.

The work that we’ve done with industry and academic partners and the additional information that we’ve provided all relate to the same thing: disrupting the Conficker worm’s attempts to connect to domains on the Internet after successfully attacking a system. By understanding the algorithm that the Conficker worm uses to generate the domain names that infected systems attempt to connect to, we can take steps to disrupt the Conficker worm by blocking access to those domains by infected systems.

-Microsoft

Microsoft has worked with ICANN and operators within the domain name system to proactively disable a significant number of domains that systems infected by the Conficker worm would try to connect to.

Microsoft has also made information about the algorithm and the list of domain names available so that security researchers and customers can review logs to identify infected systems connecting to these domains and proactively block access to these domains.

As someone involved in security response for a number of years, it’s exciting for me to see the industry come together to take an innovative, new approach to combating malware. It helps prove again that while threats may be evolving, so too is our response as an industry to these threats.

-Christopher

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A Few days ago a man in Michigan “conned” apple into receiving over 9,000 new iPod Shuffles. He went Through apples return form and guessed at over 9,000 serials. He linked these iPods to a credit card that would not go through so when Apple did not receive the 9,000 iPods they charged his credit card. A briliant plan but he is already in pursuit by the government. Local authorities say this is not tolerated and apple has set up new ways of securities for this form.

Source: Dailyblogged

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It took me long enough but I finally got it. I had had problems with my hackintosh updating to 10.5.6 but now I have it! I love it and just adore it. I hope you enjoy!

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“Today, Apple introduced the next version of OS X for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The iPhone is doing incredibly well, even in this economy. Its sales were up 17 million through December and there have been over 800,000 downloads of the iPhone SDK. 96% of apps reviewed are approved, and more than 80 million apps have been downloaded. The 3.0 software will be a major update to the iPhone OS.

New things for developers:

APIs: 1,000 new ones.

In-app Purchases: Developers can sell new content from within their apps, such as subscriptions for magazines or new levels for games.

P2P: The iPhone will have peer-to-peer connectivity. You can play a game with another person via Bluetooth.

Accessory Controls: Accesory developers will now be able to make apps for their accessories, such as an equalizer for an iPod speaker dock. Devices will be able to communicate with the phone over dock connection and Bluetooth.

Maps API: Developers will now have access to Google Maps inside their applications, including turn-by-turn.

Push Notifications: Apple was late on this one. They say it’s because they had to rewrite the structure to make notifications scalable for every app or something. Developers have asked Apple to allow background apps, but Apple thinks it’d be bad for consumers. They tested Windows Mobile and Android phones and discovered that running background apps lowers the battery by 80%. With Push notifications the battery only dropped by 23%.

The Push notification service is always connected to the phone, so you can get notifications all the time. There are three types of notifications: badge alerts, text alerts and audio alerts. Text alerts appear like SMS alerts, badges show up on the app icon, and audio alerts play in the background.

Other New Features: In-game voice chat, iPod library access, audio recording, battery API, streaming audio/video, email access.
Now on to the consumer side:

Copy and Paste: Finally! You double tap on a block of text and a bubble will show up with cut, copy, and paste options. You drag your finger to select text then choose one of the options. Later, you can double tap to paste. If you mess up and paste something accidentally, you can shake the phone to undo (or redo) your mistake.

Photos: You can now send more than one photo.

Landscape: The landscape keyboard will be available to all key applications, including Mail.

Messages: They can now be forwarded and deleted in bulk or individually. Huzzah!

MMS: It’s supported. Contacts, locations, and audio. No video. Sorry.

Voice Memos: You can now record ‘em.

Calendar: It now supports CalDAV, which is supported by Google and Yahoo. Good for shared calendars.

Stocks: New landscape mode, and headlines at the bottom.

Search: They added an entire homescreen dedicated to search, and it’s to the left of the regular homescreen. It will search through all of Apple’s apps. It can also be used to launch apps.

Other New Features: Stereo Bluetooth, Notes Sync, audio/video tags, live streaming, shake to shuffle, Wi-Fi auto login, LDAP, iTunes account creation, YouTube ratings, Anti-Phishing, Call Log, Parental Controls, Media Scrubber, OTA profiles, VPN on demand, Languages, YouTube subscriptions (yay!), YouTube accounts, Encrypted profiles, and auto-fills.
They’re releasing a beta which will be available to everyone in the iPhone developers program. For regular people, it’ll be released this summer. It’ll be a free upgrade, and it’ll run on the 2G phone as well, though without MMS or stereo Bluetooth. It will also be available for both gens of the iPod Touch for $9.95.”

- DailyBlogged

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In less than 12 hours from the time I make this post Apple will be giving the update on the iPhone 3.0 software update.. We don’t exactly know what will all be included but we hope they will include the following:

• A way to use your iPhone as a modem for your macbook
• A way for developers to run applications in the background
• Customizable settings ex: the Springboard (Home Screen)
• More pages in apps (hold more apps)

I don’t know exactly what they will be explaining but I do know they will be giving an estimate on the release date on this update. 

The presentation will be given at 10 a.m. PDT so stay tuned to Apple-News on CNET.

I hope you can watch it and I will have a post up with the latest info they give later Today!

-Hawered

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Mark Papermaster

“Apple® announced that Mark Papermaster will be coming to Apple as senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on April 24. Papermaster, who comes to Apple from IBM, will lead Apple’s iPod® and iPhone™

hardware engineering teams. The litigation between IBM and Mark Papermaster has been resolved.

Papermaster has 25 years of product and technology experience, and was previously a vice president at IBM. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas, and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont in 1988. Papermaster is active with the University of Texas where he is a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Council.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.”

-Apple Inc

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Apple has been sued by the mother of a 15-year-old boy who said his 16GB iPod Touch exploded in his pants pocket, burning his leg.

The boy apparently realized his Apple Itouch had exploded and caught fire in his pocket. The boy immediately ran to the bathroom and removed his pants which had burned through to his leg causing 2nd degree burns. The mother is now seeking excess of $225,000 in compensatory and punitive damages.

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