Baseface.com managed to get a mini-cam into GW Bush´s bathroom. Though his dad claimed he was not even fit to sit on the throne, baseface.com proves daddy was wrong.



Nice interior, Mr President!

It was about time the cows fought back and ate the cowboys.


(Picture by LLL - thank you)

Not much going on concerning Apple, Steve Jobs and Macintosh. Rumor Sites keep spinning on Intel-Macs and those problems regarding OS X on generic x86 hardware. Its all leaking to the net like mad... it cannot be stopped anymore, even if Steve Jobs now told the world, "it was all a joke, we won´t change", it is too late.

The moment the first OS X version ran on an intel machine, no matter developer or hacker, the fight was lost in fact. It is not important how much money and time AAPL will spend for securing their OS from being pirated and installed anywhere, Steve opened Pandorra´s box and now he has to deal with the results.

I dont care about imaginary patens or whatever TCP,PCP,or TMCIA chip can be found inside the new Intelmacs, it will be cracked. Maybe Mr Jobs did never get to this point, but he is not omnipotent and Apple alongside isnt either. Maybe it is not his fault but the cultists fault that made him their leader, maybe he did not even want things to come to this.

Nevertheless things do change very fast when it comes to AAPL at the moment.

There we go, OS X legendary security has been open to manipulation all the way.

Secureosx.com reports on a problem in Apple´s webkit technology which allows to fool the user into believing to eg visit a trusted website while in fact the user is already trapped in a phishing setup. This is some serious threat, I just hope Apple will solve this problem quick.

With Apple-cultists searching for excuses rather than solutions I doubt the fix for this problem is soon to be expected, stay alert !

Surprise , Sony´s bad rootkit DRM technique seems to be easily defeated using a piece of tape.

The user can simply apply a fingernail-sized piece of opaque tape to the outer edge of the disc, rendering session 2 - which contains the self-loading DRM software, unreadable.

Reminds me of those times you could trick DRM CDs with a marker pen.

Two not to friendly news came up for AAPL today, as they have been sued again over patent infringment which seems to concern the itunes application. The other news Apple-cultists and investors won´t like is OSX 10.4.3 for INTELmac has been cracked and will be available on filesharing-networks for sure.

I am still sure there are even more news on the leaked 10.4.3 to come - some country´s ZDNet will testrun it for sure, those guys seem to be on Apple´s "green list" to violate EULA.

Have a little sunday´s laugh, a real funny parody on Steve Jobs and his ever changing ipod products has been reported by ipodgarage.com.

You can watch the clip from the show here or in facebase media archive.

Have Fun!

I feel it is getting boring but it is to start off with Sony again.

The Seatle Times has published a Q&A on Sony´s rootkit and possible security threats. The Q&A is not too detailed and a lot of questions remain unanswered, but the author welcomes readers to send questions via mail.

Steve Wozniak will recieve a honorary degree from Kettering University. Congrats WOZ !

If I could, I would give a honorary degree to brandcenter.de for always designing and creating the little pictures I need so desperately for my web projects.

Thank you!

Is there a day to pass without a news or a blogpost about Sony? This Company got some serious technical problems for sure. Technical means in all fields of the trade. Not only do they use stolen code from open source MP3 application/codec LAME, but they had to put up a list of 52 rootkit "infected" music cds, because Sony´s Uninstaller did cause more trouble than the rootkit itself.

Remember to report the eff.org in case you own one of the cds and/or ran into trouble with it.

Meanwhile in Cupertino,silence, but rumor sites keep Apple fans in motion reporting about new gadgets like the never-forgotten idea of an iPod PDA. Harry McCracken for PC World´s Techlog sums up the things to come.

I really hope those Intelbooks will be released soon, I cannot wait to see the all new benchmarks that will paint a beautiful picture of how superior the x86 is over the PPC. The PPC which is, as Steve Jobs wanted to make us believe many years before, more powerful than any x86. Do the facts really have changed from one day to the other? If that is the case, why do the other companies like Microsoft or Sony switch to PPC platform?

These questions will be answered as soon as the Intelbook finally arrives, or new lies will be told...

Lets start right away with the fun news. Sony busted on distributing and installing spyware-like DRM rootkit on you PC, strikes again, this time the Uninstaller Sony itself offered is used by Hackers to exploit the rootkit DRM and take over computers or log personal details.

Silicon.com reports some took the malicious Uninstaller off their websites. Even defaced and hijacked online Uninstallers are reported.

Thats a big one for sure and its fully ok for Sony to have loads of trouble coming up on their dirty tricks.

Music Industry knows how to do some bad timing thats for sure.

Today Forbes.com reports Alain Levy, boss of EMI group, said, he expected Steve Jobs to offer new pricing models to the users of the iTunes Music Store. What does that mean for the consumer? EMI,Warner and Sony have been pulling strings to make Apple move away from their fixed-price system (0.99 $US) towards a more flexible one. They would love the Music Store to sell older tracks for less while selling the new stuff at a price higher than 1 dollar.

Seems like music industry started an internal race for the "scare-the-consumer-away" championship.

Fun to watch them news roll in for sure

Steve Jobs reaches a respectable 2nd place in Steven Levy´s " Can´t we all just get along " awards. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is awarded with 2nd place for keeping people from playing their legally bought iTunes Music Store tracks on any hardware or portable player other than the ipod and/or itunes application. At the same time the consumer cannot play their DRM tracks from other online stores on the ipod, so AAPL got their product locked up nice and tightly.

This years winner was AOL for limiting their AIM services as a closed community.

Strange... Sony´s rootkit mishabits do not appear on that list...coincidence?

Personally I would have had Steve getting first price, not for the dirty tricks, but for the ability to make his followers believe even the biggest lies.

Stormy weather for Sony and Sony BMG nowadays.

Sony BMG is reported to not only to pull DRM rootkit CDs from sales but also to exchange already bought DRM rootkit CDs for free. Thats at least one sign of interest in consumers wishes. But thinking again, if Sony really cared about people buying from them, Sony would not have put up that nasty DRM system in the first place. I am definitely not going to buy any Sony BMG product in the future or more brief until they change their ways for good.

The mother of BMG on the other hand is not doing any better. Sony is reported to have taken part in a cartel to fix prices for internet retailers. A complaint by major online-discounters has been filed to the Office of Fair Trading.

Things are not working out too fine for Sony that is for sure. I have to submit, I love the idea of seeing that giant tumble and fall. Maybe just one of my morbid phantasies, maybe a colorful metaphor for the things to come.

Who´s bad? Those who always thought Microsoft was the source of all evil and DRM in the world you were proven wrong for sure during the last weeks. Sony got busted for installing rootkit DRM on users machines, Microsoft takes action on removing the rootkit, considered as a possible security hole. In fact first viruses/trojanhorses/worms whatever you call those exploits have already been spotted taking advantage of Sony´s rootkit to hide themselves.

So Microsoft seems to be that knight on the white horse protecting the user, well you will have to pay for their help in one way or the other for sure.

Finally there is Apple, a company run by an ex-hippie, but do you think Steve Jobs ever imagined things coming to this? I am positive he never did, even not in his wildest acid dreams. So were does Apple stand? On the one hand they made big deals with record industry for sure, one the other hand DRM is in fact already built so deep into OSX most users do not notice until they try to burn a cd with something else than iTunes(DRM music can only be burned on a mac using Apple´s iTunes application).

It seems the user got only to choose bad from worse.

I have never been a LINUX geek and in fact I have made some folks from the LINUX community mad at me by some comments on certain sites, but when it comes to freedom there is no half-step solution. So I will have to reconsider operating systems no doubt.

Quo vadis?

Pat Misterovich presents his homemade mp3 player. Remember PEZ candy? Sure you do. Now imagine an ipod shuffle in a PEZ dispenser.



PEZmp3 is a fully licensed product, that means the PEZ company set up a deal with Pat Misterovich, who is a stay-at-home-dad assembling the PEZpods. So if you like the idea of supporting this surely great idea you should hurry up since its a limited edition.

Make sure to check the features site its full of those little details, like popping the players head back as if you wanted a PEZ for turning on the music.

I am sure these thingys will score high cash on ebay as soon as "official" sales are over.

Does one really need much to imagine an Apple mobile phone based on the iPod nano?



How about Apple´s friendship with Motorola? Does Apple really want to spoil expections with that lousy ROKR mobile? Or is it more a testrun for the real deal? How about a joint venture in the field of hardware? How about installing one of those small phone devices into the iPod nano? The backside of the nano would be just perfect for phone mic and speaker.

C´mon Apple give the crowd what it wants...