It appears Apple’s iPhone uses the following User Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3
A quick search of the log files turns up a hit for me. IP address is from Apple, so I’d presume it was using WiFi to connect via Apple’s corporate network, and not Cingular’s Edge network.
I’m curious what version of WebKit will ship on the final product. This could possibly be it.
[Hat tip: Mac Rumors]
Drobo initially didn’t impress me to much, but after watching a demo I’m somewhat impressed. The positives:
There are some downsides:
Of course for true backup you need to offsite your data, but you can do that through standard means, and using Amazon’s S3. So your covered there.
The downfall of this product is the lack of a 10/100 Ethernet port. It would likely have been pretty cheap (lets face it network devices are pretty cheap these days) and would have removed the need for a PC. You could of course hook it up to a Access Point such as the Airport Extreme… but you don’t get the greatest level of control with these.
Ideally a real cheapo Linux machine (Intel Celeron, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD) with a Drobo would be an awesome backup solution. You could then use MRTG to graph network/data storage usage, manage usage, quota’s or whatever else you wanted to do. Even a media server. Backup some data with S3? No problem. Could even setup something like BackupPC to backup entire PC’s.
Om Malik got to ask the new Joost CEO Mike Volpi a few questions. One really caught my eye:
OM: Is there a chance we will see Joost on AppleTV?
MV: We would love to put Joost on the Apple TV platform. We know we can make it run on any operating system.
Isn’t it great to know your app can run on any operating system? What an amazing platform 😉 .
Kiplinger has a great story on phishing and security. The bottom line: while progress has been made there’s still a long way to go. Here was a very concerning piece:
When researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studied the anti-fraud image system used by Bank of America, they found that 58 out of 60 users still logged on to a phony Web site that did not display the images that the users had selected.
I doubt any anti-phishing protection was enabled on those browsers. Not sure if it would have helped or not. Regardless it’s still a concern. Users didn’t pay attention to the images they selected. I guess it’s human nature to ignore things we don’t think are important.
[Hat tip: The Consumerist]
Not too long after Sun put some resources into giving OpenOffice some Mac love, OpenOffice for Mac is finally becoming a reality. It’s great to see this happen. There are a fair amount of serious issues, and I wouldn’t recommend running it yet, but keep an eye out. This can really change the office productivity landscape.
Is the Segway still cool? I don’t know, I tried one and liked it, but I think I might like this even better.
[Hat tip: Gizmodo]
Camino 1.5 is out. It’s a great product for Mac users. Lets face it, the best browsers are on the Mac right now. Camino, Firefox, Safari, Shiira, and OmniWeb. All provide an excellent user experience. Camino is a great balance between the Gecko rendering engine (which has the benefit of extra market share thanks to it’s cross platform nature and sibling Firefox’s efforts) and a smooth UI. The obvious downside being the lack of extensions.
I’m thinking this is an easter egg.
Reminds me of the old Apple easter egg with the developers faces.
In case you were wondering what Google Gears meant to the planned support for Offline Web Applications in Firefox 3.0, here’s an article you may be interested in. No definitive answers, but does mention the possibility of combining ideas.
Google Gears is pretty cool, but I’d be much more comfortable if Google submitted the API as part of WHATWG and it were standardized. Google Gears would then be the way to use it without a browser having native support. I personally don’t like the idea of competing implementations.