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Linked List: November 20, 2006

Monday, 20 November 2006

Mike Davidson: Breaking News Is Broken ★: What do you mean Tom Cruise marrying Katie Holmes isn’t BREAKING NEWS?
Initial Zune Sales Not Affecting iPod Sales ★: Based on Amazon and Circuit City rankings (which remain dominated by iPods), analyst Steve Lidberg concludes:

While Zune may take some incremental share from second tier players such as SanDisk and Creative Labs, we believe Apple will maintain its approximately 75 percent share of the U.S. market.
Glenn Fleishman: Wireless Vulnerabilities Are a Bit Troubling ★: An accurate overview of the state of Mac OS X security from Glenn Fleishman.
Why No Mac Viruses? ★: Frank Steele on classic Mac OS viruses:

The Mac environment wasn’t always virus-free.

Once upon a time, I ran a few public-access labs at my university. These labs suffered several virus outbreaks, most notably catching WDEF before it was discovered in 1989. We also would occasionally see MDEF, nVIR, and Scores. The Mac’s market share then was a little higher — a little under 10 percent, versus 5 or 6 percent today — but it was still a minority platform, with the great majority of computers running DOS or Windows.
AppleInsider: Apple Working on Second, iChat-Based Cell Phone ★: The rumors have already gone to Apple’s second cell phone?
Tom Yager: Is Windows Inherently More Vulnerable to Malware Attacks Than OS X? ★: Spoiler: Yes.
Lost Mushroom Picker Found by Glow of iPod Backlight ★: Good thing he wasn’t using a Shuffle, I suppose.
RCDefaultApp 2.0 ★: Universal binary update to Carl Lindberg’s excellent freeware System Prefs panel for managing the default applications associated with file extensions, UTIs, and URL schemes. Version 2.0 shipped back in March, but I missed it; previous versions have been mentioned here on DF numerous times.
CSSEdit 2 Icon Joke ★: Scott Nicholas spotted a funny joke in CSSEdit 2’s app icon. Perfect humor for CSSEdit’s intended audience.