Linked List: January 23, 2009

Friday, 23 January 2009

Snow Leopard Screenshot Leaks? 

Sort of a retro look. (Via Craig Hockenberry.)

Bootleg iWork ’09 Installer Contains Trojan Horse 

Rob Griffiths:

Intego, makers of VirusBarrier and other security software for the Macintosh, issued a security alert for Mac users on Thursday, advising them about the existence of a new Trojan Horse, which they’ve named OSX.Trojan.iServices.A. This new Trojan Horse can be found in pirated copies of Apple’s iWork ’09 application suite, which has been downloaded over 20,000 times, according to Intego’s numbers.

You’ve got nothing to worry about unless you installed a bootleg copy of iWork from BitTorrent. If you do you have something to worry about, Intego’s description of the Trojan horse says it’s installed at /System/Library/StartupItems/iWorkServices.

Kindling 

My thanks to Kindling for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Kindling is a web-based “idea management and collaboration tool”. The basic idea is that it acts as a forum for an organization or team to submit, discuss, and vote on ideas. The voting system brings popular ideas to the attention of everyone. Their web site has an excellent introductory/screencast video — really makes it clear how Kindling works and what it’s for. They also have a demo installation you can try for yourself, and you get a 30-day free trial when you sign up.

Curious Sourcing at The Telegraph 

This segment of a report titled “Can Anyone Replace Steve Jobs at Apple?” by Rupert Neate and James Quinn that appeared last week in the U.K. Telegraph caught my eye:

Apple insiders say Mr Cook — who also took the helm while Mr Jobs took time off for treatment for a rare type of pancreatic cancer in 2004 — has been effectively “running Apple for a long time”.

Michael Janes, who runs Apple’s online store, said: “Steve is the face of the company and very involved with product development but Tim is the guy who takes all those designs and turns it into a big pile of cash for the company.”

First, I never heard of Michael Janes before. Second, if he currently “runs Apple’s online store”, why on earth would he be talking to the press about Apple senior management? When is the last time anyone at Apple has been quoted by name in a news story regarding how Apple operates?

It ends up Janes does not “run Apple’s online store”. Jennifer Bailey does, as Apple’s vice president of the Apple online store. Michael Janes did run the Apple online store — emphasis on the past tense — about six years ago.

‘RT’ vs. ‘via’ 

I hate the whole “RT” thing. Just link to noteworthy tweets, don’t regurgitate them.