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+Though it could be argued that online grocery delivery services were one of the signs of the Apocalypse from the first internet bubble. But that doesn't seem to phase Amazon, the company has announced it will be [getting to the grocery delivery business][1].
+
+Of course there are already a handful of grocery delivery services out there, but most are very locally based, something Amazon Fresh, as it's called, could change if it succeeds.
+
+For the moment Amazon Fresh will be available by invitation only in the Seattle area and will feature pre-dawn deliveries. Use up the last of the greens in last night's dinner? No problem, just finish up the dishes and head over to Amazon.com to order more and they'll be sitting on the porch when you wake up.
+
+The deliveries will arrive in a "temperature-controlled tote" and there's no delivery charge as long as you meet the $25 minimum, otherwise it's $10 an order for the doorstep convenience.
+
+If you're in the Seattle area and you'd like an invite, you can sign up [here][3]. If you're not in the Seattle area, Amazon is taking expansion suggestions (apparently using the same form linked in the last sentence).
+
+While I'm the type who likes to inspect fresh groceries before I buy them, I'll admit that the idea of a delivery service has its appeal -- I've always regretted that I'm too young to have known that [Mayberry][2]-like world of milk delivery.
+
+[1]: https://fresh.amazon.com/Welcome?
+[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayberry
+[3]: http://fresh.amazon.com/FutureInfo
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+Black Hat Report: All Your Wifi Are Belong To Us
+
+The Black Hat conference is in full swing down in Las Vegas and already there's some scary stuff coming out, the BBC [reports][1] that one demonstrated exploit allows the attacker to see cookies via wifi.
+
+Robert Graham of Errata Security has created two programs, named "Hamster" and "Ferret," which sniff wifi traffic and grab cookies as people log in to and out of their webmail or social network accounts.
+
+Although the attack doesn't allow the perpetrator to reset your password, it does allow them near full access to your account.
+
+Naturally, if you're using say GMail and forcing it to connect via https, then you aren't at risk. If you'd like to force secure connections to GMail and your browser supports Greasemonkey, check out Mark Pilgrim's [handy script][3].
+
+If you're not a GMail user, check to see what sort of security options your favorite webmail and other online accounts offer, and remember nearly anything you do on public wifi that isn't to a secure site can be snooped using Graham's tools.
+
+If you'd like to check out Hamster and Ferret, Graham says they'll be available later this week from the [Errata site][2].
+
+[1]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6929258.stm
+[3]: http://erratasec.blogspot.com/
+[2]: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1404
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+Social networks initially took the web by storm because they filled a gap in how people wanted to interact over the internet.
+
+Facebook, MySpace and Bebo all essentially offer the same service: a way to manage your personal data and keep in touch with the people you know. But in order to get any real value out of a social network, you have to put a bunch of data in -- your photos, your contacts, your social calendar, lists of interests and written thoughts.
+
+Therein lies the rub. By entering that data into Facebook, you're really just sending it on a one way trip. Need to show somebody a video or a picture you posted in Facebook? Unless they have a Facebook account, they can't see it. Your videos, pictures and all the other tidbits of your life are essentially stranded and cut off from the rest of the web.
+
+Some social networking companies are challenging the closed Facebook model by offering open platforms where data such as personal contacts, videos and photos can be exported and used elsewhere.
+
+On Monday, the contact management service Plaxo launched a new social network called Pulse. The service gives Plaxo users a way to manage their interpersonal relationships and show off their interests on a customizable profile page.
+
+In a sense, Pulse offers the same all-your-data-in-one-place approach of Facebook, but with one crucial difference: It's not walled off. Anything you input directly using Plaxo can be retrieved and used elsewhere as you see fit, and any data you make public is accessible to anyone, regardless of whether or not they have an account. The service is rather limited at the moment, but it's a step in the right direction.
+
+Also, Pulse is no panacea. What the internet needs is a way to take the features of the social network out of the social network and into the larger world. Damn the Facebooks and the MySpaces. The last time we checked, there was this thing called the internet that had 6 billion potential viewers. It's time to take our data out of Mr. McGregor's little garden and put it back where it belongs -- growing free and open on the open web.
+
+An open platform for social networking is on the horizon. In fact, we're closer than ever before to being able to ditch the locked-in, closed network for good.
+
+With a little savvy, anyone can create a page that hosts all of the essential stuff one would find on a Facebook profile that can be set up with the same plug-and-play ease. You'll have to store all of your photos, videos, and contacts elsewhere, but at least you'll be able to get to your stuff.
+
+Start by setting up a blog. Say what's on your mind. Unlike your blog on Facebook or MySpace, everyone will be able to read it.
+
+From there, you can pull in your photos from Flickr or Zooomr, show off your impeccible musical tastes hosted at iLike or Last.fm, share your favorite web bookmarks from del.icio.us or ma.gnolia and put up a list of your most recent reads using Shelfari or LibraryThing.
+
+All of these servies have open APIs, making it easy for third-party developers to build widgets for displaying public data stored there. As a result, a dearth of such tools exist.
+
+Need to keep up to date with your friend's activities? Pull in a feed from their blog or from their Twitter page. The Upcoming event notification service has a dead simple code generator that will create a widget listing all of the events you plan to attend, as well as those your friends are interested in. Like to chat? Meebo offers an embeddable widget for AIM chatting, and Jaxtr does the same for SMS. You can even drop in a Skype button that lets your friends call you with one click.
+
+One of Facebook's unique features is the "everything in one place" feed, but you can build such a thing yourself. Just create an account at one of the many feed re-mixing sites like Yahoo Pipes, FeedShake or >FeedBlendr. Plug in all the feeds from the various sources you want to track and paste the resulting URL into a widget on your site. Voila.
+
+The free blogging software from WordPress has all of the functionality to let you embed these widgets and RSS streams. WordPress also has a thriving plug-in ecosystem, so it's likely a developer somewhere has done much of the dirty work for you.
+
+An even easier option is to use a sharable and customizable start page from Pageflakes or Protopage. Pageflakes in particular allows you to build a customized chunk of cyberspace that aggregates all of your desired content just like Facebook, which you can then publish publicly (Pageflakes calls this a "Pagecast"). And beyond a simple user registration, Pageflakes doesn't lock in any of your personal data.
+
+It's entirely possible to replicate most of the features of Facebook without getting sucked into its black hole, but there's still something missing. This is where it gets tricky.
+
+At this point, "friend" relationships remain unique to social networks. The web still lacks a generalized way to convey relationships between people's identities on the internet. The absence of this secret sauce -- an underlying framework that connects "friends" and establishes trust relationships between peers -- is what gave rise to social networks in the first place. While we've largely outgrown the limitations of closed platforms, no one has stepped forward with an open solution to managing your friends on internet at large.
+
+We would like to place an open call to the web programming community to solve this problem. We need a new framework based on open standards. Think of it as a structure to link individuals sites along familiar lines of friendship, a way of defining micro networks within the larger network of the the web.
+
+One possibility is the microformat XHTML Friends Network (XFN) which defines the relationship between the linker and the linkee.
+
+Some developers are beginning to offer easy-to-use tools which can create XFN code (WordPress and Movable Type both offer templating solutions), but use of XFN isn't yet widespread, and the data format doesn't offer any tools for managing friends. While a code snippet placed in a page can convey who you are and how you know who you know, the format doen't provide any way to utilize the information.
+
+Such a "mirco-network" standard may sound daunting or even impossible, but nearly all the tools we've mentioned so far started small. Blogging grew from a few people trying to easily publish web content on a daily basis. Del.icio.us started with one person looking for a way to manage his bookmarks from any machine. Even Facebook started with a few college friends trying to better plan their social lives.
+
+Eventually, an open network will emerge. Let's make it happen sooner rather than later.
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+Plaxo is set to officially launch its new social networking tools, dubbed "Pulse," on Monday, August 6th. With Pulse Plaxo would appear to be  gunning for Facebook's all-your-data-in-one-spot status. We looked at the beta version Pulse last month and [found it a bit unstable][1], but one thing Plaxo has going for it that Facebook lacks is openness.
+
+Plaxo will offer export options for all your data, contrasted with Facebook's so-called API, which really amounts to sending your data on a one-way trip over the event horizon.
+
+Other than the ability to export and use your data elsewhere, Plaxo's new networking features closely mirror those of Facebook -- you can add various data streams, such as blog posts, Flickr photos or Amazon Wishlists. Hopefully Plaxo will add more services before Monday's launch.
+
+Like Facebook you can then see your friends’ streams on the site and subscribe to their feeds.
+
+But despite its openness Plaxo's service is no panacea for those fed up with Facebook's walled garden; the company is still dogged by its reputation for annoying spamming users and many will likely shun the new network on that basis alone. 
+
+There's a beta test version of Pulse up on Plaxo right now, but it has some issues and number of bugs (Google Calendar sync has been disabled), which will hopefully be worked out before Monday's launch.
+
+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/plaxo-one-pim-a.html
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+Last week, VMWare announced its Mac virtualization software, Fusion, will be out of [out of beta on August 6][3], and now, not to be outdone, the original Mac virtualization solution -- Parallels has released a new public beta update.
+
+Unlike the last couple of betas from Parallels this one if free and open to annoy with a Parallels 3.0 license or a trial license which can be obtained by e-mailing the company.
+
+The new beta features improved integration in Coherence mode including support for Expose, which means you're Windows apps will zoom and stack just like your Mac windows. Other new features include (taken from the [Parallels blog][1]):
+
+
+>*	The Image Tool is back at full strength and completely compatible with snapshotted drives. Using the image tool, users can:
+*		Convert virtual hard drive format (plain to expanding, expanding to plain), 
+*		Enable/disable the "undo disk" option, which will erase all changes made during a session at shutdown. It's ideal for those of you doing a lot of testing or working in school settings), 
+*		Easily enlarge a virtual hard drive if you're running out of space.
+*	Explorer, the free utility that lets you browse and work with your VM’s hard drive even with the VM is off, now also works with VMs that are suspended.
+*	iPhone support in XP and Vista. Yes, I realize the irony of syncing an Apple device with Windows running on a Mac, but lots of people need to hook their iPhones up to Outlook. Try not to judge.
+
+I haven't tested the new features yet, but I'll be taking a look over the weekend. If you'd like to give it try, [grab a copy from the Parallels site][2], but keep in mind that this is a beta offering, don't try to use it on mission critical machines.
+
+[1]: http://parallelsvirtualization.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-parallels-desktop-beta-starts-today.html
+[2]: http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/beta
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/vmware-fusion-f.html
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+It Lives! Pirate Bay To Re-ignite Suprnova
+
+Suprnova.org, the king of the early bittorrent trackers, was shut down nearly three years ago after tremendous pressure from the French anti-piracy group RetSpan, but the notorious Pirate Bay has vowed to bring it back.
+
+The original owner of Suprnova.org, Andrej Preston has reached an agreement with the Pirate Bay to turn over use of the domain name, paving the way for the return of Suprnova.
+
+Like the Pirate Bay Suprnova was a torrent tracker and search engine for finding movies, TV shows, and more -- some legal, some not. But the rebirth of Suprnova will see the site limited to torrent indexing, rather than tracking.
+
+The Pirate Bay also says that a new community site will be launched that will be linked to both Suprnova and The Pirate Bay -- [SuprBay.org][2] is the new domain.
+
+Founded by Preston, who is Slovenian, in late 2000, Suprnova.org paralleled the rise of bittorrent as a file-swapping tool, and in many ways is at least partly responsible for its popularity today.
+
+For his part, Preston tells [TorrentFreak][1], "I know that domain has some nostalgic value and some people would be more then happy to see it back online. I don’t use it, and TPB is the only team that I know will use it correctly."
+
+[1]: http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-about-to-relaunch-suprnovaorg/
+[2]: http://suprbay.org/
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+Yelp, the social reviews, site has launched a new API which allows developers to query the site and display returned data on their own sites. The API allows developers to create mash-ups using Yelp data and nearly any other source -- so long as it is not review.
+
+The API features the ability to:
+
+>*	retrieve business review and rating information for a particular geographic region or location.
+*	display review information for a particular business.
+*	determine accurate neighborhood name information for a particular location.
+*	track recent reviews for a particular business.
+*	display pictures of highly rated local businesses and of the top reviewers for that business.
+*	determine a particular business' review and rating information based on the phone number for that business.
+
+However, before you get to excited consider the following restrictions:
+
+>You May Not:
+
+*	Collect end-user ratings or reviews of local businesses on any website that uses the Yelp API or Yelp Content;
+*	Aggregate Yelp Content alongside content from other sources (e.g., you will not create aggregate ratings combining ratings from Yelp and other sources);
+*	Display Yelp Content on any web page or application page that includes local business reviews from another source.
+
+I can see where Yelp wants to be the one and only source for reviews, but it seems like, it Yelp is really as good as it thinks it is, it wouldn't need to limit the competition. After all Google Maps API, the Flickr API and dozens of other site contain no such restrictions.
+
+Another drawback: the default format for returned data is [JSON][1] rather than the more standard XML. You can also request that Yelp return its response in "pickle" (serialized python) or PHP, but if you're not down with those three languages you're out of luck.
+
+For more info, check out the Yelp developer site and be sure to have a look at the great little [Google Maps-Yelp mash-up example][2] for some idea on how you can use the new API.
+
+Perhaps at some point Yelp will come to its senses and remove the silly restrictions on what is otherwise quite a nice little API.
+
+
+[1]: http://www.json.org
+[2]: http://groups.google.com/group/yelp-developer-support/browse_thread/thread/ad36e66bd7bb48d4
+[3]: http://www.waxy.org/links/
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+Google could be rolling out some form of copyright detection for YouTube as early as next month. The release timeline comes from one of Google's attorney's who is defending the company against Viacom's $1 billion [copyright infringement lawsuit][2] against YouTube.
+
+In pretrial hearing Google's attorney told the judge that the company was working "very intensely" on a video recognition technology and hoped to release it sometime in September.
+
+The AP [reports][1] that the technology in question has been described as a means of fingerprinting digital files, supposedly as "sophisticated as fingerprint technology used by the FBI."
+
+However Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, has previously said that the copyright protection technology for YouTube would **not** be designed to filter out and block pirated content, rather it would "somewhat automate" the process by which content owners can flag illegally copied videos.
+
+So has Google changed its plans for the filtering service? At this point no one outside Google knows for sure, but it certainly sound like what the lawyer described would be capable of blocking uploads.
+
+When asked for a comment, a Google spokesperson backed off the September release date saying, "we hope to have the testing completed and technology available by some time in the fall, but this is one of the most technologically complicated tasks that we have ever undertaken, and as always with cutting-edge technologies, it's difficult to forecast specific launch dates."
+
+[1]: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/27/Google-plans-YouTube-antipiracy-tool-for-September_1.html
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/the_morning_reb_5.html
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+Amid all the hype over the iPhone, the AppleTV hasn't generated much press lately, but that doesn't mean the hackers haven't been busy. AppleTVHacks finally published a patch over the weekend that allows AppleTV users to hook up an external drive for storage.
+
+One of the chief complaints about the AppleTV was its lack of hard drive storage, originally the AppleTv shipped with a paltry 40 GB, though Apple has since added a built-to-order option with a 160 GB drive.
+
+Still, before the AppleTV becomes a viable option for HD movies and other large media files, it's going to need external storage options, and that's exactly what [the USB patch does][1]. There are of course some caveats, for one thing the patch only seems to work with the original software, rather than the newer Apple TV software version 1.1.
+
+To get things working you'll need:
+
+
+<ul>
+<li><em>An ssh-enabled Apple TV</em>.  If you don&#8217;t have that enabled yet, you can refer to this <a href="http://appletvhacks.net/2007/03/24/enable-ssh-and-afp-on-your-apple-tv/">post</a> to get it enabled.  For instructions on how to enable ssh without opening the case, refer to this <a href="http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Enable_SSH_Without_Opening_the_Apple_TV">wiki page</a>.</li>
+<li><em>An Intel-Mac or Intel-based *nix</em>.  This is needed to run the script to patch the kernel on the Apple TV remotely.  It maybe possible to run the install script under Windows using <a href="http://cygwin.com">cygwin</a>.  However, we have not tried this.</li>
+<li><em>An installed version of Mac OS X 10.4 Intel</em>.  Or a full copy of the contents of the &#8220;/System/Library/Extensions&#8221; folder from one.</li>
+<li><em>An original, unmodified copy of the &#8216;mach_kernel.prelink&#8217; file from the Apple TV</em>.  If the kernel on your Apple TV has not been modified yet, you can just tell the script to get it from there.  Otherwise, you can obtain the file from Apple TV Software 1.1 update available <a href="http://mesu.apple.com/data/OS/061-2988.20070620.bHy75/2Z694-5248-45.dmg">here</a>.</li>
+<li><em>An external USB drive formatted using &#8220;Journaled HFS+&#8221;.</em>  This is the format the Apple TV expects.</li>
+</ul>
+
+For complete step-by-step instructions head over to AppleTVHacks. And if you'd like to help adapt and modify the patch to work with Apple TV software 1.1, the folks behind AppleTVHacks would [appreciate the helping hand][2].
+
+[1]: http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/07/28/usb-patch-released-hallelujah/
+[2]: http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/07/29/usb-patch-2-days-later/
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+We mentioned it last week when it was initially released, but the "hello world" app for the iPhone is now available for mere mortals in GUI form. True, it still doesn't do anything more than announce "hello world," that the fact that it's wrapped up in a GUI means that other, actually useful apps will probably start popping up in the very near future.
+
+Other GUI options for iPhone junkies include [iFuntastic][1], which allows you to install custom ringtones, rearrange the home menu and replace the AT&T logo with any 65 x 18 pixel PNG image.
+
+Most of the rest of the hacks floating around the internet still require some command line input, though nearly all provide detailed instructions.
+
+An interesting app/hack from Justin Schwalbe allows you to take any image from the web and [make it the iPhone wallpaper][2]. Yes, you can already do that, but it requires connecting to your computer, downloading and then syncing to include the downloaded images. Schwalbe's hack allows you to download and use any image as a wallpaper, from the actual iPhone.
+
+Check out the video below:
+
+[1]: http://www.iphonealley.com/forums/showthread.php?t=523&s=17555c58798ee56246a477ae06e398a4&
+[2]: http://finishtherace.net/b2/index.php?p=532&c=1&more=1
+
+
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+With Dell now offering it pre-installed and most of your favorite sites powered by it, it's easy to forget that Linux as we know it is less than thirteen years old. 
+
+In September of 1991 Linus Torvalds e-mailed the comp.os.minix Usenet group to say: "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since April, and is starting to get ready."
+
+Kernel Trap recently had a [nice overview of Linus' early thoughts on the kernel][1] and its development, some of which become quite funny in light of the actual development of Linux.
+
+Originally Linus didn't think the kernel would port from the original 32-bit i386 chip architecture. And while that is the way Linux 1.0 shipped, by the time 1.2 arrived just under a year later, it had already been ported to 32-bit MIPS, 32-bit SPARC, and the 64-bit Alpha.
+
+Linus was also pretty adamant that Linux was nothing more than a hobby and probably wouldn't impress many people.
+
+Of course a quick push of the fast-forward button and you get to today where consumer-friendly distributions of Linux are shipping pre-installed on Dell machines. 
+
+A crazy condensed history to give you a little perspective on a monday morning.
+
+[1]: http://kerneltrap.org/node/14002
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+Microsoft released a beta of Visual Studio 2008 last week and to go along with it the company has unveiled a new downloading scheme that sounds a lot like bittorrent. The Microsoft Secure Content Downloader (MSCD) as the new protocol is known, is what Microsoft describes as "a peer-assisted download manager."
+
+Further details make the setup sound even more like bittorrent. From the [MSCD site][1]:
+
+>*	Each client downloads content by exchanging parts of the file they’re interested in with other clients, in addition to downloading parts from the server.
+	*	No matter how great the internet’s demand for the file, you will always be able to make progress downloading.
+	*	MSCD lets you download content quicker than is possible without peer assistance.
+	
+
+
+Unlike bittorrent though, these files are secure through an unspecified mechanism, but otherwise the system sounds like Microsoft has reinvented bittorrent as a means of downloading software. Or at least is testing the system.
+
+Here's where it gets interesting though:
+
+>Some MSCD clients may be connected to each other via peer connections, forming a ‘cloud’ of clients. Pieces of the file you are downloading are sent through these peer connections between clients, as well as through connections with the file server. As a member of the cloud, your computer both serves as a client and server to other members of the cloud. Data destined for the cloud may be routed through your computer and sent to other cloud members. The other cloud members connected to you will be able to access only pieces of the file you are downloading via MSCD – they have no access to any other data on your computer.
+
+Essentially your bandwidth and connection are being used to distribute Microsoft's software and it remains to be seen how consumers react to this idea. 
+
+Is the potential speed boost and shortened download time enough to take the sting off the fact that you're essentially helping Microsoft cut down on their server costs? Or will consumers revolt as they did when Blizzard released a World of Warcraft [patch via bittorrent][2]?
+
+Let us know what you think in the comments below.
+
+[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9a927cf6-16e4-4e21-9608-77f06d2156bb&displaylang=en
+[2]: http://www.blizzard.co.uk/wow/faq/bittorrent.shtml
+
+[Comic From [Penny Arcade][3]]
+[3]: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/06/21
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+Chatting is the hot new venue for virus and malware authors. A new study says that malicious attacks over IM networks are up almost 80 percent compared to last year.
+
+Akonix, which just [released the statistics][1] over the weekend is in the business of developing IM "cleaning" services so you might want to take the numbers with a grain of salt, but still, according to Akonix's survey there have been 226 exploits for IM networks this year, which is just over one a day.
+
+Compare that with last year's numbers and there's no doubt that IM is finally starting to attract the kind of attacks that other networks have suffered for years.
+
+Akonix also says that older peer-to-peer networks, such as Kazaa and eDonkey, are increasing beset by malware. The company found 32 attacks just in the month of July.
+
+With system admins spending so much time and effort clamping down large e-mail networks, it makes sense that hackers would move on to the thus-far soft underbellies of IM and P2P. 
+
+As with everything else in the online world, make sure you trust your IM contacts before clicking a link or downloading any files sent over IM.
+
+[1]: http://www.akonix.com/press/releases-details.asp?id=138
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+Following widespread criticism, Adobe has announced it will remove a menu option in its Acrobat and Reader programs which allowed users to send documents over the Internet to FedEx Kinkos for printing.
+
+The menu option was [new in Reader 8.1 and Acrobat 8.1][2] and is located under the "File" menu. Adobe agreed to remove the links after meeting with other print companies who saw the feature as an unfair advantage for FedEx Kinkos.
+
+John Loiacono, Adobe's SVP of the Creative Solutions Business Unit, [writes on his blog][1]:
+
+>I know that there are a lot of folks who will be asking why we can't do it this afternoon. The answer is we can't just go back to the 8.0 release since the 8.1 release that contains the button included a lot of critical security and quality updates in addition to the new print option. We have determined the best way to move forward is with an 8.1.1 update.
+
+
+FedEx Kinkos will still offer a version of Adobe Reader with the printing option in the File menu, but it will be available only from the FedEx Kinkos site.
+
+Adobe also says it will be setting up a Print Advisory Council to work with third-party printers on software integration issues.
+
+[1]: http://blogs.adobe.com/johnnyl/2007/08/adobe_and_fedex_kinkos_update.html
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/latest-acrobat-.html
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+<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="675" height="246">
+          <param name="movie" value="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/files/3-species.swf" />
+          <param name="quality" value="high" />
+          <embed src="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/files/3-species.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="675" height="246"></embed>
+        </object>	
+
+
+It's Merlin Mann's worst nightmare: a full inbox with hundreds of e-mail messages visualized as a bunch of hairy, swimming microbes. 
+
+When Carolin Horn set out to find a metaphor to visualize her e-mail she turned, naturally some would argue, to microbes. The result is a very nice Flash app that displays the status of each e-mail by the size, shape and velocity of microbes.
+
+The project is part of Horn's MFA thesis "Natural Metaphor For Information Visuzalization." Here's how she explains the project:
+
+>The emails are categorized in six person groups: family and friends, school, job, e-commerce, unclassified, and spam. For example, all emails I have received from my advisors and fellow students are in the category school. These categories are represented by six species, which are different in color and form. For instance, all received emails from school are blue and look a bit like croissants.
+
+>How an animal looks and moves depends on the condition of the represented email. The age of an email (when it was received) is shown by the size and opacity of the animal. For instance, a new email is big and opaque, an old email small and transparent. The status of an email (unread, read, responded) is shown by two animal attributes: the number of hair/feet and velocity. An unread email is hairy and swims fast; a read email has less hair and does not swim so fast anymore; a responded email is hairless and barely moves.
+
+"An unread email is hairy and swims fast." Indeed. Which is why we recommend you [get a handle on your e-mail][2] before you end up in bed with some nasty bug.
+
+The project code was written by Florian Jenett and it's [available for download][4] if you'd like to play around with it.
+
+[via Waxy][3]]
+
+[3]: http://www.waxy.org/links/
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/tips-to-curb-yo.html
+[1]: http://carohorn.de/anymails/
+[4]: http://carohorn.de/anymails/Anymails_010_20070801.zip
+
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+Gadget Lab is running a March Madness-style tournament to determine the "[Greatest Gadget of All Time][1]." The results won't be tallied until next week, and they've got a great little Flash-interface for the voting, head over and cast yours today.
+
+Some of the match-ups are bit lopsided (The Sony Walkman versus Mr. Coffee, I mean I like coffee and all, but come on) but it's fun anyway. I expect the iPod to come out on top in the end, or at least in the top three, but then again, it's up against some impressive stuff like the Fender Telecaster and the original Mac Plus -- without which there might not be much use for an iPod.
+
+Personal pick? The Bic Cristal Ballpoint Pen.
+
+
+
+
+[1]: http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2007/gadget_tournament/
+
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+The JPEG standards group announced today it will consider Microsoft's HD Photo format (also known as Windows Media Photo) as a possible successor to the JPEG standard. If the Microsoft format is approved, it will be renamed JPG XR.
+
+Geared toward the digital photography market, Microsoft's HD Photo offers a number of advantages over the existing JPEG format, including lossless compression, support for embedded color profiles and the ability to manipulate the compressed data directly.
+
+Another format, JPEG2000 is also under consideration, but Microsoft claims its format offers speed and size advantages over JPEG2000.
+
+As part of the submission, Microsoft has also said it will release royalty free versions of all the patents required by HD Photo, should it be approved.
+
+The JPEG standard committee will make its decision by the end October. Should it be approved HD Photo will probably be published as a completed standard within roughly a year.
+
+[via [Ars Technica][1]]
+
+[1]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070801-microsoft-hd-photo-considered-for-standardization-by-jpeg-committee.html
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+In case the name didn't clue you in, Microsoft has announced its Office for Mac 2008 with new versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, will be delayed until January 2008. Despite the name, Office for Mac 2008 was originally scheduled for release in the second half of this year. Microsoft hasn't released a Mac Office update in four years.
+
+Microsoft says that problems with "product quality" caused the delay, but hopes to have its Mac office suite on the shelves in time for MacWorld which is scheduled for the second week in January 2008.
+
+Although Microsoft [demoed preview versions of Office for Mac][2] at this year's Macworld, the company has held the software in a private beta phase for the last seven months.
+
+The 2008 release will be the first Office for Mac version to be built for Intel-based Macs. However, Microsoft has already said that the Mac version of its Office suite will not feature the revamped interface, dubbed "Ribbon," that its Windows counterpart now uses. 
+
+Other likely changes in the new version include the removal of Visual Basic scripting, for macros, which automate commonly used functions (and enable all sort of potential exploits). Microsoft hasn't said one way or the other, but there is the possibility that Office for Mac 2008 could adopt AppleScript, OS X's native scripting language.
+
+The announcement about Office for Mac's delay comes just two days after the Microsoft MacBU released new betas of its [Office format converters][3], which improve compatibility with the PC version of Office 2007 in the existing version of Office for Mac.
+
+Meanwhile, the rumor mills suggest that Apple [may release][1] the next revision of its own office suite, iWork, in the very near future. But, although iWork can replace Microsoft Office for the casual user, it still has some compatibility issues and lacks many of the features of Microsoft's offering.
+
+Pricing details for Office for Mac 2008 have not been announced. Microsoft Office for Mac 2004, the most recent version, costs $400.
+
+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/rumor-next-vers.html
+[2]: http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/01/72476
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/microsoft-updat.html
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+There's a new open source browser on the block: the ["Origyn Web Browser" (OWB)][2] is based on the open-source WebKit Web browser engine, the same technology behind Apple's Safari.
+
+OWB was created by a company named Pleyo, and is designed for devices such as mobile phones, portable media players, GPS devices, PVRs and other set-top boxes, but there are builds available for Linux desktop and Mac OS X as well.
+
+Although OWB is based on Apple's WebKit browser engine, Pleyo has added an abstraction layer, known as the "OWB Abstraction Layer" (OwBal) which is designed to make it easier to integrate the browser into other platforms.
+
+Instead of having to port the whole browser to a new platform, the OwBal layer allows developers to use their existing libraries which OWB can hook into.
+
+If you'd like to play around with OWB, you can grab the source from [Sand-labs.org][1]. OWB is governed by the BSD license. 
+
+The suggested development setup is a Gentoo Linux-based environment, which has an installer, but there are other builds for OS X and the Nokia N800 internet tablet.
+
+The alternative builds require you to compile from source. If you've never done that before, have a looks the [how to compile software][3] tutorial in the new Wired how-to wiki.
+
+Here's some screenshots of OWB from the press release:
+
+
+[via [DesktopLinux][4]]
+
+[1]: http://www.sand-labs.org/owb
+[2]: http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5894497943.html
+[3]: http://howto.wired.com/wiredhowtos/index.cgi?page_name=compile_software_from_source_code;action=display;category=Work
+[4]: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3111480150.html
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+It's back to school time and students know that that means, time to bend over and take one from the textbook publishers. But if long lines and artificially inflated prices aren't your bag, you might want to look at [Textbookflix][1].
+
+Textbookflix is a new service that allows students to rent textbooks in the same way your rent movies from Netflix (which explains the horrible name, I think). Textbookflix is the brainchild of Chegg, a classified network where students can buy and sell textbooks.
+
+In theory Textbookflix will let you search by school, course and professor to find the books you need and then you can rent them for the semester. The service is currently a private beta, but you can [sign up to receive an invite][2].
+
+I haven't personally used the service, but if the inventory is any good, it could be a much needed money-saver for cash-strapped college students.
+
+Of course there's also the Facebook marketplace, which can useful for obtaining cheap used books.
+
+[via [Mashable][3]]
+
+[1]: http://www.textbookflix.com/index.php/
+[2]: http://www.textbookflix.com/index.php/WaitingList/?PHPSESSID=59b047b57fb78c44b9a8a0ee550d2fb2
+[3]: http://mashable.com/2007/08/02/textbookflix/
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+The process of downloading bittorrent files continues to baffle many people, despite some pretty easy-to-use options. For those that just can't seem to figure it out, [BitLet][1] offers a dead-simple method of downloading torrent files directly from your browser -- no external programs or browser add-ons needed.
+
+Feed BitLet the URL of a .torrent file and it will download the file using a web-based interface that opens in a pop-up window. The interface will ask where you'd like to save the file and then the download starts.
+
+You'll be able to monitor speeds (which were quite good in my testing) and progress, though there's no peer data or any in-depth information.
+
+It's no replacement for a desktop-based client if you're serious about your torrents, but if you don't want to explain the bittorrent process to your clueless co-worker, sending them a BitLet URL can spare you the pain. It would also be handy for work environments where there might not be a bittorrent client installed.
+
+BitLet does require that you have the latest Java VM browser plug-in installed on your system, but Vista and OS X ship with everything you'll need. Depending on the last time you updated XP you may need to grab the [latest version of the Java VM plug-in][4].
+
+BitLet even includes a [very nice code generator][3] for making links which you can then e-mail or post on your site for others to download. Here's a sample of some BitLet generated code to start downloading the Intel version of <script src="http://www.bitlet.org/javascripts/BitLet.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
+<a href="http://www.bitlet.org?torrent=http%3A%2F%2Freleases.ubuntu.com%2F7.04%2Fubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent" onclick="return BitLet.openDownloadFromAnchor(this);">Ubuntu Desktop 7.0.4</a>.
+
+[via [TorrentFreak][2]]
+
+[1]: http://www.bitlet.org/
+[2]: http://torrentfreak.com/bitlet-a-cute-web-based-bittorrent-client/
+[3]: http://www.bitlet.org/more
+[4]: http://www.java.com/en/
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+Mozilla has pushed out a Firefox update to patch some security issues which we [mentioned last week][4]. The new update, Firefox 2.0.0.6 comes just two weeks after the last security update.
+
+Firefox 2.0.0.6 fixes a critical vulnerability that would cause the browser to pass on unescaped URIs to external programs, which opened up all sorts of nasty attacks, including a means for hackers to install malware on Windows simply by offering a specially crafted link.
+
+The new update also addresses a less serious vulnerability involving Firefox add-ons.
+
+The update can be [downloaded from the Mozilla servers][1]. The [release notes][3] are available and if you'd like more information on the security issues, the patch information can be found [here][2].
+
+A security advisor sent out to Mozilla's mailing list also lists new version of Thunderbird 2.0.0.6, 1.0.5.13 and SeaMonkey 1.1.4 which all address the same issues.
+
+[1]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
+[2]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox2.0.0.6
+[3]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.6/releasenotes/
+[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/uri-vulnerabili.html "URI Vulnerabilities Continue To Plague Firefox 2"
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+Microsoft has released the new version of Microsoft Works. Microsoft Works v9, the red-headed stepchild of Microsoft Office, is a free, ad supported office package offering word processing, spreadsheet and slideshow (Powerpoint) functionality.
+
+Microsoft Works 9 may also someday be available as a Microsoft-hosted low-end productivity service, possibly through the company's Live services, which would put it head-to-head with Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Zoho. But for the moment, Works 9 will be limited to the desktop.
+
+Regrettably, although there are some support documents online and a few torrents on Pirate Bay, there doesn't seem to be a way to download Works 9 from the Microsoft site.
+
+Although I'll reserve judgment until Works is available, here's some interesting tidbits from the [Microsoft support site][2]:
+
+*	The OOXML file formats from Office 2007 will be supported (regrettably so will those archaic Works formats, which could confuse some users)
+
+*	XP 32-bit and 64-bit are both supported, but only the 32-bit version of Vista will work, as is the case with several other recent releases from Microsoft. 
+
+*	The [minimum system requirements][3] might raise a few eyebrows. Not the XP version, which requires just 256MB of memory, but you the Vista version apparently needs 1GB in Vista Basic and a massive 1.5GB for Vista Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate. And remember, that's the *mimimum*, not the recommended amount of RAM. That should put Firefox's memory usage in perspective.
+
+For those that have forgotten about Microsoft Works, it includes an address book, calendar, database, dictionary, PowerPoint Viewer, basic Word, and some templates. Works began life as a Mac application way back in 1985.
+
+In many respects Works is a stripped down version of the full-fledged Office suite, and has primarily continued its life as a default install on low-end PCs, though many manufacturer's have started following Microsoft's recommendation of pre-installing an Office demo instead.
+
+We'll be sure to update this post as soon as there's a download link available.
+
+[via [ZDNet][1]]
+
+[1]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=604
+[2]: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/ph/12025?cid=C_67306
+[3]: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939451/en-us
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+One Giant Leap For Microformats
+
+The Google Maps team announced yesterday that the popular mapping service will [now support the hCard microformat][1] in search results. The hCard microformat is a way of encoding address information which makes it easier to export address/contact info into other applications.
+
+Now when you search for a business in Google Maps your browser can recognize the address and contact information in the page, and make it easy to transfer it to an address book or phone.
+
+For Firefox users there's a there are two add-on that offer microformats support, <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106"> Operator</a> or <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2240/">Tails</a>. If you're an IE or Safari user, the microformats wiki has some <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/bookmarklets"> bookmarklets</a> that enable those browsers to grab and pass on hCard info or convert it to GMail address.
+
+Also, if you've got some form of Google Maps on your own site, you can do so by making a few slight changes to your HTML. For more info on microformats, [see our earlier tutorial][3] or head over to the [official site][4].
+
+Google Maps may not be the first to embrace microformats, but it is definitely one of the largest services and should significantly increase the public's exposure to the usefulness of microformats.
+
+[1]: http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/06/microformats-in-google-maps.html
+[2]: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-authoring
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/tutorial_o_the__2.html
+[4]: http://microformats.org/
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+Apple has released the first iPhone update with fixes for [vulnerabilities in Safari][2], WebCore and WebKit. The update is available through iTunes when the iPhone is connected.
+
+IPhone 1.0.1 doesn't add any new features but the update for Safari 3 on the iPhone addresses the serious flaw brought to light shortly after the iPhone was released. The vulnerability gives a website the ability to allow cross-site scripting. 
+
+By combining a flaw in Safari with HTTP redirection malicious site could use JavaScript from one page to modify a redirected page which would allow cookies and pages to be read or arbitrarily modified. 
+
+The patch also addresses another issue in Safari which could lead to arbitrary code execution if you visit a maliciously crafted web page.
+
+The WebCore fix is for an issue very similar to that of Safari and also allows cross-site requests. The WebKit patch address a vulnerability involving look-alike characters in a URL which could used to trick users into visiting a malicious site which could then be used to execute arbitrary code.
+
+The researchers who discovered the flaws in Safari were set to reveal the details at the annual Black Hat Conference later this week. Fortunately for users, Apple managed to push out this set of patches before that happened.
+
+For those with hacked iPhones, the update appears to wipe your mods, but various reports claim that Jailbreak still works and I had no problems using iFuntastic even after applying the update (be sure to [grab the latest version][1] though, I can't vouch for earlier versions).
+
+[1]: http://iphonealley.com/downloads/applications/ifuntastic-version-2-1-0-b001
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/iphone-flaw-all.html
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+Microsoft's MacBU team has rolled out an updated beta of their format converters which feature added compatibility with Microsoft Office's OOXML format documents. Mac users now have a few more options for [working with OOXML formats][1] in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Office v. X for Mac.
+
+The new version of the converter can convert the following Office Open XML file formats:
+
+>*	Word Document (*.docx)
+*	Word Macro-Enabled Document (*.docm)
+*	PowerPoint Presentation (*.pptx)
+*	PowerPoint Show (*.ppsx)
+*	PowerPoint Template (*.potx)
+
+The converter is still in beta and may not work perfectly, but until the next version of Office for Mac arrives, this is your best solution (unless you want to use OpenOffice's converters).
+
+The update announcement cautions users to "review the file carefully to make sure that it contains all of the information that you expect," after conversion.
+
+Microsoft's MacBU has also released a new [beta version of Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac][2], which allows you to interact with Windows machines over a network connection.
+
+Version 2.0 of Remote Desktop Connection Client is a Universal Binary and features a number of improvements including better support for Windows Vista, support for multiple sessions, an improved user interface and more.
+
+At the moment Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 is only available in English, and supports only US English keyboards. 
+
+[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/Office2004/ConverterBeta_0_2.xml&secid=4&ssid=36&flgnosysreq=True
+[2]: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/MISC/RDC2.0_Public_Beta_download.xml&secid=80&ssid=11&flgnosysreq=True
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+The iPhone wasn't the only Apple updated yesterday, the company also [released a security update for OS X][1] which addresses no less than a dozen issues and there's a new version of the Safari 3 beta which fixes the same issues [mentioned in the earlier iPhone update][2].
+
+Security Update 2007-007 fixes a number of known vulnerabilities in a variety of OS X components including Core Audio, WebKit, WebCore, bzip2, CFNetwork, Core Audio, cscope, gnuzip, Kerberos, mDNSResponder, PDFKit, PHP, Quartz Composer and samba.
+
+While a few of those are actual Apple software, the majority are open source tools used by OS X, which is something Apple has not been good about updating. For instance some the PHP issues addressed have been public since March and the Samba flaw has been known since May.
+
+The WebCore WebKit and updated Safari 3 beta all fix the same [vulnerabilities that affected the iPhone][2].
+
+Perhaps the most serious of these patches is the fix for mDNSResponder, which, if left unpatched, can lead to attackers executing arbitrary code via a buffer overflow vulnerability.
+
+Security Update 2007-007 is available via Software Update or [from the Apple site][4]. The [Safari 3 beta update][3] is also available through Software Update or it can be downloaded [here][4].
+
+[1]: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/apple-pushes-ou.html
+[3]: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306174
+[4]: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
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