Weekly Wrap-up - 3.28.08 Edition
Here are a few of the things that slipped through the proverbial cracks this week but are still worth mentioning:
TechCrunch has two separate reader reports of a phishing scam targeting Facebook users. The scam involves a notice appearing on the wall of user profiles as a message from a friend saying, “Hey, I got a new facebook account. I’m going to delete this one, so add my new profile…” with a link that appears to direct to the new profile but actually directs to a URL on view-facebookprofiles.com, a domain registered (and whois protected) on Namecheap and hosted at Softlayer that looks identical to the Facebook login page. Users fooled into resubmitting their Facebook details on this page then have their Facebook accounts hijacked and all of their contacts receive a similar message, propagating the phishing scam. It’s not yet clear what the phishing scammers are planning on using the compromised accounts for or how far it has spread, but beware…
Adobe has launched a basic version of Adobe Photoshop available for free online. Photoshop Express will be completely Web-based so consumers can use it with any type of computer, operating system and browser. According to Yahoo! News, Adobe says providing Photoshop Express for free is part marketing and part a strategy to create up-sell opportunities. It hopes some customers will move from it to boxed software like its $99 Photoshop Elements or to a subscription-based version of Express that’s in the works. More…
Remember Apple’s Newton? It brought handwriting recognition to hand held computing years ago but never quite found its niche market. Well, Apple’s kept its patents viable and now seems poised to reintroduce it for Mac OSX, other applications and the iPhone according to a report by Arnold Kim for Mac Rumors. “Apple has started hiring for a new Handwriting Recognition Engineer. The job description specifically seeks someone who would be responsible for ‘advancing Apple’s handwriting recognition technology for Mac OS X’ and ‘to other applications and the iPhone.’”…
There you have it. I’ve cleared my desk and I’m taking the rest of the week off.
Doug
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Let's hope the many rumors about the new iPhone are true. A summer release of iPhone.2 featuring 3G and GPS sounds great. Adding hr recognition would be iceing on the cake. And by then, 3rd party software developers should have a bunch of new apps ready to go. Looks like a great year for iPhoners!
I am anxious to try Adobe's PS Express. More stuff online (a la Google) sounds great to me!
Have a nice weekend!
I thought the reason Jobs didn't put G3 into the first iPhone was lack of availability of G3. Has that changed?
If you remember, AT&T promised Apple they would ramp up their G3 networks for iPhone. Must be on target.
Facebook is bad news for people, especially kids. Best protection? Leave it alone!!
Did anyone actually use the Newton before Apple pulled it off the market?
I did and it was great!! I still have it. It is a "collectable".
The first version of the handwriting recognition software was third party and didn't work too well so Apple tossed it and did their own which worked like a charm. But the bad rep they got for the first version hung with them. Mine was one of the last made. Still a great piece of history.
Lots of doctors used them for daily rounds. Less paper I think was the reason. They could take their entire patient files on rounds, all instantly available.
I hope handwriting recognition works as well on the iPhone. I read somewhere (maybe here) that Apple was planning a devise a little bigger than the iPhone but looks like the iPhone. We will see.