maccast_02072005

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  Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles
    Mandaandthemarbles.com
News
  SuperBowl Ad Results
    Apple didn't do great (27th), but did better than Napster (last) in USAToday poll.
    Can see all ads including the banned ones on iFilm
  Domain Name Exploit effects Safari, FireFox and other non-IE Browsers
    Phishing scam exploits Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)
    Called Internationalized Domain Names, the standard allows companies to register domain names that appear to be the same in different languages.
      Basically uses International characters (unicode) that look like standard characters in your browser to register "fake" domains.
      Example of the exploit can be found here
    Fix for FireFox

      1) Goto your Firefox address bar. Enter about:config and press enter. Firefox will load the (large!) config page.

      2) Scroll down to the line beginning network.enableIDN -- this is International Domain Name support, and it is causing the problem here. We want to turn this off -- for now. Ideally we want to support international domain names, but not with this problem.

      3) Double-click the network.enableIDN label, and Firefox will show a dialog set to 'true'. Change it to 'false' (no quotes!), click Ok.

      4) go to Tools/Options/Privacy and clear the browser's cache and your done.

  PodBrix Mini IPod LEGO figure
    Limited edition of 300 for $16.99
    Currently sold out by more on the way
Reviews
  Pinnicle Systems MovieBox DV
    Analog to DV converter box
    Convert old VHS and Hi-8 movies to DV for use in iMovie
    Listener Zack's audio comment
    No mac software included, but works great with iMovie. Reports of lots of issues and crashes on PC with included software.
Thoughts, Comments, Emails and Feedback
  Greg - Comments
    Me injecting more of my personality into the cast
    PodcastTuner - I mentioned on the 2.2.2005 show
  Aaron - GIMP for OS X

    Gimp is the GNU Image Manipulation Program,
    and image editing application with comparable features to Photoshop 5

    Arron offers an OS X installer for GIMP
    Requires X11 from Apple
  Mark - VNC and Security
    Using SSH to tunnel VNC
    VNC "FAQ-o-Matic" website
  Michael - Comments from PC switchers
    What was the experience like? How difficult or easy was the transition?
    What about transfering data?
    Great Comment from Michael

      I have an old G3 500 iBook that I use almost every weekend when I'm
      away from home. It was something I inherited and unfortunately it's
      too low-spec to use exclusively, plus I've got years and years of
      email and other things on my PC, so I'm stuck with VNC for the time
      being. For a long time the iBook ran YellowDogLinux exclusively, but
      with the latest OS X (panther I guess), I've completely switched to OS
      X and I love it. However, for the reasons mentioned above, the iBook
      is mainly just a VNC thin-client. Nevertheless, I open and close it
      probably 30 times a day, and it stays on (w/out reboots) for weeks at
      a time, basically from update to update. That kind of rock-solid
      stability is unimaginable on my Windows machines. In fact, I've never
      had Panther crash or freeze on me in any way, and I don't baby that
      machine.

  Contest Winner
    8th person to contact the MacCast was John
    6th Track on John Hoskinson's CD Miscelleneous Heathen was "Waiting for Someone to Call"
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