As part of the Apple’s iPod overhaul today, the iPod Shuffle has been redesigned again The new form factor is reminiscent of the 3rd generation “clip-on” models and brings back the click wheel interface.
Available in five colors, the new Shuffles retain the VoiceOver feature which vocally tells the user the Artist name a song, playlist options, and battery status. The new lines now adds the popular Genius Playlist feature.
Price remain unchanged at $49.00 with a 2 Gb capacity with up to 15 hours of battery life.
The new iPod Shuffle can be pre-ordered immediately with the players expected to ship beginning next week.
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SpamSieve, aka the best 30 bucks you’ll ever spend on your Mac, has just been updated to version 2.8.3.
SpamSieve is an eMail client plug-in/application that provides powerful Bayesian spam filtering – much more accurate than the Junk Mail filters provided by most mail apps. It’s dirt-simple to install and control – and can be customized on how it interacts with the rest of your mail sorting rules. Actually, after you break it in for a day or so, there’s very little to do. It just works.
It works with most Mac OS X eMail clients, including Apple Mail, Entourage (v.X through 2008), Mozilla Thunderbird , Eudora 5.2 or later (Sponsored or Paid), GyazMail, Mailsmith, Emailer, and PowerMail. SpamSieve requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
SpamSieve 2.8.3 includes the following improvements and fixes:
- Adjusted SpamSieve’s tokenizer to improve the filtering accuracy.
- Made some changes to better support the upcoming Microsoft Outlook 2011. (Full support will come when Office ships.)
- Improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Apple Mail.
- MailForge now works with SpamSieve, as described in the Setting up MailForge section of the manual.
- Added various updates and clarifications to the manual.
- Fixed a regression where SpamSieve wouldn’t be able to install its Apple Mail plug-in if Mail’s folder had been redirected using an alias.
- Fixed a bug where SpamSieve would sometimes quit when coming out of trial mode.
- Fixed a bug where sometimes the Hits column in a rules window couldn’t be resized.
- Worked around an OS bug that could cause an internal error when reporting a corpus error.
- Made various modernizations to SpamSieve’s code and interface files.
- The Apple Mail plug-in now shows up with the proper name in Mail Plugin Manager.
- Updated the disk image layout.
A 30-day free trial is available.
Apple has issued Security Update 2010-005 for both Snow Leopard 10.6 (81 Mb download) and Leopard 10.5 (212 Mb download) Client operating systems as well as their respective Server versions. The patch corrects 13 vulnerabilities which could potentially allow hackers to issue arbitrary code to an unsuspecting user.
Major processes the update addresses include those concerning font handling, PDFs, core graphics, PHP, and networking. Details can be found here.
Security Update 2010-005 can be downloaded and applied via the above links or by using Software Update.
Adobe has patched a number of potentially dangerous security holes with the company’s release of it’s free PDF reader Adobe Reader 9.3.4 (for Mac, Windows, and Linux) and the commercial PDF creation application Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.3.4 (Mac/Win). The updates resolve a number of undisclosed security holes plus one revealed at the Black Hat USA 2010 security conference on July 28.
Adobe Security Item CVE-2010-2862 addresses the way Adobe Acrobat and Abobe Reader handles fonts, particularly an “integer overflow” whereby remote attackers can execute arbitrary code via a TrueType font.
It’s recommended that all users of Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat 9 upgrade as soon as possible.
