I was on the fence for quite awhile about the Apple TV but a recent deal on a refurbished 160Gb model was too good to pass up. The Apple TV's main selling point is to allow users to sync their iTunes library for viewing and listening on their TV. Setup was quite simple; all was needed from my end was an HDMI cord, which I had. After connecting the Apple TV to my wireless router, I updated it fully before syncing a good portion of my library. One drawback was that there is no easy way of doing a quick sync, especially if you have a large iTunes library.
This is one of a few Apple websites that gets it when it comes to the new release of Apple's iPad. Forward, streamlined thinking for a product. Quality over quantity, even in the face of available features. Give it a read.
I just happened to be mentioned in a recent article on the Motley Fool regarding Apple and cloud computing. I think in a few days, I would like expand on what I do use within the concept of cloud computing and what I do rely on with the computer itself or physical third party devices. Enjoy.
Wired came out recently and said that Apple's new operating system, Snow Leopard (10.6), is less secure than Windows, but mainly because of the lower market share, is safer. I think I see this article at least once a year from "knowledgeable" tech writers. While I will say that no system is 100% secure, the outlying architecture of OSX is Unix. Unix has always been a stable, secure OS. Vista and Windows 7, on the other hand, is still today based on the original code from Windows 3.1. Until Microsoft wisens up and rewrites the code for their operating systems as Apple did almost nine years ago, it will always be a much more vulnerable OS.
Dennis Fisher:
Little, if anything, gets Mac users more exercised than a mention of their favorite machine’s security problems. Despite the fact that security experts believe Macs to be much easier to exploit than Windows machines, Mac users simply trot out the old saw about there not being any virus attacks on Macs. Not only is that assertion demonstrably false, but it misses the point entirely: Virus attacks are not an indicator of the security of an operating system.
That probably sounds like clueless trolling to many of you reading this, but it’s not, and it highlights an important distinction. Security is about technical measures, like the strength of the locks on your doors and windows. Safety is about the likelihood that you’ll actually suffer from some sort of attack. Microsoft has in fact implemented more advanced security measures in Windows than Apple has in Mac OS X, but that’s not surprising, because Windows is where nearly all the malware is.
But it rings untrue to most ears to claim that Apple is doing a bad job with regard to security. The evidence suggests that Mac OS X has been and remains secure enough to be safe, and safety is what real people actually care about.
http://blog.cocoia.com/2009/a-look-at-billings/
