Category: 681: Win an i5 MacBook Pro!, Safari Vulnerability Patch, MacPaint Code Donated, Apple Financials, Tech Tails TV 2.0

I am holding a house party tonight for Deb Markowitz, the current Secretary of State and candidate for Governor of Vermont. I hope some folks show up. It is an active campaign season with a lot of open seats and some extraordinary candidates for public office. One thing about our small state is that our…

Here’s some entertainment news you won’t read in “Variety Magazine.”:http://www.variety.com A few months ago we experimented with hosting our bi-weekly Tech Tails TV web show on Ustream.com. Tech Tails TV is our live web show where we repair and troubleshoot Macs, gossip about industry news, and answer all of your Apple-related questions. While this was…

Apple sold a record 3,470,000 Macs during the three months ending in June. This helped to generate $3,250,000,000 in profits (I like seeing all those zeros!). This represents a 77% year over year growth in Mac sales! I guess all those prophets of doom saying that the Mac was neglected for iOS4 and the iPad…

I’m going to date myself here: I wasn’t around for the release of MacPaint in 1984. While I didn’t get to use the revolutionary UI based drawing software until I arrived on the scene in ’88, it still had a profound impact on my interest in using the computer as a creative and artistic medium.…

Earlier in the week, *Jeremiah Grossman* of WhiteHat Security reported a major security vulnerability in Safari. This vulnerability stems from the “AutoFill web forms” function, which is enabled by default in the browser’s preferences. Ordinarily, this feature is intended to save users time by auto-completing forms using data from the Address Book. Grossman reports that…

Next Friday, July 30 we will be selecting a winner of a new Intel i5 15-inch MacBook Pro. You can enter to win this MacBook right up until 9:00 AM EST July 30. “Click here to register to win.”:http://www.smalldog.com/contest Note that after you register, you’ll have a chance to enter to win a set of…

_Dear Friends,_ There was a micro-storm at my house that caused some macro damage to some trees and resulted in 2-inch hail with accumulated ice on my deck. When I got home, it looked more like October than July with leaves all over the place. But, it is July and the summer storm passed and…