RE: Tiger-tastic

["Ward, David" <DAvid.Ward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One little thing to watch with the Widgets is that they can autoinstall
fro=
m
a website!

It's a bit of a concern as Tim Allen pointed out to me the other day


Subject: Slashdot  Malicious Web Pages Can Install Dashboard Widgets


http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/05/08/2131208.shtml?tid=3D172&tid=3D179&tid=
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Dave

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From: lists@xxxxxxx [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 May 2005 09:29
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Tiger-tastic


Hi Tim,

> I agree on Tiger - seems very impressive so far, though my=20
PowerBook at

I'm still not sure 80 odd quid isn't taking the p*ss, especially when I
bought my mini about a month earlier - MS usually offer you upgrades for
anything purchased in the few months leading up to release don't they?

But yes, it IS good.

> home is starting to feel a little sluggish (good job I've just ordered
> an iMac). I'm about to install it on my dual 2ghz G5 at work and will

LOL, any od excuse ;)

I am more than happy with the speed of it for day to day use on=20
my mini -
my 2.8 AMD seems sluggish by comparison.
OTOH, I haven't installed a shed load of stuff on the mini like=20
I have on
the PC (side note: Recently built a 2.8 celery for someone - it flew!=20
Then I installed Norton and it slowed to a crawl - need to switch to
something that does not kill the PC!)

> report back on what it's like. As for Widgets, you might want to join
> up to the Apple Developer Connection (free) where you can=20
download lots
> of info about Widgets and programming the Mac in general. Xcode 2 that

thanks, have joined.  Trouble is, I have bugger all time to tinker :(

> is on the Tiger DVD has all the tools you'll need - I've done a
> pointless Widget that just display some text and has a custom=20
icon just
> to see what's involved and it's fun to play around with.

u gotta start *somewhere* ;)

> I have to say though, it's crazy that Tiger comes with Xcode dev tools
> free, yet you have to pay =A319.99 for QT Pro...

yup, v.inconsistent is old apple - 1/2 the time they give stuff=20
away, the
other half they want both arms and at least one leg too....

cheers,

T.




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