GoFlex Satellite offers wireless hard drive for iPad's

Seagate introduced the GoFlex Satellite, a portable, battery-powered hard drive targeted for iOS devices. The external hard drive includes an iOS app for the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch that lets you browse and view multimedia files stored on the drive. Different than most external drives, the GoFlex uses WiFi to share its data with up to three WiFi-enabled devices at the same time. If you need faster transfers, an included cable lets you connect the drive to any USB 3.0 port. The battery-powered drive delivers five hours of continuous usage and 25 hours in standby mode. The drive ships in a single 500 GB capacity option (US$199) and is available for pre-order now from Seagate, Amazon and Best Buy. The drive should hit U.S. retail shelves in July and international retailers later this summer.

Twitter Blog - A better app for your mobile browser

We want you to be able to access Twitter no matter where you are; regardless of what device you use; or, whether you prefer to access Twitter through a mobile application or the browser. Today, we’re starting to roll out a new version of twitter.com for mobile devices. This web app allows us to provide a high-quality and consistent Twitter experience on high-end touchscreen devices – whether or not an official Twitter application is available. It was built from the ground up for smartphones and tablets, which have more advanced browsers that support the latest web technologies, including HTML5.

The app is fast – you can quickly scroll through your timeline, move between tabs and compose Tweets. It’s rich – it takes advantage of capabilities that high-end device browsers offer, such as touch gestures and a large screen. And it’s simple – it’s easy-to-use and has the features you’d expect from a Twitter application, including your timeline, @mentions, messages that you can read in conversation view, search, trending topics, lists, and more.

We are releasing this application today to a small percentage of users on iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android smartphones, and we’ll be rolling it out to additional folks with those devices in the coming weeks. You can use Twitter on your phone’s browser by going to twitter.com. If you don’t yet have access to the new web app, you’ll still be able to use the existing version of twitter.com for mobile browsers.

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ClamXav is a free virus scanner for Mac OS X

ClamXav is a free virus scanner for Mac OS X. It uses the very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end and has the ability to detect both Windows and Mac threats.

ClamXav can be setup up as passive or active: scan only the files you tell it to or choose to activate Sentry to monitor your hard drive and scan new files as they arrive.

Introducing ClamXav 2

• Clean, simple-to-use interface
• Clearly lists infected files
• Free virus definitions (usually updated daily)
• Save your favourite scan locations for easy access
• Customise the toolbar - or hide it entirely
• Send selected files to quarantine or trash with one click
• Specify files to exclude using plain text* or by using drag & drop from the Finder
• Specify schedules to update virus definitions and perform scans
• Use ClamXav Sentry to monitor your hard drive and scan new files as they arrive
• Use the bundled ClamAV engine or bring your own installation
• Compatible with 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 Snow Leopard

Skype to Fix Wormable Bug in Mac Software

Skype plans to push out an important update to its Skype for Mac software next week that will fix a big that could be leveraged by hackers looking to build a self-copying worm program.

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Details of the flaw haven't been made public, so it's unlikely that anyone is going to write a worm any time soon. But the bug is serious, according to Gordon Maddern, the Australian security researcher who reported the issue to Skype.

"The long and the short of it is that an attacker needs only to send a victim a message and they can gain remote control of the victims Mac," Maddern wrote in a blog post. "It is extremely wormable and dangerous."

According to Skype, any attack that exploited it would involve sending a maliciously crafted message to someone on the attacker's Skype Contact List. The flaw does not affect Windows or Linux users, Skype Chief Information Security Officer Adrian Asher wrote in a blog post on the issue.

Skype will push out an update to its Skype for Mac software early next week, which means that all Mac OS users should be offered the fix within days.

But security-conscious people can already download a "hotfix" that Skype released on April 14. However, to date, Skype hasn't pushed this patch out to its users. Because "there were no reports of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild, we did not prompt our users to install this update," Asher said.

Mac users who want the fix now can click on Skype --> Check for Updates, or they can download the latest update from Skype's website. Otherwise they'll be prompted to upload the fix early next week.

Navigon iPhone 4 Design Car Mount Kit

Navigon's $50 iPhone 4 Design Car Mount Kit (also available in a model for the iPhone 3G and 3GS) is a car mount consisting of a windshield suction mount, a 12/24V car charger that plugs into your vehicle's accessory port, and a 4.9-foot USB dock-connector cable. (A separate Dashboard Mounting Pad is available for $10 if you'd rather attach the mount to your car’s dashboard.) The Design Car Mount Kit is available exclusively in the U.S. from BringMobi.

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i.TV The #1 TV and Entertainment App

If you're looking for an attractive and capable iPhone or iPad program guide. The free i.TV app for iPhone has been providing program guide and show information for TV addicts since October of 2008. i.TV is what you do while watching television. In addition to local television listings, i.TV also enables you to add shows to your list of favorites, learn about shows and celebrities on IMDb and Wikipedia, view related videos on YouTube, see which shows are available on Netflix, Hulu and iTunes, schedule a recording on your TiVo DVR, and read the  latest entertainment news. 

Click on this link to see more.

Apple's website hints at iWork '11

A small misstep by Apple in a MacBook Air image hints at the rumored iWork 11 suite. Located directly above the iPhoto image in the right sidebar is a reference to the rumored productivity suite. Rumors coming fast and furious last year pointed to a January launch of the iWork 11 applications along with the Mac App Store. While the OS X App Store debuted on time, the suite of applications which include Pages '11, Numbers '11 and Keynote '11 did not materialize.



The primary feature which is likely to be of the most use in iWork ’11 is the use of Lion’s AutoSave and Versions features.  As its name suggests, Versions records the evolution of a document as you create it’.  Therefore, if you wish to revert to an earlier version, Lion brings up a Time-Machine like screen to allow you to select which one you want.  Similarly, if you shut down an application, the AutoSave and Resume feature will automatically reopen where you left off.  It is likely that this will somehow be expanded and tightly integrated within iWork ’11.


The second feature relates to the AirDrop and sharing features.  AirDrop allows you to share files with anyone around you wirelessly, something that would be incredibly useful in iWork ’11.  In addition, recent rumors are suggesting that Apple will be relaunching MobileMe this year with a much greater emphasis on cloud storage and sharing.  It is likely that this will be a big component in iWork ’11 and another reason why we haven’t seen it up until now. Apple has already dipped into this with the iWork.com beta but we may see a lot more functionality when it finally launches.