LOOPRumors is reporting that a new iTablet is on the work and might be unveiled on January 2008. According to them, the new device will run a customized version of Mac OS X Leopard. The device is not meant as a replacement for the MacBooks but rather to complement them.

They are also reporting that this device might use Mini dvd drive instead of a regular drive which actually doesn’t sound likely to me. I believe this device should be able to support regular dvd drive if its coming out. No point going backwards.For more information regarding this rumor visit LOOPRumors. 

Researchers at heise-security have found a flaw in the new Mac OS Leopard’s mail client. It has to do with the way apple mail handles image attachments.

Files on a Mac can contain additional information like what program should be used for opening a file. The OS store these in the file system in “resource fork”, which is linked to the file. This type of informatin is most cases limited to the local system but for emails the MIME format apple allows resource forks to be attached which are then automatically read by Apple Mail.

Attacker can easily create an attachment with .jpg extension with a JPEG icon. But when a user opens the picture, mail will automatically execute the command depending on the resource fork. This can harm the user’s computer without the user even being aware of it.For more info visit heise-security.  

If you are a big fan of streaming songs over the internet then seeqpod.com is for you. It provides a great interface to all the songs freely available on the internet. It is google for songs. You can search for songs, artist etc and create playlists and save them. Of course you should create an account to enjoy these privileges. Fortunately creating an account doesn’t cost you a dime. What is more interesting is if you have ipod touch or iphone then you can use the built in safari browser to listen to your favourite tunes. Until now it doesn’t have account or playlist support for the mobile version. Hope we will get an updated version with playlist creation option. Following are screenshots of home page, search page and the search results. Hope you will enjoy using seeqpod on you iPod touch/iPhone and PC (including macs).

   

 

Enjoy! 

 

The best msn IM client on Mac just got better. Audium for me is the best MSN client available on Mac. It integrates quite well with the mac environment and its works well with leopard.   

Unfortunately this setup looks to be a temporary one. Although it has support for AV it doesn’t integrate well with Audium and requires web browser and requires flash. You just need to install the plugin, you can get it here.Although not the best solution, it is a temporary one. They say they are working on a better integrated AV solution. We can just cross our finger.