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Is your Mac among the 600K Mac inflected with Flashback trojan

I don’t know if it’s true that so many Mac worldwide got inflected with Flashback trojan.

Doctor Web exposes 550 000 strong Mac bonnet http://news.drweb.com/show/?i=2341

 

Anyhow there is a simple way to check whether your are inflected with Terminal.app. In case you are too scared to fire up Terminal or too lazy to copy & paste the verify & removal commands from F-Secure, I just put together an AppleScript to verify for you.

My AppleScript helps you to VERIFY whether your are safe

or inflected

It doesn’t REMOVE the trojan.

You can download my AppleScript Flashback Trojan I Checker here. Just double click to run the AppleScript app.

BTW, Apple has release a Java security update for patch the vulnerabilities. You definitely should do a Software Update.

Updates: Apple just releases a second Java security update!

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The New iPad Wi-Fi woes & fixes

If you happen to be the lucky ones to have the new iPad, you may encounter poor wi-fi reception. Such problem is reported here & there all over the web. Here’s something you can do to possibly solve it yourself accordingly.

Fix #1:

  1. Open Settings > General > Wi-Fi Networks
  2. Select “Forget this network”
  3. Re-connect to your Wi-Fi network.

If this doesn’t solve your connection problem, try the fix #2.

Fix #2:

  1. Open Settings > General > Reset
  2. Select “Reset Network Settings”
  3. Re-connect to your Wi-Fi network

This will erase all your network settings. So be sure you have all those information handy before selecting it.

If this still fail to improvement your new iPad’s wi-fi connection, you probably want to contact Apple for repair.

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G4 Mac Mini in an Apple // c

Wow, this is amazing. Mental Hygiene has putting a G4 Mac Mini into an Apple // c and using the original keyboard & monochrome monitor! It totally rocks!

Apple // c with G4 Mac Mini inside

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Keep Calm and Carry On app now free

There is a nice story about this UK 1939 WWII poster resurrected recently and getting popular. Here’s the story behind “Keep Calm and Carry On”

Keep Calm and Carry On app screen

Now the app is available for FREE for a limited time. Download the app now

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Apple Event on 7 March

The Loop has reported Apple is having a media event on 7 March, 2012.

Image from The Loop

From the image of the invitation, it looks like that the next iPad has no home button at all. It says

We have something you really have to see. And Touch.

Let’s see if there’s a 7 inch iPad 3 (no likely) and whether  the home button is really gone on the next iPad. iPad 3 with Quad core A5X & A6 chip, 4G LTE, bla bla bla… keeps flooding the web these few days.

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Happy Lunar New Year in the Year of Dragon

Wish everyone had a peaceful & nice break during Lunar New Year, good health and good fortune!

祝大家身體健康，財源廣進，心想事成！

This is the first year with my own new family member, my little gal. She’s enjoying the holiday spirit very much even under the chilling temperature.

The year of dragon is set for baby boom everywhere particular in Hong Kong with people coming across the border everyday legally and illegally. Hope things could turn out alright for the locals (@_@)

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Steve Jobs inspired the world

The first news in the morning is Steve Jobs has passed away at the age of 56. That’s sadden my whole day.

I’ve been fascinated by the colorful Apple logo since I was very very young. Back then computer means either IBM or Apple, but Apple computer is what I ever wanted. It’s different. It’s stylish & fun. Well at least that what I perceived when I was 7, looking at the colorful logo comparing to IBM’s. However, getting a computer was way expensive than most families can afford in 80’s.

My first computer lesson was with the Apple ][e doing some basic programming. I was 11. It was fun to know that one can create something with BASIC. That was so interesting. Since then I was hooked on computers, and Apple. That moment, I wanna do programming when I grow up.

Fast forward to 90’s. I finally had my real computer, a Mac Iici. It was an amazing computer. It can do things that you can’t imagine with an IBM clone!

Typing stuff with Microsoft Word, drawing stuff with Adobe Illustrator for my father, and playing with Hypercard, the former life of the web, on System 6. Controlling everything with a mouse was so cool! Everything is so different than the so-called “main stream” and that’s how I like it. I just love Macintosh & Steve Jobs.

There are plenty moments that I was blown away by Apple & Steve Jobs, and Pixar all these years. The Mac, OS X, iPod, iPhone, iPad, and etc.

And I felt particularly connected with the Think Different campaign.

Watch the video: The crazy ones

Attending the MacWorld Expo Tokyo in 2001 gave me the closet encounter with him. However, this is the one & only encounter that I can ever have now.

He’s been my hero since I ever know about computers, a true innovator, and the god of demonstrations. He’s part of the reason for what I’ve become, a web and iOS developer now.

RIP Steve Jobs. You’ll be missed forever as the world has missed its compass of innovations.

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Fireworks on National Day 2011

Just passed by the gap between skyscrapers and watched the last few minutes of firework tonight after dinner.

 

You can watch the last few minutes of firework at YouTube.

 

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Apple Store IFC mall

The first Apple Store in Hong Kong opens today at IFC mall!! The end of queue to get into the store was somewhere near the Central Post Office around 12pm today. Felt like it’s a queue to migration department’s counters to some other country at peak travel season.

I’ve never seen so many security guards in the mall ever. The store is packed with fans. You can see the Steve Jobs’ signature staircase from afar. And the store does look amazing.

Take a few photos on both sides of this remarkable Apple Store but I didn’t go in myself. Today is the important day that I should be celebrating my wife’s birthday instead of doing anything else 8D

 

 

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Goodbye my little big fish

This morning my beloved little big fish has passed away after its almost 2 years companionship. Goodbye little one. I had fond memory of you bitting off smaller fishes’ head.