Hi, I’m a PC and My Friend Mac Just Gave Me Some Malware!

It goes like this...

"Hi, I'm a PC."

"And I'm a Mac, and I just gave my friend PC here some Malware to chew on!"

If you're a MobileMe user like I am, you've probably already downloaded the latest update for your Mac and the iPhone/iPod Touch 2.0 firmware so that you can "sync" them up over the Internet. And if you're also a PC user like I am in my day job, you may have also downloaded the latest version of iTunes so that MobileMe can sync your Outlook Contacts, Calendar and Email with your Mac and iPhone. Cool stuff indeed!

But, if you're not a MobileMe user and you've downloaded the latest version of iTunes for your iPod & PC, you'll find a little surprise just waiting for you in your Windows XP or Vista Control Panel. Yes indeed! A MobileMe control panel applet will appear without so much as asking for permission to install or even informing you that it had been installed.

In my book, that's called Malware and I'm quite surprised that Apple would even think of doing this to PC users without so much as a checkbox to unclick (as they did in their latest QuickTime update).

Shame on you Apple for resorting to such tactics!

Lightroom 2 on a 13″ MacBook Pro

As most of you know, Apple made some major product announcements earlier this week at their worldwide developer conference. While the new iPhone 3Gs looks very cool, it was the new 13 MacBook Pro that really caught my attention.

I've always liked the light-weight and small form factor of the my 13 MacBook, but really lusted after the more powerful graphics processor, larger hard drive and aluminum unibody construction found in the MacBook Pro models.

Now we have the best of both worlds in the new 13 MacBook Pro and I went ahead and ordered mine a few days ago. Setting it up and migrating all the programs and files from my old MacBook went perfectly and only took a few hours to complete.

And what a result! Lightroom 2 really flies on this machine and with the faster CPU & GPU, I don't hear the constant whine of the fan every time I start working in Lightroom. If you use Adobe Lightroom 2 on an older MacBook you really should look at the new 13 MBP. It's one sweet machine.

Posted in Photography Tagged: Apple, MacBook, MacBook Pro

Snow Leopard for Photographers

UPDATE: It's Saturday afternoon and I've just completed my upgrade to Snow Leopard. It took only 45 minutes on my 13 MBP and the upgrade went perfectly. This saved me about 8 GB of hard drive space and both startup and shutdown times are significantly faster. Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4 also startup faster but other than that I haven't noticed much difference. All in all, a very nice $29 upgrade!

It's Thursday afternoon and the release of Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, is just hours away. For photographers running Lightroom or Photoshop on a Mac or MacBook, this is an important upgrade for purely performance reasons.

Macworld has done a great job of compiling all their Snow Leopard articles so you can get up to speed quickly and easily. I don't know about you but for $29 (USD) I'll be upgrading sometime this weekend!

Posted in Photography Tagged: Apple, Mac OS X, Snow Leopard

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