For those of you who’s attention was grabbed by the images above during the presentation of MobileMe by Phil Schiller, whatever was on the top of his iPhone is definitely not a front-facing camera. A front-facing camera was one of many features that missed the iPhone 3G boat, much to the dismay of many Apple fanboys and girls. At 1:18:28 in the stream of the Keynote, Phil Schiller is seen demonstrating MobileMe on the iPhone, when, strangely, some sort of gunk (I really don’t want to know what it actually is) appears on the top of Phil’s iPhone.

Ok, everybody, time to ingest a nice, big grain of salt. Done? Mkay, moving on.

According to a recent issue of a German car magazine, Apple has resumed chats with Volkswagen about the iCar. Along with the picture of a futuristic car, the cover of the magazine in question shows an iPod Touch with the caption “So einfach wie ein iPod,” (As simple as an iPod). Could this really be the new iCar? Probably not. Sorry guys.

World famous iTunes Store, by Apple, has topped 5 billion song downloads. iTunes was recently announced the number one music store by market research firm NPD Group’s MusicWatch. It has also sold around 50,000 movies. iTunes quickly became the world's most popular music store. iTunes is the official source of music for iPod and iPhone owners, the most sought after portable media devices.

SecureThroughObscure writes "Just a short time after Apple's recent acknowledgment of and patch for the Safari Carpet Bomb 'blended' IE flaw, Microsoft researcher Billy Rios shows that Safari is still useful in a blended attack, this time with Firefox 2/3. (ZDNet's Nate McFeters also spread the word.) Rios claimed that he is able to use Carpet Bomb, despite the recent patch, to steal arbitrary files from victims who also have Firefox 2/3 installed. Both Rios and McFeters pointed out that Apple, which took some heat for not originally patching, actually did a good job of addressing the issue, as the code execution angle was not originally understood (the details came out later).

Titoxd writes "Apple has released a new version of Safari that fixes the carpet bomb vulnerability in Safari 3.1 for Windows. This comes in the heels of Microsoft recommending against using Safari in Windows, as well as the release of code exploiting this vulnerability."

An anonymous reader writes "Half the Mac OS X boxes in the world (confirmed on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard) can be rooted through AppleScript: osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "whoami"'; Works for normal users and admins, provided the normal user wasn't switched to via fast user switching. Secure? I think not." On the other hand, since this exploit seems to require physical access to the machine to be rooted, you might have some other security concerns to deal with at that point, like keeping the intruder from raiding your fridge on his way out.

orenh writes "Recent data indicate that Apple engineers have significantly lower salaries than their Silicon Valley peers: $89,000 at Apple, versus $105,000 at Yahoo and $112,000 at Google. Paying lower salaries had a major impact on Apple's bottom line when it was struggling in the market up until 2004. But now that Apple is highly profitable, these lower salaries are no longer a factor in Apple's success. Will Apple have to raise salaries to match the market rate, or face defections?"

99BottlesOfBeerInMyF writes "AppleInsider is running an article about Apple's new SproutCore Web application development framework, utilizing Javascript and some nifty HTML 5 to offer a 'Cocoa-inspired' way to create powerful Web applications. Apple built on the OSS SproutIt framework developed for an online e-mail manager called 'Mailroom.' Apple used this framework to build their new Web application suite (replacing .Mac) called MobileMe. Since SproutCore applications rely on JavaScript, it seems Apple had good reason to focus on Squirrelfish for faster JavaScript interpretation in Webkit. Apple hosted a session last Friday at WWDC introducing SproutCore to developers, but obviously NDAs prevent developers from revealing the details of that presentation.

As you know, I will be going to CTY soon, which means that I won't have access to a computer more than three times a week. However, having Wikipedia to consult various thing is very very very very useful. So how can one bring Wikipedia to CTY without bringing a computer?

The answer: iPodLinux.

I can't begin to describe how amazing my condo smells right now. Like Thanksgiving in the summer! Delicious. I could eat the air it smells so good.

I must share with you all one of my favourite Pimpkin-apple muffin recipes that I found on allrecipes.com (love that website....a serious addiction of mine).

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