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Submission + - MacTech's VBA to AppleScript Transition Guide

Submitted by

John C. Welch

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @12:03PM

John C. Welch writes: "As pretty much everyone in the Mac Universe knows, (or should know), the next version of Office for Mac OS X, Microsoft Office 2008, will not support VBA. However, that doesn't mean Office Automation is dead on the Mac. It just means you can't use VBA. However, AppleScript will automate the holy beejeezus out of Office 2008, the trick is dealing with the conversion. To help with this, MacTech Magazine, along with Paul Berkowitz, AppleScript AND VBA maven have been working on a fairly massive transition guide. Details are at: http://www.mactech.com/news/?p=1009354 and in conjunction, the Microsoft Mac BU is offering discounts on MacTech subscriptions at http://www.mactech.com/vba/.

It's not a perfect answer to the VBA issue in Office 2008, and there may end up being better answers from folks like RealBASIC, but it's not a bad way to at least see what one of the more constructive options is going to be like."

Submission + - Apple does not like DRM?

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @11:58AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "If Steve Jobs says (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/) that it's not Apple best interest but the music industry's intension to use DRM on iTunes music. If so then, why is it that Apple Games DRM protected?"

Submission + - Skymania News: Here's YOUR chance to find Beagle 2

Submitted by

suthers

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @11:56AM

suthers writes: "Space fans are being challenged to find lost UK probe Beagle 2. Nasa has just released the first close-up photographs of the region where the unmanned probe should have landed on Mars. They were taken with the HiRise camera aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, but scouring them could be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Despite that, and the enormous size of the images, The Planetary Society is urging everyone to have a go! http://skymania.blogspot.com/2007/02/heres-your-ch ance-to-find-beagle-2.html"

Submission + - Critical flaw in current Firefox discovered

Submitted by HuckleCom on Thursday February 15, 2007 @11:52AM

HuckleCom writes: F-Secure has a blog post regarding the latest version of Firefox and a vulnerability that allows malicious javascript code to manipulate any of your cookies.

From the Blog: "There's a new bug reported in the way Firefox handles writes to the 'location.hostname' DOM property. The vulnerability could potentially allow a malicious website to manipulate the authentication cookies for a third-party site."

From what I can recollect, this seems to be the first vulnerability discovered in the actual current version of Firefox — at least for a good long time.

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