No, that's not what they are talking about. This is about searching in the iTunes store: there is still no way to indicate you are searching for an app, a song or a TV series, and you get all of them in the search results. When in the iTunes store, the search field has no drop down.

And the drop down in the search field when browsing your library was already there in iTunes 10, with the All / Artist / Album / Composer / Song options. They just added the "Search Entire Library" option now.

On the bottom of the front page are 9 logos, Apple is not one of them. On the Stewards page are 10 organisations/companies, including Apple. But Apple is the only one without a link to a description/statement of the company. They seem to be the neglected stepchild here?

And Slasdot puts them first in the title, and categorizes the article in the Apple section :-)

Google has a maps app ready, and it's already submitted to Apple. The only thing holding it back is Apple approving it. So that may be next week, in a year (like they did with Google Voice) or never (under the "duplicates a native service" rule).

Sources:
http://9to5mac.com/2012/09/20/google-has-an-ios-6-maps-app-awaiting-approval-it-is-solely-up-to-apple-to-approve/
http://mashable.com/2012/09/20/google-maps-ios-6-apple-approval-report/

Great!
Remember that all games from the current and previous Humble Indie Bundles (overview of all games) have a Linux version, and most of them are on Steam too. So that's already a nice range of games to start.

This is a drive-by attack exploiting a vulnerability in Java. It requires no interaction by the user, besides visiting a webpage. And in the past, we've seen malware being distributed via ad networks on reputable sites.

It does ask for the admin password, but even if you don't give it, it installs itself. If you supply the admin pw, the trojan is installed system-wide, if you don't, it's just installed for the current user.

Here's a nice explanation of the participant which reassembled four of the five documents, finishing in third place.

You should probably start burning your mail: What I learned from the DARPA Shredder Challenge.

That's why I always recommend Head First Design Patterns (O'Reilly) to everyone. It has a great practical approach to teaching patterns, e.g. by starting with real world bad code, showing what's wrong with it, and then refactoring to a design pattern.

Here is a post by a Google VP about these issues. The Google-wide account ban was a myth.

Article: Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits off Japan coast

Some quotes: "Officials say Thursday's quake was a 7.4-magnitude and hit 25 miles (40 kilometers) under the water and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture." "Buildings as far away as Tokyo shook for about a minute." "The Japan meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to one meter." "Hundreds of aftershocks have shaken the northeast region devastated by the March 11 earthquake, but few have been stronger than 7.0."

I use the pro version of SocialSafe, which costs $7. On this page is a table comparing the free and pro versions. I do keep the originals of my photo's on my pc, but I use this tool to preserve what I and others posted on my wall.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. The two accounts will probably be hosted on the same server, chosen by the geolocation of your IP when you sign up.

Wired also has a wiki titled "Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Internet." It has some interesting thoughts on things like ad-hoc networking, satelite, and even packet radio.

This bit I found interesting: "Apple computers tend to have very accessible Ad-Hoc functionality built in, including a pre-installed chat client (iChat) that will automatically set up an Ad-Hoc "Rendezvous" chatroom between anybody on the network, without the need for an external service like AIM or Skype. Ad-hoc network hosting functionality is built in to the Wifi menu." On Windows PCs, it's almost as easy, but it requires software which is not installed by default.

It says so in the title...

In Belgium, the official iPhone carrier is Mobistar. They still don't have Visual Voicemail, although I had a sales person assuring me they would "offer it soon." That was in 2008...

Their 30€ ($39) /month plan has a 200MB data cap (it also includes 3 hours of call time OR 300 sms messages)... 45€ gives you a 500MB cap, and 60€ 2GB.

Notice you still pay the full price (640€-750€) for an iPhone, as the phone isn't locked to the operator.

One of the great things about Wave was that it was an open protocol - you could set up your own server which could communicate with all other Wave servers. I really don't think Facebook is going to implement that part...