Ever since last week's announcement, Apple's Tech Specs have made it very clear that a USB camera is going to be an option:
The Camera Connection Kit gives you two ways to import photos and videos from a digital camera. The Camera Connector lets you import your photos and videos to iPad using the camera's USB cable. Or you can use the SD Card Reader to import photos and videos directly from the camera's SD card.
"So why it that using a browser should be any different?"
Because, morally speaking, if your computer is made into part of a botnet that eventually steals billions of dollars, incidentally wiping out the savings of Ma and Pa Kettle - you are responsible.
Secure your system. The law may not come after you to get Ma and Pa Kettle's money back, but you're still a snake for helping to rip them off.
You get your IT news from the register? Coool!
More seriously - you link to that page, with words that seem to indicate there are a LOT of Firefox exploits in the wild. Care to name some? The IRC exploit only counts as one.
One more time, I'll point up Firefox's main advantage over IE: Vulnerabilities are made public, and people actually address the vulnerabilities as quickly as possible. Firefox exploits aren't hidden under a mountain of shit by some corporate boss, so that he hopes they can go away.
IMHO, Firefox is just about as safe as a browser can be, today, based on current knowledge. It ranks right up there with Chrome and Opera, and Safari, and Konqueror.
IMHO, Internet Explorer MIGHT be almost as secure - if and when people finally upgrade from IE6 to at least 7, and preferably 8. MIGHT BE. You'll notice that MS didn't publicize this newest vulnerability, until Google and others had already done so.
This is the same UK government which thought that Windows for Subs was a good idea, right?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/15/royal_navy_email_virus_outage/
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The Ministry of Defence confirmed today that it has suffered virus infections which have shut down "a small number" of MoD systems, most notably including admin networks aboard Royal Navy warships.
The Navy computers infected are the NavyStar (N*) system, based on a server cabinet and cable-networked PCs on each warship and used for purposes such as storekeeping, email and similar support functions. N* ship nets connect to wider networks by shore connection when vessels are in harbour and using satcomms when at sea.
Yes, that's for the OS. But every application has its own update mechanism. And since there's not standard package or update system on the Mac, they're all different and can't be controlled centrally. There isn't even a standard way of removing applications or finding out what's installed.
Apple's apps - Safari, iWork apps, QuickTime, iTunes, etc. - all use the same utility application. to update themsevelves. If every one of those programs I listed changed since the last time you ran it, they all get listed at once. You do not have to run it one time for each.
As for third party applications, they really do not update all that frequently. Most seem to check for updates when they launch. If you are behind, they tell you and offer you a chance to update right then.
A lot of Mac apps seem to use Sparkle to handle their updating: http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/
It would be nice if the Mac came with a package manager for third-party applications. Like Red Hat's RPM, or Debian's, or whatever.
I know it has been talked about but I do not know if one is forthcoming.
Mac apps do not seem to need complicated uninstallers like Windows apps.
Not sure, but it might be useful for printer/scanner drivers/apps. They seem to install a lot of stuff. Anything that installs a kernel extension would be nice if there was a standard uninstaller. Usually, the drive image for the product includes an uninstaller but that is not particularly useful place to have it.
One way I use it is exactly as you describe. Since it can search my history, sites I have visited recently can be found by typing in some words from their title.
If I simply visited the site a long time ago and did not do anything else with it, having it disappear from my history and thus the awesome bar is fine with me.
I also use the awesome bar in conjunction with bookmarking. Since it word-searches tags and words of page titles in my bookmarks, that is a huge help for finding stuff of lasting interest. I tend to tag my bookmarks.
It is the combination of both these abilities that makes the awesome bar really awesome to me.
Being able to tag bookmarks (finally!) in Firefox and the search ability of the awesome bar are two of the nicest browser features I have seen in a long time. Having both of them work together in Firefox is fantastic for me.
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.
