fakeness

January 2009

The music was faked.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/22
/inauguration-musicians_n_160216.html

The inauguration was misspoken.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/forums/viewthread/8695/

Politics Brain Teaser:
Why have there been more vice presidents than regular presidents?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President

FYI: The daily show is not that funny...

NEVER BUY ANOTHER DEATH ROW ALBUM!!!

JANUARY 2009

Susan Berg -- Not So Large and In Charge
Posted by TMZ

Susan Berg, the woman who claims she bought the "whole s**t" out from under Suge Knight, may not be the business savvy woman she's making herself out to be. Ron Goldberg, a NYC businessman , tells TMZ he was the mastermind behind the purchase of Death Row Records.
Goldberg says he's a major investor in New York-based Global Music Group. He says the group of investors appointed Susan, a former facialist, as an officer of the company, but she doesn't own it -- the group does.

Susan's been taking credit for the takeover of the bankrupt label, and insiders tell us they're a tad annoyed at her boasting. Ron says Susan still has a job ... for now.

Death Row Goes Global
Posted By: Frank Meyer

See that gal over on the right? That’s Susan Berg (pic courtesy of TMZ). Her company now owns controversial gangsta rap label Death Row, former home to Dr. Dre, Tupac, Snoop Dog and many others.

How the hell is that possible, you wonder?

Well, after years of financial mismanagement, Death Row was put into receivership when CEO Marion "Suge" Knight filed bankruptcy in the wake of a $107 million judgment he was ordered to pay to label co-founder Lydia Harris.

Global Music Group, a Tennessee-based independent label Berg is an officer of, purchased the label for $25 million yesterday (June 25), beating out companies like Warner Music Group, EverGreen Copyrights and Koch Entertainment. Berg will oversee a new Tupac Shakur album this year culled from his many still-unreleased Death Row recordings.

Twitter Hackers...

January 2009

Teenage Twitter systems hacker admits guilt. An 18-year old hacker, who managed to breach Twitter’s administration systems and take over multiple high-profile accounts, has admitted his guilt. The teenager, who goes by the handle GMZ, told the Wired Threat Level blog that he broke into Twitter’s administrative control panel by using an automated password-guesser program on the account of a popular user. It turned out that this user was a Twitter support staff member called “Crystal,” who had chosen the easy-to-guess password “happiness.” He said that breaking into the account was easy as Twitter allowed an unlimited number of rapid log-in guesses. Using a self-created tool, he used a dictionary program which automatically tried English words and managed to gain access into Crystal’s account. He was then able to access any other Twitter account by resetting an account holder’s password. He did not use the hacked accounts personally, instead offering hackers in his forum access to any Twitter account by request. Twitter confirmed to Wired that the intruder had used a dictionary attack to gain access to the administrative account, although it refused to confirm the other details. A co-founder did say in a follow-up email that Twitter was doing a “full security review on all access points to Twitter. More immediately, we’re strengthening the security surrounding sign-in. We’re also restricting access to the support tools for added security.”

iLife 09...

January 2009

Apple Introduces iLife ’09
Major Upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie & GarageBand

SAN FRANCISCO—January 6, 2009—Apple® today introduced iLife® ’09, which features major upgrades to iPhoto®, iMovie® and GarageBand®, and includes iDVD® and an updated version of iWeb™. iPhoto ’09 builds on the ability to automatically organize photos into Events by adding Faces and Places as breakthrough new ways to easily organize and manage your photos. iMovie ’09 expands on the revolutionary super fast movie creation introduced in iMovie ’08 by adding the depth users want through powerful easy-to-use new features such as the incredible new Precision Editor, video stabilization, advanced drag and drop, and animated travel maps. GarageBand ’09 introduces a whole new way to help you learn to play piano and guitar with 18 basic lessons and optional lessons from top artists such as Sara Bareilles, John Fogerty, Norah Jones and Sting. iLife ’09 is included with every new Mac® purchase and available as a $79 upgrade for existing users.

“iLife continues to be one of the biggest reasons our customers choose to get a Mac,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With iLife ’09, we’ve made working with photos, making movies and learning to play music a lot more fun, and iMovie users are especially going to love the advanced but easy-to-use new features.”

iPhoto ’09 makes it even easier to browse and search photos, not only by when they were shot (Events), but by who appears in them (Faces) and where they were taken (Places). iPhoto automatically scans photos to detect people’s faces and when you assign a name to any face iPhoto will automatically find more pictures of that person. The library can be searched by name or browsed using the new Faces View. Places automatically imports photo location data from a GPS-enabled camera or any iPhone™ or you can manually assign a location to any photo, group of photos or event. Once iPhoto knows where photos were taken, you can easily explore them with a simple search or an interactive map. iPhoto ’09 lets you easily publish photos to Facebook or Flickr. Photos published to Facebook include assigned names, and name tags added on Facebook sync back to iPhoto. You can also share photos by creating a themed slideshow to play on your Mac, iPhone or iPod®, or create a beautiful travel book, complete with customized maps of your journey.

iMovie ’09 adds powerful, yet easy-to-use new features to let you create a movie quickly, or add refinements and special effects to your project if you have more time. Drag and drop one clip on top of another to reveal new advanced editing options, including replace, insert, audio only, and even picture-in-picture or green screen. With the revolutionary Precision Editor, you can skim and click on a magnified filmstrip to view clips up close and fine tune any edit, like identifying precisely how much to keep, where to cut, use sound from one clip with video from another and more. iMovie ’09 analyzes video and reduces camera shake in clips when added to your project. New titles, transitions, cinematic effects, speed changes and animated travel maps add professional polish to your movie.

GarageBand ’09, the updated version of Apple’s popular software used by millions to play and record music, now gives budding musicians a fun new way to learn to play piano and guitar. Basic Lessons let you learn the fundamentals at your own pace with Apple instructors in beautiful HD video synchronized to animated instruments and notation. Artist Lessons feature original artists showing how to play their hit songs with everything from finger positions and techniques to the story behind the song. Choose from lessons by popular artists including: Sara Bareilles, Colbie Caillat, John Fogerty, Ben Folds, Norah Jones, Sarah McLachlan, Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump, OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder and Sting. Artist Lessons are sold separately at the new GarageBand Lesson Store, available inside the GarageBand ’09 application. GarageBand ’09 also includes exciting new guitar amp and stomp-box effects, and Magic GarageBand Jam that lets you play along with a virtual band that you create.

iLife ’09 includes iWeb ’09 for authoring custom websites and iDVD ’09 for creating DVDs. iWeb ’09 adds new iWeb Widgets, such as iSight® video and photos, a countdown timer, YouTube video and RSS feeds. New integrated FTP publishing allows you to publish your website to virtually any hosting service and updates to your site can now be automatically added to your Facebook profile.

Pricing & Availability
iLife ’09 will be available this month for a suggested retail price of $79 (US) through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. The iLife Up-To-Date upgrade package is available to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller on or after January 6, 2009 for a shipping and handling fee of $9.95 (US). Artist Lessons are available through the GarageBand Lesson Store for $4.99 (US) each.

iLife ’09 requires Mac OS® X version 10.5.6 or later, a Macintosh® computer with an Intel processor, a PowerPC G5 or 867 MHz or faster PowerPC G4, 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended), QuickTime® 7.5.5 or later (included), a DVD drive for installation and 4GB of available disk space. iPhoto print services and GarageBand Artist Lessons are available in select countries. Full system requirements and more information on iLife ’09 can be found at www.apple.com/ilife.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

Press Contacts:
Monica Sarkar
Apple
monica_sarkar@apple.com
(408) 862-3204

Khyati Shah
Apple
shah@apple.com
(408) 974-1330
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Thanks Shah and Sarkar

Oh Yeah, 2008 Microsoft Update if u missed it..

January 2009

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December 2008
Published: December 9, 2008 | Updated: December 18, 2008

Version: 3.1

This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for December 2008.

With the release of the bulletins for December 2008, this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin advance notification originally issued December 4, 2008. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification.

For information about how to receive automatic notifications whenever Microsoft security bulletins are issued, visit Microsoft Technical Security Notifications.

Microsoft is hosting a webcast to address customer questions on these bulletins on December 10, 2008, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada). Register now for the December Security Bulletin Webcast. After this date, this webcast is available on-demand. For more information, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Summaries and Webcasts.

For the out-of-band security bulletin added to Version 3.0 of this bulletin summary, MS08-078, Microsoft is hosting two webcasts to address customer questions on these bulletins: on December 17, 2008, at 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada) and December 18, 2008, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time. Register now for the December 17 webcast and the December 18 webcast. Afterwards, these webcasts are available on-demand. For more information, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Summaries and Webcasts.

Microsoft also provides information to help customers prioritize monthly security updates with any non-security, high-priority updates that are being released on the same day as the monthly security updates. Please see the section, Other Information.

Should I upgrade to Leopard from Tiger???

January 2009

When considering Apple's minimum system requirements for Leopard, there is more than just the processor speed. You might think that performance shouldn't be that much different on an 867 MHz PowerBook to those from an 800 MHz PowerBook, but it is more than just processor power.

RAM has a lot of impact - the minimum requirement is 512 MB, and my 867 MHz PowerBook G4 has 768 MB - but there is even more to consider when it comes to Leopard. It is a very graphics heavy operating system, requiring a video card that supports Core Image and Quartz Extreme. Older Macs - even slightly older Macs than the minimum requirements - have older graphics capabilities, and this has a major effect on the stability and usability of Leopard.

I've run OS X 10.5 on a 400 MHz PowerBook G4 and a "Sawtooth" Power Mac G4, and while it worked okay - it certainly was useable for light tasks - there were a lot of graphical glitches, and CoverFlow was incredibly slow and occasionally hung the Finder. (go to article to read more)
Thanks S.Royal

For Mac Users...

January 2009

First the symbols:

⇧
Shift Keys

⌃
Control Keys

⌥
Option (Alt, Alternative)

⌘
Apple symbol or Apple Key


⌘

Command Key


Now the Shortcuts:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343