John Gruber, over on Daring Fireball has a fascinating take on the Bill Gates quote in Newsweek:
Gates:I mean, it’s fascinating, maybe we shouldn’t have showed so publicly the stuff we were doing, because we knew how long the new security base was going to take us to get done. Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine. So, yes, it took us longer, and they had what we were doing, user interface-wise.

He discusses both the implication that OS X is insecure, and also addresses the theory that Gates expounds regarding Microsoft having features that Apple copied, but implemented first because Microsoft was focusing on security.

Daring Fireball: Lies, Damned Lies, and Bill Gates

There’s another quote that isn’t addressed though, and it is this:

Hey everyone.
I’ve had several emails today from people who indicate that they want to enter the contest, but didn’t find out in time/lost their cat/broke their hip/just got out of jail/etc., and they’ve asked for a little more time.

I understand this was put together in a hurry, and since we only have 9 entries at this time, I’ve decided to …

Found at Mac-Essentials.de

I love that it randomly dials a contact for you.

PS: Digg the original, not this one.

Parallels Desktop for Mac Update Release Candidate:

# NEW! USB 2.0 support - “Plug and play” popular USB devices like external hard drives, printers, scanners and USB 2.0 web cameras, and use them at full native speed.
* NOTE! Current Build 3120 doesn’t support iSight and some other web cameras
# NEW! Full-feature virtual CD/DVD drive - …

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Also, check out their comment section for links to even more free content. Some of the linked content includes:

* A Christmas Tale, Charles Dickens (iTunes)
* A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (iTunes)
* Aesop’s Fables, Aesop (mp3 download)
* Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (mp3 download)
* Andersen’s Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen (mp3 download)
* Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche (mp3 download)
* Call of the Wild, Jack London (mp3 download)
* Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (mp3 download)