What could be more Genuine Windows then this?

According to Ars Technica, It appears that Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage servers are suffering a worldwide outage:Windows Genuine Advantage suffers worldwide outage, problems galore:Late last night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication.  Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista were writing to say that they could not validate their installations using WGA, and one user even said that his installation was invalidated by the service.We contacted our sources at Microsoft, who told us off the record that the company is aware of a major WGA server outage affecting users across the globe….  Windows Vista and XP are affected, 32- and 64-bit versions…….Right now we don’t have official word on a cause, but one source with familiarity with WGA tells us that the issue may be caused by updates to the service that were required after Microsoft expanded the number of activations keys available for Windows XP.

Apple iPhone unlocked via software confirmed

It’s been reported and confirmed by Engadget that the iPhone has been successfully unlocked via software courtesy of iPhoneSimfree.com.  Not only does this unlock the iPhone but it’s also upgrade and restore resistant.It took less then two months to hack an unlock for the iPhone.

Rumor: Apple to hold press event September 5th

The rumor mills are once again turning at full speed as September 5th has been identified as the the date of a future Apple press event.  What is being rumored for this event is the announcement of new iPods, some running Mac OS X and perhaps full-screened, much like the iPhone.While this is indeed rumor, logic tells us it’s more about the when then the what….  This technology has already been displayed in the iPhone and it would be unreasonable for Apple not to scale it to their iPod product line.

Apple: Growing to like iWork’s Pages Application

I had a letter that I needed to quickly complete this morning so I used the iWorks 08, Pages, application.  I have to say that the more I use Pages the more I like it.It has all the basic tools one needs for “normal” word processing and it’s very intuitive and user friendly.  You can use it and not feel like you’re being over-whelmed by the program, as I often feel when I use Microsoft Word.Pages is becoming a nice fit for me and the fact that it can export in Word’s “.doc” format is a great bonus.

Apple Mac: DEVONthink Pro and Pro Office 1.3.2 updates released

For email import you can now set a default encoding, enriched messages support quoting and URL handling, and messages can be imported more than once, showing up as replicants in the database.Both editions allow you to set the background color of rich text documents, support grouping of found documents directly from within Classify and See Also drawers, and read Finder and Spotlight comments when sync’ing an indexed folder.  The Dashboard widgets look way more attractive now, the Download Manager supports the new Microsoft Office documents in XML format, and many other functions have been improved, too, e.g., the advertisement filter.In addition, DEVONthink Professional checks for and repairs more problems than before, flushes the file system cache more often, and uses a background task to make importing PDFs more reliable.  As always, many minor internal improvements and fixes make DEVONthink Professional 1.3.2 faster and more stable.These updates is free for all registered users.I’ve been a DEVONthink user for some time and look forward to looking at these new versions.

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