adobe made a big step today.
online version of photoshop express.
it is very very limited set of features and tools,
more like adjustments. no brushes ((((
photoshop.com/express



this is important because it is a very symbolic - a traditional desktop tool is getting to be a web app!
relevance of operating systems, local personal computers and large hard drives diminishes, and all new brave world of webapps is coming to eclipse it. it will take years. so did the pc revolution. and now we are going back to mainframes. it is a spiral, or i'd even say fractal. borganization and freedom are heading our way.

p.s. i got to boston, did not have much time to see people yet

i got a new computer.

apple macbook pro 15” 2.6ghz, 200gb 7200rpm one.
but i did not have time to fully configure it yet. so leopard is sleek, yet it has some issues with russian in ichat and firefox.
it came with 10.5.2 out of the box. i also got a remote control and a wireless mouse.
other upgrades and the rest of accessories will be here later.
so far it feels really fast and very cool. multi-touch trackpad rules. unboxing an apple product is a pleasure.

for me it means that once barsik (the comp) is fully configured i will be a lot more mobile
and that is exactly what i need right now,
because I am on the move. i got my tickets to east coast too.

i am flying red eye to boston, arriving on march 27.
boston, nyc, maybe d.c., dates are not set yet.
back in sf on april 7

since many many people asked me already what do I think about microsoft's bid to buy yahoo

the leader of the losing market wants to buy a loser of the winning market.
yeap, it is a lose-lose kinda thing.

there are lots of things happening in the world of computers and electronics,
but I will briefly summarize on a simple level what really caught my attention.
( if you are curious )

just don't panic and no big conclusions please

mac users enjoy the luxury of the lack of malware and viruses. that's really useful.
but intego warns us that they spotted one mac trojan on the loose.
trojan is a malicious program that let some shady people to things on you computer without your permission. it's not a virus that can spread by itself, trojan must be installed by a user and thus the most effective way for attacker is to convince unsuspected rookie that one has to install something that one would really need.

so intego claims that some pornsites were flooded with spam, that would offer some video, but clicking on that video would prompt to install a new codec needed for viewing and offers to download it. once downloaded you need to install it, and it sure would ask you an admin password. once the trojan gains that password it can do with you computer virtually anything.

here's the original prompted text:
Quicktime Player is unable to play movie file.
Please click here to download new version of codec.


on the screenshot OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse in action

in other words the trojan is installed by the owner of the computer and granted all the privileges needed for its malicious actions.
there is nothing really sophisticated here. and we will see such things more and more.

macworld has a good read about it
http://www.macworld.com/2007/10/firstlooks/trojanhorse/