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			Mac Botnet activiated The first botnet created with Mac computers running OS X software has been activated, according to reports filtering out across the Internet. Botnets are groups of computers, unwittingly linked together via the internet, that can be remotely controlled to perform tasks. Typically they send out spam email, perform DDoS attacks, and gather personal information. Botnets are typically created through virus infection, or by installing malicious software (known as malware) on your machine. Malware can take many forms but on the version attacking Mac OS X is typically referred to as a 'trojan'. Named after the legendary Trojan horse, it is a piece of malicious code that hides inside another piece of software (in this instance illegally downloaded copies of software). As you install the software, you also install the trojan program. Computers that are infected with this kind of malware are individually referred to as 'zombies', the network they create is called the botnet.

			Android comes to netbooks Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted good times ahead for Android, the company's mobile phone OS and software. "Overall, it looks like Android is going to have a very strong year," he said during the company's first quarter investors' conference. New announcements of Android-related products and partnerships with mobile phone service providers and device makers will be "quite significant" this year, he said. One new area for Android will be in netbooks, the mini-laptops that have become popular over the past year. Companies have started putting Android into netbooks and other mobile Internet devices largely on their own, not at Google's prodding, he said. Taiwan's Asustek Computer, which pioneered commercial netbooks, is rumoured to be working on an Eee PC netbook that uses Android as its OS, while other Taiwanese companies are also reportedly developing such products. Android could become the first real challenger to Microsoft's Windows XP in netbooks.

			Pirate bay sentenced The four people involved in running The Pirate Bay, one of the most widely used BitTorrent trackers for music, movies and software, have been found guilty by the Stockholm district court of being accessories to crimes against copyright law. The court handed down its verdict on Friday morning. The four, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström, were each sentenced to one year in prison, as the prosecutor had asked. The court also ordered them to pay around 30 million Swedish kronor (£2.4m) in damages, less than the 117 million kronor that movie, music and gaming companies had asked for.

			Aperture and iMovie updated On Tuesday, Apple released updates for its consumer-level video-editing software, iMovie, and its professional photography program, Aperture. Both updates are recommended for all users of the respective software packages and contain bug fixes. iMovie 8.0.2 addresses two particular problems: one with projects that register as zero kilobytes in size, which would cause iMovie to crash when a user opened them. The second was an issue where some systems could not use full-screen mode. The update is 24.5 MB and requires Mac OS X 10.5.6. Aperture 2.1.3, meanwhile, improves the program’s overall stability and deals with a few minor problems such as the display of thumbnails upon import and image rotation. It requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or 10.5.3 or later and weighs in at 48.11 MB. Both updates are available via Apple’s support downloads page or Software Upda

			You may be used to using Expose, but you may not realise that Expose has three modes. Mode one - FN + F9 = All windows for all applications, Mode two FN+F10 = Windows for current application, Mode three FN + F11 = Show desktop. Wonderful!

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			The Top 20 paid list is as follows: Crash Bandicoot (£3.49) Moto Chaser (£0.59) Virtual Pool (£0.59) Cro-Mag Rally (£1.19) Flick Fishing (£0.59) Koi Pond (£0.59) Monopoly Here & Now (£2.99) Super Monkey Ball (£2.49) PocketGuitar (£0.59) iCopter (£0.59) Pocket God (£0.59) London Tube (£0.59) Bejeweled 2 (£1.79) Texas Hold'em (£2.99) Real Football 2009 (£3.49) Blocked (£0.59) Fieldrunners (£1.79) Tetris (£2.99) iShoot (£1.19) iFart Mobile (£0.59) While the Top 20 free apps are: Facebook iPint Google Earth Pac-Man Lite Touch Hocket FS5 Labyrinth Lite Edition Lightsaber Unleashed Tap Tap Revenge Flashlight Shazam Backgrounds iBowl Crazy Penguin Catapult Remote BubbleWrap Audi A4 Driving Challenge Darts eBay Mobile Last.fm Movies

			Many sports, such as rock climbing and sailing, are very dependent on effective rope use. Knots are also fun to learn and fun to tie. "Knot Time" is meant to serve as both a learning tool and a field guide for tying knots. The current version (1.3) includes four different categories of knots: general, boating, mountaineering, and fishing. The general category is perfect for beginning scouts or other people who are new to knots. The general knots are also great to have as a reference for many day to day activities that may require the use of a rope -- things such as securing a load in the back of a pickup, or tying a broken rope back together. Each knot includes a brief description and a video tutorial. "Knot Time" describes the following 28 knots: alpine butterfly, anchor bend, arbor knot, bowline, bowline on a bight, cleat hitch, double fisherman's bend, double overhand stopper knot, double surgeon's knot, dropper loop, clove hitch, figure 8, figure 8 with a follow through, lark's head, monkey's fist, nail knot, one handed bowline, Prusik knot, rolling hitch, round turn and two half hitches, sheepshank, sheet bend, square knot, surgeon's loop, timber hitch, Trilene knot, trucker's hitch, and water knot. More to come... DISCLAIMER: Participating in activities that involve ropes is potentially dangerous. The quality of your knots and the ropes themselves should be properly evaluated before attempting any activity where danger is involved. Keeping yourself safe is your own responsibility, not the responsibility of this material.

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			Hi Will Was looking for the Labour Exchange on British Mac site but couldn't find it. Wanted to ask freelance techies to contact me detailing their geographic area they are willing to do mac & PC call-outs in. I'm limited to parts of Oxfordshire, Berkshire, and Wiltshire as far as physical call-outs are concerned so would be happy to give out work to others in a wider area. So I am proposing to link to their sites from mine with a provision for users to leave feedback for quality control. Let me know where to post. Or if you could mention it in the podcast: http://macwiz.co.uk and email me john@macwiz.co.uk. Cheers Will John Walker

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			Hello WIll! Sorry for that but the "la bamba song" is famous in my country, i was talking about the one at the begenning, when you were "relaxing at the end of a beautiful day" (sounds like trumpets and tropical stuff) just before the "i love you baby" song. Sorry again for that mistake! Regards: Gerard

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			Hi Will Just to let you know I gave you an extremely honourable mention on the latest Storyjohn podcast (Episode 31). Hope all's well. Yours aye, John Visit John Edgar's website at www.storyjohn.co.uk

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			Michael Leonard Williams (9 July 1935 – 11 January 2001) was a British actor. Although best known as the husband of Dame Judi Dench, Williams had a distinguished career of his own, as both a classical and a comedy actor. Born into an Irish Catholic family in Liverpool[citation needed], he attended St. Edward's College and worked as an insurance assessor before going into the theatre. His first film appearance was in 1962, and he subsequently appeared frequently on television (notably in Elizabeth R), and in British films such as Educating Rita (1983) and (along with Dench) Henry V (1989). In the latter, in perhaps an irresistible casting decision, he played his namesake, the Shakespearean character named Michael Williams. In 1967 he played in Peter Whitehead's documentary Benefit of the Doubt on Peter Brook's anti-Vietnam play "US", along with Peter Brook and The Royal Shakespeare Company. His many radio roles included crime reporter George Cragge in In the Red and its sequels, and Dr Watson in the BBC's complete run of Sherlock Holmes adaptations. Williams provided voices for the Woodland Animations BBC Television series Charlie Chalk, created by Ivor Wood. He married Dench in 1971, the same season that they co-starred in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. They had one daughter, Tara Cressida Williams (known as "Finty Williams"), who is also an actor. Williams chaired the British Catholic Stage Guild for a number of years before he was incapacitated by illness. Finty has a son, Sam. Although Williams was a Roman Catholic[citation needed] and Dench is a Quaker, theirs was one of the most successful showbiz marriages, and they worked together on several series of the situation comedy, A Fine Romance, from 1981 onwards. Williams served as an enthusiastic supporter of the project to build the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia. A plaque commemorating Williams' contributions hangs in the completed playhouse. Shortly before his death from lung cancer at the age of 65, Williams was awarded a Knighthood of St. Gregory by Pope John Paul II.