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Did apple try and re-invent the wheel?

It might not have escaped your notice that the annual Macworldconference is underway in San Francisco, prompting various speculation about a likely 17″ MacBook Pro, more on the Mac Mini, an expansion of the DRM-free music on the iTunes Store and a slew of new iPhoneapps.

Just ahead of kick off later today, the reliable Onion Network has a characteristically brilliant report on Apple’s new keyboardless laptop. Gotta love them.

It might take 45 minutes to type an email, but it will append ‘Sent from my Apple Wheel’ to your signature so that everyone will know you have one…

Apple pushes antivirus for macs

A media storm created by a note on the Apple website has proved to be one in a teacup. The note urged Mac owners to use anti-virus software which commentators saw as a change in strategy for a firm that had regarded itself as virus-proof. Media outlets and blogs, including the BBC, saw the advice as a response to the growing and changing cyber threat. But it emerged the advice was old and Apple has since removed it completely saying it was “inaccurate”. The note appears to have been an update of one that first appeared on the site in mid-2007. The advice has now returned to the more familiar Apple mantra. “The Mac is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection against malicious software and security threats right out of the box,” an Apple spokesman said. Mac users have been largely free of the security problems that plague Microsoft’s Windows. Fresh threat   The support note recommended that Mac owners install one or more of three anti-virus products. Advice on the site said: “Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.” Apple recommended users try McAfee VirusScan, Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 11, or Intego VirusBarrier X5. The vast majority of malicious programs circulating online are aimed at Microsoft’s Windows, largely because the software is used by so many people. A handful of viruses have been written that targets Mac’s OSX, but most have been demonstration versions only and few have had any significant impact on Apple users. One piece of malware, known as AppleScript.THT, could take control of a Mac and grab screenshots or keystrokes. However, in recent months, hi-tech criminals have signalled a change in tactics away from e-mail borne viruses. Instead, many are infiltrating popular webpages in a bid to infect the machine of any and every visitor. Many seek to steal valuable information such as login names, passwords or game accounts instead of trying to install themselves on a machine.

Video Presentation

Check out our latest video for a client that is trying to promote compostable film for food packaging, we are doing our bit for the environment here and believe this is the future of food packaging around the world.  Imagine plastic takes 500 years to biodegrade compared to 6 weeks of all gone compostable film which turns into compost and can be returned to mother earth a whole lot sooner.  Stay tuned for more updates.  Click the link below to view.

All Gone Presentation

Adobe CS4 Comes to Belfast

Come and experience the all-new 
Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium 4 in Belfast.

Your Shortcut to Brilliant starts here.

Join EOS Systems, Adobe and Apple in Belfast in a session for designers that need to deliver high-impact designs for print, web and mobile media. 

1.00pm - 3.00pm - Creative Suite 4 Design Premium 

See Adobe’s Jonathan Ferman demonstrate how Creative Suite 4 Design Premium software is the ultimate toolkit for crafting precise page layouts, achieving typographic finesse, creating stunning digital images and vector graphics, developing eye-catching web pages and rich interactive experiences, and producing them all with utmost fidelity within a single, unified creative environment.

3.00pm - 3.45pm - Presentation from Apple

Apple’s Richard West will be presenting the developments from the hardware manufacturer that have made it the platform that underlies the entire design and publishing industry. He will put forward the latest offerings from the company and the features, benefits and most importantly savings that these bring to the modern Photography, Design and Publishing environment. 

Places provided on a strictly first come, first service basis. Register now to avoid disappointment.

Delegates that have already registered by clicking the registration button, need not register again. You will receive an email to confirm your attendance soon.

register here to claim your place:

http://www.eossystems.co.uk/cs4invite.html

Has Technology Gone Too Far?

Has the essence of creativity been lost through the advancement of technology?  As designers of the old school where creativity was held in high esteem through the production of hand drawn visuals, artwork and good old fashioned use of greymatter.  On numerous occasions over the years we have heard it said ‘my kid can do better’.  We have to ask ourselves ‘How are designers valued these days?’  The computer should only be seen as a tool and a means to an end.  Designers can run the risk of letting the computer dictate to them, so what we are trying to say is BRING BACK CREATIVITY!