Bhavuk Jain Big Payday From Apple Bug Bounty Fund
An enormous security gap was discovered by a bug bounty hunter in India that cost Apple a round sum of $100,000 from its special “Apple Bug Bounty Fund” . The bug, which due to its magnitude should more appropriately be deemed a titan beetle, had…
Apple Closes Stores Across US Due to Looting Concerns
Due to the current unrest and violent protests in the US, Apple has decided to close some of its stores in locations that are most severely affected by riots. Louis Vuitton store looted This is priceless. Portland protestors loot Louis Vuitton store pic.twitter.com/rM9Ezz9wCv — Ragıp…
Is Apple Store Open Near Me?
Apple Stores Reopening In Most States The world is gradually coming back to life again after weeks of lockdown as measures aimed at countering the coronavirus pandemic. And, yes, that includes many Apple stores, as well. However, as you might have expected, things are being…
Grand Central Dispatch ported to FreeBSD.
A while back Drew McCormack reported that Grand Central Dispatch had been made open source:- “…allowing Grand Central to be ported to other UNIX/Linux systems will encourage its use. Until today, it would have been very unlikely that any new UNIX tools would be developed on Mac…
Introducing Remote Activity: Mac-Native Job Monitoring
Around a year ago I decided I would finally bite the bullet and learn Core Data, a relatively new framework for storing data in Cocoa. I find the best way to learn something is to jump in the deep end with a new project, so…
Apple Adds Support for MathType and EndNote to Pages
Tucked away in Apple’s MacWorld keynote presentation was a little tidbit of particular interest to scientists. After years of waiting, our voices have finally been heard — Pages ‘09 includes support for MathType and EndNote.From Apple’s site: In Pages ’09, you can now create sophisticated equations for research…
Quick Link: VBA Scripting to Return to Office for Mac
For those of you who rely on macro’s in the Office suite of applications, news from the Microsoft BU released today, mentions that VBA support will be added back in when the next version of Office for Mac is released. There is no mention of…
OpenMacGrid For Mac used for analyzing MRI signals from iron rich brain tissues
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems are capable of safely generating detailed images of the human brain with a rich assortment of intrinsic tissue contrast mechanisms, making MRI machines powerful diagnostic and research tools. Iron accumulation in midbrain structures such as the substantia nigra (SN) and red nucleus is associated…
The business models for iPhone applications
[Note: many of the links in this story will open the page for an app in the iTunes Store. I realize it can be annoying. I have thus made sure that hovering on the link will clearly indicate in the title if it is a…
New RubyCocoa Release & BridgeSupport
More interesting for MacResearch members may be the new BridgeSupport project, which appears designed to provide better support for scripting bridges to Objective-C, like RubyCocoa and PyObjC, although the project is independent of any scripting language. BridgeSupport files are XML files that describe the API symbols of frameworks…
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