Photoshop No Longer The Tool Of Choice For Counterfeiters

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12 January 2004
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Photoshop rips heavy cultural symbols out of artists’ phrasebook
Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking?
Photoshop BS

Yep, the latest version of Photoshop, (Photoshop CS), now automatically detects US currency and prevents you from manipulating, copying and pasting it.

Paint Shop Pro 8 has also followed suit.

This handy site contains links and facts about using bank note images for countries around the world. And if I’ve read the US guidelines correctly, you can use illustrations of US currency provided you follow these guidelines.

So why is Adobe restricting law abiding Photoshop users?

New Net Banking Scam

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10 January 2004
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Customers of the nation’s five leading banks are unwittingly being siphoned of their savings online, after logging on to official internet banking web sites. Federal police are investigating the latest international banking scam involving the use of online trojans to steal personal account details via computers, which don’t have anti-virus protection

Microsoft Word Forms Passwords Hacked

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8 January 2004
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SecurityFocus has published a hack that can be used to unlock Microsoft Word documents that have been password protected. The secure file can easily be edited and the original password re-inserted, removing any trace of the modification. Dell uses password protected Word files to send quotes, which could make for a messy legal battle. This feature, known as Password to Modify, is not the password protection on the document itself, just the protection that restricts unauthorized editing of the file. This hack allows someone to download such a file, edit it, and restore the password… effectively allowing changes to the file to go potentially unnoticed

Tabloid Caught Stealing

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7 January 2004
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The UK tabloid The Daily Star stole a story from RetroCrush entitled The Worst Sex Scenes Ever: A Look At The Most Unsexy Sex Scenes, then passed it off as their own. It was picked up by at least 30 other media outlets and The Daily Star was credited with the story. When pressed on the issue, the News Editor was quoted as saying: Well, if it’s on the internet it’s up for grabs. You can’t copyright anything on the Internet. Webmaster and writer of the article Robert Berry is calling for legal assistance

Mini iPods, Many Colours

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7 January 2004
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Colourful mini iPods have been unveiled at the current Macworld Expo. The mini iPods come in silver, gold, pink, lime and blue, alas there is no purple. They hold 4G worth of music and/or data and is even smaller than your standard iPods. The buttons have been integrated into the scroll wheel, which is actually a click wheel on these things so I’d be interested to see how this goes. Not sure if I like the idea of them reinventing the scroll wheel, it’s a fantastic usability and design feature of the iPod that helps set it apart from all the other wannabe iPods.

Accessory madness has already hit the mini iPod range. You can now buy an armband to shamelessly flaunt your shiny new mininess. Not sure if it’s such a bargain though, a full iPod with 15G capacity is $299 USD, where as the mini iPod holding 4G is $249 USD. You’d really have to love the colours and really, really, really, really need something that bit smaller.

New iLife has also been released with a new app, GarageBand, which allows users to record and mix their own tunes. But wait, isn’t that what Soundtrack was/is for? Hmmm… maybe. GarageBand seems to be the really, really, really, easy way to record, for example, with one cable you can just plug in your guitar and go off! Which has sold me, not sure how soundtrack does do this or if it can.

More stuff was announced but you can read about it here.

Remote IP

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6 January 2004
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Had a comment spammer hit one of the non-MovableType contact forms this morning and realised that there was no IP address listed for the weasel — never needed it before, so it wasn’t part of the forms. Had a chat to sbszine who, never one to believe in reinventing the wheel, suggested glomming the code from MT. We now have IP address reporting functionality for all the forms on the site

Media Bias Against Gamers

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5 January 2004
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Everyone’s seen the media fall over themselves with a stream of unsubstantiated video game equals violence drivel, but Penny Arcade decided to do something to counter the claims that all gamers are violent miscreants with no sense social responsibility. Penny Arcade delivered over US$200,000 worth of donated toys and games, plus a cheque for US$27,000, to the Seattle Children’s Hospital. The media response was barely a blip and the single television account got every detail wrong — via Wil Wheaton Dot Net

AOL Blocks 1/2 Trillion Spam Messages

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4 January 2004
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AOL blocked more than 500 billion spam messages for its users in 2003. That comes to 40 messages a day per user. The company regularly blocks 75-80% of all incoming mail as spam. The top 10 spam phrases for the year include such come-ons as: Viagra online, Online pharmacy, Get out of debt and Get bigger

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