This evening I was made aware of the iTunes-exclusive track from Star Wars Episode III, “Battle of the Heroes”. The song came with the following description:
The song I downloaded had no dialogue. It seems like somebody made an oops.
[UPDATE 4/21/05]
Here’s the text of the updated description:
With Tiger coming up shortly, it’s now more important than ever to keep your porn collection secure. It’s only a matter of time until someone using a shared Mac performs an innocuous Spotlight search that suddenly turns up a cornucopia of nasty porn associated with you. Depending on who finds it, you could get a visit from social services, suffer a divorce or breakup, be outed, be labeled a pervert, lose your job, or land in jail. In this instance, an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure.
Hiding such things from Spotlight is a good idea. To do that, you can create an encrypted disk image that is password protected to keep nosy users out, and the contents of the image don’t appear in Spotlight unless the image is mounted.
Reading around the web today, it surprises me how few people actually understand what Spotlight is. I’ve read a number of pages and discussion threads discussing the various aspects of Spotlight in Tiger (a product shipping April 29) and the proposed metadata search function in Longhorn (to be released at an unknown date approximately 18 months away), and some people ask what the big deal is. The find function in their current OS finds files, why all the hub-bub about Spotlight?
Along with OS X 10.3.9, Apple updated Safari to version 1.3. Many people have noticed that Google maps now has a problem where text in location bubbles and on the right side of the page is rendered incorrectly. There’s an easy workaround available to fix the problem, and I have a hypothesis as to what caused it.
[UPDATE: 4/21/05]
As of today, I was able to visit Google Maps without resetting the user agent and the page rendered correctly. Looks like a change of some kind was made on Google’s end.
SuperSite for Windows’s “review” (imagine me making finger quotes) of Tiger immediately tells me that the author has either illegally obtained a copy, has broken an NDA, or has based his review completely on marketing information and externalities. The fact that he cites Spotlight and Dashboard as the primary features of the OS and quickly brushes right past the API and subsystem changes, tells me his information comes from the latter, and even then he didn’t read it all or selectively ignored most of it.
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