Applied Miscellany

I’ve been using Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux for a while now. When I first installed it, I went through the Preferences settings to see what new and interesting features were available. One thing that caught my eye was a setting to enable/disable Acrobat Javascript. Since I couldn’t think of a reason why I would [...]

PC Magazine provides some insight into the traffic that is sent back to Apple when users listen to songs in their iTunes collection. This is apparently a due to a new “feature” called “MiniStore.” This allows Apple to place advertisements in your iTunes window. In a follow-up posting, the author, Oliver Kaven, comments on how [...]