2007 March

A new study is showing hopes of being able to treat and control Asthma for up to 12 months.
Bronchial thermoplasty uses radio waves to burn away excess smooth muscle from the airways to make breathing easier as this muscle contracts and narrows the airways if left unchecked.
Patients must receive a mild anaesthetic for the [...]

You can sync your Blackberry with your Mac pretty easily thanks to Mark/Space’s Missing Sync for Blackberry or PocketMac for Blackberry.
Missing Sync is $40 for new licenses, $20 for cross-grades from other Missing Sync editions. PocketMac for Blackberry is free.
Both programs sync your Blackberry’s address book and calendar with your Mac’s Address Book and iCal. [...]

If you spend time looking at nutrition labels, like me, you’ve probably noticed Sugar Alcohols listed on a few and probably wondered what exactly they are. They’re typically found in soft drinks, chewing gum, cookies, and some sugar-free hard candies.
Sugar Alcohols are a type of carbohydrate that sweetens food but with half the calories of [...]

Apple has released Boot Camp version 1.2 which offers support for the 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows Vista.
Lots of driver updates, and many new features have been added:
Changes in Boot Camp 1.2 beta
Boot Camp 1.2 beta contains several updates and is intended for all new and previous Boot Camp beta users.
Boot Camp 1.2 beta includes:

Support [...]

Another day, another serious Windows Flaw. This one is very serious though and affects all recent versions of Windows, including Vista.
Microsoft has confirmed the vulnerability in a security advisory and stated the flaw exists in how the system displays animated cursors.
“Upon viewing a Web page, previewing or reading a specially crafted message, or opening [...]

The FDA is warning consumers about the dangers of buying isotretinoin (Accutane, Amnesteem, Claravis, and Sotret) online. Isotretinoin is a drug for the treatment of severe acne (recalcitrant nodular).
When improperly used, isotretinoin can cause severe side effects, including birth defects. Serious mental health problems have also been reported with isotretinoin use.
Isotretinoin is a [...]

Without purchasing a VersionTracker or MacUpdate membership, keeping all your software up to date can get a little a difficult. Enter AppFresh and App Update.
AppFresh is a free application that scans all the installed applications on your Mac to see if any updates are available for them.
App Update is a free Dashboard Widget [...]

Iljitsch van Beijnum thinks 3D graphics and animation is the secret Steve Jobs has up his sleeve for Leopard.
We’ve already seen the iPhone seamlessly zoom in, zoom out, and flip icons, windows, and screens. Think about what a real computer could do here. Cover flow and multi-party iChat video show a glimpse of what a [...]

Kingcope, a security researcher that has started an exploit selling service, has disclosed a new vulnerability in Windows Mail. Windows Mail is Windows Vista replacement for Outlook Express.
Symantec’s DeepSight network, which issued a warning about the vulnerability in Windows Mail early this morning, upped the threat rating from 6.8 to 7.5 in a follow-up [...]

Sebastiaan got a chance to sneak a look at Apple MAC OS X Leopard and took some time to review its security practices.
Leopard’s revamped Firewall adds much more granular control of the network traffic that is allowed to and from the Mac. Apple has also removed InputMangers which might have been used by malware/spyware in [...]