You get three cutting-edge Mac Photography Apps for less than the price of just one:

FX Photo Studio Pro ($39.99 retail) – Bring a brand new image processing experience to your Mac. Get access to over 170 magnificent photography effects.

Color Splash Studio ($1.99 retail) – A brand-spanking new Mac App lets you create amazing photos with selective colors in a snap. No similar app offers the same!

InstaDesk ($4.99 retail) – This Instragram Client for Mac OS lets you easily browse your photos or explore your friends and not only that, but you can comment on pictures, like them, download them, or watch them in slideshows to boot.

That’s right, you can get all three of these stellar apps for a measly $35. That’s $5 less than the cost of FX Photo Studio Pro alone!

AND if you’re one of the first 500 people to buy this bundle, you’ll get *four extra licenses* for both FX Studio Pro and Color Splash Studio to share with your friends.

This bundle ends on Oct 26, 2011.

Get it here:
http://www.stacksocial.com/

Update: A co-worker just told me that this feature has already been in the Finder before Snow Leopard. My fault. It may be new, though, that it works in every open- and save-dialogue now.

Code Collector Pro looks after all your code snippets, letting you quickly reference them whenever you want. With support for Smart Groups, Tagging, TextMate Bundles and much more Code Collector Pro is the best way to store, organise and share code snippets on the Mac

Find the App here

About a month ago, the friendly neighborhood UPS delivery person deposited a giant box on my doorstep. When I picked it up, it felt as though it weighed several pounds. I set it on the kitchen table and slowly peeled away the tape and eventually gazed at the shiny cover of The Best of 2600 (A Hacker Odyssey).

Clearly this book was lovingly crafted. It contains over 800 pages of articles, news, and reports from 2600 over the past three decades of its existence (spread over 24 years).

When I started reading 2600, it was in mid 2004, and most of the articles and resources in those issues focused on comptuers and a little bit on social engineering. I always wanted to read some of the earlier issues, where the emphasis was on phone phreaking, but didn’t know how, or which issues to get, nor did I have the $325 to order them all, or the time to read them all if I did.

This tome contains a lot of information from just as many sources: Phone phreaking, computers, law, the beginnings of the Internet, lock picking, and hacking, just to name a few. You don’t have to be interested in any of those fields in order to gain enjoyment from this book.

http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/11552

In the book, Mr. Zittrain states that in the beginning of the computer networks that would eventually form the Internet, computers connected to it would run whatever code or programs they encountered because all there was was free and good code.

Then came along the Morris Worm in the late 1980s and that started to change peoples perspectives on running every piece of code that flowed down the turnpike. People became afraid that one day their computer would encounter bad code such as viruses, spyware, Trojan horses, etc.

Slowly, over the years with the advent of Web 2.0, computers and programs started to become less and less generative, to the point where most devices are becoming “tethered” in a way.

A tethered device is a device that for all intents and purposes “calls home” from time to time to get new code and programming from the company that created it. No user serviceable parts inside.

One of the more interesting examples of tethered appliances given is that of the TiVo. Everyone knows of the TiVo, that little device that allows you to record television shows to its hard disk for future viewing. One thing I found interesting was that in a small Texas town TiVo, Inc brought a lawsuit against the makers of EchoStar charging that the EchoStar device infringed on several of TiVo’s copyrights.

The judges decision in this case was that EchoStar was to remotely disable the offending units through its tether to EchoStar.

Countless subscribers of the EchoStar box are going to be punished (and forced to buy a TiVo box) because of the decision of a court in Texas. To me, this is almost like someone knocking on my door telling me the airbag in my car will have to be disabled because it infringes on some other car company’s copyrights

To this end, Mr. Zittrain argues that people need to be mindful of what they do online and know that somewhere out there Big Brother is watching.

http://futureoftheinternet.org/

Nearly one and a half million people around the world have pledged on their website (link below) to download Firefox 3 as part of Mozilla Foundation’s attempt to get into the Guiness Book of World Records for most software downloads in a 24 hour period.

Firefox currently is in the #2 spot as far as Internet browsers go. Over the years it has steadily creeped up on the #1 title holder, Internet Explorer.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

The DVD has been available since May 20th, ten days before its wide release on the web.

The film follows the “Big Buck Bunny” as he thwarts three nefarious woodland creatures (2 squirrels and a rat) bent on causing mischief.

As mentioned in an earlier posting, Big Buck Bunny was created using Blender and other free and open source programs, and as such, is itself released under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

Source: www.bigbuckbunny.org

During the past 2 weeks I’ve been working on not only updating WordPress to a recent version but also transferring the site to a new, faster, server. StyleMac runs on a SVN WordPress 2.6 Bleeding now – which makes it a lot easier for me to update to newest revisions. So, all of the uglier effects of the past exploit are be gone now and should not happen again.