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OS/2 Community Reduced In Size
2008 isn't starting off as a bang for the OS/2 community. Membership in public newsgroups has dropped significantly and the private Yahoo Ecs forum has seen a significant drop in participation - nearly 50%. This is a poor sign for those left using OS/2 because it means their realm of OS/2 reality is decreasing with each passing day. Macromedia, makers of Flash, has sold out to Adobe and Adove wants nothing to do with OS/2. With no serious media player, flash, updated Java, and more, OS/2 users are facing a grim and limited future. Today they are stuck with a lame music player that has no GUI and hasn't been significantly updated in years. Those remaining do have a light at the end of the tunnel. It is called OS X and it comes from Apple on the Mac machine.

Hackers Screw Up JailBreak for v1.1.3
There has been tremendous pressure on the so-called "Dev Team" (aka hacker team trying to appear respectable) to break the recent v1.1.3 iPhone upgrade and several have claimed to do have done it. One group even released a fake YouTube video and yesterday their failure became an even bigger embarrassment when one member of the team broke ranks and released a v1.1.3 jailbreak. He was quickly chastised and tossed off the Dev Team because the release included copyrighted data. Soon after the full Dev Team released a jailbreak but only for the Windows users. Several hours later a Mac version was released. Now, after the dust has settled, the jailbreak is causing havoc on those iPhones updated with the v1.1.3 Jailbreak. Ringtones won't play, the iPod feature won't play music, Edge is screwed up, WEP keys won't stick and mail passwords won't stick just to name a few of the problems these guys have created. If you've followed these guys into hacker hell then you've got to be pretty frustrated today.

Alsoft Announces DiskWarrior 4.1 For Leopard
Immediately available, DiskWarrior 4.1 is immediately available for Leopard users as of today. The updated version of the disk repair and maintenance utility has added full support for Mac OS X 10.5. DiskWarrior can repair damaged Time Machine directory hard links – a feature no other repair tool has. Priced for first time users at $99.95 and at $49.95 for upgrading from older versions. In the closet of Mac application utility “must haves” for Mac users, DiskWarrior is a premier “must have”.