Grizzlies top NPR list

Posted: December 8, 2009 in music

All Songs Considered Listeners Pick The Best Music Of 2009 : NPR.

The votes are in – and albums by Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective and Phoenix lead the listeners’ top 50 albums of the year on NPR’s All Songs Considered. Only two of the top 20 will figure in my end of year list – find out which ones later this month!

Chrome for Mac is out

Posted: December 8, 2009 in Google, internet, Technology


At last – Google’s Chrome browser is now available for the Mac (OS 10.5 or later, Intel Macs only). You can download the Beta version here.

Another iPhone worm has been spotted in the wild.

Unlike the previous exploitation, which merely changed a jailbroken iPhone’s wallpaper to a picture of Rick Astley of “Rickrolling” fame, this new threat allows hackers to steal sensitive information.

According to security firm Sophos, which wrote about the exploitation after a Dutch ISP spotted it late last week, the worm attacks jailbroken iPhone andiPod Touch devices only.

Read more: Another iPhone worm, but this one is serious | Webware – CNET.