Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 19:19:30 -0700 Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <86549329f10d815d2e5922dee68cf94a@anemone.mooo.com> <210920151816339085%nospam@nospam.invalid> <210920151849448520%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151828504734%nospam@nospam.invalid> <5tmdnY_rbLLTfY7LnZ2dnUU7-U-dnZ2d@supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Lpg/X7FoBlFjb3puepn5jw9dD/YqNVkVUPnAywrN6EsEYuFEHU Cancel-Lock: sha1:hUX0E80tzVhwvSK1RRDGr0+dGqI= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.36.0.130206 Thread-Topic: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Thread-Index: AdEAppjinFstGNe3KkGkNPt81xnn9A== Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.freeware:245301 comp.sys.mac.system:82165 comp.os.linux.advocacy:325224 On 10/6/15, 12:00 PM, in article MeGdncRDbtT-h4nLnZ2dnUU7-K2dnZ2d@supernews.com, "nom de plume" wrote: > On 2015-10-06, Lloyd Parsons wrote: >> I like iBooks too and I read a lot. The only thing I don't like about it >> is that it isn't cross-platform at all. That's one nice thing about >> Kindle and Nook apps. > > I think there is a web app. I do not think so but would love for you to point to it. > The problem with Kindle hit when I started > to buy tech books. Some show example code and that code on Kindle would > be incredibly tiny. Like, you need a magnifying glass to see it. You could not figure out how to zoom? > Something Amazon does when dealing with tech books where code examples > are given. The kindle format somehow doesn't deal with it nicely. So I > walked into an Apple store, got them to show it to me on an iPad. It > worked better, so I bought it. > > And I use the notepad to write notes about commands or usages that I > need to remember. Often I write those in the web version of iCloud's > notes app. Also watch a few movies, TV shows. Play a few games here and > there. So it's an all-around okay device to have. > > Sometimes I watch a tech video on how to something and I just let it > play as a second screen while I work on my terminals on my Dell. It's > been a good value so far. Not complaint free, but it solves a few real > world problems and that's good enough for me. -- * OS X / Linux: What is a file? * Mint MATE Trash, Panel, Menu: * Mint KDE working with folders: * Mint KDE creating files: * Mint KDE help: * Mint KDE general navigation: * Mint KDE bugs or Easter eggs? * Easy on OS X / Hard on Linux: * OS / Word Processor Comparison: