Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
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Subject	Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store
Date	2015-09-27 16:52 -0700
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On 9/27/15, 4:11 PM, in article D22DE1C1.B9F54%ghost_topper@hotmail.com,
"George Kerby" <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> wrote:

>>>> Most Apple mice are just mediocre, but the Magic Mouse with multi-touch
>>>> surface is quite nice - never gave me trouble:
>>>> 
>>>> <https://www.apple.com/magicmouse/>
>>>> 
>>>> And Apple's multi-touch Magic Trackpad is among the very best:
>>>> 
>>>> <https://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/>
>>> 
>>> It's decent for some applications.  When I'm working on a Photoshop
>>> file, it frequently flies across the length of the document.
>>> 
>>> It's absolutely lousy for tedious graphic use.
>> 
>> That's not my experience at all. I don't find scrolling to be
>> problematic, and I do detail work with it all the time. Maybe track pads
>> just aren't a good fit for the way you work.
> 
> In our entertainment room we have set up a MacMini to input to a flatscreen
> TV hanging on the wall. When sitting in a chair and/or sofa, there is NO
> other way to interface with the computer as handy as the Magic Trackpad.
> Mice just have no surface to work with. I guess I could try and interface my
> Wacom, but that would be overkill, I believe.

I use a remote with the Mac mini... but my needs are pretty small.


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Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And   Removed From Its Chinese App Store Francois <xanrov@numericable.fr> - 2015-09-27 22:32 +0200
  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And  Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-27 13:47 -0700
  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And   Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-27 20:51 +0000
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-09-27 14:37 -0700
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And   Removed From Its Chinese App Store FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2015-09-27 17:59 -0400
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And   Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-27 22:10 +0000
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-27 15:28 -0700
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And   Removed From Its Chinese App Store FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2015-09-27 18:37 -0400
          Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And   Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-28 03:47 +0000
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2015-09-27 18:11 -0500
          Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-27 16:52 -0700
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And   Removed From Its Chinese App Store nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-27 18:12 -0400

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