Windows Most Secure OS Out...

No really, not kidding. One thing that many people don't remember, is that due to the number *nix distros that it is secure, to a point. And anyone that really stays up to date with OSX, not just keynotes and Apple's advertisements knows that through native OSX apps and backdoors in the system it is in some ways more open than Windows.



Now of course there is criteria for 'Most Secure"... But something that people need to remember, that it is baffling to security companies why OSX is not hit like Windows when it comes to security threats... As in it is by all means doable for someone to gain root privilage on a OSX machine if they know what their doing, but it just doesn't happen.



My theory - Hackers in many ways are egotistical pricks... Yes, there are circumstances where hacking might be considered a way to get a message across, but if it's Windows, it's at the cost of other people on a large scale... It's a selfish act. If you know how to exploit, then use the time to do some real good. Send the exploit to the company, not to the people's computers.



Anyhow, below you will read Symantec's latest thoughts on security in the OS world. It's surprising. But remember, it's all subjective criteria. If people have no reason to exploit OSX, no matter how open it is, then it is the most secure, because people won't exploit it.



I just had a thought... OSX is the new Switzerland.







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Ridiculous: Activists would rather kill bear instead of being raised by humans

So here's the facts. The baby polar bear was abandoned by it's parents (pricks). Meaning nature would have it die rather than live. But some humans, monstrous humans are raising and feeding it now since nature shat it out.

But apparently "Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate but a gross violation of animal protection laws,"...

Slobs prove to be more productive than you clean peopl would think

Everyone that knows me, or more importantly my desk knows I am a messy person. I eave things around me as to get them with an easy stretch at the most. My desk itself is a heap waiting for me to grab at the wrong paper only to be buried in my own bills, sketches, print outs, etc.



Well, I got news for ya, think twice before ya judge.



Have a Messy Desk? Congrats, You're More Productive

A message for starting designers...

Stop using digg, stop looking at css galleries all day...

Step away from tutorials/examples/etc for 1 month. No design books, no magazines, no flickr, no outside inspiration...

You have to take the lead in your talent. Anyone can look at css galleries, or design repository, and it's a good source for inspirationWHEN you are running dry.

If you want to do trend whore stuff, alright. Do the 45 degree lines,do the gloss, use drop shadows all over, combined they could be great,or a complete disaster.

I'm self taught in my skill set, it's the only reason my creativity is different in the perspective of clients and designers alike. It's why my interest lies in genuine branding, because when you make a brand, the only inspiration you should get from competition is what not to do,otherwise your brand isn't that special.

So I give any new designer a challenge or anyone that binges on cssbeauty and digg... Stop it. Next time you start comping a site, get anotepad and pencil, don't pull up your browser and scavenge theinternet to see how to do that glossy crap shine outline style... Make your own in your head, on a notepad, moleskin, then worry aboutexecuting it.

The world itself, both nature and man's creations are an inspiration enough to where the web, in comparison, and the whole web 2.0 cliche isa fraction of life to look at for ideas.

If design and/or branding is more than just you being bored on the comp,or your way to feel intelligent, but actually have a passion, Ichallenge you, to test yourself to see if you are good enough if google didn't exist, or css beauty, or css zen garden, or the countless blogs giving tutorials for things you never even imagined in the first place.

If you can not take up this challenge, or even consider arguing it as a whole, it means you are not cut out for this and you are replaceable, or you have yet to open your eyes to being inline with whatever is dugg, or caughtup in how cool/hip/talented the rest of the 'design' world thinks you are.

So, the challenge is there, and it will only help you in the end.

Good luck for those who take this post to heart.


I write this because I thought about the 'Where will you be in tenyears' and some people said 'well i'll be 24, 26, 28, etc... Well I am 24 now, and it all started as a hobby, but did I call myself a designer even when I had clients, not until I was actually creating things thatI could be proud of. i did minimal before it got big on the web, I did2.0 functionality before it got big on the web, I did guerillamarketting before social networking sites, etc. That's what makes meproud of my work.

I didn't just kill time on a computer, looking up tutorials, or what was being most commented on, etc.

We live in an age now where people think they're smarter for posting a comment on a blog, or 'digging' something, or being a part of a beta invite, or downloading photoshop and making something better than a crap photo with a filter...

But it doesn't. Binging on sites for creativity and reading other people's thoughts only to do the exact same things, and sometimes incombination for horrible results... That's not your job. That's not being a designer, or Creative Director, it's not innovative and it'snot professional, it's skimming by and feeling good because you are in a group that seemingly has forward momentum...

So examine, given age and real experience, are you just along for the ride or are you willing to move forward and question how 'design' is becoming a social trend, not a profession?


(For those in which it applies)

4 New Temp Sites

So it's been a month or so before I have done anything that I can show, NDAs keeping me down...

Doogles, rest in peace

It's never easy and there is never anything that could be said. The comfort comes in those wanting to be that person, the one that says something that actually does help. The words themselves account for very little, but the intention and the tears say it all.

Pat, and the rest of your family, my sorrows are with you. I've been in a similar situation... It's not easy and it won't be for awhile. But live for his honor and you can live again.

We're all going to miss him and what he was to become...

Ultra Sonic Edukators - Beat Kitchen

Full set can be seen on flickr :)

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"11 trends that will define logo designs in 2007"

Logo Design Trends 2007 - It's a good article, some what sad, but good...

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Where did Apple get the names for OSX...

Where OS X 'Big Cat' code names REALLY come from - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Personally, a bit fishy, but who knows...

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