BravoBug News

Happy Holidays from BravoBug Software! BravoBug is currently cooking up some fun new updates to several of our apps (see the Coming Soon post below). These updates are expected to be released very soon, but in the meantime here’s a super-spooky, fun, and free MiLife Halloween Theme to get you in the festive spirit!

Click here to download the free theme. (It will open in a new browser tab. Choose Save from the File menu to save it to your Mac. Or right-click the link and choose Save Link As…)

Installing the Halloween theme to your copy of MiLife is easy:

1. Open up MiLife Edit
2. Choose Custom Image… from the Background Template pop-up menu
3. Select the downloaded Halloween theme image
4. Add stickers, if you want, and then click Save Theme…

Happy Holidays! Thanks for visiting and please check back soon for the upcoming releases to EasyBatch and others!

Another nifty freeware app just released by BravoBug Software. MacMetronome provides a simple metronome tool for musicians. Speed is fully adjustable by BPM (beats per minute). It includes several sound samples which can be played ontop of each other in any basic 4/4 beat. The interface is simple, compact, and easy to use. It also provides a visual metronome-style indicator.

Best of all, MacMetronome is free! Download MacMetronome here (Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later).

Although that shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anyone.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/04/04/microsofts_latest_ad_attacks_mac_aesthetics_computing_power.html

Oh wait, no… it’s the website for Dell’s new laptop, the Adamo.

“Fall in love” ? Good grief… Props to you, Dell, for trying to get innovative with your laptops but next time don’t hire the marketing team from Calvin Klein to promote your computers.

Related: The Dell Adamo with its 13″ screen is $2000. :O I would sincerely hope that any rational consumer about to spend 2 grand on a laptop would consider purchasing a 2.4GHz 15″ MacBook Pro instead.

Okay, well… it might not be Atlantis. But it sure is interesting…

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/4731313/Google-Ocean-Has-Atlantis-been-found-off-Africa.html

UPDATE: Awww. Well our worst fears have been confirmed. The lines seen in the ocean floor data are in fact not the city of Atlantis, but are apparently just image artifacts which are the result of the data mining process. ‘Tis a shame.

David Merril gives a demonstration of Siftables, small computerized ‘toy blocks’ that can respond to movements, and to surroundings blocks, to do some pretty cool stuff. A big leap from the inert Legos and Linkin Logs most of us enjoyed as kids.

Hackers in Austin, Texas broke into a highway road sign and changed its message to read ‘ZOMBIES AHEAD’, according to Texas Department of Transportation officials.

The road sign that was hacked was near the University of Texas in Austin.

Public works spokeswoman Sara Hartley said of the incident, “This sign was broken into, it was not just a ‘walk up and change the sign’ kind of thing. This is a new one for us, we’ve never had it happen before.”

According to the blog i-hacked.com, some commercial road signs, including those manufactured by IMAGO’s ADDCO division, can be easily altered because their instrument panels are frequently left unlocked and their default passwords are not changed.

(Full article here)

ComputerWorld has an interesting article on a new Mac trojan that has been found hiding in pirated copies of Apple’s iWorks productivity suite. Users who download this iWork suite and run the installer will unknowingly install this trojan, dubbed ‘iServices.a’, which after installation phones home to a malicious server and awaits further instructions.

I’m reminded how nice it is to be a Mac user.

(Ars technica link: Conficker worm spikes, infects 1.1 million PCs in less than 24 hours)