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– All is not rosy with the iTunes Multi-Pass. As a few readers here and at MacInTouch report, at least some users are discovering that while the iTunes Music Store is more than happy to sell them a Multi-Pass, and they got their first episodes of "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," so far they aren't getting much more out of it.
As Jeff Inglis told MacInTouch, he got e-mail notices that new episodes were ready for download:
$10 for an episode and an e-mail is not as good a deal as what Multi-Pass is supposed to offer. No word on successful uses yet. It should get smoothed out soon, hopefully.
– Microsoft's Origami Project has been officially announced, and it's exactly what everyone said it was, an Ultra-Mobile PC focused on multimedia applications with a touch-screen. It does appear more useful than a traditional tablet PC, but this whole experience just proves the difficulty of mimicking Apple-style hype.
– MacInTouch also reports today on Dave Schroeder's own Hack-a-Mac challenge, and nobody got in or even close, even with ssh and http turned on and more than 4,000 login attempts. It's funny how much stronger security can be when you don't allow hackers to create accounts.
– Finally, Andrew Mortensen, a talented programmer who happens to be my brother, has made public his documents on how to create Universal Mac OS 10.4 for PowerPC and Intel Macs, instead of the bifurcated version available so far. Sam Agnew has already used the technique to enable Universal NetBoot. Exciting stuff.
