Okay, here are the stats for vis­i­tors this month:

75% is from the Nether­lands
10% is from the United States
7% is from Ger­many
2% is from New Zealand
2% is from Austria

Others (4%) are from Hun­gary, Poland, United King­dom and Den­mark.
Even though my web­site is still in it’s early beta stage, the traf­fic is already enor­mous. I want to thank you (vis­i­tor) for making this web­site already suc­cess­ful! Check back soon for future developments!

Ahu­u­u­uha, Red Alert!!! A virus wasn’t detected!!! Some­one posted a file on MacRu​mors.com and said it were screen­shots of Mac OS 10.5 (code­name Leop­ard). The file is a com­pressed pro­gram with an icon to make it look like a JPEG file. Safari actu­ally warns you that “Name of the file” may con­tain an appli­ca­tion. The safety of this file cannot be deter­mined. Are you sure you want to down­load “Name of the file”? After you agree, Safari will down­load the file and if in Safari’s Gen­eral Pref­er­ence Pane the option “Open “safe” files after downloading” is turned on, it will expand the file auto­mat­i­cally to your chosen loca­tion. So if you want to be “super” secure, turn this option off.
Most users are admin­is­tra­tor on their machines, so if you double click the exe­cutable it will auto­mat­i­cally install itself in ~/Library/InputManagers and deletes all files from this folder. So if you want to be more secure create a stan­dard user and use this one as your default account. More details on OSX.Leap.A at Syman­tec.
The anti-​virus com­pa­nies are call­ing it some­thing worse than it actu­ally is. The “Trojan Horse” isn’t as dan­ger­ous as virus com­pa­nies claim, but hey they do got to sell soft­ware, don’t they?Update: There is some con­fu­sion if the new Oompa-​Loompa Trojan really a Trojan is, if you lookup the def­i­n­i­tion at Wikipedia: “a stand­alone pro­gram that mas­quer­ades as some­thing else, like a game or image file”.

We have a new pet in our home! It’s an Araneae, a spider, a (Ther­a­phosi­dae Gram­mostola Rosea) taran­tula from Chili. This kind of taran­tula can grow up to 7cm, it eats mostly bugs, but an adult can eat mice or rats. It has amaz­ing colors, a cop­per­ish glow. It’s a really beau­ti­ful animal, noth­ing to be scared about like Eight Legged Freaks! So, now for the less fun part: the spider can bite, so handle withe care! Gram­mostola Rosea are con­sid­ered docile species. The tem­pera­ment can differ between indi­vid­u­als but gen­er­ally speak­ing this is a calm species. I don’t rec­om­mend anyone to handle them most because of the safety of the spider. How­ever you can get bitten by a docile spider, they do have fangs and venom.

Today, I have bought this amaz­ing DVD of Tim Burton: Corpse Bride. I have already enjoyed his other great master peace: The Night­mare Before Christmas.

Adobe today released a new appli­ca­tion called Adobe Light­room. It will com­pete with Apple’s Aper­ture on many fronts, though it’s still in beta stage it looks like a lean, mean and clean appli­ca­tion. It’s avail­able now for testing!

Aper­ture, a rel­a­tive new appli­ca­tion was added recently to the pro line-​up. I have already devel­oped a love-​hate rela­tion­ship with this new Apple pro appli­ca­tion! I should con­cider it just a 1.0 release and hope that this poten­tially great appli­ca­tion will evolve grad­u­ally in time. Hope­fully Apple will sup­port my Canon EOS 350D soon! In the mean time I’ll have to do with the Raw.plist hack or just shoot in JPEG.

I have added an 5G iPod (Video), to our iPod line-​up. I was a little skep­ti­cal at first, but after having played with it at an Apple Centre I was con­vinced. The video/audio qual­ity of this device is really amazing!