Apple patches iTunes with new version
I know a lot of people who have Apple iTunes installed on their Windows computer. If you have iTunes, upgrade to the new version 10, which fixes a number of security problems. Download is here.
Google services you don’t know about
One of the things I used to complain about regarding Yahoo was that it had a lot of very useful features that were very hard to find or were so obscure you never knew they existed. I have had a Yahoo account for years and I still can’t find many of the Yahoo services.
It looks like Google is falling into this same trap of not letting you know all the features that it has or at least not making them obvious enough. And, of course, Google has a habit of changing settings or dropping features.
We get a little help from MakeUseOf, where there is a post, 10 Google Services That Don’t Get the Limelight They Deserve.
A PC in your car
Guess where computer screens are showing up more and more? In the car, that American home away from home. Modern cars have been full of computer chips for a while now but the circuits were hidden away in the operating innards. Now, computer screens are gradually making their way where you can see them. And so far, it’s a variant of Microsoft Windows that’s running things. Mike Elgan reports:
The right foundation for an in-dash entertainment system is a cell phone operating system. Guess which cell phone platform dominates automobiles? Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, which evolved from the venerable Windows CE operating system.
Microsoft Auto is Microsoft’s car dashboard operating system. It’s a variant of embedded CE and the basis for Ford Sync, the entertainment and navigation system in 12 Ford vehicles.
Elgan says Apple should get into the car game because it is a natural fit for an iTunes type of system:
Outside of our cars, most of our audio content, navigational aids, mobile video content and apps come to us through Apple iTunes. We’ve invested small fortunes in our music collections, apps and other content. What we really need is to bring iTunes into our cars. Especially when iTunes is available as a cloud service.
