The bad guys hijacked the popular bit torrent client, Transmission, and managed to inject a malicious version of the app into the developer’s web site. Unwitting users downloaded and installed the malicious code and the ransomware, called “KeRanger”, promptly encrypted the user’s drive, demanding 1 bitcoin (about $400) to unlock it. ![]() ![]() We had some sad news in the Mac community this week when the first Mac-based ransomeware was found in the wild. Either way, if a few years ago you had asked me to pick which of Microsoft or Google will suck at creating iPad apps, I never would've guessed Google. Maybe they just don't care and, like the Microsoft of a few years ago, want to put their best stuff on their own hardware. At this point I'm seriously looking at alternatives to Google Docs.Īs far as I can tell, Google has not said anything publicly about why app development slowed down for the iPad and iPhone. We are now approaching nine months and Google's iPad apps still don't support this feature. Apple announced multitasking last June at WWDC. This new update, however, still does not add iPad multitasking. Google Documents on the iPad just got iPad Pro keyboard support this week. Nevertheless, there has been a definite slowdown in engineering talent thrown at the Google iOS applications. As a word processor, it's not particularly good but it is rocksolid in the collaboration department. Google Documents has always been the preferred platform for heavy document collaboration. I'm particularly impressed with Microsoft Word on the iPad Pro, which I'm using just about every day. These days Microsoft's iPad apps are arguably better than their Mac apps. ![]() Somewhere along the line, however, things flipped. On the flipside, Google seem to get the idea of apps on the iPhone from day one. Microsoft Office was reserved for Apple operating systems and hardware and those Microsoft apps that did come to iOS left a lot to be desired. Microsoft under Steve Ballmer took a pretty soft approach to preparing applications for the iPhone and iPad. Watching Google and Microsoft develop applications for iOS over the last few years has been interesting.
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