Apple regains status as world’s favorite company

Featured articles from around the web. CNET: Each year, FutureBrand looks at the 100 biggest companies by market capitalization, asks 3,000 consumers and industry professionals in 17 countries about them and produces a ranking of what it calls perception strength, rather than financial strength. This year shows Apple regaining the top spot, after last year’s … Read more

Stagefright malware for iOS and OS X: Just be sure to apply updates

Featured articles from around the web. Glenn Fleishman, writing for Macworld: Talos found that maliciously constructed data saved as BMP, Digital Asset Exchange, OpenEXR, and TIFF image files could outwit the operating and allow code to be written and executed, including opening up a system to remote exploits. The ancient lossless image format TIFF using, … Read more

Announcing Lightroom for Apple TV

Featured articles from around the web. I use Flickr right now as a way to show off my images on an Apple TV but this would allow me to keep up with any edits I may make to them. ∞ Read this on The Loop Read more at The LoopThe Loop

QuickBooks Self-Employed: A much-improved business finance app

Featured articles from around the web. I’m away on vacation this week and too far away from my servers to make our last two NetInstall episodes work, so this week we’ll take a look at QuickBooks Self-Employed. Next week it’s back to the NetInstall service. It’s been about a year and a half since I … Read more

Six Colors on Apple Quarterly Results

Featured articles from around the web. Speaking of Jason Snell, his Six Colors website did a bang up job on coverage of Apple’s quarterly earnings call today. Not only does Six Colors make pretty charts, Jason’s knowledge and vast experience covering Apple make his commentary some of the best there is. It’s nice to see … Read more