Blog Alert for The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), Feb 6, 2010

New Posts to The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Feb 6, 2010:

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1) 16 month-old bug continues to crash Flash
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/06/16-month-old-bug-continues-to-crash-flash/

Filed under: MultimediaMatthew Dempsky has discovered a bug which will crash the Flash player on every supported platform. That might not seem like a huge deal, except that he discovered this bug in September of 2008 and has reported it to Adobe, which hasn't fixed it yet.

16 months later.

If you'd like to test it for yourself, make sure there's nothing important open in your browser window and head to http://flashcrash.dempsky.org/.

In Safari and Google Chrome, this crashes the plugin but not the browser. It took Firefox 3.6 down entirely.

Why would Matthew post such a page? Isn't that reckless? Well, he explains on that page:

"Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don't ship Flash with any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem historically Flash could not have achieved its wide use today," Lynch wrote. "Addressing crash issues is a top priority in the [...]

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2) Rumor: Geekbench hints at a Core i7 MacBook Pro
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/06/rumor-geekbench-hints-at-the-core-i7-macbook-pro/

Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, Macbook ProA quick couple of tips from readers Ken and Jack, and this thread over at the MacRumors forums, point us towards an interesting results page at the Geekbench site (Google cached version, in case they get hammered), which aggregates benchmark results from thousands of users all over the globe. This particular page reports the performance of a previously unreleased MacBook Pro model (MacBookPro6,1) which claims an Intel Core i7 M 620 processor running the show.

tweetmeme_url = "http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/06/rumor-geekbench-hints-at-the-core-i7-macbook-pro/" tweetmeme_source = "tuaw"
Real? Maybe, although at this point it's a bit suspicious that it's not running a dev build of 10.6.3 instead of an internal build of 10.6.2 as reported on the page; also, Geekbench results are frequently spoofed by hackintoshes (unless Apple built an AMD-based [...]

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