Got Geek?

In a previous life (read: job) my colleague and I spent a lot of time learning css tricks and tweaks to get our work looking just perfect in all browsers under all conditions. We even discovered and developed a few of our own. No flash? No problem! No javascript? No problem! No brain? No problem – it handled IE as well!

Here’s one of the latest tricks from Eion Robb that’s worth an email home about: a gradient background on a stretchy box with rounded corners.

In summary,
Use an svg image for the background. They’re stretchy, and can have rounded corners.
They can’t usually be background images, so wrap your content in a div, absolutely position the image inside it to be the background.
Use a fallback for IE, e.g. VML, or a normal 4 corners/ 2 sides / top and bottom / no rounded corners solution.

A Mac… with a virus? That’s unheard of! Who would believe it? Certainly not a mac geek. Nor even a reasonable PC geek. So as an iPhone geek, I was surprised to hear the media reporting an iPhone virus.

If I have to explain to you what an iPhone has to do with a Mac, go away!

Ashley Towns, a geek from Wolongong, Australia has created what the media are hailing as the first iPhone virus.

Those iPhone geeks who took the time to jailbreak their iPhone in an attempt to gain some of the expected functionality that Apple has been rationing out may be at more risk than a cheap slut.

As most of the tutorials explain, you must change your password for OpenSSH to protect yourself. Many of you haven’t.

Ashley Towns has found you.

You have been Rickrolled.

Change your passwords now!

Despite what the popular media believes, this isn’t the first iPhone virus of it’s sort. The process of jailbreaking is itself a form of virus, intended to reduce the security Apple worked so hard to build into the iPhone. I doubt this will be the last iPhone virus.