New and Noteworthy: Amazon launches "Unbox": its digital DVD download service; Apple pushes print ads; more

Amazon launches "Unbox": its digital DVD download service IT Vibe reports that Amazon.com has announced the launched of its digital video downloading service Unbox.  "Customers will be able to download TV shows for just $1.99 an episode, movies will be priced around the $15 dollars mark (movies can also be rented out for $3.99. [...] The service is only open to Windows users only Mac OS users can not shop at Unbox. At the moment the service only works on Microsoft's Windows XP." More.

Apple continues their advertising push, this time in print Ars Technica reports that Apple has begun pushing a fourteen-page print advertising insert which is entitled "Why you'll love a Mac." "The insert touts the ease-of-use and functionality of the iLife applications, spotlighting one per page, iChat, Dashboard, and Microsoft Office. It also features a page for each of Apple's major consumer-oriented machines?the iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro, and the Mac Mini?with their MSRP pricing and a short blurb about each. Unfortunately for Apple, the ad, which is just appearing now, doesn't feature the new iMac configurations or pricing." More.

User Beware: Next Security Hole Might Be a Hoax The E-Commerce Times comments on the recent Black Hat MacBook wireless "hack" fiasco, stating: "So much for one of IT's last great myths: the honest hacker [...] Consider SecureWorks researcher David Maynor and hacker Jon 'Johnny Cache' Ellch, who worked the press like champs with a Black Hat demonstration of hacking into a wireless-equipped Apple MacBook in 60 seconds. It generated plenty of 'Mac hack' publicity. But SecureWorks has now distanced itself from its employee's published claims that he can hack Mac WiFi. Turns out the Black Hat demo was on third-party WiFi products that Maynor won't identify. He's never shown an attack on Apple's built-in wireless hardware and software -- not even privately to Apple. And Maynor has acknowledged that he demoed on the Mac because he thought Mac users were smug about security -- and because of the headlines a Mac attack would generate." More.

Previously on MacFixIt:

• Apple outlines port layout, RAM instructions for Core 2 Duo (Late 2006) iMacs
• Quicken 2006: R5 release not expanding properly for some users
• Parallels update adds support for Mac Pro, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), limited support for Vista
• BBEdit 8.5 released: Code folding; clippings system; revised interface; more
• Adobe Expert support not answering questions regarding Intel-based Macs
• Mac Pro (#11): Getting proper SATA throughput under Boot Camp

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