Gruml, RSS aggregator for your Google Reader-subscribed blogs, is in beta and is Snow Leopard-ready. Gruml allows you to view and manage your feed subscriptions of your Google Reader account on Mac OS X.

Ron, on our list, has regularly posted good advice from the security people at Sophos. In fact, it wouldn't be a bad idea for subscribers of this BoiseMacs Maclog to also follow Sophos' Graham Cluley's blog.

Rik reports: Hi all yes it's that time again tomorrow night the monthly Boise Macs Meeting. This month JT will teach us how to make back up a copy of your commercially produced DVD's. We will also have some time to answer your Mac related questions, share things your doing with your Mac, have a great time visiting and doing Pat's favorite thing EAT. So see you tomorrow night, meeting starts at 7 PM at the Meridian Fuddruckers, Eagle Rd and Ustick.

I came across a cache of links I'd saved for follow-up and so, with my new de-cluttering regime, I share them here on the BoiseMacs weblog instead of hoarding them and letting digital dust accumulate. Some humor (old but still good): the Apple Product Cycle For if you're in a video/movie-watching mood: How to download YouTube videos with Safari -- How to connect your laptop to

Start saving up your pennies and dimes (and C-notes) as AppleInsider reports that, per Asian component supplier info and other sources, the as-yet unannounced Apple tablet will probably appear in 2010 and is expected to sell about 2 million units its first year.

Thanks to Doc on our list for passing this along. Images including PNG, Canon RAW and OpenEXR could pose a security risk in allowing a hacker to run malicious code. (Sophos reports)

Thanks to Ron on our list for follow-ups to the post from a few days ago on iPhone security concerns. The creepy: Researchers attack my iPhone via SMS What's top of your To Do list if you've got an iPhone: iPhone update fixes 'SMS of death' vulnerability (Sophos)

Apple's iPhone OS 3.0.1 update claims to fix the vulnerability through improv

Thanks to Ron from the mailing list for passing this along.

"If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off. Quickly."

Read the full story, iPhone security threat via SMS could be catastrophic if not patched.

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