Apple offers young authors and writers without publishing an easy way to earn money with their own works. iBookstore in Apple, authors can sell their work without a publisher in the background to the general public. The offer is currently only for writers who live in the U.S.. may be claimed until the offer in Germany, will probably take some time.

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The iBookstore fills in those days too slowly with German literature. Even now, young authors can already offer electronic books in Germany, because Apple makes the choice to be sold in which countries the respective works. What German authors currently discourage heightened commitment to specify the duty of a U.S. tax number when registering for Apple’s new service is to have to. But otherwise there are some hurdles to take.

Apple shall require that to be published e-book has an ISBN number. The acquisition of such a number, however, is not a major problem, but is some degree of bureaucratic groundwork and a wait of about two weeks. The finished work must be available also in an ePub format, which means freeware, however, is also relatively easily possible. It is more difficult, perhaps some authors of an Intel-Mac fall with at least Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to be found. This one needs namely, his own work with Apple to provide DRM copy protection.

The organizer of the hacking competition Pwn2Own is relatively certain: Microsoft’s Windows 7 is more secure than Apple’s Mac OS, Snow Leopard.Another weak point is Apple’s Safari browser.

Pwn2Own is a hacker competition in which the best hacker in order to cash prizes of up to $ 100,000 to chop the bet. Aaron Portnoy, who is organizing the spectacle itself, ensuring that Apple’s Safari is cracked first. Also last year there were already the same competition and one of the participating hackers succeeded in a record 5 (enter!) Seconds on Safari on a Mac. The year before, was broken after less than 2 minutes a Macbook Air.

In both cases, the managed entry in Apple’s operating system via the Safari browser, which has proved to be a major flaw here and compared with Windows browsers Firefox and Internet Explorer has fallen significantly. A possible reason for this is also the high functionality of Safari. PDF and Flash can display the browser for example, by default. This can provide a greater target for hackers.

For years a debate has developed about which operating system is safer. Until now, Apple computers were regarded as relatively hacker-resistant. It should be noted, however, that represent Windows machines due to higher market share, more rewarding victim. In addition to the desktop systems is what Pwn2Own but also for mobile phones and Co. last year, the mobile systems, Blackberry, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile proved to be extremely persistent. None of the systems could be cracked.