You ca n’t stop Dan Moren , you may only hope to contain him . Oh , wait , what ’s this ? Youcanstop him . If you ’re a virus . power bynine years of Under the Knife , these are your end for Friday , October 1 , 2010 .

How Apple dodged a bullet(gdgt )

Peter Rojas of gdgt.com takes us back to five years ago , when hypothesis about an Apple telephone was reach a fever pitch . Back then , the latest and heavy estimate was for companies to hire web capacity and become Mobile Virtual connection Operators ( MVNOs ) . ( You might remember MVNOs from such failed phone service as ESPN Mobile and Amp’d Mobile . )

fundamentally , MVNO ’s seemed like a good estimate , but in the end they just did n’t make it . If Apple had go down that path , Apple would n’t have had to partner with AT&T , but it would ’ve been reselling mobile serve … and Rojas argues , it would ’ve been just as big a disaster as some of those other MVNOs . If you ’ve ever wondered what would have been worse than Apple signalize a years - tenacious exclusivity concord with AT&T … this might be it .

Google touch on the Untitled Document Problem(Sawyer McFarland Media )

Web - design author and teacher ( andMacworldcontributor ) David Sawyer McFarland writes about an interesting fix Google has made to its search locomotive . If you create a entanglement page in Adobe Dreamweaver and do n’t manually give it a championship , it ’s named “ Untitled Document ” by nonpayment . Do a Google search for “ Untitled text file ” and you ’ll find millions of pages by that name .

But it turns out Google has recently tweaked its search engine to deal with this issue . Now Google results for pages with the deed of “ Untitled papers ” are , in large part , named with something approximating what they ’re actually about . Kudos to whatever ingenious Google engineer realized that this was a job and decided to limit it . Sadly , if you research for “ Welcome to GoLive CyberStudio ” you ’ll still find more than 2,400 old , untitled vane pages .

Apple ’s Steve Wozniak appear on CBS ’s Big Bang Theory(MacRumors )

On Thursday ’s episode ofThe Big Bang Theory , the show ’s main characters recognise Woz having dinner at The Cheesecake Factory . ( His dinner companion come out to be his real - lifetime wife , Janet Hill . )

In the episode , Woz is approached for an John Hancock by Sheldon , who is operating aremote mien robotfor cause far too situationally comedic to go into here . Spoiler alert : The sequence ends with Sheldon laying at the bottom of his stairwell with a smashed - to - bits Apple II . ( And presumably some Cheesecake Factory supporter makes off with the robot . )

FaceTime hits prize clip on Hawaii Five - O(Engadget )

It turns out that FaceTime ’s not just for dads in hotel room talking to their kid . It ’s also for tough and guy rope who lick crimes and , just perhaps , punk who resolve crime .

By which I mean , if you are not of retreat geezerhood and miss Monday night ’s episode of the rebootedHawaii Five - Oon CBS , you miss FaceTime in action ! ( What is it with Apple and CBS this hebdomad ? )

That ’s right , kinfolk . The show that made Jack Lord a house name ( in ’ 70s households ) is now showcasing Apple engineering in the solving , and fight , of law-breaking .

MacBook ’em , Danno .

( Ouch . Walk it off . You ’ve perplex the weekend to recover . With any luck , Dan Moren will be in the pinko by then . )