Comments on: Today's tidbits: iPhone apps, Netvibes updates, and special Spore

Some small stories from today, rounded up.

[JBSacks]

I luv u, Josh Lowensohn. Your words make my glasses steam up... (when I wear glasses... which is usually only at night... after I take my contacts out). meeeeow.

[Josh.Lowensohn]

Joel Sacks! I didn't know you could read--or that you wore glasses. Texas must be doing funny things to you. Welcome.

[tweedyson]

I used NetVibes, but it doesn't work for Google Apps, which I use for my blog (SpencerTweedy.com/blog). Does anyone know how to set up an IMAP account for Google Apps within Netvibes?

[Josh.Lowensohn]

Not sure if that's possible. The existing mail widgets don't use IMAP to pull in the data. Have you tried digging around Google Groups?

[zeroplane]

I sure would love to play this game, I bought the $10 version not the demo. But sadly the software doesn't run at all. I am using windows XP SP3 on a very beefy hardware setup. I am also a very knowledgeable software engineer and have virus, process, and mallware software installed on my computer to protect it from the typical garbage that would make it unstable. To my surprise installing Spore from spore website that I bought lit my detection software up like a Christmas tree.

This software is loaded with SecureROM DRM software that is very nasty. I have heard you can circumvent the security checks it run by running the application in Window 98 compatibility mode. But regardless the software installs SecureROM DRM software. There is no mention of this software in the installation, in the readme documents or on the spore or EA website. By the way once you install the DRM software you can't uninstall it without digging deep into your registry, configuration files, and deleting files from the windows directory and programs directory directly. This is unacceptable! I am going to spend the next few days attempting to clean my computer of this vermin.

I suggest you don't install it unless you are:
A) totally ignorant and don't care that you will be monitored by EA.
B) don't mind that you computer's security and anti virus software will have been disabled making your PC even more vulnerable to viruses and mall ware.

Until the DRM rootkit is not included in this software I won't buy anything from EA from this point on.
BOYCOTT EA!