TUAW Recommends Joke App

ejdmoo writes "The Unofficial Apple Weblog, a very popular Apple enthusiast site, has accidentally posted (and since retracted) a recommendation for an application called Procrastinatr. Though the original website for Procrastinatr promises to 'efficiently prioritize your calendars and regain lost time,' it gives no real description of the functionality. In reality, the application was written as something of an extensive joke between friends, moving all iCal appointments and tasks forward a week. The author has since apologized and posted a fix for users who borked their calendars. This story once again highlights the importance of making sure something is legitimate before letting it run loose on your system, even if it appears to be coming from a reputable source."

Comments

sigh

[PunkOfLinux]

and if this had been done on windows systems, it would have made national news...

Re:sigh

[roryrhorerton]

If this had been done on Windows systems, it might have actually affected more than 6 people.

coming from a reputable source

[stratjakt]

Like an "unofficial weblog". Yeah, sounds reputable to me!

Um

[TheSkepticalOptimist]

Its more a question of learning the meaning of procrastination, and wondering what an application based on the word is going to do to your calendars.

Honestly, anybody investing much time in making iCals probably has too much time on their hands, but schedules stuff for the future anyways.

Isn't this technically a Trojan virus? An application that when installed corrupts your data. I don't want to be devil's advocate here, but it doesn't require a terribly sophisticated delivery method to trick Apple users into installing a application to corrupt their data. I wonder how an application called iRandomUn1ns7allr would be received in the Apple community.

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