The demise of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs brought a lot of tears from his admirers. It also renewed a fresh sense of inspiration from different people around the globe. 

Apple stores were adorned with flowers and thank you notes from Apple consumers. His name and death along with hashtags trended on Twitter for days. His words of wisdom are being passed from web page to web page and from SMS to SMS as if they were Holy Scriptures. There are the different causes and communities with tens to hundreds of Facebook pages that sprung overnight, theirs is picture badges that people put up on their social networking pictures, there’s a website and a number of blog posts that reminisce the greatness of Jobs – and there’s the new WordPress theme that virtually takes users back in time.

The WordPress theme called Retro MacOS is needless to say inspired by Steve Jobs. It features the very old yet original Mac feel with Mac OS icons serving as blog icons. 

The theme is already a featured theme on WordPress.com.  Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress even

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Steve Jobs passed away, and while many parts of the world are mourning the tech industry’s lost, there are a few who would want to take advantage of this event by scamming unwary Internet users.

Such is the case when Michael Jackson, Osama bin Laden and Amy Winehouse died. Hours after the reported death of these people, links offering the video, picture or so-called proofs of their cadaver sprung social media websites including Facebook and Twitter.

True enough, just couple of hours after the death of Steve Jobs is announced, scammers were already able to set up a campaign tricking people into clicking malicious links. Sophos Naked Security Blog noted that a link circulating on Facebook claimed that Apple is giving away 50 iPads in memory of its former CEO Steve Jobs. The link then will take you to a website where you will have to answer a survey so you will be able to join the event, of course this is a scam and no contest or giveaway promo exists.


The same stunt was scene just recently, after Amy Winehouse a Facebook post about a website claiming to have a video of her death

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