First of all, if you’re dealing with any sensitive information on behalf of the user, you’re ethically responsible for storing that information securely. Mac OS X’s deeply integrated Keychain Services leaves you with no excuse for saving passwords, credit card numbers, or other sensitive information in plain-text format on the user’s disk. Access to items […]

If you use iTunes to manage your podcast subscriptions, and you have enough of them, it can become quite difficult to sift through the list to see what has been recently updated. I often find myself wanting to quickly check whether anything new has arrived in say, the past day or two. My Recent Podcasts […]

Dan Benjamin has a great weblog, and has just taken the plunge into the world of recorded audio broadcasting. Checkout the Hivelogic Podcast (direct feed), whose first episode features a chat with John Gruber of Daring Fireball. The quality of the podcast is already much higher than most first episodes, so I’m looking forward to […]

Update: 12/29/2006 Disclaimer: This article is not news. It is humor as a backdrop for high-level analysis. Please do not cite it as a rumor, or even as speculation. The “announcement” is not based on any factual information that has been made available to me. Although I enjoyed the fantasy of a Nintendo/Apple partnership as […]