Spent a little time searching and found this advice by Brian Brown-Cashdollar from the Yojimbo Talk Google Group:

1. Turn on idisk syncing (it doesn’t seem to save to the idisk without
syncing turned on)
2. Then go into Yojimbo and set the sidekick directory to somewhere in
your idisk (for example you could pick a subdirectory like documents -
but probably you don’t want public ;)
3. Then on your desktop launch safari and go to:

http://idisk.me.com/username/subdirectory/Yojimbo/index.html

4. Save a bookmark in Safari
5. wait for Safari to sync with your iphone and open the link
6. you will be prompted for your mobileme login
7. Most items seem to be visible except I couldn’t see my encrypted
notes.

The address for the complete thread is here.

Another popular solution is an application called FileMagnet which I wasn’t familiar with before. You can read about FileMagnet here or view it in the App Store here. As of this writing it costs $4.99.

Hawk Wings, Tim Gaden’s pre-eminent blog for all things related to Mail.app resumed publication on June 19 following an 11-month hiatus. Welcome back!

Safari 4, wtf?

Apple, OS X Comments Off
Jun 182009

So Safari 4 is really a great upgrade. I didn’t participate in the beta, wanting a stable browser, but now that the final version is here, three things.

1.) I wish they would have kept the top browser tabs. Vertical real estate is a premium on modern computers, particularly laptops, and I was looking forward to this.

2.) The progress bar went from meaning something to a meaningless spinner, that might as well be the spinning beachball of death.

3.) The most heinous. Why did they move the reload button far to the right in the address bar? Why??? Because you should really mouse out of your way to use it, you don’t want to reload pages very often. I would like to hear the design arguments to support this idiotic decision.

I must be cranky, or Gruber must have been hit with the idiot stick.

For example, in this brief post, he says:

But it rings untrue to most ears to claim that Apple is doing a bad job with regard to security. The evidence suggests that Mac OS X has been and remains secure enough to be safe, and safety is what real people actually care about.

Now, I just read a blog post earlier today by Gruber’s arch-nemesis, Rixstep:

The point Rick summarizes most succinctly, that doesn’t seem to get much press:

As reported by members of the Rixstep/7 forum.

bash seems to be about two years old.
bzip2 is still at version 1.0.4 which is a year old.
rsync is still at version 2.6.x which is three years old.
Most rsync updates since 2006 were security updates.
X11 is still 2.1.6 although X.org released 2.3.3 three weeks ago.
History and numerous hacker contests have proven the best, easiest, fastest, and most reliable way to hack Mac OS X is to compare version numbers of open source modules, find one or more that are egregiously unconscionably out of date, and read the change logs at the source. From that point the hack’s child’s play.

This is why once a year the Macbook gets hacked and won in 5 minutes while it takes longer to get the Vista or XP machine. Gruber’s conclusion sounds like Microsoft ad copy: “safety is what real people people actually care about.” WTF?

Apple seems ignorant, or more likely arrogant when it comes to implementing timely security fixes for the open-source underpinnings of its operating system. “Ringing untrue to most ears” means absolutely nothing.

Useful tip from Mac OS X Hints:

Some tradeoffs with the new iWork ’09 file format

They changed the file format from a package to a single file, complicating life for people that do online backups. But for local use, you can tell iWork in preferences to save documents as packages.

MacRumors reports that it is likely QuickTime Pro will no longer be a paid upgrade, but be included in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. It’s about time! I have felt for years that it should be free as part of the Mac OS, and a paid upgrade on Windows. Daring Fireball points out John Siracusa’s take on this, back around 10.4 Tiger’s launch. Criminally stupid, indeed.

Meanwhile, this should silence the people out in the wilderness who have been inexplicably calling for this to be a free upgrade. Seems resoundingly like an attempt to add value to justify a price point in an OS release that doesn’t necessarily contain a lot of flashy features.

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