Translation: We’re paying good money for security exploits on OS X, so expect more!

Scrivener is freaking fantastic – a great way to organize some complicated writing. I highly recommend it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.