The future of software is on the web. That’s what they keep telling me. I just smile, and say “I don’t think so. There will always be compelling technologies on the desktop.” I believe this, but I admit it carries an odor of blind loyalty to my comfort zone.
People who argue the other side have [...]

Dave Dribin offers a couple really handy tips for modifying the behavior of the “sudo” command-line tool, which allows ordinary admin users to acquire superuser powers for editing files, changing permissions, etc.
Handy Sudo Settings – Dave Dribin’s Blog
I knew about the ability to change the sudo timeout, but have never gotten around to looking into [...]

The folks at The Unofficial Apple Weblog were kind enough to invite me to write a guest post about my experience at the recent Apple iPhone Tech Talks in New York City:

Inside view of the iPhone Tech Talks from Daniel Jalkut

Thanks to Mike Rose for approaching me about writing this up!

I’ve been running Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) developer releases full-time on my main Mac for the past 3 months. I do this with all major new releases so I can iron out bugs and really get to know the system before it goes public. For 10.6, the public release is this Friday, August [...]