The Android also tracks where you've been:
I wonder which one tracks where you've been and what you've been doing without letting you know it's doing it and saves that data in a less secure manner... better. Smells like a selling feature. Would that be your "smart" phone?
Because if you do you're not alone. According to Apple's financials there are more and more (and more and more) of you. Check it out:
Here's the Guardian story on the iPhone's "remembering" where you've been:
This is almost as problematic as Firefox remembering, in clear text, all the passwords you've ever entered into any password-protected web site and told Firefox to save it. Funny, but Firefox is web browser, not a password database. But perhaps I'll write about that "feature" another time.
Location, location, location... apparently.
The problem with the iPhone's collecting this info is that, per sources for the article: "[T]his data is stored in an easily-readable form on your machine. Any other program you run or user with access to your machine can look through it."
There are a couple apps, like Untrackered, that'll prevent your iPhone from remembering this info.
Jim here: I've complained about the killer missing feature in Panic's otherwise decent FTP software, Transmit, to a number of people. The feature is the "intelligence," or whatever you presume good programming to be (I'll call it "the smahtz"), whereby Transmit "knows" you've got a file open for editing and refuses to open or create another open, editable instance of that file. Practical example:
I'm often very busy. Because of my extremely advanced age, and my refusal to take regular vitamin supplements that would otherwise "fix" the problem, or so those who are near and dear to me would like me to believe, my memory's not what it used to be. When I'm working, which is what I do a lot, I might have a couple of web sites open, and I might be editing numerous files on these remote servers. This might sound extremely messy, but whereas I admit my memory might not be so good, my ability to multitask is fine, thankyouverymuch.
So, working, many sites, remote server, a whole lotta files files open, multi-tasking: check!, memory: umm... If I'm using my FTP software as a file browser, because that's what it is, and if I'm editing a Perl script on customer's ftp.5-piecechicken.ie site, and if I try opening cgi-bin/dinner.pl for editing when I already have cgi-bin/dinner.pl open already, then the FTP software should have the smahtz and not open another editable instance of that file. The FTP software is a file browser, like I said. Try opening may copies of the same Word file on your computer. (Perhaps a bad example, but you get the picture.) The FTP software should focus the file.
Is that too much to ask?
Panic: Please add this. I've even talked to you directly about it. A couple years ago. It was "in the works," or the feature had some other non-committal status. I am happy with Transmit otherwise, but your software needs this feature.
Thanks.
