Kid-safe Mac, App Store improvements

08.10.2008

Breen the Elder and Younger chose this moment to discuss Leopard's Parental Controls because my feature story, The Kid-Safe Mac, appears in the November 2008 issue of Macworld. Elements of that story are sure to appear on Macworld.com in the near future. In the meantime, enjoy these reviews of the content-filtering programs and .

The iPhone discussion centers around last week's announcement by Apple that it was . Given the complaints about the restrictive NDA lodged by Messrs. and , we are .

Also discussed during the iPhone roundtable is the new requirement that in the App Store. (Our colleague Peter Cohen thinks .) And there is the briefest of discussions on and what that means to you. (Spoiler alert: Not very much.)

Chirping crickets heard during my responses in the Kid-Safe Mac interview courtesy of a very sensitive microphone, open window, and late-night recording.

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