iCheat?
December 4th, 2009Apple’s web browser, Safari, has a feature euphemistically named “Private Browsing…” When enabled, private browsing makes it so that the sites you visit aren’t stored in the browsers history, and cookies from those sites are deleted when “Private Browsing…” is turned off. In short, there’s no record left on your computer of what you’ve done on the web when “Private Browsing…” was enabled. If used judiciously you can be confident when guests borrow your computer and type www.you into the browser location bar, Safari will always suggest the completion tube.com and never porn.com.
In light of the recent news with Tiger Woods, I wonder if there might be demand for a similar feature on the iPhone. Users could, in a password protected configuration panel, flag certain contacts with a special setting. Incoming, outgoing, and missed calls for these contacts would simply not be saved, and text messages would be deleted automatically after they’ve been read. A contact with this setting would look like any other contact that you never called or heard from. Apple could call the feature “Private Calling…”, or maybe they could come up with a better name.
December 4th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Here’s the ad for that feature: http://www.hulu.com/watch/19302/saturday-night-live-iphone-the-affair
December 4th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Booty Call Mode, perhaps?
December 4th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Hi Jon,
Are we going to hear anything about strongspace soon? 4 days ago Jeff posted “I’ll be writing another post today” on the last strongspace entry and closed comments. A month ago you sent out an email saying that prices would be announced “next week”. Yet nothing has happened.
It’s very frustrating to be completely out of the loop when you have multible servers using bingodisk (which should have closed 3-4 weeks ago) for backup.
December 6th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Lasse please email jmancuso@expandrive.com with any questions you have.
December 7th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Jeff: I did that after you wrote the same on twitter (I’m @hassing) but I’ve yet to hear anything back.
February 23rd, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Flash has its own cookie storage mechanism that is not turned off by the browser. In fact by default the Flash plugin allows a website to store 100k of data on your computer without your knowledge. You have to go to a special Flash support website that will access the Flash cookies on your own computer and display them on the webpage. You can also disable flash cookies and storage from that website. Pretty scary if you ask me.