Hey Mac Software is releasing an app for iPhone that allows users to browse and transfer files to and from local Macs wirelessly:

Briefcase transforms the iPhone into a user-friendly tool for downloading files and uploading them to another Mac: no cables required, no extra software installation, no network set up.

According to the developer, it’ll be on the App Store this fall for $5.

I recently found that Apple Mail’s autocomplete was suggesting outdated email addresses. These email addresses were not in my Address Book, so I had no idea where Mail was getting them, or how to remove them. Luckily, I found the following solution in a forum post:

“Window” menu > “Previous Recipients”. This opens a list of all your previous recipients. Ever. Some are in your address book; some are not. […] Just select one or all of them and hit “remove from list”.

Interesting. I never noticed that before.

Very cool new service from ImageShack. You point them to the torrent you want, they download it for you, notify you when they’ve got it, and allow you to download the data right through your web browser. No torrent client required, all of the torrenting is done on their end. And, amazingly, it’s free.

An award? Oh golly! I haven’t even prepared a speech. What’s that? No, Kanye West, you didn’t deserve this award. You don’t even develop widgets. Well, I guess I’d like to thank my…

Softpedia guarantees that Pepsi Stuff 1.0.1 is 100% CLEAN, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.

What the? That’s it? So, pretty much every legitimate developer wins this award?

Well, regardless of the importance or exclusivity of this award, I very much appreciate the fact that it now gives me the ability to refer to my Pepsi Stuff widget as “award-winning.”

Major update to Boinx Software’s excellent cursor-highlighting software, free for owners of 2.0.

Robert McMillan:

Safari doesn’t make PayPal’s list of recommended browsers because it doesn’t have two important anti-phishing security features, according to Michael Barrett, PayPal’s chief information security officer.

Common sense is the best protection from phishing scams, but it would be nice for Safari to let me know if the site I’m looking at is a known phishing site. In fact, an early version of Safari 3 that was included in pre-release builds of Leopard did exactly that. I have no idea why Apple removed this from the final version of Safari 3, but I suspect it will return soon.

AppleInsider:

Apple Inc. will hold a special event for analysts and members of the media next week, March 6th, to formally announce plans for its much anticipated iPhone and iPod touch software developers kit (SDK).

Wal-Mart is now the only retailer who sells more music than iTunes.

Speed bumps, larger HDs, more RAM, and a Multi-Touch Trackpad for the Pro.

It seems that games are currently limited to a 16MB partition. Many of the games available for iPod run well over 16MB. Somehow this no longer sounds very promising. We’re talking about Microsoft here right? The people that make the XBox game console? The people who develop Windows, the OS whose only real strength is gaming? These people are going to let Apple have a better media player gaming platform? Seriously, Microsoft, WTF?

David Weller, Community Manager of Microsoft’s Game Technology Group:

Q: How much memory is available for Zune games?
A: Games on Zune are limited to 16Mb for code and content.

Really? That seems lame. Many of the games available for iPod — Sonic The Hedgehog, Yahtzee, Texas Hold ‘Em, Bejeweled — all run well over 16MB. I wonder if this is some sort of artificial limitation, or if there is an actual problem with games being larger than 16MB. I’m betting on the former.

That’s 61% off the original price. I have a feeling this deal won’t last long.

UPDATE: They’re gone (for now).

Ryan Block for Engadget:

Microsoft just announed [sic] XNA Studio developers will be able to use the Zune as a multiplayer wireless mobile gaming platform!

Very cool.

1GB Shuffle — $49. New 2GB model — $69. Interestingly, the refurbished 1GB Shuffles are still selling for $49.

UPDATE: 1GB Refurbs are now $39.

A partial list of songs from Pirates of Silicon Valley, the made-for-TV movie about the beginnings of Apple and Microsoft–which I admittedly video taped and watched obsessively back in 1999 when it premiered.

Finally. I’ve been rooting for Blu-ray all along for the mere reason that the name HD DVD, although a more descriptive and appropriate name, is an acronym… and the last thing we need in today’s technology is another damn acronym.

The “water sensor” actually appears to be a piece of litmus paper, placed in such a way that allows Apple to determine if your iPod has been damaged by moisture (and therefore not covered under warranty.) This is not uncommon, apparently, for consumer electronics.

But, since the paper is so conveniently placed inside the headphone port, I can’t imagine it would be too difficult to change the paper back to its original color with a Q-Tip and some household acids and bases.

If this is a fake, it’s very elaborate. Word is that the details are being withheld until the SDK is released in February, so as to prevent Apple from blocking the jailbreak method.

John Gruber:

One reason, I think, is that unlike with iPhones, Apple is not accounting for iPod Touches on a subscription basis — so they have to charge something to add features in order to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley.

Makes sense.

An optional $20 upgrade for current iPod Touch owners that enables the Mail, Maps, Weather, Notes, and Stocks apps. It’s shitty of Apple to charge early adopters when new Touches come with the upgrade for free. But it’s certainly not an unreasonable price for such great apps.

I’ve always preferred David Watanabe’s NewsFire over NetNewsWire as my RSS feed reader of choice. But now that NetNewsWire is free, offers online syncing of feeds between computers, and a MobileSafari-optimized web viewer, I may reconsider.

Updated Mac Pros are exciting. What’s even more exciting is the fact that Apple didn’t feel the need to save this announcement for Macworld Expo. They must already have plenty of announcements planned for next Tuesday.

Presumably to announce Microsoft equivalents of products that Apple announced last year.

Todd Haselton for Laptop Magazine:

Bijan Rezvani, on vacation in New York, dropped his iPhone on the subway tracks and then, in an act some would call suicidal and others illegal, jumped down to save it.

Wow. What an ass.