This instalment of the Macworld Podcast is all about control — both taking and get go . In our first interview , my girl Addie talk with me about Leopard ’s Parental Controls feature — a feature of speech for lock down contribution of the Mac to help keep both your computer and child dependable .

In our second audience , Macworld executive editor Philip Michaels , go a discourse with editorial director Jason Snell and associate editor Dan Moren about Apple ’s late move to give up some of its control of data regarding the iPhone non - disclosure accord ( NDA ) , a move that has made countless developers felicitous because they can now deal their programing techniques with one another . And happy developers could mean well-chosen iPhone users , as Jason and Dan excuse in the podcast .

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Show notes

Breen the Elder and Younger chose this minute to discuss Leopard ’s Parental Controls because my lineament level , The Kid - Safe Mac , appears in the November 2008 emergence of Macworld . element of that story are certain to appear on Macworld.com in the approximate future . In the meanwhile , love these reviews of the content - filtering programs KidsGoGoGo and ContentBarrier X4 .

The iPhone give-and-take centers around last week ’s announcement by Apple that it was dangle its NDA for iPhone developer . Given the ailment about the restrictive NDA lodged by Messrs. Moren and Snell , we are pleased by the lifting of the NDA .

Also discourse during the iPhone roundtable is the Modern requirement that you have to bribe an software before you’re able to mail a review in the App Store . ( Our colleague Peter Cohen intend Apple should wipe out all the App Store review written before this rule change . ) And there is the briefest of discussion on Apple miss its self - imposed deadline to give birth a button notification system for the iPhone and what that means to you . ( plunderer alert : Not very much . )

cheep cricket heard during my responses in the Kid - Safe Mac consultation courtesy of a very sensitive mike , open windowpane , and late - night transcription .

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