As we’ve seen, security and privacy have a complex relationship, but improving your Mac’s security can often increase your privacy—and in fact, keeping your data private is one of the most important reasons to take security measures. Some of the steps that lead to greater privacy don’t involve security in the strictest sense, but they’re no less important just because they fall on one side of that conceptual line. This chapter explores several of those borderline topics.

In a wide-ranging keynote address at its Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple showed off the next versions of iOS and OS X to thousands of developers. You can watch for yourself, or read our summary of the key changes.

Notable software releases this week include VMware Fusion 6 and Fusion 6 Professional, BusyCal 2.5.1, Mailplane 3.0.2, Parallels Desktop 9, CloudPull 2.5, and Downcast 1.0.2.

Connected Data’s Transporter device lets you sync and share files, and even access them from an iOS device, without using cloud storage. Joe Kissell tested it and found that it works as advertised, but isn’t for everyone.

Apple has released OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Update to address a wide variety of specific bugs and security vulnerabilities. Also included is Safari 6.0.3, with performance improvements and bug fixes, plus plugs for various security holes.

Thanks to the tireless, assiduous efforts of Matt Neuburg , every TidBITS issue - from the present day all the way back to TidBITS-001 from April of 1990 - is now available online in HTML format

Publishing TidBITS every week for the last six years has given us a good sense of continuity. We usually know off the top of our heads whether we've written about a topic, who wrote about it, and how long ago the issue was published

ftp.tidbits.com Down -- For various reasons, the machine that runs died yesterday. Northwest Nexus is working on getting a new machine up in its place, but they currently estimate a 10 to 12 day downtime. The upshot of this is that none of the Anarchie bookmarks that ship with my book, The Internet Starter Kit will work, since they point at a directory on that machine

This week marks the seventh year of TidBITS, making us serious Internet geezers. If you're new to TidBITS (and many of you are!) I thought I'd take a moment to note where TidBITS is on this anniversary

I recently uploaded Easy View 2.32, the latest version of Akif Eyler's free structured text file browser. Easy View recognizes the following formats: setext, including TidBITS Info-Mac, comp.sys.mac.programmer, or similar digests Mail collections: Internet, Navigator, Notebook, etc. Text with "simple" format Dictionaries Plain text However, there's nothing new in that list - I just wanted to grab the interest of people who haven't yet come out from under their rocks to try Easy View

Over half of Apple's sales come from countries other than the United States, and we at TidBITS try to accommodate the international arms of the Macintosh community through a variety of translations

Send Us Your Holiday 2000 Gift Ideas -- We're gearing up for our annual holiday gift issue, where we pass along the best suggestions from you, our readers

German Translators Needed -- Some turnover among the energetic translators of TidBITS into German has revealed a need for a few more people to help out

CS Odessa Sponsoring TidBITS -- We're happy to announce our latest sponsor, Computer Systems Odessa, makers of the intelligent diagramming and business drawing program ConceptDraw

Japanese TidBITS on Hiatus; Seeking New Translators -- It's with deep regret that I pass on the news that the Japanese translation of TidBITS is going on hiatus until a new team of translators can be found