Linked List: March 22, 2013

Friday, 22 March 2013

CleanMyMac 2 

My thanks to MacPaw for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote CleanMyMac 2.

CleanMyMac 2 is a new utility designed to help you free up space on your hard drives. It finds large files, tells you how long it’s been since you’ve used them, optimizes your iPhoto library, uninstalls apps, and more. All this, wrapped in a simple clean user interface.

Try CleanMyMac 2 for free, or buy it now for 25 percent off using coupon code “DARINGFIREBALL” (valid until March 24).

Security Hole Allows Apple Passwords to Be Reset With Only Email Address and Date of Birth 

Yikes.

Eric Schmidt Uses a BlackBerry 

Shocker.

How Beer Gave Us Civilization 

Jeffrey P. Kahn, writing in the NYT:

To free up those, we needed something that would suppress the rigid social codes that kept our clans safe and alive. We needed something that, on occasion, would let us break free from our biological herd imperative — or at least let us suppress our angst when we did.

We needed beer.

Interest in ‘Skeuomorphism’ Over Time 

The graph looks exactly like you think it does.