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Protect data on lost or stolen Macs
Protect your data on MacBooks and Apple desktops with full disk encryption that’s easy to use and to deploy. SafeGuard encrypts Macs to protect from data breaches, even if the computer is lost or stolen.

Stay compliant with data security regulations: SafeGuard encrypts the entire disk, including the operating system, page [...]

Apple Insider had posted and article that Amazon releases free beta of Kindle for Mac eBook reading software.
This application allows users from around the world to read Kindle books on their Mac.
Among the features of the new Mac application are:

Purchase, download, and read hundreds of thousands of books available in the Kindle Store
Access their library [...]

This update is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to performance, stability, and security including:

Performance improvements for Top Sites
Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins
Stability improvements for websites with online forms and Scalable Vector Graphics
Fixes an issue that prevented Safari from changing settings on some Linksys routers

Visit the Apple website for more information.

Panic noticed that something interesting was happening with PDF files created by Adobe Illustrator. Like many developers, Panic uses Adobe Illustrator to create icons and other image resources for their applications. The resulting PDF files, which were relatively “big-boned” (a politically-correct way of saying “fat”), would magically shrink in size when they were run through [...]