By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: April 26, 2005
Tuesday, 26 April 2005
- Apple Pulls Wiley Books From Store Shelves ★
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Greg Sandoval, reporting for the AP:
Apple Computer Inc. has retaliated against the publisher of an upcoming unauthorized biography about chief executive Steve Jobs by removing dozens of other technology books sold by the publisher from Apple stores around the world.
Apple removed the books last week from all 104 of its stores after failing in a monthlong attempt to persuade John Wiley & Sons not to release iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business, which is to go on sale within the next six weeks, the publisher said.
The book is co-authored by Jeffrey Young, who 20 years ago wrote The Journey Is the Reward, a highly unflattering, tabloid-style Jobs biography.
Among the Wiley books pulled from Apple’s stores are Andy Ihnatko’s, which is a shame.
- Logorrhea 1.3 ★
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Bug-fix and Tiger-compatibility update to the iChat log-viewer. (Freeware, donations accepted.)
- ‘Beginning Shell Scripting’ ★
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New book co-written by John C. Welch (he wrote the parts pertaining to Mac OS X).
- Microsoft Readies New Document Printing Specification ★
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Microsoft is apparently building its own ground-up competitor to Adobe’s PostScript and PDF technologies, named “Metro”, and scheduled to appear in Longhorn. This strikes me as a wheel that didn’t need reinventing.