Linked List: September 13, 2005

Tuesday, 13 September 2005

One of the all-time great useless Mac apps, now in convenient widget format. (Via Nat Irons.)

DashboardWidgets.com’s Moronic Policy on P2P Widgets ★

Neither Apple nor DashboardWidgets.com will list any widgets related to P2P software. I can understand Apple’s perspective, but it baffles me why an indie site like DashboardWidgets.com would have a policy like this. They’ll happily list useless do-nothing decorative widgets, but won’t list useful widgets that can possibly be used for copying bits that some people don’t want copied.

Microsoft Codename Max ★

Something kind of photo-sharing software from Microsoft — I think it’s more or less a cross between iPhoto and Flickr. Nice-looking software and web site — by far the best-looking section on Microsoft.com.

TiVo 7.2 OS Adds Content Protection, Blocks Transfers, and Auto-Deletes Some Shows ★

Matt Haughey:

For the last 7 years, you’ve been able to record and playback TiVo’d shows and save them as long as you wanted or had space. Now, outsiders are telling your TiVo when to delete themselves whether you like it or not.

TiVo is starting to screw over their loyal customer base so they can bend over and take it from the entertainment industry.

Screenshots of Office 12 for Windows ★

Bizarre mishmash of ripped-off Mac OS X styles: half Brushed Metal, half Aqua, totally ugly. Some of the ugliest icons I’ve ever seen, too; check out the binoculars in the Word toolbar.

Garrison Keillor Has No Sense of Humor ★

Garrison Keillor sicced his lawyers on a weblog selling t-shirts that read “A Prairie Ho Companion”.