By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: September 14, 2005
Wednesday, 14 September 2005
- Camino 1.0a1 ★
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Based on the Gecko 1.8 rendering engine. Camino is a damn good browser.
- Rentzsch on Developers News at Microsoft’s PDC ★
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Jon Rentzsch on some interesting developer news from Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference: (a) type inferencing is coming to C# 3.0; and (b) Monad, Microsoft’s new command-line shell, is included in current beta builds of Vista.
- iWork Programming Guide ★
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Developer documentation of the Pages and Keynote XML file formats. (Via Buzz Andersen.)
- ‘Prairie Ho Companion’ Thing Is About Trademark Protection? ★
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Matt Deatherage says Garrison Keillor isn’t humorless, he’s just protecting his trademark:
The First Amendment does not give you the right to take anyone else’s intellectual property, remove two letters, and profit from it — especially when the owner of the intellectual property is already selling similar goods in a similar fashion, any more than Apple Computer would sit idly while someone sold “Crapple eyePod” players or accessories. People who work for 30 years to build a name and follow the law to protect it are not “humorless” because some asshole with a 30-second idea can’t make money off it without permission.
- Pierre Igot on the iTunes Source List ★
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Pierre Igot’s astute criticism of the iTunes 5 source list. To me, the worst aspect is this one, from an aside:
(On a side note, deleting playlists and folders in iTunes cannot be undone, which is especially problematic since there is no warning dialog before iTunes deletes them. This is really an unacceptable limitation in 2005.)
- iPod Nano Supports FireWire for Charging, but Not Synching ★
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From Glenn Fleishman’s iPod Nano review:
Of less importance is the iPod Nano’s reliance on USB: it cannot be synced via FireWire, although it can be charged via FireWire. With USB 2.0 on all Mac models and all modern PCs, this is but a footnote. (Older Mac owners with USB 1.1 gripe because of the dramatically lower transfer speed; however, for 2 or 4 GB of storage, it’s a bit less of an issue than with a full-scale iPod.)
I noticed on the day the Nano was announced that FireWire wasn’t supported, but I didn’t know until now that it still worked for charging. Anyone know the reason for this? My guess is that it’s about saving space internally; that FireWire data support would entail additional hardware inside the case, but that accepting a charge over FireWire works “for free” with the Dock Connector port.
- Linotype FontExplorer X ★
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This is clever. Linotype, one of the world’s leading typeface foundries, has released a professional font management utility for Mac OS X — and it’s free. They’re going to make money by selling their own fonts through the app, iTunes-style. In fact, judging by the screenshots, the app itself looks rather iTunes-like. However, it’s iTunes 4.9 that it looks like, which means it already looks dated.
Jason Santa Maria speculates that they could open this up to selling fonts from other foundries as well. Update: Be sure to read through the comments on Santa Maria’s post; lots of details and first impressions from people who are trying it out. Looks like a winner. If you haven’t tried using professional font managers on Mac OS X, you don’t know how important FontExplorer might be.
- Hands-On With Toast 7 ★
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Peter Cohen reviews Toast 7 for Macworld.