By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: September 24, 2006
Sunday, 24 September 2006
- AppleScript to Embed iTunes 7 Artwork Into Your Song Files ★
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Erik Barzeski wanted a way to automate the embedding of iTunes 7 artwork metadata into his song files; Brian Webster provides a nice, short AppleScript solution in the comments.
- Higher-Order JavaScript ★
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Sean M. Burke’s “JavaScriptish companion to Mark-Jason Dominus’s Higher-Order Perl.”
- George Ou Says Maynor and Ellch Deserve Credit for the AirPort Security Updates ★
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Ou apparently believes that Maynor and Ellch supplied Apple with some combination of packet captures, driver disassemblies, and crash dumps regarding Apple’s AirPort drivers, despite Apple’s statement that Maynor and Ellch “did not supply us with any information to allow us to identify a specific problem.”
As I wrote Thursday, “The only way Maynor and Ellch have any credibility remaining is if Apple is flat-out lying. And if that’s the case Maynor and Ellch can simply step forward and prove it.” According to this comment by Ou, that’s what they plan to do at the ToorCon conference next week.
- How to Store Album Covers Inside Your Music Files With iTunes 7 ★
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Bruno Fernandes:
But I’ve seen a number of people complaining lately that when you download covers they are only cached and stored in a proprietary format. This means that if you copy/move some music the artwork will not be attached to the song. [...]
Here’s an easy way to get the artwork into your song files (it’s so simple I’m surprised I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet).
- More on Apple’s “Podcast” Trademark Claims ★
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Seems like Apple’s recent cease and desist to “Podcast Ready” is part of a larger struggle to solidify their various “iPod”-related trademark applications. (Via George Saronto Stamas, who has an interesting comment on this post.)
- Building a Codeless Language Module With BBEdit 8.5 and (Ir-)Regular Expressions ★
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Seth Dillingham’s tutorial on building a codeless language module for [newLisp] in BBEdit 8.5 using its new PCRE regular expression features.