By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: May 1, 2007
Tuesday, 1 May 2007
- Details on the QuickTime for Java Advisory (With Code Snippet) ★
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Now that Apple has updated QuickTime, 3Com has released additional details regarding Dino Dai Zovi’s exploit discovery. Thomas Ptacek has a nice overview of the bug — 5 lines of Java that can crash any browser with Java and QuickTime installed.
- QuickTime 7.1.6 — Fixes Contest-Winning Exploit in QuickTime for Java ★
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Good turnaround time from Apple on a fix for this — just 10 days.
- Palm Treos at Amazon ★
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With plans from Verizon, the Treo 700w costs $400, and the Treo 700p costs $460. Tell me again how the iPhone is ridiculously overpriced.
- Software Update Updating Software It Shouldn’t Be Updating ★
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Mac OS X’s Software Update will assume that any application named “Backup” in your Applications folder is Apple’s own Backup, and will overwrite it if you allow it to “update”. As Paul Kafasis says:
In short, this is why you should always use bundle IDs instead of names to search for an application in code.
- New Amazon S3 Pricing in June ★
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Lower bandwidth pricing, but they’re going to start charging separately for the requests themselves. 75 percent of existing S3 customers will save money with the new pricing; it seems the ones who’ll pay more are those who send a large number of requests for small bits of data.
- Information Weak ★
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The Macalope looks at an insipid Information Week article on Apple.
- Cap’n Crunch’s Full Name Revealed ★
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Still no explanation regarding how he does that thing with his eyebrows.
- Handful of DF Limited Edition Swap Meat Tees Back on Sale ★
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We held back a dozen or so of the limited-edition DF t-shirts at the Coudal Partners Swap Meat to cover any shirts lost or damaged in shipping. All the original orders have been accounted for, so the remainders are now back on sale.
If you missed out during the original offer, jump quick — there are only a handful of each size left. (Each comes with a new one-year DF membership or extension.)
Update: Sold out.
- Slingshot Public Release ★
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Joyent’s new framework for turning Ruby on Rails web apps into hybrid desktop apps, with synching between offline and online storage. Source code to be released next month under the GPL. (Great icon by Bryan Bell, too.)
- News Corp. Makes a Bid for Dow Jones ★
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Jeremy M. Peters, reporting for The New York Times:
After news of the offer was reported this morning on CNBC, shares of Dow Jones leaped 58 percent. News Corp. offered $60 a share in cash for all outstanding stock in Dow Jones — a whopping premium over the $36.33 closing price on Monday. Trading was briefly halted on the New York stock exchange, and the shares were selling above $57 at midday.
A $60/share offer for a stock trading at $36 is quite an audacious move.
- Ethan Schoonover’s OmniFocus Overview Video ★
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25-minute (!) screencast by Ethan Schoonover — author of the Kinkless GTD kit for OmniOutliner — showing off the upcoming OmniFocus task manager.