Linked List: July 26, 2004

Monday, 26 July 2004

MT 3.1: What’s New ★: Six Apart has published a list of the major new features in the upcoming 3.1 release of Movable Type. The big one is an option to publish live using PHP (i.e. to fry pages instead of bake them).
Jason Snell Reviews the New iPod ★: Jason Snell:

Previously I used a third-generation iPod, and it’s taken some time to get used to the click wheel and (especially) the act of physically clicking on the wheel and the center button. But it’s also been a nostalgia trip, since the experience of using this new iPod is very much like the first two iPod generations. In fact, in some ways I view the third-generation iPod as an evolutionary dead-end. If you tried a second-generation iPod (a touch-wheel with the circular ring of buttons at the compass points) and then switched to a fourth-generation iPod, it would be a pretty seamless transition.
More T-shirt Porn ★: Joe Chellman got his DF shirt.
Tantek Çelik on the Technorati Redesign ★: Tantek Çelik left Microsoft to join Technorati; after just two weeks, debuts a very nice and much-improved redesign.
RealNetworks to Sell iPod-Compatible Songs ★: Saul Hansell reports in the New York Times:

Tomorrow, without Apple’s authorization, RealNetworks will start to give away software that will allow people to buy and download songs from its online music store and then play them on Apple’s popular iPod portable devices in addition to those that use the Windows Media Player format and RealNetwork’s Helix format.