By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md: an open protocol for agent registration.
Scripting utility from Bill Cheeseman:
With UI Actions, you attach an AppleScript script to a native Mac OS X application. From then on, the script will be triggered automatically every time the user performs the actions you specify in the target application. A UI Action script can respond to all manner of user actions, such as opening or closing a window, selecting a menu item, editing a text field and many others.
Finally.
Robert X. Cringely, on how Apple’s iTunes Affiliates program has the potential to supplant the RIAA. (The iTunes part comes after the stuff about disaster preparation and data backups; don’t skip it, that’s good, too.)