Linked List: November 5, 2004

Friday, 5 November 2004

MT-DSBL 

New Movable Type plug-in from Brad Choate; automatically nukes comments originating from the IP addresses of servers blacklisted by dsbl.org.

Working With Spotlight 

Some developer-level details on Spotlight.

Mac OS X 10.3.6 

Change notes from Apple. Two items that caught my eye:

  • Safari no longer times out after 60 seconds when attempting to connect to a webpage or to submit form data. With this update, Safari will keep trying indefinitely (or until you cancel the attempt).

  • Resolves an issue in which the display could sometimes remain dark when waking from display sleep (the mouse pointer might appear, but normal function could not be restored) if using Screen Saver password on a portable computer.

Frequently Asked Questions About Photo Sync 

When synching photos, iTunes creates iPod- and TV-size versions of your photos, and those are what get synched. Thus iPod Photo doesn’t need to scale photos for display. But iTunes has a preference to store a full-resolution copy of every photo on your iPod as well.

Super Get Info 1.2.1 

Small bug fix and minor features.