Linked List: December 10, 2004

Friday, 10 December 2004

PayPal Now Accepted at iTunes Music Store ★: First 500,000 people to open new iTMS accounts using PayPal get five free songs.
Inside an Adware Company ★: Brad Stone writing for Newsweek: How one of the Internet’s largest and most secretive adware companies really operates. (Via Slashdot.)
Short Overview on How ‘Google Suggest’ Works ★: Comment at Slashdot. (Via Joel Spolsky.)
IBM and China ★: Robert X. Cringely, with astute analysis on why IBM sold its PC division to a Chinese company for far less than they could have sold it to an American or Japanese company. (Cringely doesn’t mention it, but this could be good news for Apple, too, because IBM will be concentrating even more on its PowerPC processors.)
MarsEdit 1.0 ★: I’ve been using MarsEdit to create and edit Daring Fireball articles and Linked List items for months. It’s terrific.
Tool Time at Pixar ★: Custom Mac app developed in-house at Pixar allowed Brad Bird to sketch directly on top of preview images during production of The Incredibles. (Via Jason Santa Maria.)
Google Suggest Beta ★: Guesses search terms as you type. (Via Kottke.org.)
PyObjC, py2app, and Bundles ★: Bill Bumgarner:

PyObjC now has the ability to build NSBundles that can be dynamically loaded by any Objective-C application while the bundle is entirely implemented in Python. In other words, you can now use Python to implement plugins for any app that supports Objective-C plugins (NSBundle).