Linked List: December 21, 2004

Tuesday, 21 December 2004

Apple Sues Three Dopes Who Put Tiger Builds on BitTorrent ★

Duncan Martell, reporting for Reuters:

Apple Computer Inc. has sued three men for illegally distributing test copies of the next version of its Mac OS X operating system on a file-sharing Web site, court records showed on Tuesday.

WireTap Pro ★

New competitor to Audio Hijack Pro, from Ambrosia Software, with what looks like an interesting scheduling feature for recording streaming radio programs.

Leaked Apple Product Is a FireWire Audio Gadget ★

Brad Gibson has the scoop on the leaked product Apple filed a lawsuit regarding earlier this month: the FireWire audio input gadget reported at AppleInsider.com last month. Gibson writes:

A California Superior Court has granted a request by Apple Computer to serve subpoenas on three Mac rumor Web sites seeking information on who leaked facts about an un-announced audio hardware product code named “Asteroid” or “Q97”, court documents obtained Monday by The Mac Observer showed.

It’ll be interesting to see whether AppleInsider rolls over on this and cowardly coughs up the name, or if they protect their source(s).

Movable Type 3.14 ★

Primarily addresses performance bugs that showed up while MT sites were getting flooded with comment spam. Clearly a must-upgrade update for any site displaying comments. (Daring Fireball doesn’t have any problems with comment spam, for some reason.)

John C. Welch on Robert Scoble’s Stupid ‘Open Letter’ to Bill Gates ★

Here’s what I say: You know how Microsoft could build an iPod rival? But doing what they did with the Xbox — creating an $800 product and selling it for a huge loss at $300, to build the market. No one else could afford to lose a few billion dollars to sell a few million units. That’s what Microsoft could do.