Linked List: January 9, 2005

Sunday, 9 January 2005

DrunkenBlog Interview With Tiger File Sharing Defendant ★

In another recent legal filing, last month Apple filed suit against three people for file-sharing a beta build of Tiger via BitTorrent. DrunkenBlog has an interesting interview with one of the defendants. Choice quote:

I made the foolish assumption that since I wasn’t a developer, and I had a copy that it would be ok if I shared it with 5 or 6 fellow mac fanatics.

What he really means, I think, is that he didn’t think Apple would notice or care if shared it with “5 or 6 fellow mac fanatics”, not that he thought it was “ok”.

Window Margins in Aqua ★

Jonathan Rentzsch on the use of margins in Aqua window layouts.

TK Pal: TypeKey + PayPal for PHP ★

Andre Torrez:

TK Pal is a snippet of PHP code you can place in a PHP enabled page to restrict access to content to TypeKey users who have specifically paid to see that content.

What’s neat — in the way that anything recursive is inherently neat — is that he’s using TK Pal to charge a dollar for access to TK Pal’s source code and documentation. As Torrez describes it, it’s “Kind of like using a robot to build robots.”