Linked List: February 7, 2005

Monday, 7 February 2005

Disk Inventory X 

Says Nat Irons, via email: “If you like WhatSize, you’ll love Tjark Derlien’s Disk Inventory X. Here’s a list of reasons why: (a) Treemaps; (b) also free (GPL).” Treemaps are, indeed, a very cool way to display this sort of information.

Sony Paying $25,000 Per Month to Sponsor New Weblog 

Sony is paying $25,000 per month for exclusive sponsorship rights to LifeHacker, a new weblog in Nick Denton’s Gawker micro-media empire, edited by Gina Trapani. Holy crap, that’s a lot of money.

See also this article in AdAge with more details, but which requires you to register for a free account to read it.

Court Docs Reveal Kazaa Logging User Downloads 

It’s insane that Kazaa is so popular in the PC world — it installs spyware and adware on your computer, and the company admits it. It’s P2P software designed to take advantage of the uninformed and ignorant.

WhatSize 

Klajd M. Deda’s WhatSize is a free utility that shows how your disk space is being used. A free alternative to OmniDiskSweeper. (Via Tao of Mac.)

Sdef Editor 1.1 

Mac OS X developer tool for editing ‘sdef’ XML format AppleScript dictionaries. Freeware from Shadow Labs.

Stopdesign: New Photo Galleries 

How Doug Bowman publishes photo galleries from iPhoto to Movable Type, by way of Photon. Great tutorial.

Why Napster Will Be a Fully-Integrated Flop 

Ashlee Vance writing for The Register.