Linked List: February 17, 2005

Thursday, 17 February 2005

Typographica: Our Favorite Fonts of 2004 ★: Who says it’s too late for “best of 2004” lists?
Microsoft Guide to ‘133t5p33k’ for Parents ★: This is so square it’s hilarious. (Via John Siracusa via IM.)
Google Kills Googlefone ★: A while back Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch created googlefone.com, a simple front-end to phone book lookups powered by Google. Google doesn’t want people using domain names containing “google”, and so they sent him a seemingly auto-generated legal nastygram.
PDFLab ★: PDFLab is a nice little utility that allows you to split and join PDF documents. Freeware, donations accepted. (Via Jonathan Rentzsch.)
Google Gets Away With What Microsoft Couldn’t ★: New features in Google’s toolbar are reminiscent of Microsoft’s much-despised “Smart Tags” feature from a few years ago.
LaunchBar 4.0 ★: I switched from LaunchBar 3 to Quicksilver a while back, but version 4 looks like it’s worth checking out.
iPod Shuffle Tips and Tricks ★: Excellent iPod Shuffle review by Scott Knaster, including this bit regarding the effects of Apple’s decision to format the Shuffle as FAT32 (the Windows disk format), rather than HFS+:

Apple’s support for FAT32 has a list of seemingly innocent characters you can’t use in file names, such as * and [ . If you try copying a file with any of these characters in its name from an HFS volume to your shuffle, the Finder will complain. (The details are provided here.)
FlySketch 1.0 ★: Flying Meat Software’s FlySketch is an intriguing $20 screen capture utility. It’s not like Snapz Pro X at all; rather, FlySketch focuses on capturing a portion of your screen and allowing to draw, doodle, and annotate right there in the capture window.