Linked List: March 1, 2005

Tuesday, 1 March 2005

Tim Bucher Suing Apple for Wrongful Termination ★

Remember Tim Bucher? The guy who was promoted to head of Macintosh Hardware Engineering but then left the company under strange circumstances last November? Well, he was in fact fired, and now he’s suing Apple for wrongful termination, alleging the company “terminated him without cause and failed to pay all due compensation, including restricted stock grants and a bonus”, according to Ina Fried’s report for CNet News.

If you read between the lines in Fried’s report, the gist of it seems to be that Bucher took on too many responsibilities, and that Steve Jobs and Tim Cook thought he was cracking.

.Mac Backup Sucks ★

Michael Alderete, on the .Mac Backup app. (Via Nat Irons via email.)

Paul Bausch on Yahoo Web Services ★

Paul Bausch with an introduction and example code for Yahoo’s new web services. Looks great. (Via Waxy.org.)

NetBuild ★

Two years ago, Andrew Pontious and Mac Murrett created a Rendezvous-enabled distributed build system for Project Builder, which they intended to sell for $450 a seat. Before they could ship it, however, Apple announced Xcode, which contained its own (free) distributed build system. They’ve now released their system, NetBuild, as open source.

Yahoo Search Developer Network and Search Web Services ★

Developer API from Yahoo. Cool. (Via Kottke.)

Airfoil 1.0 ★

New utility from Rogue Amoeba Software streams audio from any application to an AirPort Express (by default, AirPort Express only accepts music streamed from iTunes). $20 introductory price for the month of March; $25 thereafter.

How to Resume Interrupted Music Store Downloads in iTunes 4 ★

If an error occurs while downloading a purchased track from ITMS, choose Advanced → Check for Purchased Music. Worked like a charm for me.