Linked List: March 3, 2005

Thursday, 3 March 2005

Netscape 8.0 Beta ★: Derived from Firefox, but yet looks like total crap. Way to go, AOL.
The PowerBook Sudden Motion Sensor ★: Amit Singh has written an in-depth analysis of the new Sudden Motion Sensors in the latest line-up of PowerBooks. It’s the motion-detection circuit that’s designed to raise the head of your hard disk if it detects that the machine has been dropped. At the end of the piece, Singh mentions that he’s been working for the past year on an in-depth technical book on Mac OS X’s architecture; considering the quality of his “What Is Mac OS X”, it could be a great book. (Via Waxy.org.)
SAJAX: XMLHTTPRequest Toolkit for PHP ★: Simple AJAX programming toolkit for PHP, from ModernMethod. (Via Kottke.)
Mozilla Foundation Hires Josh Aas ★: Full-time Mac developer, will be working on Camino, Thunderbird, and some cross-platform browser called Firefox. Aas states that one of his goals is to get Gecko to switch from the old QuickDraw graphics routines to Quartz, which should help both performance and appearance. (Via Jon Hicks.)
delicious2safari ★: Simple utility that imports your del.icio.us bookmarks into Safari. I’m glad I found this — I was thinking about writing a hack to do this myself.
Apple v. Does Hearing on Motion, Friday in San Jose ★: EFF press release:

In the first case of its kind, EFF will argue that these online reporters’ confidential sources and unpublished material are protected by both the reporter’s shield in the California Constitution and the reporter’s privilege protected by the federal First Amendment. The hearing will be Friday, March 4, at 10:00 a.m. at the Santa Clara County Superior Court, 191 North First Street, San Jose. Press are welcome to attend.