The Talk Show: Live From WWDC
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Linked List: May 2, 2005

DarwinPorts 1.0 

DarwinPorts is an easy way to install and update open source software for Mac OS X. Like Fink but better.

Eudora Is Being Converted to Cocoa 

They expect to ship later this year. Eudora is a quirky app — it’ll be interesting to see how they balance keeping it familiar to long-time Eudora users and adopting modern Mac OS X UI conventions. (Via Michael Tsai.)

Michael Tsai’s Tiger Notes 

Lots of astute observations here.

Lame ‘Tiger’ Headline Puns 

Kottke’s list of lame headlines about the release of Tiger. (I seriously considered calling my Tiger Details feature “Tiger Beat”, but focus-group testing indicated that it wasn’t funny.)

Longhorn Beta Screenshots 

I know it’s a beta, but yeesh — this is one ugly and convoluted user-interface.

Andy Ihnatko’s Tiger Report 

Sections on Spotlight, Automator, Dashboard, iChat, and Safari.

ADC: What’s New in Mac OS X 10.4 

Developer-level overview of what’s new in 10.4. This is much better than Apple’s marketing material in terms of getting a general idea of where their software engineering effort has been spent.