Linked List: July 12, 2005

Tuesday, 12 July 2005

Mac OS X 10.4.2 

“Addresses” lots of “issues”.

LaCie Mini 250 GB 

$200 for a 250 GB external FireWire drive that’s designed to stack under a Mac Mini, scheduled to ship in “mid August”. 80 and 160 GB models are also available, for $120 and $150. (Via 2lmc Spool, who also link to MacWay’s Minipartner, which is a similar product but with FireWire and USB 2 hubs built-in).

Bare Bones: Macworld Expo ‘Online Show Special’ 

Use the promo code “Macworld20”, and you’ll get 20 percent off all Bare Bones Software products (including t-shirts), now through July 22. With the $129 cross-upgrade price from TextWrangler — which is free — this means you can get a license for BBEdit 8.2 for about $104. The discount applies to upgrades, too.

Apple Says Not to Use Java for Writing Cocoa Apps 

From the latest revision of Apple’s Cocoa-Java Integration Guide:

Important: Features added to Cocoa in Mac OS X versions later than 10.4 will not be added to the Cocoa-Java programming interface. Therefore, you should develop Cocoa applications using Objective-C to take advantage of existing and upcoming Cocoa features.

As far as I can tell, the whole idea of writing Cocoa apps using Java never really took off, so I don’t think this will be that big a deal.

Freshly Squeezed Software Sold to illumineX 

Erik Barzeski sold FSS and its product line (PulpFiction, MailDrop, FTPeel) to illumineX, a company — mostly focused on games — run by long-time Cocoa and Next developers Don Yacktman and Gary Longsine.