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Linked List: July 25, 2005

Monday, 25 July 2005

JSAN 

JavaScript Archive Network — like CPAN for JavaScript.

Bare Bones Academic Pricing 

BBEdit and Mailsmith are now available for $49 each for students and academic professionals. I bought my first license for BBEdit 2.5 with an academic discount back in 1993.

Yahoo Widgets 

Konfabulator 2.1, now free, is available for download. According to the Konfabulator.com home page, the name for the platform is going to shift to “Yahoo Widgets” (don’t get me started on the exclamation mark Yahoo wants people to use). See also: widgets.yahoo.com.

ChapterToolMe 

Free podcast GUI tool wrapper for Apple’s ChapterTool. At the very least it’s much better than using the command-line. (Via Quentin Carnicelli.)

emlx to mbox Converter 

Free tool to convert Apple Mail’s new emlx email message format into standard mbox format mailboxes. Useful for importing messages into other apps — or for importing into Apple Mail itself, since Mail can’t import its own emlx format. (Again, via the Spool).

Blech Trashes Vizacast 

Vizacast is a new $25 podcast creation tool; 2lmc Spool’s Blech takes a look and concludes it does very little more than just make shell calls to Apple’s ChapterTool.

How to Prevent .DS_Store File Creation Over Network Connections 

Hidden pref setting that suppresses the creation of .DS_Store files on mounted network servers. (Via 2lmc Spool.)

Nicecast 1.8 

Update to Rogue Amoeba’s audio broadcasting app makes it easier to stream audio from behind a router, along with a bunch of new features.

The History of Konfabulator in the Form of a Comic 

Very well-done.

Yahoo Buys Konfabulator, Giving Runtime Away for Free 

Let no one ever again bitch that Apple screwed the Konfabulator guys:

To help popularize the widgets, Yahoo plans will give away the Konfabulator software that empowers the applications. Konfabulator had been charging $20 for the software. Anyone who bought version 2.0 of the software since mid-May will be given refunds, said Konfabulator CEO Arlo Rose.

I’ve been saying the Konfabulator runtime should be free all along. This is suddenly an interesting competition once again — Konfabulator widgets suddenly have a much larger potential user base than Dashboard widgets. I think this is a great move for Yahoo (and, I hope, a nice payday for the Konfabulator guys).

(Via Matt Deatherage on the MacJournals-Talk list.)

ASCIIMoviePlayerSample 

Sample code from Apple that renders QuickTime movies as ASCII art in a Terminal window. Now updated to produce a universal binary.