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Linked List: August 12, 2005

Friday, 12 August 2005

New version of the terrific little freeware screenshot tool for capturing entire web pages in a single image.

Wired News: Mac Hacks Allow OS X on PCs ★

Mark Baard, reporting for Wired News:

Imagine if your next Mac cost you only $300, and ran faster than any G4 or G5 you’ve ever used.

It is entirely possible that cracked versions of Mac OS X are running on PC hardware; and it is definitely possible that when running on a top-of-the-line PC, it’s faster than on “any G4 or G5 you’ve ever used”. But the idea that Mac OS X is faster on a $300 PC than on a dual G5 PowerMac is absurd. This lead is just a shameless bit of sensationalism.

Ulysses 1.2 ★

New version of Blue Technologies Group’s text editor for writers. New features include a Spotlight importer and performance improvements.

SteerMouse ★

$20 third-party mouse driver for Mighty Mouse (and other USB mice). Allows for more customization options than Apple’s driver, and works on Mac OS X 10.3.9. Note also that Alessandro Levi Montalcini is working on an update to USB Overdrive to add support for Mighty Mouse. (Via 2lmc Spool.)

Quadrivio General Edit Lite 2.0 ★

The excellent freeware version of Quadrivio’s hex editor has finally been ported to Mac OS X. (Too bad the download is a binhex file. Attention Mac developers: StuffIt is no longer included with Mac OS X.)

Paul Thurrott Still a Dipshit ★

Someone took apart a Mac Mini and concluded that the total cost of its components is around $280; Paul Thurrott quotes this and says:

Huh. How does that $499 starting price look now? Cheap?

Considering their analysis explicitly did not include the cost of software, yes, that’s cheap.

Image Tricks ★

Freeware image editor that gives you access to “around 35” Core Image filters. (Via Rui Carmo.)