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Linked List: September 7, 2005

Wednesday, 7 September 2005

Better Line-Height on Apple.com’s iPod Nano Pages 

Keen observation from Scott Stevenson. Cramped line-heights are one of my biggest personal peeves in web typography. In the print world, you often have to sacrifice line-height because paper is expensive, and/or because paper comes in fixed sized. Vertical pixels on web pages are free, however.

AppleScript Changes in iTunes 5.0 

Doug Adams looks at what’s new in iTunes 5.0.

QuickTime Stream of This Morning’s Apple Special Event 

Get your iPod fever here. (Via Jesper, via AIM.)

Mike Pinkerton Hired by Google 

After 8 years working for Netscape and AOL, Mike Pinkerton is leaving to work for Google, where he’ll be getting to paid to work on Firefox.

So now let me address the large elephant in the corner: what oh what does it mean for Camino now that Pink is going to work on Firefox? The answer: only good things. Remember that Google employees get 20% of their time to work on their own pet projects. While some of that time will hopefully be spent nurturing the growing Mac community within Google, a lot of that time will be directly spent on Camino. That’s right, I’m (indirectly) getting paid to keep working on it. That’s going to be a big help with the push for 1.0 coming up this Fall. In addition, just as Josh blogged not so many months ago, there is plenty of Mac-specific work that benefits all Gecko browsers, and now there’s one more Mac guy available to help out.

Google is hiring an awful lot of A-list engineers.

iPod Nano Is Thinner Than Shuffle 

iPod Shuffle: 3.3" x 0.98" x 0.33"
iPod Nano: 3.5" x 1.6" x 0.27"

It’s twice as heavy, though: .78 vs. 1.5 ounces.

Andy Hertzfeld Hired by Google 

Happened last month, but it’s news to me.

FoxTrot Personal Search for Mac 

CTM Development, the company behind PowerMail, has released a desktop search tool built on top of Spotlight and CTM’s own FoxTrot search technology. Even though it uses Spotlight, it doesn’t depend on it, so they can support 10.3 and 10.2. (Although I seriously question how many people still holding on to 10.2 are buying new software for it.) FoxTrot is available now in beta, and licenses are on sale for €19 (the price will go up to €29 at some point in the future).

Macworld: Apple Special Event Live Update 

Peter Cohen’s live coverage of the Apple Special Event is the best play-by-play I’ve seen.

Cringely’s NerdTV Launches 

Robert X. Cringely’s hour-long TV-for-nerds show debuts with an interview with Mac hero Andy Hertzfeld. Plus:

NerdTV is distributed under a Creative Commons license so viewers can legally share the shows with their friends and even edit their own versions.