By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: September 9, 2005
Friday, 9 September 2005
- iTunes 5: Press Command for Expanded Tooltips ★
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Rui Carmo has an animated GIF illustrating a new feature in iTunes 5: when you hold the Command key, you get expanded tooltips with additional information. (Update: Apparently it’s not new to iTunes 5, it’s just that neither Rui nor I had ever noticed it in previous versions.)
- Pogue on the Rokr ★
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David Pogue in The Times:
And it’s certainly true that financial interests of the three collaborators — Apple, Motorola and Cingular — have hog-tied the Rokr in a lot of unnecessary ways. The phone would be so much better if it held more music, let you buy songs directly online and let you use songs as ring tones.
If you’re looking for an iPod phone, in other words, the Rokr isn’t it; it stands no chance of living up to the hyperventilating hype of the last few weeks. But as an iTunes phone — the only one on earth that lets you carry subsets of your Apple store-bought music on errands and other short missions — the Rokr is great-sounding, reasonably priced and a lot of fun.
- Google Blog: Extras for your Mac Gmail Notifier ★
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Greg Miller on extending the Mac Gmail Notifier with AppleScript or Cocoa. He links to Jesper’s Gmail+Growl plug-in.
- Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 ★
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Drag-reorderable tabs are my favorite new feature — but, alas, you can’t drag them between windows.