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Linked List: September 19, 2005

JPEG2000: Cool but Slow 

Wil Shipley looked into using the JPEG2000 image format for (the currently in development) Delicious Library 2.0, but found it to be way too much slower than JPEG. He also praises the performance of Tiger’s new Core Graphics routines for creating thumbnails.

Tim Bray on Apple’s iWork XML Formats 

Tim Bray and an anonymous tipster shit all over Apple’s XML schemas for Pages and Keynote.

iPod Shuffle Quick Reference Card 

Online version of the cheat sheet that Apple ships with each Shuffle.

Typetester 

Marko Dugonjić’s web-based screen-type preview app. See also: Dugonjić’s introduction on his weblog.

The Odeo Player Dashboard Widget 

Odeo just released a useful-looking Dashboard widget for playing podcasts. The comments, however, are mostly from Windows users asking for a Konfabulator version.

Web Kit Fixes in Safari 2.0.1 

Maciej Stachowiak:

Many of you have asked for the list of WebKit bugs fixed in Safari 2.0.1.

First the disclaimers: This list does not include any changes to Safari the app, only to the open source components (WebKit/WebCore/JavaScriptCore). Also, it only includes the changes made from the 10.4.2 software update to the Safari 2.0.1 update, not any earlier fixes. And finally, we don’t necessarily promise to do this for future updates, but we might.

Rentzsch: Pixel Imperfection 

Read this, and then imagine if someone went over the Windows UI with this fine a comb.