By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: November 29, 2005
Tuesday, 29 November 2005
- Dr. Dobb’s Article on Bare Bones’ Migration of BBEdit to Intel ★
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Nice technical overview of the problems Bare Bones faced getting BBEdit ported to x86 processors. (Via MacInTouch.)
- Wall Street Analyst Claims 2 GB Nano Sales Are Up ★
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I had always sort of thought the purpose of the lower-priced iPods was to hit a price point that gets people into the store, but to price the better models close enough that people “upgrade” while shopping. I.e. I’ll take a look at this $199 iPod; hey this is really cool; heck, for 50 more bucks I can get twice the memory… But while early adopters swarm to the high-end iPods, perhaps the mass market really is more price-sensitive.
- Aperture Support and Documentation ★
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Apple’s Aperture support articles and PDF documentation.
- Fontographer 4.7 ★
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First revision to Fontographer in nine years.
- Aperture Mini Review With Screenshots ★
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Includes a link to an example web gallery generated by Aperture. (Via Jesper via AIM.)
- Apple: Broadband Tuner 1.0 ★
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Doesn’t actually install anything new, but rather simply changes the sizes for TCP send and receive buffers. Includes an “uninstaller” that restores your previous settings.
- WSJ on the Phenomenon of Everlasting Public ‘Betas’ ★
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“I deplore it as a consumer; I admire it as a marketing professional,” said Peter Sealey, a marketing professor at the University of California at Berkeley and former chief marketing officer at Coca-Cola Co. “I can’t come up with anything else in the entire marketing world where marketers knowingly introduce a flawed or inadequate product [and] it helps grow your user base.”
- Your Vote Counts, Even if You’re an Idiot ★
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I know I’m late linking to this (so late that voting has been closed for two weeks), but I find it highly curious that .Mac Backup 3.0 was nominated for Macworld’s Readers’ Choice Software of the Year award. I mean, Backup 3.0 isn’t just regarded as not very good, it’s regarded as downright harmful. I thoroughly doubt it’s going to win, but who the hell are the people who nominated it? The other app that sticks out like a sore thumb in that list is Opera 8.5 — on what planet is Opera a popular Mac browser?
- Linked List Items Now Shown on Home Page by Default ★
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I suspect many of you never noticed that there’s an option on Daring Fireball’s Preferences page to display recent Linked List items right on the home page, intermingled with full-length articles.
Used to be this option was off by default (and so the home page only showed regular articles); today I changed this so that this option is now on by default. If you don’t like it, feel free to toggle the setting (that’s why it’s there) — but I’m pretty sure most readers enjoy following both content streams, and this makes it easier to do so.
- Xbox 360: A Mac User’s Best Friend? ★
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I think Paul Thurrott is exactly right here. (Full disclosure: I found it hard to type that sentence.) If there’s a quibble, it’s that Xbox 360 (and the upcoming PlayStation 3) won’t just be good for Mac users, but they’ll be good for Apple, too.
The single biggest knock against Macs (versus PCs) has always been gaming. Don’t get me wrong, there are some terrific Mac games, and even terrific Mac-only games, but overall, the gaming scene is clearly both bigger and better on Windows. But next-generation consoles seem set to surpass the PC as the premier platforms for gaming, which means anyone who’s resisted switching from Windows because of the lack of games for the Mac will have one less reason not to switch. I think there a lot of guys out there who are starting to think they’d be better off with a new Mac and an Xbox/PS3 than with a new Windows PC.