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Linked List: December 21, 2005

Wednesday, 21 December 2005

I’m sure the QA jobs are easy — Google keeps their apps in “beta” for years.

Apple:

Aperture 1.0.1 Update addresses a number of issues related to reliability and performance.

Python Creator Guido van Rossum Now Working at Google ★

Wonder if he’s getting paid just to hack on Python, sort of like how back in the dot-com era O’Reilly used to have Larry Wall on the payroll just to support the continued development of Perl?

More on Google Talk-AIM Interoperation ★

This no longer sounds very interesting:

Integrating Google Talk and AIM will be done in a roundabout way, mostly to keep AOL and Google from exposing the valuable profile information customers must first provide to sign up.

In essence, the two IM networks will not be connected. Rather, Google’s Google Talk users must first sign up for an AIM account and screen name. They can then carry on a conversation with an AIM user by using their Google IM desktop dashboard.

(Via Aaron Swartz via AIM.)

Google-AOL Deal Includes AIM-Google Talk Interoperability ★

Most interesting to me among the deal’s “broad range of new features for users and advertisers”:

Enabling Google Talk and AIM instant messaging users to communicate with each other, provided certain conditions are met

I wonder whether the “certain conditions” are for users to meet (e.g. using an up-to-date AIM and/or Google Talk client) or what?

More Signs of New iBooks at MWSF? ★

School district in North Carolina claims Apple is announcing new iBook line-up Jan. 9. What strikes me about this, though, is that if true, it means Apple sales reps have been briefed on new products coming next month, and I just don’t think that’s how Apple operates — new product announcements are secrets even within Apple.

(Via Daniel Bogan via AIM.)

DNG Recover Edges ★

Free utility for Mac and Windows from Thomas Knoll (one of the original developers of Photoshop) allows you to recover “lost” pixels from the edges of RAW camera files. (Again via Khoi Vinh.)

Aperture Tricks ★

Weblog devoted to Aperture. (Via Khoi Vinh.)