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Linked List: January 3, 2006

Tuesday, 3 January 2006

Markdown syntax highlighting for the ever-popular Unix text editor Vim.

Jeremy Zawodny buys a new 24-inch Dell display; display arrives in an utterly broken state; fun ensues.

Free (GPL) utility gives you access to the music contents of an iPod by making it available as a mounted volume, with the music presented in hierarchical folders arranged by artist and title metadata. Very clever. (The author, Isaac Huang, is looking for work.)

(Via 2lmc Spool.)

Siracusa: Aperture Ascendant ★

John Siracusa, on why he’s bullish about Aperture even though version 1.0 is a performance dud:

It will take longer for competitors to match the feature set and overall design of Aperture than it will for Aperture to fix enough bugs and performance issues to finally become usable.

Coping With Mac OS X’s Font Rendering ★

Michael Tsai offers tips and suggestions for those who dislike on-screen anti-aliasing at small font sizes:

I am 20/30 without glasses and, as far as I know, do not have any visual handicaps. After more than five years of using Mac OS X—and two upgrades to sharper, brighter displays—I still find it tiring to read large blocks of smoothed text (with or without glasses). Unfortunately, there is no setting to go back to the OS 9 font renderer, and I have no expectation that there will ever be one. However, there are a number of things you can do to make text on OS X easier to read