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Linked List: January 8, 2006

Sunday, 8 January 2006

Creative’s Not-So-Creative Definition of ‘Podcast’ ★

From Creative’s Zencast site:

Podcasts, short for Personal On Demand broadCast, are audio files you can download into any MP3 player or computer.

Via Jason Fried, who commented, aptly: “A for effort, F for give me a fucking break.”

MacConnection: New 17-inch PowerBooks for $1,800 ★

MacConnection is selling previous-revision 17-inch PowerBooks (i.e. the ones with 1.67 GHz G4 processors but with 1400 × 900 display resolution and 100 GB hard drives) for just $1,800 after a $100 mail-in rebate. (Via Nat Irons via email.)

Safari Guide ★

Freeware utility from Todd Ditchendorf allows you to “evaluate arbitrary XPath, XQuery, and JavaScript expressions against the current frontmost Safari web page”. (Via Buzz Andersen.)