By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: January 13, 2006
Friday, 13 January 2006
- iPhoto 6 Works With Flickr RSS Feeds ★
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Julian Missig:
I was hoping it would be true, and today I got to verify it: You can subscribe to a flickr RSS feed in iPhoto 6 and it will appear as a photocast just like any other Photocast. Unfortunately it’s only the small images you normally get with Flickr feeds, but fortunately there are clickable URLs to the Flickr pages for every one of those photos.
- Regarding Flash and Safari on Intel Macs ★
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Todd Dominey asks a good question: Does Flash run natively on Intel Macs, or is it PowerPC-only (which would require all of Safari to run under Rosetta). Eric Albert, who works on the Mac OS X for Intel team at Apple, answers in the comments:
Flash is universal on the Intel-based Macs.
- Omni Group Universal Binaries ★
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Everything but OmniWeb.
- C-Command Universal Binaries ★
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Michael Tsai’s line-up of software works well already under Rosetta, and he’ll release free universal binary updates as soon as he gets his new iMac and can test them.
- Apple Publications Style Guide 2006 ★
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Apple’s in-house style guide, including their spelling and capitalization for their entire product line, and the correct names for nearly all common user interface elements. (Via Matt Deatherage on the MacJournals-Talk list.)
- Macworld MacBook Pro ‘Inside Scoop’ ★
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Comprehensive FAQ on the somewhat mysterious MacBook Pro, compiled by Jason Snell and Jonathan Seff:
Apple hasn’t given an official battery life rating to the new MacBook Pro, but told us it expects battery life to be similar to that of the current PowerBook line (which ranges from 4.5 to 5 hours). Apple says that the MacBook Pro’s new, thin lithium-polymer battery is state-of-the-art, and that the Core Duo chip that powers the MacBook pro is roughly comparable to the power consumption of a G4 chip, or slightly higher. The MacBook Pro also has a much brighter screen than previous models, and that screen may negatively effect its battery life as well.
Also:
Apple says that the 15-inch PowerBooks will only be available while supplies last, but won’t make a similar statement about the 12- and 17-inch models.
(Via Daniel Bogan via AIM.)
- iWeb’s HTML Markup: Not So Good ★
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Unfortunate, but also not surprising.
- iPhoto 6 Performance Gains Are for Real ★
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Garrett Murray (who unveiled a remarkably lovely new site design back in November):
Well, they weren’t lying—iPhoto is a lot faster. Every year I buy iLife almost solely for the iPhoto update and the last few months, with nearly ten thousand photos, iPhoto was really starting to feel sluggish. So, when Jobs said in his keynote that iPhoto 6 was much faster, I wanted to believe him. But I’ve heard it before about previous iPhoto updates and I never really felt a speed difference. Today is a new day