By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: January 23, 2006
Monday, 23 January 2006
- The Cults of Macintosh and BlackBerry Collide ★
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David Pogue:
Last week at Macworld, it was announced that beginning in February, the cult of Macintosh will finally be able to join the cult of BlackBerry at no charge. Instead of having to pay $30 for a copy of PocketMac for BlackBerry (which is required if you want to sync your calendar, address book and e-mail with a BlackBerry), PocketMac will be a free download from blackberry.com.
Pogue pegs the Mac user base at “50 million users”, which is a higher number than I’ve ever heard before.
- Official Google Blog: And Now, News ★
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Google News is officially out of beta. Only took three and a half years.
- Nat Irons on Yojimbo ★
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I concur, especially regarding the craving for Yojimbo to become scriptable. (However, the NSTextView outliner support he mentions is a secret feature of Cocoa, not of Yojimbo — it works in rich-text documents in TextEdit, too, for example.)
- Yojimbo 1.0 ★
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Brand-new $39 information organizer from Bare Bones Software, with a terrific interface for entering and searching for items. Item types include rich-text notes, passwords, serial numbers, URL bookmarks, and PDF and web archives. Items can be encrypted, and you can sync your Yojimbo library between computers using .Mac. I’ve been beta-testing it for a few months, and Yojimbo is without question my favorite new Mac application in years. Highly recommended. (Insert my usual Bare Bones disclaimer here.)
- Ben Gibbard of The Postal Service Unhappy About Apple-Intel Ad ★
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Ben Gibbard, in an un-permalinked note on The Postal Service’s web site:
It has recently come to our attention that Apple Computers’ new television commercial for the Intel chip features a shot-for-shot recreation of our video for ‘Such Great Heights’ made by the same filmmakers responsible for the original. We did not approve this commercialization and are extremely disappointed with both parties that this was executed without our consultation or consent.
There are, obviously, some very similar shots, but I don’t see how anyone could look at these two pieces and consider the commercial a “shot-by-shot recreation”.
(Via Ramanan Sivaranjan via email.)