Linked List: February 14, 2006

Tuesday, 14 February 2006

Google Acquires Measure Map 

Google today acquired Adaptive Path’s Measure Map web stats visualizer — which hadn’t even shipped yet. All your stats are belong to Google, indeed.

MacBook Pro vs. Dell Inspiron Comparison 

Dan Frakes puts to rest the notion that MacBook Pros are significantly more expensive than comparable Dell laptops. (Via Daniel Bogan via AIM.)

Working With Quartz Composer 

James Duncan Davidson, writing for Apple Developer Connection:

This article introduces you to Quartz Composer, walks you through a simple sample composition and provides a hands-on exploration to familiarize you with the way you can use it in your own projects.

Mac OS X 10.4.5 

Bunch of bug fixes, including several that are Intel-specific. Intel-specific bugs will likely continue to trickle out for a few more revisions, but the list in 10.4.5 is fairly short.

Apple Begins Shipping MacBook Pro 

Weird, but weird in a good way: Apple announced today not only that they’ve begun shipping MacBook Pros, but that they’re faster than the machines previously announced (and pre-ordered). Instead of 1.67 and 1.83 GHz, they’re 1.83 and 2.0 GHz, with build-to-order options that let you ramp the speed up to 2.16 GHz.

Camino 1.0 

Mike Pinkerton:

Today is the day that we take that step from obscure open source project to real, non-alpha, non-beta, feel-safe-to-tell-your-mom-about-it project.

Congratulations to the entire Camino team. See also: Om Malik’s brief interview with Pinkerton.

Yahoo UI Library 

Open source JavaScript UI toolkit for web developers from Yahoo. They also released a “Design Patterns Library” comprised of their solutions to common web UI problems.

(Via Nat Torkington.)