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Linked List: March 24, 2006

Friday, 24 March 2006

POS Mac Mini Knock-Offs 

Not that much cheaper than the real thing.

Scoble: ‘60 Percent Rewrite of Windows Vista’ Is Bullshit 

I can’t believe anyone believed this; if Microsoft needed to rewrite 60 percent of the code before shipping Vista, it wouldn’t ship for another decade.

Nintendo Revolution to Emulate Sega Genesis 

I could so kick your ass at John Madden Football ’93 for Genesis.

MacBook Pro Noise Update 

Daniel Jalkut with the latest on the annoying noises produced by some (many? most?) MacBook Pros, and the current known workarounds.

Setting Up the Network Domain 

Great howto from Daniel Jalkut explaining how to set up a network domain — a network-mountable Library folder sharable by all the Macs on your LAN.

Living Photoshop: Macintosh and the Intel Switch 

Adobe Photoshop engineer Scott Byer on why Photoshop won’t run natively on Intel-based Macs until the next major update. And even if you don’t read the entire comment thread (it’s quite long and most, unsurprisingly, are rubbish), be sure to scroll down and read the one from “Apple Engineer”.

Five Years of Mac OS X 

John Siracusa marking Mac OS X’s fifth birthday (10.0 shipped five years ago today):

A side-by-side test-drive of Mac OS X 10.0 and 10.4 is shocking. The eternal debate is whether this gap exists because 10.4 is so good, or because 10.0 was so, so bad. That said, Apple’s ability to plan and execute its OS strategy is not open for debate. In five short years, Apple has essentially created an entirely new platform. Oh, I know, it’s really just the foundation of NeXT combined with the wreckage of classic Mac OS, but I think that makes it even more impressive. Two failing, marginalized platforms have combined to become the platform for the alpha geeks in the new century.

Microsoft Vista: Not ‘People Ready’ 

Forbes columnist Daniel Lyons was not amused by Microsoft’s recent press event, held just a few days before their announcement that the Vista ship date had slipped yet again:

Even more ironic is that Microsoft has ginned up a new slogan, “People Ready”, which apparently is meant to describe its software, or maybe it describes companies that use its software, or whatever. Who knows? It’s one of those phrases that means anything, and so means nothing. Who makes this stuff up? Do they actually pay this person? And is Microsoft just figuring out now that its programs are used by — gasp — people?

(Via John Siracusa via AIM.)

Remember back in September when Quark unveiled their new brand identity and logo, and the logo was widely panned as being nearly identical to that of the Scottish Art Council? Well, six months later and Quark now has another new logo. Rip-off or no, I like the one from September better; this one strikes me as way too trendy. (Via Design Observer.)

Why Google Finance Makes Jeremy Zawodny Sad 

Jeremy Zawodny:

It makes me sad because virtually all of the new/innovative/cool features in Google Finance are things we talked about YEARS ago. Many of them I’d lobbied for repeatedly. Some were even prototyped.

So true: Google feeds upon the complacency of their competitors.