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Linked List: March 28, 2006

Tuesday, 28 March 2006

Brand new “fast and clever free hex editor” from Ridiculous Fish author and AppKit engineer Peter Ammon. At least one bit of cleverness is that it doesn’t keep files open in memory, so you can use it to display humongous files. (Via Jesper via AIM.)

Bernard Lang Reports on the Proposed French DRM Law ★

Best explanation of the proposed French DRM law that I’ve seen. (Via Ramanan Sivaranjan via email.)

Dan Fost ‘Responds’ ★

San Francisco Chronicle writer Dan Fost responds in a weblog post to criticism (including mine) of his asinine “[Stubborn Apple at Risk of Making the Same Mistake Twice][1]” article. He’s trying to pull the old “every time you criticize Apple, no matter how warranted the criticism, Apple fanatics jump down your throat” trick. I have no doubt that this can and does happen; the problem here, and in so many other cases, is that his criticism wasn’t the least bit justified.

So he doesn’t actually respond to even a single point of criticism about his almost completely shoddy article.

Interarchy 8.0 ★

Major upgrade to my favorite file transfer client. New features include a single window (visually reminiscent of Automator) for initiating any sort of new connection, WebDAV support, a “dry run” mode for mirroring so you can preview mirror actions before they’re performed, Automator actions, permission and date preservation for SFTP transfers, and much more. And it’s a universal binary, for those of you in the bright new little endian future.

$39 for a new license and just $19 to upgrade. I’ve been beta-testing Interarchy 8 for weeks, and it’s a very nice upgrade from Interarchy 7, which I named one of my apps of the year for 2004.