By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: May 23, 2006
Tuesday, 23 May 2006
- Parallels Desktop Release Candidate ★
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Still not a final release, but worth noting because you get $10 off if you buy it before they officially ship.
- Final Cut Studio Is Not Supported on MacBook ★
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Apple on why MacBooks don’t meet the minimum system requirements for Final Cut Studio:
The integrated graphics processor in the MacBook does not permit float processing in Motion and will result in degraded performance and other issues in Motion and other Final Cut Studio applications.
- QuarkXPress 7.0 ★
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Looks like they’ve finally added OpenType support to QuarkXPress.
I’m not saying Quark is in trouble or that they don’t have tons of users, but I personally don’t know a single designer who hasn’t switched to InDesign.
- SubEthaEdit 2.5 ★
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Lots of new scripting and mode-specific features.
- Videator ★
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New Core Video-based “wacky effects” video editing app from Stone Design. Leading candidate for “Schizoid User Interface of the Year”.
- Xcode 2.3 ★
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Lots of bug fixes and new features to Apple’s free development toolkit. Just a small 915 MB download.
- Circuit Design With Quartz Compositor ★
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George Boole would be proud. (Via Gus Mueller.)
- lsof: Your New Best Friend ★
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Nifty tip from Steven Frank: when you get that annoying “Such-and-such file cannot be deleted because it is in use” alert when you attempt to empty the Trash, you can use the command-line
lsoftool to find out which app is using the file. (It’s the fact that the dialog doesn’t tell you which app is using the file that makes it so annoying.) - Apple, a Success at Stores, Bets Big on Fifth Avenue ★
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New York Times reporter Steve Lohr on Apple’s retail strategy and their new 5th Avenue Store:
Revenue for each square foot at Apple stores last year was $2,489, compared with $971 at Best Buy, the big computer and electronics retailer, according to Forrester Research, a market research firm.
Another interesting bit is that Apple’s retail stores are big (as in square footage)because they’re designed to match the size of Apple’s brand, as opposed to their relatively small product line-up.
- Apple: Nike+iPod ★
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Apple’s sub-site on the upcoming Nike/iPod gear. Also: Apple’s press release from the announcement in New York. (Semi-serious question: I wonder if Jobs wore his trademark New Balance 991s, and if not, what sneakers did he wear?)
- Nike+ ★
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New sport kit from Nike and Apple; sneakers and running apparel from Nike that work with iPod Nanos to give you audio feedback about your pace and distance while you run. Looks interesting — and, I assume, signals the end of Nike’s foray into their own line of MP3 players (which were all manufactured by Philips, I think).
- Headdress 1.1 ★
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Twinsparc’s new $15 Apache configuration GUI for Mac OS X; lets anyone easily configure virtual hosting so you can host multiple web sites from one Mac (as opposed to Mac OS X’s default Web Sharing feature, which only allows for one top-level web site, hosted out of /Library/WebServer/Documents/).
- Steve Jobs CNBC Interview From 5th Avenue Apple Store ★
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Video at YouTube.
- Dell Going Retail Without Inventory ★
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“JC” on Dell’s upcoming foray into retail stores, which won’t stock inventory but will instead allow customers to order from Dell’s web site:
Dell, as a brand, doesn’t drive people to malls. People will not line up at 2 a.m. to be the first into a new Dell Store. On a busy Monday before Christmas, Dell’s store will not draw more than a thousand visitors looking to go home with a late Christmas present and, even if it does, that’ll be a thousand disappointed customers when they realize that they can’t buy anything.
- Jason Tomczak and the iPod Nano ‘Scratch’ Class Action Suit ★
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Jason Tomczak was listed as the lead plaintiff in the class action lawsuit filed against Apple regarding iPod Nano scratchability, but according to this open letter from Tomczak, he never sought even to participate in the suit:
At no time did David P. Meyer & Associates or Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro ever receive any attorney-client agreement form from me. On their own time and based on their own schedules and plans, they prepared the paperwork and filed the iPod Nano Class Action suit in California using my name as Lead Plaintiff, however this was done without my knowledge or consent. […]
The senior partner of David P. Meyer & Associates and one of his representatives called me during the afternoon of October 21, 2005 to urgently request my signature on an attorney-client agreement — two days after the Class Action suit was filed; two days after they began their action against Apple; two days after the press had begun running the story. They then warned me that my family, friends, clients and I should expect to hear from the media and others interested in the iPod Nano Class Action suit.
- Print Dialog Extensions vs. Application Print Settings ★
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Rich Siegel explains — with source code — a clever workaround for a problem with saved print settings in BBEdit and TextWrangler that stemmed from the switch from app-modal print dialogs to window-modal sheets.
- Google Web Toolkit — Build AJAX Apps in the Java Language ★
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Looks like a very nice web application framework for Java developers, including browser support for IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, and Opera.
- SanDisk Launches ‘iDon’t’ Anti-iPod Campaign ★
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Phony grassroots guerrilla marketing campaign attempting to start an “iPods aren’t cool because too many people have them” movement. Good luck with that, SanDisk.
- Introducing Cork’d ★
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Dan Benjamin on the genesis of and backstory behind Cork’d. And then there’s the other Dan.