By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: May 24, 2006
Wednesday, 24 May 2006
- TextExpander 1.3 ★
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Formerly the donationware “Textpander”, Peter Maurer’s excellent text expansion utility is now a $30 product from the oddly-named SmileOnMyMac. This helpful comparison chart compares it against the still-in-beta TypeIt4Me version 3.
- Google Pushing Blended AdSense ★
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AdSense ads will soon switch to a default appearance that doesn’t have borders, which makes them less distinguishable from actual content. Depending upon the surrounding whitespace and design elements, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. (Via Andy Baio.)
- Password Assistant ★
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Nifty little app from Codepoetry that simply opens the Mac OS X Password Assistant window. I.e. you can use this app so you can use Mac OS X’s Password Assistant to generate new passwords whenever you want.
- Jobs’s Sneakers ★
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BusinessWeek Online’s Arik Hesseldahl has the scoop: Jobs was wearing a pair of the not-yet-released Nike Moires, the iPod-compatible shoes that were being announced. (Thanks to Leonhard Becker for the link.)
- Proxi 1.0 ★
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Intriguing freeware automation tool from Griffin Technologies. Offers a bunch of hooks for triggering actions and running tasks related to various Griffin gadgetry, but it’s a general-purpose automation utility that can be used for just about anything. Check out their Proxi weblog for a bunch of interesting ways people are using it.
- Dreamhost on Overselling ★
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Josh Jones from Dreamhost on the standard practice of overselling:
Imagine we didn’t “oversell” at all. We still offer 20GB of disk space and 1TB of bandwidth on our $7.95/month plan because that’s what the competition has forced us to offer. 1TB of bandwidth is about an average of 3Mbs. 3Mbs for a month costs us about $90/month. The 20GB of disk space actually costs us about $200 (BELIEVE IT OR NOT!), because of the level of availability and backups we provide. So, we’d be losing about $200 up front and $82 / month on each and every customer!
- Camping ★
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A tiny Ruby web app framework by Why the Lucky Stiff. Only 4 KB, and it’s meant for writing simple web apps contained in a single file. (Via Tim Bray.)
- Steven Frank: We’re in the Nike Plus Ad, Sorta ★
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Panic’s office is in the background of the new ad for Nike+.
- MacBook Pro: The Thermal Paste Question ★
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James Duncan Davidson documents the intricate procedure he undertook to reapply thermal paste to his MacBook Pro, in the hopes of getting it to run cooler. His conclusion is that it isn’t worth the trouble and risk.
- Creative Mac: 13-Inch MacBook Benchmarks ★
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Despite the aforelinked item where Apple states that Final Cut Studio isn’t supported on MacBooks, Creative Mac benchmarked them and found that they not only run Final Cut Pro, they run it very well indeed.