Linked List: June 15, 2006

Thursday, 15 June 2006

Bill Gates Stepping Down From Day-to-Day Role at Microsoft in July 2008 ★

Microsoft:

Microsoft Corp. today announced that effective July 2008 Bill Gates, chairman, will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Gates will continue as chairman of the board; Ray Ozzie will assume the title of chief software architect.

MacJournals.com Analysis of Court Ruling Against Apple in Product Leak Case ★

Macworld runs a lengthy excerpt of MacJournals.com’s outstanding analysis of California’s sixth district court of appeals ruling against Apple in the “Asteroid” case. (Yes, it’s over 7,000 words and it’s just an excerpt of the coverage that originally ran in MDJ and MWJ.) In short: it’s a bad ruling, and the case is almost certainly heading to the California Supreme Court.

Quicksilver and Yojimbo 1.2 ★

Tim Gaden points out that Quicksilver now has a plug-in for adding and accessing items in Yojimbo. Installed.

BetterZip 1.1 ★

$20 utility for inspecting, creating, and modifying compressed archives. Supports zip, tar, gzip, and bzip, and gives you control over whether to include (or strip) the Mac-specific metadata stash that Mac OS X’s built-in archive feature includes in its archives.

Joe Kral Needs Help ★

Joe Kral, the designer/typographer behind Test Pilot Collective, needed emergency surgery to stem massive internal bleeding. He’s recovering now, but because he doesn’t have health insurance, he’s on the hook for a $50,000 medical bill, and he’s asking for help.