Linked List: June 21, 2006

Wednesday, 21 June 2006

Shake Source Code Licensing 

Customers with an existing support contract can license the source code to Shake 4.1 for $50,000 (which includes a 5,000-seat license).

Podcast of SXSW ‘Blogging for Money’ Session 

Podcast of the SXSW ‘How to Blog for Money by Learning From Comics’ panel I spoke on is now available.

FlickrExport 2.0 

Connected Flow’s Flickr plug-in for iPhoto is now £12 shareware (about US$20), and adds a bunch of new features. Ka-ching.

Music Business Needs to Be More Image Conscious 

Charles Arthur means it literally.

Guardian Launches Printable Internet Edition 

New 8- to 12-page printable PDF version of The Guardian, with new versions published every 15 minutes. Aimed at a lunchtime and commuter audience that wants something they can print. Very clever. (Via Coudal, yet again.)

Cinefex Issue 85 

Everything’s coming up Kubrick today over at Coudal:

The best, most in-depth article anywhere on the technical aspects of making 2001 is, unfortunately not online. But, you can still order the back-issue of Cinefex 85 for fifteen dollars. Required reading.

Kubrick at ‘2001’ Premiere 

Also from Coudal, a clip of Kubrick himself at the 2001 premiere.

Brief Interview With Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood 

Talking about their experiences filming Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Via Coudal, of course.)

WSJ.com: ‘DRM’ Protects Downloads, But Does It Stifle Innovation? 

From The Wall Street Journal:

The Online Journal asked Fritz Attaway, a senior executive with the Motion Picture Association of America, to debate the issue over email with Wendy Seltzer, a law professor who specializes in intellectual property and First Amendment issues.

Seltzer does a great job cutting to core issues: DRM technologies (and the DMCA) prevent people from using content in ways that ought to be allowed under the fair use provisions of U.S. copyright law; and the entertainment industry wants people to keep paying over and over to view content they’ve already paid for.

Files Are Not for Sharing 

Matthew Baldwin and Goopymart present a children’s primer on file sharing.

Apple Jam Recipes 

Nice post from Rui Carmo on the whole “openness/open source” saga.

Backlit Keyboard CPU Load Monitor 

After linking to Amit Singh’s example code for controlling the keyboard backlighting on Mac notebooks, I asked how long it would take until someone used it to write a CPU monitor. The answer? About a day, thanks to this hack from Matthew Butch.

Works as advertised on my 15-inch PowerBook.

Opera 9.0 

Ships on the same day for both Windows and Mac — a first for Opera, I believe. Still a somewhat odd user experience by Mac standards (to say the least), but it certainly is a very snappy HTML renderer. [Update: I was wrong; ends up Opera has been releasing simultaneously for Windows, Mac, and Linux since version 7.50.]

Shake 4.1 

Apple’s professional-grade video compositing tool is now a universal binary. They also dropped the price for the Mac version to $499, but left the Linux version at $2999.

Key to ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ 

Barbara Gibson on Keynote’s central role in Al Gore’s new film An Inconvenient Truth:

A longtime and respected advocate for the environment, Gore has given some 1,000 talks on climate change since 1989 — at first using slides in a carousel with easels and charts. He switched to Keynote on his PowerBook, Chilcott says, after Gore’s wife Tipper said, “Well, Mr. Information Superhighway, why don’t you put your slides on your computer?”