By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: July 7, 2006
Friday, 7 July 2006
- Using Markdown to Generate RSS Feeds ★
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Interesting way to create a simple RSS feed.
- Two Seconds to Sleep ★
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From the “I Did Not Know That” department: hold down Command-Option-Eject for two seconds to put your Mac to sleep without any confirmation dialogs. But given that you have to wait two seconds for it to kick in, I’m not sure it’s any faster than the technique I’ve been using for years: hit the power key (or Control-Eject on modern Apple desktop keyboards), then type “s” when the dialog appears. Update: Ends up you don’t have to hold the keys for two seconds — just type Command-Option-Eject and that’s it. It might take a few seconds before going to sleep, but you don’t have to hold the keys down. (Via Infinite Loop.)
- Apple Statement on the Widget ‘Phone Home’ Feature ★
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They could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by publicizing this when 10.4.7 shipped.
- Free, Legal, and Ignored ★
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College students are ignoring the “free” music services provided through their schools, because they’re a pain in the ass to use, don’t let you keep your music forever, and don’t work with Macs or iPods. Being “free” isn’t good enough — a music service needs to compete with P2P networks in terms of convenience, too.