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Linked List: July 13, 2006

Thursday, 13 July 2006

Apple Sneaks New Logic Board Into Whining MacBook Pros ★

I missed this last week.

But not the Mac version. (Although it seems to me they could make the Mac version free and charge for a Windows license with each copy.)

OmniWeb 5.5 Speed Improvements? ★

The main reason I stopped using OmniWeb 5.1 — despite all the many things I loved about it — is that it was just so much slower than either Safari or Camino. According to these speed tests of the currently-in-beta version 5.5, however, that has changed.

MyzteryZot 5 ★

Five apps for $5; the gimmick is that you don’t know what the apps are. I don’t see how the developers of the apps in these deals make any money, but it’s certainly an intriguing promotion.

eFax: How Not to Treat Your Customers ★

Amazingly bad customer service. I almost signed up for an eFax account once; glad I didn’t. (Via Wolf Rentzsch, who puts in a good word for MaxEmail for fax-via-email service.)

1760 Letter From Benjamin Franklin to John Baskerville ★

Franklin, writing to typeface designer John Baskerville regarding a printing customer who had complained that Baskerville’s typefaces were inferior to William Caslon’s:

Yesterday he called to visit me, when, mischievously bent to try his Judgment, I stept into my Closet, tore off the Top of Mr. Caslon’s Specimen, and produced it to him as yours brought with me from Birmingham, saying, I had been examining it since he spoke to me, and could not for my Life perceive the Disproportion he mentioned, desiring him to point it out to me. He readily undertook it, and went over the several Founts, shewing me every-where what he thought Instances of that Disproportion; and declared, that he could not then read the Specimen without feeling very strongly the Pain he had mentioned to me.

Which just goes to show that clients have been making asinine demands with regard to type choices for a very long time indeed.

Yahoo Hires Daniel Bogan ★

He’ll be working in their platforms group in Sydney. Big score for Yahoo.

Tim Bray Is Experimenting With Camping, the Other Ruby Web Framework ★

This post is the weblog equivalent of him cracking his knuckles. (I share with Bray an aversion to serving web pages live from a database.)