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Linked List: July 25, 2006

Tuesday, 25 July 2006

That Blog, Ms. Lewinski 

I can’t complain — I certainly didn’t invent the star-in-circle. If he weren’t dead, I’m sure I’d have gotten a call from Chuck Taylor by now.

Input Manager Hack for Keyboard Text Selection in Cocoa 

Joachim Bengtsson has turned James Speth’s aforementioned keyboard list-item selection plug-in for Mail into an input manager hack that changes the selection rules for NSTableView controls in all Cocoa apps.

A Technical History of Apple’s Operating Systems: Introduction 

Amit Singh has released an amazingly in-depth 140-page PDF book, for free, covering the history of Apple’s operating systems:

This was the first chapter I wrote for the book. It was particularly difficult to write in terms of the time and other resources required in researching the material. I often had to find and scavenge ancient documentation, software, and hardware (all actual screenshots shown in this document were captured first hand.) However, I couldn’t include the chapter in its original form in the book. The book grew in size beyond everybody’s expectations — 1680 pages! Therefore, it was hard to justify the inclusion of this much history, even if it is interesting history.

Millionaire CEO to Fight MPAA in Court 

David Goldenberg, reporting for Wired:

Last November, Shawn Hogan received an unsettling call: A lawyer representing Universal Pictures and the Motion Picture Association of America informed the 30-year-old software developer that they were suing him for downloading Meet the Fockers over BitTorrent. Hogan was baffled. Not only does he deny the accusation, he says he already owned the film on DVD. The attorney said they would settle for $2,500. Hogan declined.

[…]

Though he expects to incur more than $100,000 in legal fees, he thinks it’s a small price to pay to challenge the MPAA’s tactics. “They’re completely abusing the system,” Hogan says. “I would spend well into the millions on this.”

(Via Jesper via AIM.)

Jewelboxing: A Rebate Without Those Damn Response Cards 

Nice Jewelboxing rebate running through tomorrow from my friends at Coudal Partners:

[…] if you’d prefer (please don’t tell us why) we’ll even stuff cash in an envelope.

Yay Hooray: Redesign Famous Logos in Web 2.0 Format 

If you think logo parodies are funny, this is the thread for you. (Via Khoi Vinh.)

SelectionFix Plug-In for Apple Mail 

James Speth has released a nice little open source plug-in for Mail that changes its keyboard-based message selection behavior so that reversing your direction with Shift and the up/down arrows will deselect from the current end of the selection, rather than following NSTableView’s default of adding to the selection at the opposite end. (Via Tim Bray.)

Bluetooth Mighty Mouse 

I’m surprised it took this long. Interesting that they switched the tracker from optical to laser technology — I’m hoping that means it’s much higher-resolution. The wired Mighty Mouse is one of the lowest-resolution mice I’ve ever tried.

IronCoder 2 Winners 

First-place winner Mark Dalrymple chose a Daring Fireball membership as his prize.

The Iconfactory Teaser 

Clever.