By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: August 8, 2006
Tuesday, 8 August 2006
- ADA: EnzymeX 3.1 ★
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Enzyme analysis tool for molecular biologists wins for Best Scientific Computing Solution.
- ADA: FuzzMeasure ★
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Christopher Liscio’s sound measurement utility wins the runner-up for Best Scientific Computing Solution.
- ADA: The Sims 2 ★
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Aspyr wins for Best Game. Not much shooting in this game.
- ADA: Wingnuts 2 ★
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Freeverse wins the runner-up for Best Game. “You won’t run out of things to shoot.”
- ADA: TextMate 1.5.2 ★
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Allan Odgaard’s text editor wins for Best Developer Tool. Raucous applause when this one was announced.
- ADA: F-Script ★
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Phillipe Mougin’s Cocoa scripting tool wins the runner-up for Best Developer Tool.
- ADA: Build Real Estate Catalog ★
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InDesign workflow wins for Best Automator Workflow.
- ADA: Modo Luxology ★
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3D modeling and animation app wins for Best Use of Graphics on Mac OS X. Very cool-looking app. Extra credit for having a morph filter called “eyes wide shut”.
- ADA: Unity ★
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Game development tool; runner-up for Best Use of Mac OS X Graphics.
- ADA: iClip Lite ★
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Inventive’s multi-clipboard tool wins for Best Dashboard Widget. Looks both very cool and very useful. Well-deserved victory.
- ADA: WeatherBug ★
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Runner-up for Best Dashboard Widget.
- ADA: iSale 3.1 ★
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Equinux’s eBay auction manager wins for Best Mac OS X User Experience. Features slick integration with iSight cameras for taking pictures of the items you want to sell.
- ADA: FotoMagico 1.7 ★
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Boinx Software’s photo slideshow app is the runner-up for Best Mac OS X User Experience.
- ADA: Lineform 1.1 ★
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William Thimbleby’s vector art app wins the Apple Design Award for best student project. Very impressive app.
- Voice Candy 1.1 ★
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Potion Factory’s $13 audio recorder with a bunch of built-in filters. Sort of like Photo Booth for audio.
- Discontiguous Multiple Item Selection Via the Keyboard in Windows ★
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Microsoft’s Raymond Chen on how Windows uses Shift-F8 to enter a discontiguous multiple-item selection mode in listbox controls. Wacky.
- Teams — New Group Collaboration App From Apple ★
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I’m not yet sure what exactly it is, but the word on the street is that it’s some hot shit.
- ADC Puff Piece on Yojimbo ★
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I’m hoping that Yojimbo wins an Apple Design Award tonight.
- Apple Opens Up: Kernel, Mac OS Forge, iCal Server, Bonjour, Launchd ★
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Lots and lots of open source announcements from Apple, including the x86 kernel source code, Apache-licensed Bonjour and Launchd source code, and a new “Mac OS Forge” community web site to host these projects.
- Apple Includes Rails With Leopard ★
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They plan to ship with Mongrel support by the time Leopard goes GM.
- GetWebKit ★
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Open source Windows web browser based on Apple’s Web Kit rendering engine. Not sure if they really mean “Web Kit” instead of “WebCore”, and using that icon is almost certainly a no-no that’ll spark a nastygram from Apple’s lawyers.