By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: August 16, 2006
Wednesday, 16 August 2006
- Intype ★
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Vaporware in-development “clone” of TextMate for Windows.
- Resolution Independence and Iconography ★
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Iconfactory’s Craig Hockenberry on the future of icon design in a world of significantly higher resolution displays. See also: Jasper Hauser on the same topic.
- Leaked Leopard Screenshots Galore ★
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Dozens of screenshots from the Mac OS X 10.5 seed distributed at WWDC last week. Hooray for the new Finder preference that lets you turn off the asinine warning when changing a file name extension.
- John Siracusa on Time Machine and the Future of the File System ★
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I particularly enjoyed the footnote wherein he speculates on what a Microsoft UI for a Time Machine-style feature would look like.
- AOL Employees Gaming Digg to Boost Weblogs Inc. Traffic? ★
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Digg is ripe for this sort of abuse. (Via Andy Baio.)
- Google Launches WiFi Network in Mountain View ★
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Om Malik:
Less than a year after the search engine giant said that it would unwire its hometown of Mountain View, California, GoogleFi is now open for packets.
- Boot Camp 1.1 Beta ★
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Adds support for new Intel-based Macs, iSight cameras, right-clicking in Windows by holding the right-hand Apple key (no idea why only the right one), and installing Windows XP on any internal disk. Recommended for anyone using previous versions of Boot Camp.
Update: Apparently the new right-clicking feature only uses the right-side Apple key because the left one is mapped as the Windows key; in previous Boot Camp betas the right-side Apple key did nothing. It also occurs to me that this feature really only ought to matter to notebook users; desktop users can just get a real multi-button mouse.