By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Open source (BSD licensed) Mac OS X administration app and web service inspector for Amazon’s S3 remote storage service, by Olivier Gutknecht. (Via Buzz Andersen.)
Bill Bumgarner on how hard it is to figure out how to buy a Dell computer starting from its product page on dell.com.
New $16 “housecleaning” utility from Noodlesoft. Hazel lets you set up schedules and rules for automatically cleaning up folders with actions like moving, trashing, and archiving files and folders. (Via Daniel Jalkut.)
After a long public beta, the WebKit-based update to The Omni Group’s $30 web browser is finally out. (Previous versions of OmniWeb 5.x were based on a forked version of the lower-level WebCore rendering package; the result was that OmniWeb didn’t work with a lot of sites that did work with Safari.)
The new iMacs are faster, cheaper, and, at the high end, bigger. The new Mac Minis now use Core Duo processors instead of Core Solos.
Now with Growl support, and a bunch of other improvements, fixes, and new features.
Rands:
There is a list of the six confirmed Free Electrons that I know. Every six months I rewrite this list on a small yellow sticky to remind myself who these people are while also thinking if there are any new additions to the list. When I’m done, I fold the sticky into a small yellow square and swallow it.
Maciej Cegłowski is looking for a job. I’d hire him if I could.