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Linked List: September 8, 2006

Friday, 8 September 2006

Daniel Jalkut on why Carbon-vs.-Cocoa arguments and dogmatism are stupid:

Wake up people! It’s 2006. It doesn’t matter what you program in, it’s how you get the job done. Arguing about whether to use Carbon or Cocoa is like arguing about whether to use a net or a hook to catch a fish.

The comment thread is terrific, too.

C4: Chicago Mac Developer Conference ★

Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch:

MacHack’s untimely death left a gaping void in the Mac developer conference scene.

Let’s fix that.

I’m excited to announce my new Mac developer conference: C4.

$384 for a terrific day-and-a-half conference next month in Chicago. Speakers include Rentzsch, Brent Simmons (on the convergence desktop and web apps), Gus Mueller (on integrating scripting languages with applications), and yours truly (on consistency vs. uniformity in Apple’s recent UI design). Space is limited to 75 attendees, so act quickly.

Disco ★

I have no idea what the app actually does (other than that it obviously has something to do with disc burning), and I’m not a big fan of teaser campaigns for vaporware, but I really like the look of this UI. It’s very much in the direction I think Apple is going to go with Mac OS X — flatter with less translucency. Keep your eye on Jasper Hauser.

Amazon Unbox ★

Amazon announces Unbox, their movie/TV-show download service. I’m guessing it’s not a coincidence that this came out just a few days ahead of Apple’s “Showtime” special event next week. The whole Unbox thing is based on Windows Media DRM, so it isn’t going to work on Macs or iPods.

See also: Additional coverage at the Business 2.0 Blog.

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Three New Mac Ad Ideas. ★

Tom Batten pitches three new “I’m a Mac/I’m a PC” ad ideas. #1 is hilarious.

Phone-Records Scandal at HP ★

Newsweek’s David A. Kaplan on the phone-records scandal at HP. An editor’s note at the end of the article disclaims that Kaplan is writing a book about Tom Perkins’s new $100 million yacht. (Via David Young.)

Rogue Amoeba T-Shirts ★

Back in black. And blue.

Hewlett-Packard Spied on Writers in Boardroom Leak Investigation ★

What a fiasco. Hard to believe this stuff is going on at the board of one of the most-respected companies in Silicon Valley.

A Browser Back From the Brink ★

Khoi Vinh on OmniWeb 5.5:

Aside from a modest amount of sprucing up, OmniWeb 5.5’s user interface is almost identical to its prior incarnations, which is fine by me; I was always comfortable with it. Mostly, though, this latest version feels fast and stable, something you couldn’t say about its immediate predecessors.