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Linked List: October 15, 2006

Sunday, 15 October 2006

BBColors 1.0.1 

The only significant change is that I’ve switched to a noticeably faster method for testing whether BBEdit is currently running.

Jackass of the Week: Larry Bodine 

Author of an Onion-esque “I bought a Mac because everyone said they’re great but they’re actually pieces of crap” commentary piece for Law.com. It’s so stupid it’s hard to believe it was meant to be taken seriously, but it is.

Excellent coverage elsewhere:

Skip Checker 

Fun utility from Sven-S. Porst that uses the Sudden Motion Detector on your notebook to trigger actions; like slapping your computer to tell iTunes to skip to the next track.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets 

John Battelle:

Man. Google is such a cool name. This is such a lame one.

“Google Docs & Spreadsheets” is such a goofy name, I don’t even know where to start. It makes “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom” seems like the best name ever in comparison.

Steven Levy Interview With Steve Jobs 

Jobs on whether he’s worried about Zune:

“In a word, no. I’ve seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you’ve gone through all that, the girl’s got up and left! You’re much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you’re connected with about two feet of headphone cable.”

Sign of the Times 

Somehow I don’t expect to see anyone holding a similar sign for the iTunes Store anytime soon.

Dream Apps and the Perils of Screen-Scraping 

Jens Alfke:

It’s kind of like being a writer and having someone come up to you at a party and say “I have this brilliant idea for a novel…” followed by a rambling series of plot twists, closing with “…and I’ve done the hard part, now you just have to write it down!”

For Sale: The Mac That Built Cork’d 

Get yourself a piece of wine-rating-web-site history.

smcFanControl 1.12 

Free (and open source) utility by Hendrik Holtmann that lets you manually adjust the fan controls on MacBooks and MacBook Pros. For safety’s sake, it only lets you make the fans more aggressive than Apple’s default settings — i.e. this is a utility for cooling down your MacBook by turning up the fan.

(Via James Duncan Davidson, who gives it a nice write-up.)