By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: October 17, 2006
Tuesday, 17 October 2006
- Textile 2.0 ★
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New version of Markdown’s arch-rival and best friend; part of the just-released TextPattern 4.0.4 update.
- Apple: Small Number of Video iPods Shipped With Windows Virus ★
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Whoa. From Apple:
We recently discovered that a small number - less than 1% - of the Video iPods available for purchase after September 12, 2006 left our contract manufacturer carrying the Windows RavMonE.exe virus. This known virus affects only Windows computers, and up to date anti-virus software which is included with most Windows computers should detect and remove it. So far we have seen less than 25 reports concerning this problem. The iPod nano, iPod shuffle and Mac OS X are not affected, and all Video iPods now shipping are virus free. As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it.
First, the cheap shot about Windows’s “hardiness” is uncalled for: everyone knows this is what Windows is like; it’s not like anyone is forcing Apple to sell Windows-compatible iPods. Windows certainly is a cesspool, but it’s no one’s fault but Apple’s that these iPods shipped with a virus.
Second, it should be “fewer than 25 reports”, not “less than 25 reports”.
(Thanks to Jesper for the heads-up.)
- How to (And How Not to) Sell Technology ★
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Charles Miller:
That’s how it is. Steve Jobs can make sharing earwax sound sexy. Ballmer can make a digital file transfer sound like something you’d need to clean up after.
- BetterZip 1.3 ★
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My favorite utility for creating and inspecting zip / gzip / bzip archives, including support for “clean” archives that don’t contain Mac-specific metadata.
- Greasemonkey 0.6.6 ★
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Now works with Firefox 2.0, and a new script installation UI. (Via Mark Pilgrim.)
- The 9th Incarnation of ShaunInman.com ★
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Now that’s what I call a redesign.
- PopSugar Raises $5M in Venture Capital ★
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Fairly popular pop-culture/gossip weblog. $5 million.
- Web 2.0 Thinking Game ★
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Jeffrey Zeldman:
But let’s simplify what The Economist is saying:
Web 1.0: AOL buys Time Warner.
Web 2.0: Google buys YouTube.Put another way:
Web 1.0: New media company buys old media company.
Web 2.0: New media company buys new media company. - Give Me Back My Google ★
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Front-end for Google web searching that filters out scammy product review sites from the results. I’ve been wondering for a while why Google grants these sites such high page rank — they’re almost never what I’m looking for.
- TidBITS Staff Roundtable Discussion on Eudora ★
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Adam Engst seems cautiously optimistic about Eudora’s sibling-to-Thunderbird future.
My thinking is this: Even if they pull it off and design and ship an offshoot of Thunderbird, is the Mac version going to be a great Mac app like Camino, or a weird XUL-ish app like Firefox? I don’t have a timeline of Eudora’s entire history handy, but my hunch is that one could make the case that Eudora started going downhill when it went cross-platform.
That’s one thing I was always curious about regarding the “rewrite in Cocoa” announced two years ago — what were they going to do with the Windows version? It’s hard to make a good Mac app. It’s really hard to make a good Mac app while co-developing a Windows version of the same app.