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Linked List: November 3, 2006

Friday, 3 November 2006

I ★ DF 

The humble side of me doesn’t want to link to this, but it’s too good to pass up. Lots of interesting stats about the last year on Daring Fireball — 85 regular articles, 109,000 words (roughly 1,200 words per article on average), and over 2,200 Linked List entries. I actually hadn’t measured lately, but output is (unsurprisingly) up significantly since I went full-time with DF in April.

(TJ probably could have saved some time if he’d known that you can just add a “.text” extension to the permalink URL for any full article to get it in Markdown-formatted plain text. Example.)

Anyway, this really made my week — thanks, TJ.

NetworkLocation 1.0 

$15 network settings manager — lets you easily switch between multiple network location configurations. I find the UI a bit too clever for its own good — it wasn’t even obvious to me how you quit the app — but if you find yourself clicking around in the Network panel in System Prefs frequently, this might be a timesaver.

‘Hey, I Also Shagged Your Wife. OK by You?’ 

Fake Steve, on the Novell-Microsoft Linux deal:

And as for Linux, here’s my feeling: If this stuff is so great, how come nobody wants it, even though it’s free? I mean, we’re charging a ridiculous amount of money for our computers. Ridiculous. Microsoft is even worse. (When you think of what crap they deliver.) And yet we’re both outselling this Linux stuff. And it’s free. It costs nothing. You don’t have to pay for it! And still nobody wants it! Guys, obtain a clue.

MacBook Pro MagSafe Power Adapters Fraying/Melting? 

Shaun Inman:

I’m considering purchasing a 17 inch to serve as my primary machine and was pricing out an extra battery and power adapter for travel when I came across a number of reviews on the Apple Store claiming that these cords tear, fray and even melt. Would anyone who has had a MacBook Pro for a while care to comment on their experience with these adapters?

An Honest Options Problem 

The Macalope responds to Matt Deatherage regarding Jobs’s culpability in the stock options saga.

OmniWeb on Sale Throughout November 

On sale for just $10. That’s quite a deal.