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Linked List: November 16, 2006

Thursday, 16 November 2006

Amazing — I’ve got a bag of Kettle Sea Salt and Vinegar chips open right now. Sign me up for this beta.

Tons of information and screenshots on the upcoming Leopard editions of Xcode, Interface Builder, Dashcode, and the extremely cool new Xray tool.

MsgFiler ★

Nifty-looking Apple Mail hack by Adam Tow. You invoke MsgFiler with Command-9 and it brings up a small window in which you type a few characters to match the name of a mailbox; hit return and it moves the currently selected messages to that mailbox. On sale for just $8. (Via Alex King.)

Zune Doesn’t Work on Macs Using Parallels ★

Andre Torrez got a Zune to review, and had to install Windows using Boot Camp after trying and failing to get it to work via Parallels.

Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes ★

Dan Frakes gives a well-deserved shout-out to Doug Adams’s repository of iTunes AppleScripts.

Dave Eggers’s Foreword to the New Paperback Edition of David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ ★

Dave Eggers:

This book is like a spaceship with no recognizable components, no rivets or bolts, no entry points, no way to take it apart. It is very shiny, and it has no discernible flaws. If you could somehow smash it into smaller pieces, there would certainly be no way to put it back together again. It simply is. Page by page, line by line, it is probably the strangest, most distinctive, and most involved work of fiction by an American in the last twenty years.

Infinite Jest is the best novel I’ve ever read. The new paperback edition is just $8 at Amazon.

(Via Kottke.)

Search Engines Unite on Unified Sitemaps System ★

Search Engine Watch:

In alphabetical order, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to all support a unified system of submitting web pages through feeds to their crawlers. Called Sitemaps, taking its name from the precursor system that Google launched last year, all three search engines will now support the method.

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