By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: December 5, 2006
Tuesday, 5 December 2006
- Mac BU Working on Free File Converters for New Office 2007 File Formats ★
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Not expected until March or April, though, even though Office 2007 for Windows is hitting the street in January.
- Dooce T-Shirts ★
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Heather Armstrong:
Now we’re going to have a celebratory martini for having completed a goal we set only three years ago. Progress!
I know that feeling.
- Apple Launches iTunes and Online Apple Stores in New Zealand ★
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It’s about time.
- Adding IP Address Inspection to Hex Fiend ★
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Thomas Ptacek hacks the newly-open-sourced Hex Fiend to add IPv4 to the Data Inspector.
- iTunes Scripting Seizure ★
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Daniel Jalkut on the way iTunes blocks Apple event handling while its preferences window is open. Not a bad time to complain about the fact that iTunes’s prefs window is a modal dialog, either.
- Mac OS X ftpd Buffer Overflow Vulnerability ★
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Good thing the FTP server is off by default.
- DarwiinRemote 0.1 ★
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Experimental open source driver by Hiroaki allows you to use a Wii remote as a Mac input device. (Via Kottke.)
- Wii Safety: The Missing Pages ★
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Not to be used as a parachute, apparently.
- Monoslideshow ★
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Very impressive $20 Flash-based photo slideshow kit. High-quality type, very nice transitions and effects (including Ken Burns-y panning and zooming). Check out the demo. (Via Scott Stevenson via email.)
- Lee Bennett Reviews Fission 1.1 for ATPM ★
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Nice list of pros, cons, and a wishlist for 2.0.
- Seth Godin: ‘Pencil Drop (The End of Digg as We Know It?)’ ★
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Back in elementary school, I was the kid in class who organized the pencil drop. The trick to long-term success was to identify the class narcs and make sure they, i.e. the narcs, didn’t know I was the one who started it. And if you really wanted to drive the teacher nuts, you’d do it with books, not pencils.
- How a Small, Persistent Team Created a Revolutionary File System ★
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Al Riske’s feature for Sun.com on the team behind ZFS.
- Ryan Cannon on ‘OmniVapor’ ★
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Ryan Cannon:
There are many people who want to be inside the development cycle and know what’s going on. They like to feel like insiders. I contend Omni intended to serve these people by pre-announcing, not not chill the GTD market until OmniFocus came out. The Omni Group isn’t that big of a player in the software market. If Apple or Microsoft would have done the same thing, then yes, I could see that as a method of encouraging people to wait to buy their app instead of one currently on the market, but I highly doubt that a small shop like Omni could do the same thing.
Adobe and Microsoft clearly aren’t going to do “GTD” apps. (I suppose it’s possible that the next major release of Entourage might include GTD features, but they’re not going to do a GTD-specific app.) Apple might do some sort of iApp-style task management app, but considering iCal and Mail’s upcoming to-do features, I doubt it.
Plus, with Kinkless + OmniOutliner, Omni is already the alpha dog in the Mac GTD market. Also note that I’m not saying it’s wrong or devious for Omni to do this.
- WHATWG Wiki: HTML vs. XHTML ★
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What I like most about the WHATWG’s work is that it’s so clearly focused on practical matters. No, I take it back, what I like most is the clear, concise writing style. Markup nerds would do well to pay attention to what’s going on here.
- QT Movie NoteTaker 0.5 ★
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Freeware QuickTime movie player with integrated timestamped note taking feature. (Via John August.)
- Jefferson’s Revolving Bookstand ★
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After seeing the aforelinked 16th-century design for a rotary reading disk, DF reader Matt Frost sent this link to a replica of an actual invention from Thomas Jefferson, writing, “Jefferson took a lot of the Rube Goldberg out of that design with his rotating bookstand.”