By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: December 7, 2006
Thursday, 7 December 2006
- The One-Click Trick to Moving the Dock ★
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I did not know that: Hold the Shift key while dragging the Dock’s divider line to move it to another side of the screen.
Update: Here’s a whole page of Dock shortcuts, including another one I didn’t know about: if you hold down Option while dragging the separator, the Dock resizes in fixed icon-size increments: 128 → 64 → 32 → 16.
- Nicholas Carr: Curtains for Music DRM? ★
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Very smart piece from Nicholas Carr regarding EMI’s decision to sell Norah Jones’s latest single as a non-DRM MP3 on Yahoo Music. As I wrote back in June, interoperability and DRM are mutually exclusive. What the music industry wants isn’t technically possible — they want a DRM system that prevents people from sharing or copying music, but which isn’t in the control of a single company like Apple or Microsoft. Distributing music in a fan-friendly non-DRM format is the way to go.
As for Apple, if this develops into a trend, it might not be good for Apple, but it shouldn’t be bad for them, either. The iTunes Store does give Apple a lock-in advantage, but the iPod competes very well on its own.
- From the DF Archives: ‘Location Validation in the Dashboard Weather Widget’ ★
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This problem still bites a lot of people.
- Nike+ Widgets ★
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Dashboard widgets (and cross-platform Yahoo widgets) for Nike + iPod users.
- Iconfactory QuickPix 2006 Icon Collection ★
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The Iconfactory:
QuickPix in 2006 ranged from hardware icons like Apple’s MacBook laptops and Nintendo’s slick Wii console drive, to less serious affairs like Leonard Nimoy’s head and Shakey, the friendly beverage.
- ‘Roker’ ★
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Two small favors:
- Give a thumbs up to “Poocrot the Robot“‘s definition for roker in the Urban Dictionary: “Combination of rook and snooker. To take advantage of. Rip off. Sucker. No direct relation to Al Roker.”
- Embrace the usage. My good friend Don and I coined this word about 10 years ago and we’ve been using it ever since.
- Bookslut’s Best Books Covers of 2006 ★
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All good, but my favorite of the bunch is Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s Abandon the Old in Tokyo. (Via Kottke.)
- 1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook ★
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Great find from Ward Jenkins. I love how on the cover, Dad is kicking back with a pipe and spinning some tunes. (Via Coudal.)
- Sxipper ★
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Free Firefox plug-in from Sxip Identity, now in public beta, manages all sorts of personal information for automated entry into form fields. Nothing is saved on their servers other than your name and email address; your data is stored on your machine.