By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: December 13, 2006
Wednesday, 13 December 2006
- Detroit Pistons iPod Shuffle Knock-Off ★
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The Detroit Pistons’ official team store is selling an MP3 player adorned with the team logo. Judging by the photo it looks exactly like an original iPod Shuffle, but the specs claim it only has 128 MB of memory and plays WMA audio files. Has anyone actually seen one of these things in the flesh?
- Forrester: iTunes Sales Are Not Plummeting ★
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There’s a big difference between “iTunes sales are slowing” and “iTunes sales growth is slowing”.
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Clever: buttons you can wear to indicate that you’re looking for Nintendo DS opponents.
- Make Love, Not Warcraft ★
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Recent South Park episode featured significant chunks of in-game footage from World of Warcraft. Ambrosia’s Snapz Pro X was used for the screen captures.
- Jacqui Cheng Interviews Wil Shipley ★
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Wil Shipley:
At the café every day I still use a 1.67 GHz G4 PowerBook, with 1.5 GB of RAM. I’m intentionally waiting to buy a Core 2 Duo machine until I ship Delicious Library 2, because Delicious Library 2 runs so fast on the Core 2 Duos it would be unfair for me to use one day-to-day—I’d never optimize my code, and people stuck on old PowerBooks would hate me.
It’s also worth pointing out that Shipley addresses criticism regarding MacHeist.
- Fake Steve: ‘Regarding Our iPhone’ ★
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Both hilarious and deeply insightful. Maybe the best thing you’ll read all week.
- Crazy Apple Rumor Site 5th Anniversary Roast ★
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Speaking of CARS, this week marks its fifth anniversary, and to mark the occasion, John Moltz did some actual work for once and assembled some not-made-up quotes from the Mac media and Apple’s executive team.
- The Week of the Sweatshop Mac Developer ★
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Crazy Apple Rumors reveals the next MacHeist promotion:
Irene Camacho, an 11-year-old worker in a Mac software sweatshop on the Mariana Islands said she was pleased with the MacHeist promotion.
“The large and rather sweaty men who run the shop say the $5,000 they received from MacHeist will buy ten more children to help with the work,” Camacho said, her right hand spasming uncontrollably from carpal tunnel syndrome.
- Microsoft Office for Mac Security Updates Posted Yesterday Were a ‘Mistake’ ★
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Microsoft Security Response Center Blog:
The updates posted in error were pre-release binaries that had been staged internally as part of our testing for an upcoming release. Due to human error, they were accidentally published to the public websites before our full testing release process was complete.
Update: Ends up it’s no big deal if you installed it.
- MacBook Pro Battery Expansion ★
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Another from James Duncan Davidson: Story and pictures of his bulging MacBook Pro battery:
I told my neighbor, Greg, about it and he said “bring it on over! I want to see this!”. So I did. And as we were looking at it, and moving it about it as we looked at it, it started exuding a smell. A nasty burned plastic smell. And parts of it warmed up. Even though it hadn’t been in a laptop in probably well over a month, maybe two, it was suddenly going critical. The warm spots would fade to cool, and then others would appear and get hot. Greg and I looked at each other and decided now was the time to take it to the Apple Store for them to deal with.
- Lightroom and Aperture RAW Comparisons ★
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James Duncan Davidson has some interesting examples of RAW images that Aperture doesn’t process well.