By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: January 22, 2007
Monday, 22 January 2007
- Optimus Prime iPod Dock ★
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More than meets the eye.
- Coding Horror: There Are No Design Leaders in the PC World ★
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Jeff Atwood:
Whatever you may think of Jobs, he’s had the same vision for the last twenty years: the design of a product, the art of it, is just as important as the engineering. This is a lesson that the PC industry needs to take to heart.
He has some great quotes from Steve Jobs on the role of design and art in the computer industry. (Worth noting, perhaps, that Atwood is far from an Apple fanatic.)
- Wii Transfer 2.0 ★
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Manton Reece’s nifty utility for converting and copying movies, photos, and music to your Wii. Version 2.0 adds the ability to share photos and music over your local network. $14 regularly, available for just $9 until the end of January.
(Thanks to Daniel Bogan.)
- Star Wars TSG 0.9.3 ★
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Darel Rex Finley’s Star Wars TSG is a wonderful little Mac OS X utility that lets you create your own fake Star Wars-style opening credits — everything from the 20th Century Fox logo to the yellow text crawl.
- Why Cocoa Matters Even if the iPhone Really Does Remain Closed to Third-Party Developers ★
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Stephen Hargrove asks:
Since third party developers have been locked out (because we can’t have one rogue app bringing the entire West Coast network offline), how is this an advantage? No matter how cool the developer tools might be, when you take the community out of the development equation, who’s listening?
Even if the iPhone remains closed, it’s an advantage for Apple because Apple’s own engineers get to use Cocoa to write the iPhone apps. Otherwise they’d be stuck using something worse or making something new from scratch.
- Dan Benjamin: ‘iPhone’s CPU: Still Irrelevant’ ★
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Dan Benjamin:
The way I see it, Apple’s new motto might as well be “Thanks to OS X, the CPU is irrelevant.”
- Desktop Curtain ★
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Peter Maurer’s donationware utility for covering the desktop with a plain (i.e. uncluttered) picture.
- WrongRoom ★
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Mark Pilgrim on the full-screen text editor craze:
I guess the part I don’t understand is the target audience. Who is so serious about writing that they need a full-screen editor, but so unserious that they don’t have a favorite editor already?
This is an insightful observation, but no one else had the guts to say it (yours truly included). Back when I started Daring Fireball in 2002, there were two weblogs that served as significant inspirations. One was Dive Into Mark, and this is a perfect example why.