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Linked List: February 12, 2007

Monday, 12 February 2007

CrunchGear Says Zune Phone Is Coming 

To be announced by mid-March, on sale some time in May. So they say.

Running Vista Home on a Mac 

Even though Vista Home’s end user license agreement forbids it, Christopher Breen reports that it runs just fine under Parallels on Mac OS X.

The Pricey Mac Myth 

Interesting (but unsurprising) Mac-vs-PC price comparison:

Short version: equivalent, professional-level desktop systems made by Apple, HP, and built from parts cost within $50 of one another.

Bruce Schneier: ‘Why Vista’s DRM Is Bad for You’ 

Bruce Schneier, writing for Forbes:

Microsoft put all those functionality-crippling features into Vista because it wants to own the entertainment industry. This isn’t how Microsoft spins it, of course. It maintains that it has no choice, that it’s Hollywood that is demanding DRM in Windows in order to allow “premium content” — meaning, new movies that are still earning revenue — onto your computer. If Microsoft didn’t play along, it’d be relegated to second-class status as Hollywood pulled its support for the platform.

It’s all complete nonsense.

More Multitouch From Jeff Han 

Demo video of advanced large-display touchscreen UIs from Jeff Han’s Perspective Pixel.

Monocle 1.0 

Jesper’s donationware system-wide menu bar Internet search utility. Sort of like the Spotlight menu but for querying any web-based search engine.

MyBarackObama: Who Built This? 

Mike Arrington, on Barack Obama’s new community web site:

All I really want to know is, who built this for them? It launched basically feature-complete and bug free, which would be very hard to do without an extended beta.

We’ve now gotten to the point where Mike Arrington thinks it’s weird to release software to the public only after it is finished. I’m guessing they did have a beta — a real one, not a public one. I’d be appalled if a presidential candidate launched a half-assed beta web site.

Update: DF reader Jeffrey Durland points out that if you poke around MyBarackObama.com, you can see that it was built by Blue State Digital.