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Linked List: February 16, 2007

Friday, 16 February 2007

Free tool for ripping movies from DVD to files on disk, for use, say, with iPods or Apple TVs. MediaFork is a fork of HandBrake.

NetNewsWire 3.0d46 Sneak-Peek Release ★

Brent Simmons:

I just posted NetNewsWire 3.0d46, a new sneak-peek release of NetNewsWire. Important: it’s not even a beta: there are more features to do, and it definitely has bugs. The “d” stands for danger.

The Decemberists’ ‘O Valencia’ Video ★

10-minute short film in the form of a music video for The Decemberists. Sort of a Wes Anderson vibe to it. (Via Steve Delahoyde at Coudal Partners.)

Writing Quicksilver Plug-Ins in Objective-C ★

Ankur Kothari:

This article aims to illustrate the steps needed in order to write a working Quicksilver plugin in Xcode and Objective-C.

(Via Cocoa Blogs.)

BBEdit 8.6.1 ★

Bunch of bug fixes. This line in the release notes:

Various Markdown fixes.

Is an understatement, to say the least. 8.6.1’s Markdown support is terrific.

Update: More from Seth Dillingham, who wrote BBEdit’s Markdown language module:

8.6 included a new Markdown language module. This was truly the most difficult language module ever. There may be no less parseable language in the whole world.

DRM = Barney Fife ★

Grant Robertson:

DRM is a lot like hiring Barney Fife to guard your record store. He irritates the paying customers while the shoplifters just laugh behind his back and walk away with the merchandise.

(Thanks to DF reader Daniel Lord.)

About Security Update 2007-002 ★

Four fixes for issues from the Month of Apple Bugs project, including a Finder crash when mounting a maliciously-crafted disk image, two iChat bugs, and a privilege escalation bug with UserNotificationCenter.

Apple: ‘About Daylight Saving Time Changes in 2007’ ★

Software update for the new Daylight Saving Time changes for 10.3 and 10.4; instructions for how to set the time manually using 10.2 and 9.2.