By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: March 2, 2007
Friday, 2 March 2007
- Hex Color Picker 1.3 ★
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Adds a “Copy to Clipboard” button with a ⌘C shortcut, to work around the fact that Photoshop disables the Edit menu when it shows the color picker.
- VMware Fusion Beta 2 with Experimental 3D Graphics ★
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Parallels has the cool “Coherence” mode, but it looks like VMware is way ahead on 3D graphics — i.e. playing games under virtualization, rather than rebooting via Boot Camp.
- Jackass of the Week: Mary Bono ★
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Jens’s wish is my command. She’s a jackass.
(And I second the notion that there’s something wrong with you if you don’t press the gas pedal a little harder when Led Zeppelin comes on.)
- DreamHost’s Super Lame — No I Mean Really, Super Lame — Apology ★
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This sort of attitude would drive me nuts. I can’t imagine ever hosting with DreamHost.
- ADC Profile of Lineform Developer Will Thimbleby ★
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Wherein Adobe Illustrator is repeatedly referred to as “the market leader”, and never by name. Thimbleby’s next app is a collaborative text editor.
- How Not To ★
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Search queries that lead to Dive Into Mark. Hilarious. I love that someone had to Google for “how to get laid in vegas”.
- SQLite Hack to Speed Up Apple Mail ★
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Everyone’s raving about this tip on Hawk Wings to speed up Apple Mail; you use the
sqlite3command-line tool to rebuild Mail’s “Envelope Index” database. - Expandable Widget Tutorial ★
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Todd Ditchendorf’s nice tutorial on creating an expandable Dashboard widget.
- Aperture Downloads ★
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Apple’s index to various plug-ins for Aperture. (Via Bagelturf.)
- Apple Gazette Presents: Create Your Own Rumor ★
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Let’s see, how about: “An operative deep inside Apple has confirmed earlier reports that we will see an ultra portable MacBook and widescreen iPod no later than WWDC 2007.”
(Thanks to John Siracusa.)
- Swiss Accidentally Invade Liechtenstein ★
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From the Associated Press, not The Onion. (Via CP.)