By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: April 4, 2007
Wednesday, 4 April 2007
- My Precious: Ricoh GR Digital ★
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Andrew DeCoste’s love letter to his Ricoh GR Digital, from the latest issue of JPG Magazine. I have a powerful lust for this camera.
(Best issue of JPG to date, in my mind. It’s a great magazine.)
- Subtraction: Layers Cake ★
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How Khoi Vinh uses Photoshop for designing grid-based web layouts.
- Rands in Repose: More Messy Thinking ★
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The newest desktop fad: rotating your secondary display to make it vertical.
- A Note on Google Desktop’s Uninstaller ★
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Quick note: I updated today’s article on the Google Desktop Installer with some info on the uninstall feature. In short, it seems to work as advertised, removing all software and returning your system to the same state it was in before installing it. Nice.
I also added a note about the /Library/Google/Google Desktop/ folder, which is where the search indexes are stored.
- Dan Moren on the EMI-iTunes Deal ★
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Nice piece by Dan Moren addressing the absurdity of Fast Company’s Alex Pasquariello’s argument that this deal is nothing more than a trick to sell more DRM music. The crackpots who are coming out against this news act like there is no other way to get music onto an iPod other than through songs purchased through the iTunes Store. No one has been forced to buy anything with DRM.
- New Eight-Core Mac Pros, Cinema Display Prices Drop ★
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No PR yet from Apple, but new Mac Pros are out, with up to eight cores and speeds up to 3 GHz. Jumping to eight cores will set you back an additional $1,500 — yowza. They’ve also dropped the prices on Cinema Displays.
- Google Desktop for Mac ★
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Mike Pinkerton:
People have been asking me since I started at Google what I’ve been working on, and until today, I’ve been unable to say. Now is the time to change all that and introduce the newest product from the Google MacEng team: Google Desktop for Mac (beta).
It wouldn’t be Google if it weren’t “beta”.
- Waaaaaah! ★
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The Macalope responds to Ryan Block’s “Apple and EMI Ditching DRM Is Good, but It’s Not Good Enough” diatribe in Engadget.
I’ll add this: When it comes to the difference between music and video — as in, why push for dropping DRM from music but not video? — Jobs always emphasizes that most movie content is already under DRM, on DVD. The real difference, I think, is that the video industry hasn’t yet had its Napster moment — most regular people haven’t yet bootlegged any movies or TV shows. When that starts happening, the video industry will start feeling the pressure to drop DRM to compete with P2P networks in terms of convenience.
- TUAW: Google Desktop for Mac 1.0 ★
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Scott McNulty has coverage and a quick review of the about-to-be-released Google Desktop for Mac. I’ll have a bit to say on this later.