By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: April 16, 2007
Monday, 16 April 2007
- One Last DF Membership Prize: Games From Ambrosia ★
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Due to a clerical error (read: my mistake), I neglected to mention one more prize for the DF membership contest: games from Ambrosia Software. They’re pitching in five prizes, each winner gets their choice between GooBall and SketchFighter 4000. (SketchFighter is my favorite Mac game in a long, long time.)
- Google Data APIs Connect Cocoa Developers to Google ★
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Greg Robbins:
To make it simpler for us to write Mac software that interacts with Google services, I created a framework to use Google data APIs directly in Objective-C programs. We are using the framework for our application development, and today we are making the framework available to all developers.
- A Modest Proposal: A New Way To Install ★
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From the Noodlesoft weblog:
My suggestion? When your app launches for the first time, check to see if it’s on a disk image. If so, offer to install it for them. If they accept, you copy it to Applications or wherever and restart. Done and done.
Clever idea.
Update: SuperDuper and Quicksilver both already do this.
- Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Rails Developer David Heinemeier Hansson’s Response to Alex Payne’s Interview ★
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It seems to me Mark Pilgrim is back.
- The Fishbowl: Product Activation Sucks ★
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Charles Miller’s frustrations with NewsFire’s product activation scheme.
- 1923 American Type Founders Specimen Book ★
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Fontacular. (Via Kottke.)
- The Other Side of the Wind ★
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The New York Sun reports that a deal is nearing completion to finish The Other Side of the Sun, Orson Welles’s final film:
The unedited negatives of the film have sat in a Paris vault for more than 30 years, unseen by anyone other than Welles, who died in 1985. …
Welles managed to smuggle a working copy of his film out of Paris, but was denied access to the original negatives for the last 10 years of his life.
- Dodgeball Founders Quit Google ★
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As Kottke asks, it raises the question of why the hell Google bought Dodgeball in the first place.
- Final Cut Server ★
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The other big news from Apple at NAB: Final Cut Server, a new asset management and project server. Interestingly, the client app is available for both Mac and Windows. Here’s Apple’s press release.
There’s a ton of information on Apple’s web site, including a slew of videos. The whole product sections for both Final Cut Server and the new Final Cut Studio 2 are just wonderfully designed.
- Final Cut Studio 2 ★
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Big, big news from Apple at the NAB.
Final Cut Studio 2 has major new versions of Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, and a brand-new color-correction and manipulation app called, appropriately but obviously enough, Color. Apple’s press release.