By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: April 23, 2007
Monday, 23 April 2007
- CanSecWest Mac OS X Vulnerability Is in Quicktime, Can Affect Windows, Too ★
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Thomas Ptacek:
Any Java-enabled browser is a viable-attack vector, if QuickTime is installed.
- CSSEdit 2.5 ★
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Update to MacRabbit’s polished app for CSS development. New features included tabbed editing and an X-Ray inspector.
I must say that the tabs might be the best I’ve ever seen: they look perfect, and they support drag-and-drop both for rearranging within a window and for dragging tabs between windows and into new windows of their own. The animation for reordering and moving tabs is splendid.
Update: Pretty much all other app news today has been drowned out by the (deserved) Coda din, but CSSEdit’s tabs are worth another shout-out. Coda’s tabs look good, too, but aren’t draggable. CSSEdit’s tabs aren’t just draggable, they’re perfectly draggable.
- Steven Frank Describes Coda ★
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Terrific overview, emphasizing the concepts behind Coda’s UI, and how you’re expected to use it.
See also: Cabel Sasser, who reveals that most of Coda’s UI resources are scalable PDFs rather than fixed-size bitmaps. I too welcome our future resolution-independent nirvana.
- Coda 1.0 ★
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Panic:
Text editor + Transmit + CSS editor + Terminal + Books + More = Whoah.
Did I mention that the deadline for the Apple Design Awards is today?
See also: My teaser from back in January.
- Shiira 2.0 ★
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Version 2.0 of the open source WebKit-based browser from Japan.
- Apple Design Awards Deadline: Today at 5 pm Pacific ★
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Just in case you were wondering why there’s such a strong aroma of cool new software in the air today.
- Fission 1.5 ★
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Free update to Rogue Amoeba’s $32 audio editor. New features include support for copying and pasting audio clips between multiple files.
- Mercury News Reports SEC Set to Charge Nancy Heinen ★
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Looks like former Apple legal chief Nancy Heinen is going to be charged for her role in Apple’s stock options backdating scandal.
- Open Files in BBEdit With Soft Wrap Off ★
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AppleScript droplet I wrote for Erik Barzeski — drop files on it to open them in BBEdit with soft wrap turned off, even if your prefs are set to have soft wrap on by default. Useful for opening extraordinarily large files.
- I Thought People at MIT Were Supposed to Be Smart ★
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Brad King’s defense of Windows Vista might be the dumbest thing I’ve read all year:
But that misses the point: computer code is meant to be broken because from that unjoined code comes personalization that no company can give me. And Microsoft understands better than Apple that broken is better than perfection.
In other words, Vista is better than Mac OS X (and, presumably, XP) because it’s actually worse. Brilliant. The more broken the better! Punch me in the face! Kick me in the nuts!
- OmniFocus Screenshot and Feature Overview ★
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If you imagine a slider control that starts with “Total vaporware” and ends with “Shipping software”, Omni just moved the slider a good chunk to the right. Looks pretty good. It’s worth skimming the comments thread; Ken Case reveals a bunch of additional details.
- Screen Sieve 1.0.1 ★
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Interesting $7 find-as-you-type search utility that works in any Accessibility-aware app. (Via Tao of Mac.)
- Apple and Brooks’s Law ★
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Scott Rosenberg is right that throwing extra engineers at a late project almost always makes the project even later, but, that’s not necessarily what’s going on with iPhone.
- List of Mac Podcasts ★
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List of 14 Mac-related podcasts compiled by Iljitsch van Beijnum. Don’t forget Steve Scott’s Late Night Cocoa.
- Hill Climbing ★
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Vying Games weblog:
So, instead of an exhaustive search, we’ll take a different approach: Generate any solution at random, and then, while time permits, try to improve upon it. With every improvement, we hope to get closer to the ideal solution, even though we may never find it (and even if we do find it, we wouldn’t know that we’ve found it).
And that, in a nutshell, is hill climbing. It also happens to be a very good approach to software development.
(Via Jon Rentzsch.)
- SEC Unlikely to Indict Steve Jobs, Reports San Jose Mercury News ★
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If this pans out, it sounds like the U.S. Attorney’s Office investigation is coming to the same conclusion regarding Jobs’s involvement that Apple’s internal investigation did.