By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: May 15, 2007
Tuesday, 15 May 2007
- Outrageous ★
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Mark Pilgrim:
My name is on a software patent. It happened during my brief tenure at IBM. The patent is not yet issued (as I understand it, issuance may take years) and does not show up in USPTO or Google Patent Search. But it will, someday.
- Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac ★
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Geoff Price of Microsoft’s Mac BU:
This is a stand-alone Macintosh application that converts .docx documents — that is, documents saved by Word 2007 for Windows in the Office Open XML file format — into rich text format (RTF) documents so that they can be automatically opened in either Word 2004 or Word v.X for Mac OS X.
It’s a free app for anyone, not just licensed users of Office 2004.
- Cheap RAM for Intel Macs ★
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After a $20 mail-in rebate, these 1 GB chips are just $27. Even if you’re like me and never get around to redeeming most rebates, $47 isn’t bad. For comparison, upgrading a MacBook to 2 GB of RAM from Apple still costs $175 — and you really do want 2 GB of RAM in a MacBook, given the way the video card leeches memory from the main system.
- Brendan Dawes’s ‘2001’ Cinema Redux Poster at the CP Swap Meat ★
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Brendan Dawes:
A specially written piece of software takes a tiny snapshot of the film every second. Each row contains sixty of these frames, representing one minute of film time. This process continues for the whole movie resulting in an image that becomes greater than the sum of its parts, in effect creating a unique visual fingerprint of the film.
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
- Free iPod Cable Promotion? ★
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You send them your mailing address and $5 for shipping, they send you a retractable USB iPod cable. If anyone’s actually gotten a cable from this offer, let me know. (Thanks to Nat Irons.)
- Roughly Drafted Coverage of Apple Shareholder Meeting ★
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Nice summary by Daniel Eran.
