By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: May 23, 2007
Wednesday, 23 May 2007
- Video Developer Note: Video Product-Specific Details ★
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I’m getting lots of email from people saying this whole issue of 6-bit notebook displays is bullshit, because all notebook displays from all vendors are in fact 6-bit, and that they all simulate millions of colors using “temporal dithering”. If so, fine by me, so long as the results look good.
But that’s not what this tech note from Apple says. For example, regarding the 17-inch iMac, it says:
The graphics card temporally dithers the 6 bits per component to show up to millions of colors.
But regarding the MacBook Pro, it says:
The display supports 3D acceleration and display depths up to 24 bits per pixel at all supported screen resolutions.
The 17-inch MacBook Pro supports an LCD display size of 1680 × 1050 pixels at 116 dpi and shows up to millions of colors.
Emphasis added.
(Thanks to readers Markus Hänchen and Chris Thompson.)
- EveryBlock — New Startup Founded by Adrian Holovaty ★
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Adrian Holovaty, the genius behind chicagocrime.org and several other sites pioneering the concept of programmer-as-journalist:
I’m thrilled to announce some huge news: I’ve been awarded a grant by the Knight Foundation, as part of the Knight News Challenge program.
I’ll be founding a Web startup, EveryBlock, that focuses on making local news and information useful. I’ve been feeling the entrepreneurial itch for a while and can’t wait to start hacking on this with a crack team of Web developers. Expect to hear much more about this from me, including job ads.
- Nick Denton Thinks Leander Kahney Is Fake Steve ★
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No proof, just circumstantial evidence. I noticed all the Britishisms long ago, but I think Valleywag is wrong: Fake Steve is far funnier than Kahney. I don’t recall Kahney ever having written a single funny sentence under his own byline.
- Valleywag: Amazon to buy iLounge? ★
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Speaking of acquisition rumors.
- Arrington: Google to Buy Feedburner for $100 Million ★
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Interesting implications for the future of advertising in feeds.
- BridgeSupport ★
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New open source project from Apple to provide a language-agnostic foundation for scripting language bridges to Cocoa; already used in PyObjC and RubyCocoa.
- RubyCocoa 0.11.0 ★
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Laurent Sansonetti:
After 5 intensive months of development, RubyCocoa 0.11.0 is out. It’s a very big release, as you can see from the release notes. We also feature a completely new website (which is actually a Wiki, easy to maintain for us programmers).
- Kevin Cornell’s Limited-Edition Bearskinrug Sketchbook Nearly Sold-Out ★
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My copy arrived last week, and it’s simply delightful. Makes me want to hire Cornell to design something for Daring Fireball. Oh, wait, I already did.
- Lineform Discount for FreeHand Refugees ★
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Through the end of May, save $30 when purchasing a license for Freeverse’s excellent Lineform illustration app, using the coupon code “freehand”. (Via MacUser.)
- 24- and 18-bit Color Test Images ★
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Easy test to see if your display can properly render 24-bit color. On my last-of-the-line 1.67 GHz PowerBook G4 display, the 24-bit image shows no signs of dithering.
- Lightroom vs. Aperture ★
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Michael Clark, Lightroom user, compares Lightroom and Aperture.
- Aperture vs. Lightroom ★
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Micah Walker, Aperture user, compares Aperture and Lightroom.
- Chris Pepper: ‘Adobe Lies, Badly’ ★
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Chris Pepper on the CS3 installer’s disabling of the Mac OS X firewall:
Stopping the firewall temporarily is opening customers to unnecessary risk. It’s bad, but Adobe’s in good company here. On the other hand, saying this is necessary is either a lie about security (never a good idea) or gross technical incompetence (not a real improvement).
- Technorati Update ★
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The new search.technorati.com is actually very fast — not an adjective that usually applies to Technorati.