By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: June 7, 2007
Thursday, 7 June 2007
- Hit-and-Run: Launching AppleScripts With Keyboard Shortcuts ★
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Jochen Wolters explains, in detail, several ways to assign keyboard shortcuts to AppleScripts. I use the same two methods he recommends: FastScripts and Quicksilver.
- VMware Fusion for Mac Beta 4 ★
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New beta of the other leading virtualization app for Mac OS X, introduces the aforelinked “Unity” window layering mode.
- Parallels Desktop for Mac 3.0 ★
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Latest version of Parallels, now out of beta.
- Coda 1.0.3 ★
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Drag-reorderable tabs (but not draggable between windows), new language syntax modes, and various text editing improvements.
- Nudge Your Elements ★
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Khoi Vinh, on using small insets for grid alignment on the web:
This practice probably exhibits an unhealthy focus on minutiae, I’m sure.
Yes, it does, and that’s why I love it.
- Good Analogy ★
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Kellan Elliott-McCrea makes an apt comparison: the name and email address in iTunes Plus tracks is analogous to the “This book was produced for Your Name Here” marks stamped in PDF e-books from publishers like The Pragmatic Programmers and 37signals.
- Boot Camp 1.3 Beta ★
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Changes include support for keyboard backlighting with MacBook Pros and updated graphics drivers.
- Twitterrific 2.1 ★
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Better keychain and AppleScript support, among other new features.
- Hixie’s Natural Log: ‘The CSS Working Group Is Irrelevant’ ★
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Ian Hickson:
Someone really needs to do to CSS what the WHATWG has been doing to HTML, defining everything in detail, explicitly, with strict and clear normative conformance criteria, taking implementations into account, defining things like quirks mode.
- MacUser: Mysterious Twelfth Application Vanishes in iPhone Ads ★
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Remember the handful of shots in the iPhone commercials that had four apps in the third row of icons? Fixed now.
- VMWare ‘Unity’ Mode ★
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The VMWare-Parallels rivalry rages on: Unity mode is VMWare’s answer to Parallels’s Coherence. Both let you run Windows apps in their own windows, intermingled with the windows of your Mac apps. (Just like, you know, Classic.)
- Making Wii-Friendly Web Pages ★
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Opera developer resource with information on the limitations and capabilities of the Nintendo Wii browser. (Via Shaun Inman.)
- Twelve Years of Zeldman.com ★
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Jeffrey Zeldman marks the 12 year anniversary of Zeldman.com and his Daily Report with a retrospective of entries, presented as they originally appeared. I’ve been reading Zeldman as long as I remember the web; these old layouts bring back crisp memories.
What’s weird about looking at the older ones today is that I strongly associate these layouts with the sharp non-anti-aliased on-screen type rendering of the old Mac OS. They feel different — warmer — rendered today on Mac OS X. They look better, I suppose, but they feel slightly wrong.