Linked List: June 22, 2007

Friday, 22 June 2007

Safari 3.0.2 Public Beta  

Available for both Mac OS X and Windows. Security and bug fixes for Mac, and better integration with other WebKit-using apps like Mail, iChat, and BBEdit.

iPhone: A Guided Tour 

20-minute QuickTime tour of the iPhone. Includes the first public look (I know of) for the Settings app. Interesting, for example, that you set the prefs for the Mail app in Settings, not in a preferences screen within the Mail app itself.

The Mail section also shows built-in PDF and Word document viewing (and the host mentions, but doesn’t show, Excel files). And it shows gesture-based shortcuts, like swiping rightward across an item in the Mail message list to delete it.

Snapz Pro X 2.1 

Ambrosia’s excellent screenshot and screencast recording utility finally goes Universal, and adds support for the WWDC seed of Leopard. Free update for existing Snapz Pro X 2 users.

Alacatia Labs: Safari for Windows Not Written in Cocoa 

Alacatia Labs:

You’ll notice that all of these APIs are C++ or C. Yes, even the WebKit, which exposes a COM interface almost identical to the OS X Objective-C API. I’ll be blogging about this later.

So, does YellowBox live on? Sadly, no. You’ll notice no signs of Cocoa or Objective-C (strings or functions).

(Thanks to Chris Ryland.)

iPhoney 

This is a good idea — a desktop app that tries to simulate the iPhone’s version of Safari. But the implementation is so severely lacking that I question whether there’s any benefit to it at all over just testing against 320 × 480 and 480 × 320 Safari windows. iPhone Safari’s most notable feature is page zooming, something iPhoney doesn’t even attempt to simulate.

Eric Schmidt Shows Off iPhone 

Andrew Donoghue, ZDNet:

“What you are really asking is to see my iPhone,” he quipped before producing a handset from his pocket. “iPhone is a powerful new device and is going to be particularly good for the apps that Google is building. You should expect other announcements from the two companies over time,” he said.

Not to pick nits, but judging by the bundled apps, what the iPhone seems particularly good for is custom clients for the services Google is building.

New Indiana Jones Movie Starts Production 

I remember thinking it was too long between Temple of Doom and Last Crusade.