Linked List: July 11, 2007

Wednesday, 11 July 2007

Jury Still Out on iPhone Success, Says Verizon Executive ★

CNN Money:

(Verizon Wireless’ General Counsel Steve) Zipperstein said that it was too early to tell whether the iPhone would ultimately be a success in the market.

“Despite the hype about the iPhone in the media over the last couple of weeks, the product has only been available for the last 10 days,” said Zipperstein. “The jury is still out and we will have to see how the market reacts.”

Translation: We really hope people stop buying them.

According to reports, nearly 1 million iPhones have been sold in its first 10 days. Apple has set a public target of selling 10 million devices by the end of the year.

No, Apple’s stated goal is to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008.

(Un)filtered, Michael Sippey’s New Weblog ★

Love the design.

Another Way to Add Signature Support to My Non-Top-Posting Reply Script ★

Morgan Aldridge shows how to use GUI Scripting to select a signature from Mail’s pop-up menu.

Apple Releases QuickTime 7.2 and iTunes 7.3.1 ★

QuickTime 7.2 finally includes full-screen movie playback in the free version of QuickTime player. That previous versions didn’t was arguably the biggest nickel-and-dime move in Apple history.

Introducing iUI ★

Joe Hewitt:

It’s about time I write something here about iUI, the little JavaScript and CSS bundle I’ve been working on that makes developing iPhone web apps easy.

Helio: Compare AT&T iPhone to Helio Ocean ★

Not a completely honest chart, but kudos to Helio for taking the iPhone rivalry head-on. Unlike BlackBerry, for example, Helio is pretty much competing for the same audience as the iPhone. One small thing that sticks out to me is that they call it the “AT&T iPhone”, and never once mention “Apple” or “iTunes”.

The Level of Moral Relatively [sic] and Vacuousness We Have Come To ★

If you enjoy schadenfreude at the expense of hypocritical “abstinence-only” Republicans like I do, this one’s for you. (Via Josh Marshall’s splendidly redesigned Talking Points Memo.)

Typographica: Our Favorite Fonts of 2006 ★

23 of the best new fonts from 2006.

Google Maps: Mapplets ★

Google Maps extensions for aggregating similar locations onto a single map view. E.g., there’s one for crop circles, which led me to this one, which I enjoyed for obvious reasons.

Marker Felt ★

Merlin Mann:

Marker Felt is Comic Sans with a shave and a breath mint. Nothing more.

‘Cloverfield’ ★

More info on the movie behind the “1-18-08” movie trailer I linked to yesterday:

So before the transformers movie there is a trailer for a unnamed JJ Abrams movie (right now it’s going under the name “Cloverfield”) The cool thing is, just like Lost, there are secret sites and trails around the internet with clues about the movie.