Linked List: July 12, 2007

Thursday, 12 July 2007

Mojits.com 

Good list of iPhone-optimized web apps, but they take the whole “apps” thing so far. Linking to a web app is not “launching”. Worse, they don’t give credit to the actual developers of these sites, leaving the impression they’re all by or specific to Mojits.

Lovely iPhone and Newton Photos 

Great photos by Phillip Carrizzi of his new iPhone and old Newton MessagePad 2000 side-by-side. Chokes me up a bit.

Creating an Icon With Lineform 

Good screencast to show off some of Lineform’s features, but they should be shot for distorting the type with crude scaling.

Macworld: The Truth About iPhone Battery Lifespan 

Macworld’s Jason Snell talks to Apple marketing vice president Greg Joswiak about the iPhone’s expected battery life:

“After 400 complete cycles, the iPhone’s battery still has 80 percent of its charged capacity,” Joswiak said. “And by a complete charge cycle, I mean completely draining the battery, a full chemical cycle.” In other words, using a little battery and then putting your iPhone back in its dock doesn’t count as a charge cycle. If you use a quarter of your iPhone’s battery and then re-charge it, Joswiak said, that’s the equivalent of a quarter of a charge cycle.

“If you top it off, you’re not wasting a charge cycle,” Joswiak said.

iPhone Field Test Mode 

Dial a special number and the iPhone switches to a diagnostic app that shows information about your local cell towers and network.

Valleywag: ‘Whole Foods CEO Proud to Be an Internet Blowhard’ 

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has been posting on Yahoo Finance message boards about his company and himself under the username “Rahodeb”, including this classic: “I like Mackey’s haircut. I think he looks cute!”

Wesabe API 

Marc Hedlund:

As a result, we’re not just providing an API for our own site, but also for all the bank and credit card sites that Wesabe supports, as well. Since Wesabe supports banks and credit cards in over 30 countries around the world, we’re effectively providing developers everywhere a way to unlock data from their financial institutions and put that data to work.

Sensible Computerworld Article on the iPhone, Enterprise, and Standards 

Jon Espenschied:

Those who use their Windows Mobile phones to access Exchange over IMAP will have little trouble with the iPhone, while those who click through the ActiveSync setup wizard in Exchange will think it’s incompatible. No, they just chose incompatibility. The funny thing is that we’re still free to use Exchange, Outlook, Notes and the like, but the perceived interoperability problems are already solved if we just care to look for a standard protocol.

(Via John C. Welch.)

John C. Welch on the Exchange Team’s IMAP/EAS/iPhone ‘Analysis’ 

Their analysis conflates email server protocols with client-side application features (and with non-email-related features like calendaring).

Microsoft Exchange Team Blog on IMAP vs. Exchange ActiveSync 

More FUD on the insecurity of IMAP. When in doubt, use a table with a big feature checklist. (Thanks to Andrew Laurence.)

Apple Purchased CUPS in February 

Michael R. Sweet, yesterday:

In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS.

CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple.

(Via MacRumors.)

Posting Top Like Don’t Still I 

Thoughtful piece by Charles Miller on email quoting styles, including a very insightful conclusion regarding Gmail.

Physics Still Matters, Even With Special Effects 

Yegor Gilyov on why the three-dimensional Dock in Leopard is a bad idea.