Linked List: July 24, 2007

Tuesday, 24 July 2007

Simply Invoices 

Web app for easy invoicing based on the time you log in Basecamp.

Netflix.com Is Back, but Their Stock Is Down 

Their site is now back up; no explanation, but it wasn’t caused by the San Francisco area power outages. Their stock is down seven percent on news that they’ve lost customers quarter-to-quarter for the first time since 1999. (Via Nat Irons.)

Craig Hockenberry: One Line of Code 

Done, thanks.

Webjimbo 1.0 

Adrian Ross:

Webjimbo is a web interface for Bare Bones Software’s Yojimbo. It lets you view and edit your Yojimbo data from any computer with an internet connection and a web browser.

Webjimbo does an amazing job mimicking the native look-and-feel of Yojimbo from within a web app. Unfortunately, that’s not great for using it from an iPhone — but Ross says an iPhone version is planned.

Netflix Outage 

Netflix.com has been “temporarily unavailable” for about 24 hours. There’s a notice that they “anticipate” the site will be back up at 1 pm Pacific, but a few hours ago it said 11 am. They’ve been pushing the anticipated return back a few hours all day long. Anyone know what’s wrong?

Update: Perhaps the power outage in San Francisco is to blame.

The Mac OS X Lexicon 

$15 e-book by Andy Baird and Sharon Zardetto; sort of a concise “everything you ought to know about the Mac” resource. Clever design, too: a clickable A-Z index runs alongside every page.

Derek Powazek: ‘How to Take Halfway Decent Photos With an iPhone’ 

Great tip:

After some experimentation, I’ve found that the shutter does not fire when your finger goes down on the shutter button - it fires when your finger comes off. So one successful technique is to put your finger down on the button, line up the shot, then release to shoot. It helps lessen the lagtime.

It’s highly counterintuitive because while software buttons almost always work like this (activating on release), camera shutters always activate on press.

NewsGator Mobile, Optimized for iPhone 

iPhone-optimized web-based feed reader from NewsGator. The killer feature is that it syncs with NetNewsWire — you get the same subscription list and it syncs the read/unread status of the items you read.

You Park Like an Asshole 

Necessary public service. Be sure to check the gallery.

iPhone Tells You Where Unknown Numbers Are Calling From 

I love this feature.

Artie MacStrawman Lives 

The Macalope:

Yes, nobody should receive death threats for anonymously stating they developed a worm but refusing to prove it publicly. A good pantsing, maybe, but not death threats.