Linked List: August 6, 2007

Monday, 6 August 2007

Robert Bringhurst’s ‘The Elements of Typographic Style’ 

DF readers often ask if I have any recommendations for books on typography. Yes, I do: Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style. (Order through this Amazon link and make me rich.)

New Parallels Desktop Beta Brings Expose Support to Coherence 

Perhaps I spoke too soon: Parallels “Coherence” mode windows are no longer all grouped together in their latest public beta.

Ode to My Car 

iTunes link for Adam Sandler’s profanity-riddled “Ode to My Car”, as mentioned on this week’s episode of The Talk Show.

DivX Team Profiled in Entrepreneur Magazine 

Joe Bezdek knew just which shirt to wear when he found out he was getting his photo taken for Entrepreneur.

Karl Rove Has an iPhone 

I think I smell a caption contest.

The Subliminal Snap of Keyclick 

Matt Neuburg on Peter Sichel’s Keyclick:

Keyclick is a System Preference pane. It doesn’t affect your physical keyboard at all; it just makes noise when you type. So how can it be helpful, as claimed on the product’s Web site, “if your keyboard seems mushy, or you’ve ever longed for the crisp feel of an older keyboard”? Why does it make me a better typist on my MacBook? It’s because the noise it makes, though little more than a faintly detectable pop each time I press a key, tells me almost subliminally that I have pressed a key.

MacInTouch VMware Fusion Review 

Robert Mohns:

Once installed, VMware Tools provide drag-and-drop file exchange between Ubuntu and Mac OS X, plus clipboard synchronization and clock synchronization. We dragged Mac Word documents to the Ubuntu desktop and double-clicked: OpenOffice fired right up. If you stick with the latest version of your Linux distribution, we expect things will go fairly smoothly.

VMware Fusion Ships 

It’s all Greek to me because I’m still rocking it with a PowerBook G4, but several friends who’ve tried both tell me VMware Fusion has it all over Parallels Desktop — VMware’s “Unity” supports truly interleaved Windows and Mac application windows, for example, whereas Parallels’s “Coherence” fakes it by grouping all your Windows windows in a single layer with a transparent background.

BBEdit 8.7 

Favorite new feature, by far:

There’s a new option in the Application preferences: “Reopen documents that were open at last quit”. If this option is turned on, BBEdit will remember what documents (as well as disk browsers and FTP/SFTP browsers) are open when you choose the “Quit” command, and will reopen those documents the next time you start BBEdit.

And there’s a bunch more, as usual, including a new Lua language module, much-improved Python module with better code-folding support, and hugely improved File Groups.

Better Know a Speaker: Jim Coudal 

My friend and co-conspirator Jim talks to An Event Apart in advance of his upcoming appearance at AEA Chicago later this month.

iPhone Oversight 

While we’re making cruel jokes. (Via Andy Baio.)

Update: We seem to have knocked the site down.

Anil Dash: ‘Fake Steve Jobs and the Triumph of Blogs’ 

Anil Dash, on the fact that it was Daniel Lyons who wrote Forbes’s much-maligned 2005 cover story, “Attack of the Blogs”, which slammed bloggers for being anonymous and unaccountable:

My initial temptation was to mark Lyons as a hypocrite. Upon reflection, it seems there’s a more profound lesson: The benefits of blogging for one’s career or business are so profound that they were even able to persuade a dedicated detractor.

New Page Size for The New York Times 

Just saw the new narrowed-by-an-inch-and-a-half New York Times at Starbucks. It’s a sad little thing; 12 inches just isn’t wide enough for a broadsheet.