Linked List: September 1, 2007

Saturday, 1 September 2007

Little Snitch 2.0 Beta 

David Chartier:

Little Snitch’s UI has received a complete overhaul, offering tools to search and filter rules and a new Network Monitor to watch network traffic in real time. The connection alerts—one of my pet peeves about Little Snitch—are also getting a boost with keyboard shortcuts that should make it easier to allow or deny traffic on a per-connection basis.

Worth noting: This post marks Chartier’s jump from Weblogs Inc.’s TUAW to Ars Technica’s Infinite Loop.

Serious MagSafe Bug 

Bill Bumgarner discovered a bug in his MacBook’s MagSafe port.

Paul Kafasis: ‘Apparently No One at Apple Uses the Dock on the Side’ 

When Steve Jobs was showing off the new look of the Leopard Dock during his WWDC keynote this year, he off-handedly added something to the effect of “… and it looks great on the side, too,” and he proceeded to show it positioned on the side — for about a second.

Founder of Peet’s Coffee Dies at 87 

Alfred Peet, founder of the world’s best coffee house chain, dead at 87.

The Tale of the Mechanical Virus 

Sean McBride:

Soon afterwards, I noticed that other people’s Macs were refusing to project as well. Person after person would plug their Mac into the projector, but to no avail. What was even stranger was that the affliction only seemed to affect Mac users. PC laptop users laughed at us as they projected with impunity.

(Thanks to Nick Matsakis.)

How Not to Die 

Paul Graham, offering advice to startups:

When startups die, the official cause of death is always either running out of money or a critical founder bailing. Often the two occur simultaneously. But I think the underlying cause is usually that they’ve become demoralized. You rarely hear of a startup that’s working around the clock doing deals and pumping out new features, and dies because they can’t pay their bills and their ISP unplugs their server.

Startups rarely die in mid keystroke. So keep typing!

Wikirage 

“This site lists the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time.”

The Laptop Herring 

Rands on bringing laptops to meetings:

The problem is that everyone attending this laptop-laden clusterfuck is subconsciously hearing “Hey, in this meeting, it’s A-OK to waste people’s time.”

Red Is Not Funny 

J. Tyler Helms: “I suppose red is also the color of doomed comedy.”

The Original Macintosh User Manual 

Peter Merholz:

I recently purchased an original Macintosh User Manual (thanks eBay!). I had seen one at a garage sale, and was struck by how it had to explain a total paradigm shift in interacting with computers. I figured I could learn something about helping make innovation happen.

(Via Swissmiss.)