Linked List: September 8, 2007

Saturday, 8 September 2007

Anti-Piracy PSA Spoof ★: Hilarious. (Thanks to Alex Sanders.)
David Watanabe Finds Hint of iTunes Movie Rentals ★: Intriguing, to say the least.
Pre-Order iPod Touch From Amazon ★: The 16 GB iPod Touch is already the top item in Amazon’s electronics best-seller list. Order yours (or any other new iPod) through this link and make me rich. Free shipping.
iLounge Reviews New iPods ★: Detailed, comprehensive reviews of the new iPod Nano and iPod Classic. Too bad they’re broken up into 10 annoying pages each.
iTunes 7.4.1 Ringtones Re-Rename Workaround Discovered ★: Clear instructions from Ryan Block on how to get free iPhone ringtones using iTunes 7.4.1.
Gus Mueller Interviews Tyler Durden ★: I have reason to believe this is a pretty cool app.
iPod: TV Out Support ★: Apple KnowledgeBase article on TV Out support for various iPods. Confusing as hell, in my opinion, given all the various combinations of cables and docks. And why isn’t the iPod Touch listed?
Growl 1.1 ★: New version of the open source system-wide notification system. Changes include close boxes on notifications, fixed memory leaks, and a “global positioning system” that I think is supposed to address the problem of notifications from different apps appearing on top of each other. Does not address the fact that most of the notification themes look like ass.
iTunes 7.4.1 Is Out, Changes Free Ringtone Workaround ★: So that “change the file extension to ‘.m4r’ and get free ringtones” trick? Broken in iTunes 7.4.1, which seemingly has no other discernable changes. But — and this is just weird — Joe Maller reports that if you change the file extensions back to “.m4a”, the trick works again. Let’s just say I’m back to thinking there’s a solid market for iToner ahead.