Linked List: September 13, 2007

Thursday, 13 September 2007

Wii Overtakes Xbox 360 in Global Sales ★

Not only did the Xbox 360 have a year-long head start, but the Nintendo still isn’t producing Wii consoles fast enough to meet demand. I still haven’t seen one on a store shelf.

iPod Touch Features Guide (PDF) ★

This is certainly curious:

Before you can use any of the iPod touch features, you must use iTunes to set up and register iPod touch, and to create an iTunes Store account (if you don’t already have one).

(Thanks to Rosyna.)

Mac Office 2008 to Use the Standard Mac Installer ★

Good news from Microsoft’s Mac BU’s Dunstan Gourlie:

To that end, I am happy to announce that Office 2008 for Mac will use the Apple-recommended Apple Installer technology for Office 2008 installation. This means that the data that Office installs will ship on the disc in .pkg format, installs will work well with Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) and will be Applescript-able. Once installed, the user has the freedom to move the Office folder to a different location on the system and Office will run from there. I hope that this will make Office for Mac configuration/deployment easier for IT admins.

And in other good news, they’re no longer going to spew additional fonts in your Library folder whether you like it or not.

Apple Schedules U.K. Press Event for September 18 ★

Hello, iPhone.

Impressionism, Realism, and Blogging ★

Kottke:

The downside for Impressionist blogs is that their individual posts don’t work that well outside of their intended context.

A good example of this is Monoscope.

Bugs Are Magic Tricks ★

Spot-on analogy from Steven Frank:

A good bug, I mean a really good, pound-your-head-on-the-desk-for-a-week bug, is exactly like a magic trick in that something impossible appears to be happening.

Yours Truly on Last Night’s ‘Your Mac Life’ ★

I was a guest on last night’s episode of Your Mac Life, talking to host Shawn King about the breakdown between NBC and Apple, and iTunes’s new ringtones racket.