Linked List: September 24, 2007

Monday, 24 September 2007

Looks like a dumbed-down (and homely) version of Lightroom. Windows-only.

Another AppleScript for Getting the Size of the Main Display ★

Mike Byrne with a multiple-monitor-aware alternative to this script I posted last year.

Phil Schiller on Unlocked iPhones Warning ★

The Associated Press:

“This has nothing to do with proactively disabling a phone that is unlocked or hacked,” Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said in an interview. “It’s unfortunate that some of these programs have caused damage to the iPhone software, but Apple cannot be responsible for … those consequences.”

Apple: iPhone Unlocking Apps May Render iPhones ‘Permanently Inoperable’ After Upcoming Software Update ★

Warning from Apple regarding unlocked iPhones:

Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone’s software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed. Apple plans to release the next iPhone software update, containing many new features including the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, later this week.

To be clear, it seems as though Apple is specifically talking about SIM unlocking — the hacks that allow iPhones to be used on networks other than AT&T’s — not iPhone hacking in general. Assuming some unlocked iPhones really will be rendered inoperable by the upcoming update, the innocent explanation is that the unlocking tools diddled where they ought not to have diddled and Apple isn’t going to, or isn’t able to, undo the damage while still closing the holes that allowed these unlocks to work. “Irreparable” is a strong word, though. What exactly is it that can’t be reset to factory conditions?

(Via Nik Fletcher.)

Rogue Amoeba: Radioshift 1.0 ★

Like TiVo for radio.

I repeat: like TiVo for radio. Not only does Radioshift record streaming audio in all popular formats — RealAudio, Windows Media, QuickTime, even AM/FM if you have a Griffin Radio Shark — but it also offers 50,000 schedules for programs and radio stations, so, like with TiVo, you can simply subscribe to the shows you want to follow and they’ll be recorded automatically. But unlike TiVo, the programming schedules are free — you pay $32 for Radioshift and the program schedules are just there.

This is a killer product.

Seed Conference: Chicago: 29 October 2007 ★

One-day conference on design, entrepeneurship, and inspiration. Sounds like a good way to spend a Monday to me.

Starbucks to Give Away 50 Million Songs on iTunes ★

Free songs to be given out at Starbucks stores across the country, starting October 2:

Thirty-seven artists with featured songs include Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell — the first two to sign on with Starbucks’ Hear Music label — along with Joss Stone, Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Annie Lennox and Band of Horses. The first song will be Bob Dylan’s “Joker Man.”

(Via Jacqui Cheng.)

Someecards ★

Best e-cards ever. (Via Merlin Mann’s newly-redesigned 43 Folders.)

‘Hotel Chevalier’ ★

Director Wes Anderson is releasing Hotel Chevalier, a 13-minute short film prequel to The Darjeeling Limited. Hotel Chevalier stars Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman, and is premiering Tuesday night at Apple Stores in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Santa Monica — then will be made available as a free download from iTunes.

Cowboys Rout Bears 34-10 ★

Cheer up Chicago: Your quarterback is a complete disaster, but (a) the Cubs are looking good to win the division, and (b) Homer Simpson visited town during the The Simpsons season premiere.