Linked List: September 26, 2007

Wednesday, 26 September 2007

Apple Store Redesign 

Nice job from the Apple Store design team, bringing the look-and-feel in line with the recent apple.com redesign.

The Intersection of Cool and Awesome 

Speaking of Acorn, Jonathan Wight’s plugin for using the 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator in Acorn looks cool as shit. (Via Gus Mueller.)

Brief Acorn/Pixelmator/Photoshop/Graphic Converter/iPhoto Comparison 

Jon Whipple:

Pixelmator has arrived, and just when I was processing cover art, scans and stuff to add to my iTunes collection. Here are some rushed first impressions, where I compare it to Acorn, the venerable Graphic Converter, iPhoto, and of course Photoshop.

Correct Me If I’m Mshtakan 

Andrew Watt revisits the case of the ugly Unicode Black Star in the Mshtakan font. Love the pun.

Per-Folder Settings in Path Finder 4.8 

Cocoatech Blog:

Unlike the Finder (with its notorious .DS_Store files) we use no hidden files, we do not require files scattered around in every directory, and no helper files will ever silently appear on your network shares or external hard drives.

Path Finder 4.8 will store its visual per-folder settings in a centralized SQLite database located in ~/Library/Application Support/Path Finder/CoreData. Its size is very small - mine currently weighs just about 150 KB.

Mac News Junkie Bundle 

Good deal from C-Command and Cynical Peak: $55 for a bundle with both EagleFiler and Cyndicate.

On Browsing eMusic 

So it ends up you can browse eMusic without signing up for an account; still, I don’t like their “you can’t just buy a song and that’s it” business model.

Paul Thurrott, Unimpressed by Amazon MP3 Store 

Paul Thurrott:

Amazon’s previously announced MP3 music download service is live. Dubbed amazonmp3, the service offers DRM-free MP3 music downloads. Nothing exceptional yet, and sort of the lame selection found on Wal-Mart’s similar store. Still, a step in the right direction.

I think offering the largest library of DRM-free downloadable music is quite exceptional. I predict a year from now, Amazon’s store will be a solid #2 to iTunes — and that Wal-Mart’s, assuming it’s still peddling DRM-ware, will remain in nowheresville. Any store selling music that won’t play on iPods is doomed.