Linked List: September 27, 2007

Thursday, 27 September 2007

Wired: Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner He Always Imagined ★

Ted Greenwald interviews Ridley Scott regarding Blade Runner.

iPhone Central: Bricking my iPhone ★

Macworld’s Jonathan Seff:

I decided to try the 1.1.1 iPhone update on my unlocked and hacked phone. The process went along just fine until the iPhone restarted. Then I got a message on the screen that I had an incorrect SIM.

He went to an AT&T store, got a new SIM, and still no dice — his iPhone won’t work.

The One Ill Building ★

Jonathan Hoefler:

Suddenly, intercaps have a genuine purpose: invisible to machines, they aid human comprehension, which is ultimately the goal of all typography.

SIM-Unlocked iPhones No Longer Work With Non-AT&T SIM Cards ★

iPhoneSimFree is reporting that there’s nothing “bricked” about an iPhoneSimFree-unlocked iPhone updated with 1.1.1 software — but, of course, they no longer activate with non-AT&T SIM cards.

Oskar Blues’s New Brewery ★

Oskar Blues — brewers of my favorite beer, Dale’s Pale Ale — is opening a new brewery. (Via Jim Ray.)

Say Hello to Web Standards ★

Jeffrey Zeldman:

There’s something new at Apple’s online store: web standards and accessibility.

FastScripts 2.3.4 ★

Daniel Jalkut:

So let me try to summarize some of FastScripts’s selling points more effectively than the current product page does.

Lightroom Journal: Personality as a Conscious Part of Software Design ★

Mark Hamburg, Adobe software architect and project lead for Lightroom:

All products have a personality of one sort or another. That personality is at the heart of how the product works, what it feels like to use, etc. Sometimes that personality is relatively muted and/or buried behind other conventions. Sometimes it is directly in one’s face. Very often it is something that happens more or less by accident, but that accidental nature doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist.

Michael Tsai on Pixelmator 1.0 ★

“It feels a lot like older, less Windowsy, versions of Photoshop.”

Layer Tennis Tomorrow ★

Keep your afternoon clear.

The Reason It’s Called the Wi-Fi Music Store ★

Just in case you had any doubt, the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store doesn’t work via EDGE.

iPhone Update: September ’07 ★

QuickTime movie from Apple showing off the new features in the 1.1.1 iPhone update.

iWork Updates: Pages, Keynote, Numbers ★

Available now via Software Update: Keynote 4.0.1, Pages 3.0.1, and Numbers 1.0.1. Love these detailed release notes displays in Software Update:

(Keynote:) This update primarily addresses issues with builds and performance.

(Pages:) This update primarily addresses issues with change tracking and performance.

(Numbers:) This update primarily addresses issues with tables and performance.

Macworld: Apple Releases iPhone Update 1.1.1 ★

Jim Dalrymple has the run-down on what’s new:

New for the iPhone with software update 1.1.1 is loud speaker and receiver volume; Home button double-click shortcut to phone favorites or music controls; Space bar double-tap shortcut to intelligently insert period and space; Mail attachments are now viewable in portrait and landscape modes; Stocks and cities can be reordered; Apple Bluetooth Headset battery status is now in the Status Bar; support has been added for TV Out; Preference to turn EDGE/GPRS off when roaming internationally has been added; Passcode lock time intervals; and adjustable volume alerts.

Security Fixes in iPhone 1.1.1 Update ★

Mostly in MobileSafari.

iPhone Software Version 1.1.1 ★

Best new feature: double-tapping Home button to jump to your phone favorites. (It’s configurable in Settings → General → Home Button.) Unsurprisingly, it breaks all known methods for adding third-party software, as well as breaking Ambrosia’s iToner.

I installed 1.1.1 directly on top of my hacked 1.0.2 system. All my custom apps were wiped out, of course (because the restore process that installs the 1.1.1 upgrade installs the entire OS from scratch), but all my data is intact. Worth pointing out that I’d only “hacked” my phone with custom software — no diddling with the SIM unlocking.

The Histogram as the Image ★

Clever.

Tracking Twitter ★

Wonder why this is SMS/IM only? When I use Twitter from my phone, it’s via the web.

Hotel Chevalier ★

Now available from the iTunes Store: Hotel Chevalier, a free 13-minute short film by Wes Anderson, starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman. It’s a prequel to Anderson’s soon-to-be-released The Darjeeling Limited. (Might not be work-safe, depending on your workplace’s policies toward nudity, profanity, and Futura.)

Update: Alas, it’s apparently only available from the U.S. iTunes Store. Anyone knows of a workaround for our non-U.S. friends, let me know. Update 2: What works, at least for some people, is changing your store to the U.S. and creating a new account with a bogus U.S. address. You won’t be able to buy anything, but you can download free stuff.