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Linked List: November 8, 2007

Thursday, 8 November 2007

Speaking of user-friendly firewall software, Objective Development (the crew behind LaunchBar) has released Little Snitch 2.0:

Little Snitch informs you whenever a program attempts to establish an outgoing Internet connection. You can then choose to allow or deny this connection, or define a rule how to handle similar, future connection attempts. This reliably prevents private data from being sent out without your knowledge.

I don’t run Little Snitch all the time, but when I want it, I’m glad it’s there.

Apple KnowledgeBase Article on Leopard ‘Application Firewall’ ★

Apple:

The Firewall in Leopard is an Application Firewall. This type of firewall allows you to control connections on a per-application basis, rather than a per-port basis. This makes it easier for non-experts to gain the benefits of firewall protection and helps prevent undesirable applications from taking control of network ports that have been opened for legitimate applications.

Via MacSecure.

Foamee ★

I’m reluctant to link to it tonight because it’s apparently already blown past its API allotment from Twitter, but it’s too cool not to. Foamee is a new web app by Dan “SimpleBits” Cederholm that “helps track who you owe beers to (and vice versa)”. What’s novel is that the whole thing is built on top of Twitter. I’m not sure it’s going to work out, but it’s a damn clever idea.

‘How Come Aperture Gets to Have All the Fun?’ ★

These screenshots from Bryan Bell indicate that Aperture somehow invokes the non-translucent Leopard menu bar. Can any app do this, and can it be turned on globally?

iphonelogd ★

Ruby script by Jamie Hardt — it reads your iPhone call log from your iPhone backup (created by iTunes) and copies phone calls into the iCal calendar of your choice.

Boing Boing: ‘MLB Rips Off Fans Who Bought DRM Videos’ ★

Cory Doctorow:

MLB shut down the DRM server because they’ve changed suppliers, and now they expect suckers to buy downloads of games in the new DRM format.

Despicable, really: The videos in MLB’s previous DRM format no longer play.

Report From New York Photoshop Seminar ★

One reason so many new image editors are spawning to take on Photoshop: the market is huge. Check out this photo Scott Kelby posted, taken at a recent New York City Photoshop seminar. (Via Duncan Davidson.)

Keyboards: Plug-and-Play, Not Plug-and-Communicate-What-They-Look-Like ★

One of those little things that are much nicer in Mac OS X than Windows: identifying USB keyboards. (Thanks to Joe Clark.)

Getting the iChat Hologram Effect Back ★

Not sure why Apple dropped the Star Wars-style hologram video effect from Leopard, but commenters at TUAW have posted links to download the version from developers seeds.

CSS Animation ★

Dave Hyatt: “We have another cool new CSS feature to talk about: animation specified in CSS.”

Quick Look From the Command Line ★

Shaun Haber on Leopard’s “qlmanage” command-line tool.

Naked Light ★

New Leopard-only Mac OS X image editor, public beta slated for tomorrow:

Naked light throws away antiquated concepts like pixels; layers; 8-bit color; and destructive, non-re-editable filters and operations. Instead, compositions in Naked light represent a sort of Platonic ideal—with infinite resolution, an astounding 590 quintillion colors, and perpetually re-editable nodes.

‘Monopoly’, Eh? ★

Dan Moren responds to Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, who apparently has no idea what the word “monopoly” means.