The Talk Show: Live From WWDC
7:00pm Tuesday  •  California Theatre
Tickets Available  •  Fun Will Be Had

Linked List: December 22, 2007

Saturday, 22 December 2007

Introducing Joel Benjamin 

Congratulations to the Benjamins.

The Talk Show, Episode 13 

Back from hiatus with a new episode timed perfectly for your holiday enjoyment. Listen together with your whole family gathered around the fireplace.

BusySync 

My thanks to BusyMac for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Their new product BusySync is a terrific utility that lets a small office or family create shared calendars in iCal.

.Mac shared calendars only allow read-only access. CalDAV shared calendars require Leopard and require you to set up and manage a central CalDAV server (e.g. with Mac OS X Server). With BusySync, you get read-write shared calendars and you don’t need a server — it’s just a simple System Prefs panel you install on each Mac. The installation and setup instructions are wonderfully simple, and the “it just works” factor is very high.

BusySync pricing starts at just $20 per computer, and if you buy before 31 December you can use the coupon code “DARINGFIREBALL” to save 20 percent.

MPAA Bans This Poster 

Beautiful movie poster for Taxi to the Dark Side, banned by the MPAA because it features a U.S. Army detainee in a hood. Which is something that actually happened and happens.

Someone needs to stand up and decry the MPAA for what it is: a censorship board. There’d be mass outrage in the mainstream media if there were an equivalent of the MPAA for books — imagine a book cover needing the approval of some mysterious board of conservative prudes, as movie posters do.