By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: January 4, 2008
Friday, 4 January 2008
- Yes, Virginia, Any Idiot Can File a Lawsuit ★
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The Macalope on Stacie Somers of San Diego, who filed a lawsuit against Apple for not supporting DRM-protected Windows Media music files.
- Lightroom Export Plugin for Flickr ★
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Freeware from Jeffrey Friedl. (Via Duncan Davidson on the Inside Lightroom weblog.)
- Inco ★
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My thanks to Inco for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Inco is a web-based remote system administration utility optimized for use with iPhones and other mobile handhelds. It offers a nice interface for manipulating and monitoring processes, transferring files, and more. For $36, you can use Inco on as many machines as you want. Check out the Getting Started PDF for more info.
- Things 0.8.6 Public Beta ★
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$49 task manager from Cultured Code.
- Passive Resistance, Like Gandhi ★
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He’s right, that was easy.
- The 2007 Cabel Yay! Awards ★
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(a) Totally agree re: the new Coke branding; (b) Emacs? Cabel?
- Sears Exposes Customer Purchase History in Violation of Its Privacy Policy ★
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Benjamin Edelman has more bad news regarding Sears’s appalling online privacy standards:
Sears offers no security whatsoever to prevent a ManageMyHome user from retrieving another person’s purchase history by entering that person’s name, phone number, and address.
- Choose Your RSI ★
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David Smith:
In addition to the exceptions that Tog and Gruber point out (two-handed input and repetitive actions), I would suggest another win for keyboard shortcuts: learned reactions.
Sure, when you first start using an application or operating system, it takes you time to remember the keyboard shortcuts, probably longer than hunting for it with the mouse. But after a while, you tend to learn the shortcuts for the actions you use most, and for those actions, the shortcut is probably going to be faster than using the mouse.