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Linked List: January 15, 2008

Tuesday, 15 January 2008

That’s My Boy ★: Happy birthday to my boy, Jonas. This kid kills me.
iPhone ‘Web Clip’ Icons ★: To create a custom icon for iPhone/iPod Touch home screen bookmarks, save a 57 × 57 px PNG with the name “apple-touch-icon.png” at the top level of your server. (Without one, the default icon is a scaled-down screenshot of the web page you’re making the shortcut for.)
The 27-Hour Day ★: David Pogue agrees with me regarding the 24-hour video rental viewing window.
Google iPhone Web Apps Makeover ★: Various improvements and customizations added to Google’s MobileSafari-optimized web apps. They’re sort of building a web-based alternate iPhone software universe — using Google Calendar and Gmail in MobileSafari as an alternative to the iPhone’s own Calendar and Mail apps. Plus Google Notebook vs. Notes, etc.
Time Capsule ★: “Automatic wireless backup for your Mac.” 500 GB for $299; 1 TB for $499. My question is whether they’re also going to enable the “just plug a USB drive into a base station” feature in Leopard, too, or are network Time Machine backups limited to Time Capsule? (“Time Capsule” is a great name for this product.)
TextWrangler 2.3 ★: Feature upgrade to Bare Bones’s excellent freeware sibling to BBEdit. (Note too, that Bare Bones is having their annual Macworld Expo Show Special discount — save 20 percent across the board.)
Iris 1.0b1 ★: Public beta release of Nolobe’s new (Intel-only) image editing app; on sale now for $39, regular price will be $79.
Keynote Twittering ★: I have no faith that either Twitter’s servers or the EDGE network here inside the keynote hall will hold up, but if they do, I’ll thumb out some live keynote coverage from my iPhone.
The Talk Show, Episode 14 ★: While away the time before the keynote starts with The Talk Show.