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

Linked List: February 2, 2008

Saturday, 2 February 2008

Shawn Blanc on MarsEdit 

Another thoughtful review from Shawn Blanc.

My best argument for using MarsEdit (or any desktop weblog editor) instead of a web-based interface is that it’s like using a desktop email client instead of webmail.

FontShop 

My thanks to FontShop for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed.

If you love fonts, you should love FontShop. (If you don’t love fonts, what is wrong with you?) FontShop sells more than just terrific type (like, say, thee brand-new FF Meta Serif), though — they also sell resources like FontBook, “the largest type reference in the world”. Their special deal for DF readers: call or email them and tell them I sent you, and you get 10 percent off any order.

iPhone Gets Run Over by 18-Wheeler, Still Functions 

Scroll down to read the full story from owner Mike Beauchamp in the comments. (Thanks to Jesper.)

Lineform 1.5 

Nice update to Freeverse’s nifty $80 illustration and design app. (Via Michael Rose.)

The Geometry of Shaun Inman’s Mint Logo 

Lovely.

The $1,000 HP Desktop Tower Running Windows Vista 

Typical new consumer PCs still stuck on VGA and PS/2? Jiminy.

Matt Haughey: ‘How to Record a Kickass Podcast Between Two Macs — and Cheap!’ 

In short, the key is for everyone to record their own audio locally, and then join the separate tracks together in post-production. Dan Benjamin and I do this for The Talk Show and the end result is a podcast that sounds like we were together in the same room while recording. Dan and I use Sound Studio to record (Haughey uses Call Recorder for Skype), but the point is the same: just use the call (Skype, iChat audio, phone) to hear each other, not for recording.

C4[1] Videos Available 

Presentations from Wolf Rentzsch’s excellent indie Mac developer conference. Here’s my “C4[1] in a Nut” summary from this year. Doesn’t look like the footage from Drunkenbatman’s controversial panel discussion is scheduled to appear.

Matt Deatherage on CARS’s Legacy to the Mac Community 

Matt Deatherage:

But as time passes, as sites fade away, as Moltz’s blood alcohol level plummets to around 0.36, CARS shall not fade from the Mac consciousness for a single two-word reason: Artie MacStrawman.