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Linked List: February 5, 2008

Tuesday, 5 February 2008

The Economics of Online Backup 

James Duncan Davidson on online mass storage backup options.

Buzzword 

Web-based Flash word processor from Adobe (which acquired the original developers, Virtual Ubiquity). Best web app word processor I’ve ever seen. It even does things like let you use Mac-standard shortcuts such as Command-F (Find), Command-S (Save), etc.

Adobe Edge has a story by Virtual Ubiquity CEO Rick Treitman with details on Buzzword’s development and history.

Fluid 0.7 

Freeware utility that lets you create your own “site specific browser”:

Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite webapps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any webapp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, and logical separation from your other web browsing activity.

(Via David Heinemeier Hansson at 37signals; they’ve got icons you can use for Basecamp, Backpack, Campfire, and Highrise.)

The Mother of all Telephotos 

B&H has a used Canon 1200 mm f/5.6L USM lens for sale for $99,000:

The Canon 1200/5.6L USM has been built on a special-order basis since 1993, and the ‘official word’ is there are “more than twelve, less than twenty” of them in existence.

(Via Kottke.)

Reason Number 12 Apple Help in Leopard Sucks 

Gus Mueller on the fact that Leopard’s Help app no longer has a menu bar of its own, which means you can’t choose Edit → Copy to copy text from a help book. Ends up you can still use Command-C, though.

Apple Introduces 16 GB iPhone and 32 GB iPod Touch 

Prices stay the same on existing models:

The revolutionary iPhone now comes in a new 16 GB model for $499, joining the 8 GB model for $399. iPod touch now comes in a 32 GB model for $499, joining the 16 GB model for $399 and the 8 GB model for $299.

SuperDuper 2.5 

Now fully compatible with Leopard; makes a great companion to Time Machine. One of the best Mac utilities ever made.