Linked List: May 8, 2008

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Quay 1.1 

Nice feature update to Rainer Brockerhoff’s €7 pop-up menu utility for the Leopard Dock.

Extraview Interview With Adam Lisagor 

Adam Lisagor, on how You Look Nice Today got started:

The three of us had talked very briefly and noncommittally about doing some sort of project together. A couple months later, by chance, Bobby Andersen, kid-genius of Pixel Implosion suggested on his Twitter that the three of us do a podcast. In this town, when Bobby says do a podcast, you do a fucking podcast.

BlackBerry 9000 Video Tour 

Doubt anyone at Apple is losing sleep over this. I especially love the way you’ve got to rub your thumb like a crazed junkie to move the mouse pointer half an inch in the web browser.

Unicomp Customizer Keyboard 

Jake Seliger on the Unicomp Customizer keyboard, a modern version of the “buckling spring” keyboards IBM used to make:

Today, buckling spring keyboards are never or almost never shipped with computers. Fortunately, Unicomp has accomplished what Matias couldn’t and produced an excellent modern version in the Customizer. Keystrokes are crisp and precise. The “shadow key” problem that bedeviled the Tactile Pro is absent, and the Customizer itself is solid, recalling a slab of stone, unlike the fragile, mushy keyboards most PCs ship with.

The only downside is that the meta keys are for Windows, not Mac. You can remap them using the Keyboard & Mouse panel in System Prefs, but you’re stuck with that ugly Windows key. Unicomp might do well to sell a Mac-specific version, or to at least offer Mac-specific keycaps you could pop on yourself.

When Is the Next Release Planned? 

Panic’s Cabel Sasser, responding to a Coda user who’s worried that it’s been five whole months since the last update:

A company like Adobe, which has hundreds of engineers working on Photoshop, releases ONE version every two or three years, and maybe a single bug fix release in the interim. For the most part, we’re all cool with that, myself included! :)

But a shareware company that has, say, one or two people working on a product, is somehow expected to do releases every few months — even free major ones — or people start getting itchy.

NBC Offers Free Episodes of The Office and 30 Rock to iPhone and iPod Touch Users 

Commercial-free, but crummy quality. (Via MacDailyNews.)