Linked List: May 11, 2008

Sunday, 11 May 2008

Pixelmator 1.2 ★: Speaking of just-released version 1.2’s of indie Mac image editors.
Acorn 1.2 ★: Feature and performance upgrade to Flying Meat’s excellent $50 image editor.
Why Dell Will Not Bounce Back ★: Fake Steve Jobs on what’s wrong with Dell:

Bottom line is this: the only innovations worth making are the ones involving product ideas and product design. I mean, Duh. Right? It’s pretty obvious. What’s amazing to me is how few companies actually seem to realize it. To sustain an edge in any market you must make better products than your competitors, consistently, over and over and over again. Just making the same products as everyone else but taking a little friction out of the system can give you an advantage, but only a temporary one.
Microsoft to Limit Capabilities of Cheap Laptops ★: Great idea: arbitrary artificial constraints never piss anyone off.
Time Machine Exposed ★: Nice guide by Matt Neuburg regarding the aforelinked tms command-line Time Machine tool.
tms — Command-Line Interface to Time Machine ★: Command-line tool by Robert Pointon, “allows basic cvs style operations on Time Machine volumes.”