By John Gruber
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Linked List: May 24, 2008
Saturday, 24 May 2008
- Trashing (From) the Command Line ★
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New command-line tool from Dave Dribin:
osx-trashmanipulates the Mac OS X trash from the command line, just like the Finder does. It uses AppleScript via Scripting Bridge on top of RubyCocoa to communicate with the Finder. You can move files to the trash, empty the trash, and list items currently in the trash. - The Road to TapeDeck 1.0 ★
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Chris Liscio on the development of TapeDeck.
- Reliving the Clone Wars ★
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Rik Myslewski looks back at Apple’s decade-ago Mac OS licensing program:
In April 1995, while lunching with reporters at San Francisco’s trendy LuLu restaurant, Power Computing CEO Steve Kahng was asked how his company, which had just released its first batch of Mac clones, planned to compete with Apple Computer. “We’re going to squeeze a nickel out of every dime,” he said, smiling.
Two and a half years — and three Apple CEOs — later, Steve Jobs took back that dime. In between were the clone wars, which ravaged both Apple’s reputation and its bottom line.