Linked List: June 20, 2008

Friday, 20 June 2008

Andy Baio Interviews Alan Taylor, Creator of Boston Globe’s The Big Picture ★

Terrific interview with the guy behind the best new weblog in ages, The Big Picture.

Brilliant Like a Fox ★

Andy Ihnatko’s effusive Firefox 3 review for the Chicago Sun-Times.

MDIs on the Mac ★

Lukas Mathis on the growing trend of Mac apps that allow multiple “documents” to be opened within a single window.

.Mac to MobileMe Transition FAQ ★

Confirms that usernames will transfer over:

In addition to your mac.com email address, you will also get an address at me.com with the same username when MobileMe is available. For example, if your current email is [email protected], you will get [email protected]. You can send from whichever address you choose.

Craig Hockenberry on the Jailbreak Market ★

The iPhone jailbreak market might get squeezed from both sides: from the official iPhone SDK and App Store (on the side of UI polish and commercial opportunity); and from Android (on the side of openness and executing whatever code you want).

Apple’s MobileMe Drops Support for IE 6 ★

I missed this bit of news about MobileMe.

Lego Fun Snacks ★

Gabe at Penny Arcade: “I would love to know what sick bastard at Kellogs came up with this genius idea.”

Dan Frommer on the Future of the Jailbreak Market ★

Dan Frommer speculates on the future of the iPhone jailbreak app market. I didn’t mean to suggest that the official SDK/App Store would completely kill jailbreaking, but I do think it will relegate jailbreaking to obscurity.

JNSoftware ★

My thanks to JNSoftware for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. They have a slew of apps and utilities for Mac OS X, including Dialectic, a phone dialer that integrates with Address Book and any sort of phone — landline, mobile, or VOIP.

Through July 31, 2008, Daring Fireball readers get 20 percent off the purchase of any JNSoftware product with the coupon code “DF20”.

Webfonts.info ★

“The website dedicated to webfonts & @font-face embedding”; includes a list of fonts with licenses that allow for embedding. (Thanks to Joe Clark.)

Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo ★

Leaving even before the long-awaited Delicious 2.0 ships.