Linked List: July 4, 2008

Friday, 4 July 2008

On Google’s Web, the User Is #1, Google Is #0 

Remiel on Google’s deal with Adobe to index Flash content on the web.

ScreenCastsOnline 

My thanks to ScreenCastsOnline for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. ScreenCastsOnline provides a new tutorial every week available in formats compatible with Apple TV, the iPhone, and iPods. Topics cover a range of Mac-related subjects, ranging from Mac basics to the iLife apps to configuring hardware such as Time Capsule and Elgato’s EyeTV.

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Wexner Center for the Arts: Kubrick Retrospective 

Completing today’s Kubrick-themed holiday quadra-fecta, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus is holding a Kubrick retrospective this summer. At the top of the list: next Friday’s screening of a 70mm print of the greatest film ever made.

(Hat tip, once again, to Jim Coudal.)

‘Kubrick’ 

Speaking of Channel 4 and Stanley Kubrick, here’s Armen Antranikian’s three-minute documentary Kubrick. Via Jim Coudal, who also found this 18-minute excerpt of Tony Kaye’s interview for the film.

Channel 4 Recreates the Set of ‘The Shining’ 

Exquisitely detailed, creepy, one-camera-tracking-shot recreation of the set of Kubrick’s The Shining — a promotional spot for Channel 4’s “The Stanley Kubrick Season”. Even includes the guy in the bear suit.

How to Replace an Original iPhone With an iPhone 3G 

Useful KBase article for next week:

This article explains how to replace an original iPhone with an iPhone 3G using the same carrier. If you follow these steps to backup your original iPhone first, and then restore the backup to your iPhone 3G, your saved SMS messages, email accounts, photos, notes, and other personal settings will be present on your iPhone 3G.

Behind-the-Scenes Photographs From ‘A Clockwork Orange’ 

Love the one with Kubrick drinking coffee with Malcolm McDowell. (Thanks to Dan Benjamin.)

Adobe 9 

Mark Pilgrim on the latest version of Adobe Reader.

Adobe today reminds me a bit of Apple in the mid-’90s. Tremendous engineering and design talent in the company. A loyal base of users built over 20 years. But management that just doesn’t get it at all, and seems hell-bent on running the company into the ground.

Historically, Adobe has provided terrific user experiences. Now, they’re a laughing stock.