Linked List: July 17, 2008

Thursday, 17 July 2008

Twinkle 1.0 

Twinkle, previously a jailbreak API Twitter client, has been revised and expanded by Tapulous and is now available for free at the App Store. It’s an interesting contrast with Twitterrific — even ignoring cosmetic differences, the two apps take significantly different UI approaches.

The Free Software Foundation’s Five Reasons Not to Buy an iPhone 

They’re accusing Apple of concocting the whole thing as some sort of profit-making scheme.

Sean Tevis: Running for Office xkcd-Style 

Information architect Sean Tevis is running for the state legislature in Kansas. An innovative way to bootstrap a campaign.

Demographics Is Destiny 

Fraser Speirs, predicting (rightly, I think) that the iPhone OS will be Apple’s main platform four years from now:

Put this another way: my iPhone app, Exposure, has picked up on average 3,200 new users per day since the App Store opened. Exposure already has twice as many users as FlickrExport for Aperture.

Stanley Kubrick’s Notebooks 

I put together a small photoset of stills from Jon Ronson’s new documentary Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes — “A biography of a remarkably talented man as seen though the rich collection of material he left behind.”

It ends up Kubrick was a bit of a notebook and stationery aficionado.

PHP Syntax Checking in BBEdit 

Back in December 2003, I posted this AppleScript to add a simple PHP syntax checker to BBEdit. I just fixed a few minor bugs, so if you’ve already got a copy, you might want to replace your version with the current script.

Richard Solo Backup Battery for iPhone and iPod 

$50 external battery for iPhones and iPods. (Via Steven Sande.)

For a Phone 

Lance Arthur on his experience in line for an iPhone 3G. (Via Kottke.)

Apple Fixes App Store Alphabetical Listings 

I still say they should sort by a criterion other than alphabetical by default.

Cocktails 1.0 

Nicely designed $10 iPhone App from Skorpiostech: a searchable cocktail recipe database. Check out Bill Bumgarner’s review. I love the way that the older the recipe is, the older the “paper” looks.