Linked List: September 5, 2008

Friday, 5 September 2008

Preventing Paranoia: When Does Google Chrome Talk to Google.com? 

Good summary of Chrome’s phone-home integration from Matt Cutts.

Nokia Lowers Third Quarter 2008 Market Share Outlook 

Key phrase: “certain aggressive pricing of some competitors”.

Sandvox 1.5 

Major update to Karelia’s $49 ($79 for Pro version) web site creation app.

Drobo 

My thanks to Data Robotics for once again sponsoring the DF RSS feed. I’ve praised Drobo before and I’ll do it again: it’s a terrific data storage device. It acts like a single volume, but uses up to four physical hard disks for storage. Data is stored redundantly, so if one disk goes bad your data is OK. You can instantly expand to more storage by adding another disk or replacing an existing disk with a larger one. And the new second-generation Drobo offers FireWire 800 (in addition to USB 2) for faster performance. It’s a terrific product.

Dan Frakes Reviews PCalc 1.0.2 for iPhone 

Dan Frakes:

PCalc also takes advantage of the iPhone’s touchscreen and accelerometer. When performing calculations, a swipe of the LCD to the right invokes the Undo feature; a swipe to the left invokes Redo. (Multiple levels of undo and redo are supported.) And if pressing the Clear and Clear All buttons is too pedestrian for your iPhone-loving hands, give the phone a left-right shake; two shakes equates to Clear, three to Clear All.

Bustin’ Makes Me Feel Good 

Variety:

Columbia Pictures is getting serious about scaring up a new installment of its blockbuster “Ghostbusters” franchise. The studio has set “The Office” co-exec producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to write a script for a film designed to bring back together the original cast of Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson.

Ray Parker Jr. is going to plotz.

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Offers Built-In 3G 

Sure would be nice to have an option like this for MacBooks.

Document Startups in Chaos as Adobe Discontinues Flashpaper 

Hard to believe anyone was dumb enough to base their business around this technology — or that they kept going with it after Adobe acquired Macromedia.