By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: October 2, 2008
Thursday, 2 October 2008
- Royalty Rate Doesn’t Change for Apple, Music Retailers ★
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CNet:
The group representing music publishers had sought a per-song rate boost from 9.1 cents to 15 cents, a 66 percent increase. Certainly, nobody can predict what Apple will do, but at this point, it looks as if the company got what it wanted. In short, Apple won.
- Can You Get a Good Cheesesteak in New York City? ★
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If a Philly expatriate like Jason Santa Maria says it’s good, it’s good. Hard to believe some of what his team of researchers discovered, like the kaiser rolls — kaiser rolls! — they were served at one joint. Glad to hear that several winners were found.
- Kiwi — Wikipedia Client for iPhone ★
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Red Rome Logic’s Kiwi is a nice Wikipedia client for the iPhone. Article content is far more readable than the usual Wikipedia web pages, and Kiwi also allows you to save pages on your device for offline access. Normally $3, developer Tim Ritchey has dropped the price to $1 through this weekend in celebration of the end of the NDA.
- A Touch of Cocoa: Inside the iPhone SDK ★
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Solid overview of the iPhone SDK by John Timmer.
- Obama ’08: The Official iPhone and iPod Touch Application ★
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Official iPhone app from the Obama campaign, designed as a tool for people who want to get involved in the campaign. Written by a team of crackerjack Cocoa developers.
- Kotaku Compares New Nintendo DSi to DS Lite ★
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The screen’s bigger and they’ve added two cameras, but the battery life is shorter.
- Logbook 1.0 ★
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New $13 client for Backpack’s status and log features; from SignalApps, a new shop focusing on client software for 37signals services.
- Sony Vaio JS1 ★
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New Sony all-in-one desktop PC and keyboard seem oddly familiar to me. Can’t place it, though.
- Steve Ballmer Recommends Apple Separate iPhone Hardware and Software Businesses ★
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I’m sure they’ll get right on that.
- NYT on the Credit Crisis ★
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Riveting reporting.