By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: October 8, 2008
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
- McCain Rips Off Foo Fighters ★
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You can sort of understand why Republicans repeatedly rip off music from artists who don’t support them — if they stuck to those who did, they’d only be able to play Ted Nugent and shitkicker country songs.
- Google’s Open Source Patches to Wine ★
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This idea deserves a full essay, but for now, consider: In the same way that Apple took Mac OS X and Cocoa and shrunk them to serve as a handheld device OS, I think Google could take Android and grow it to serve as a PC OS. Wine would be to Android what Classic was to Mac OS X.
The big win is saying “screw you” to KDE and Gnome and all those crap Linux interfaces and APIs. Start over with something new, cohesive, better, and, most of all, which is not, conceptually, a watered down clone of Windows.
- BusinessWeek on the BlackBerry Storm ★
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Stephen Wildstrom likes the Storm’s tactile-response touch screen.
- Kids Today ★
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Survey of U.S. teenagers shows high interest in the iPhone and incredible market share for iPods.
- ‘All I Smell Is Raw Power and Speed’ ★
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DaddyTypes has more on the custom Volvo station wagons Paul Newman commissioned for himself and David Letterman.
- Time Reports on BlackBerry Storm Rumors ★
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The article title is “BlackBerry’s Storm Aims to Blow the iPhone Away”, but it’s based not on a hands-on review, but on rumors regarding the Storm published on the web. The author is Anita Hamilton, whom when we last heard from her, was questioning why Apple didn’t just force every app in the App Store to be distributed for free. Her BlackBerry piece starts:
You just can’t keep a secret in the tech industry these days.
Which seems contradicted by much of what Apple debuts, including, for example, the iPhone.
- One More Bob Staake Link ★
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Even better video showing how he illustrates with Photoshop 3.
- Microsoft Should Never Make Another Video Ever Again ★
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What is wrong with this company? Who authorizes this crap?
- iPhone Contacts and Maps Fast Start ★
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Tom Insam:
Apps on the iPhone can ship a ‘default.png’ in their bundle. When you start the app, it’ll first show this image, then load the rest of the app. The idea is, you can ship a picture of the start state of your app, and it’ll appear to have started very quickly. This is why some apps are unresponsive just after they start — they’re not actually started, you’re just looking at a picture. Other apps misuse this feature to display a splash screen. Urgh, splash screens.
Anyway, I digress. I have noticed that both the Contacts and Maps applications can change their default.png files.
Insam also reports that Maps will continue running in the background, until forced to quit from memory constraints. Another background-capable Apple app?