By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: November 7, 2008
Friday, 7 November 2008
- Using International Keyboard Characters to Change the iPhone Notes App Font to Helvetica ★
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I know about this trick, but people keep emailing me about it, so I guess I ought to link to it. No one hates Marker Felt more than I do, but this just isn’t worth the effort in my opinion — (a) you have to enable the international keyboards button system-wide; and (b) you have to switch keyboards, insert a Japanese glyph, delete it, then switch back to the U.S. keyboard for each and every note you create. No thanks.
- The Man Who Knows Too Much ★
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Nice profile by Rachel Cooke of Seymour Hersh — 71 years old and still one of the top investigative reporters in the world.
- Lessons Learned While Building an iPhone Site ★
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Ross Harmes from Flickr on the lessons they learned developing their outstanding iPhone-optimized web site.
- Understanding the WPA Crack ★
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Glenn Fleishman explains the newly-discovered exploit against Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA).
- Macworld Conference and Expo ★
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My thanks to Macworld Conference and Expo for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. This year’s Macworld runs from 5-9 January 2009, and once again, will be held in the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Their web site has information on conference sessions, special presentations, and expo hall highlights and activities. To say that it’s the premier annual Apple-focused consumer event in the U.S. is an understatement.
- Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String ★
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With regard to yesterday’s piece on tangle-resistant earphone cables, here’s a 2007 paper on the spontaneous formation of knots in jostled strings. The conclusion, in brief, is that the stiffer the string, the fewer the knots. The authors won the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize for Physics for this paper. (Thanks to Rupert Nash.)
(Speaking of yesterday’s piece, I added a small update this morning.)