By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: November 12, 2008
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
- Formatting the Drobo for Time Machine Backups ★
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Erik Barzeski on how to use a Drobo for Time Machine backups. Very useful information.
Update: Nat Irons, in this comment on Barzeski’s post, points to this stern warning from Data Robotics against using Mac OS X 10.5’s live partition resizing feature on a Drobo. Read the whole comment thread for more advice.
Update 2: Barzeski has updated the article with additional information.
- Jason Snell Reviews Things for iPhone ★
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Jason Snell:
If Things sounds simple, that’s because it is. Other to-do list managers I’ve tried have, quite honestly, gotten in the way of me getting things done. Things doesn’t do that. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
- Tom Evslin on Saving the U.S. Auto Industry ★
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A clever idea to aid the U.S. auto industry without just giving taxpayer money away:
The US government should order a complete replacement for its vehicle fleet to be delivered over the next four years. The new vehicles must be either plugin electric hybrid, pure electric, or possibly natural gas. Obviously retooling both at the manufacturers and suppliers is required to deliver this order so the government should be willing to prepay a significant part of it as it does for new weapons systems. That gets money into the system fast and creates/saves jobs almost immediately. It lets the suppliers retool as well as the final assemblers.
- ‘How People Really Use the iPhone’ ★
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Interesting analysis of the iPhone user experience, based on observing novice iPhone users. I think a better title would be “How People Learn to Use the iPhone”.
- AutoZone, the Objective-C Garbage Collector ★
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Apple has released AutoZone, the Objective-C garbage collector, as open source under the Apache license.
- Charles Arthur’s Brief Comparison of the Flip Mino and Kodak Zi6 ★
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I have both a Flip Ultra (not the newer, smaller Mino) and the Kodak Zi6, and I pretty much agree with Arthur’s assessment. I’ll add that the Flip has a significantly wider field of view, which reduces camera shake and which I find more useful overall.
But wait: Andy Ihnatko reports that he is in possession of a just-released Flip MinoHD.
Update: Here are the specs on the new MinoHD. According to Pure Digital, it has even better low-light sensitivity than the older Flips.
- Cornerstone vs. Versions, Again ★
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Jade Ohlhauser revisits his comparison review of the Subversion clients Cornerstone and Versions.
- Yours Truly on MacBreak Weekly ★
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I’m a guest on this week’s episode of MacBreak Weekly, alongside Andy Ihnatko, Jon Rettinger, and host Leo Laporte. Topics include: the Mark Papermaster/Tony Fadell saga at Apple, iPhone apps, and more.
- How to Fix a Flat ★
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Thomas Friedman on the U.S. auto industry, and its desire for a blank check from the government to rescue it from bankruptcy:
They were interviewing Bob Nardelli, the C.E.O. of Chrysler, and he was explaining why the auto industry, at that time, needed $25 billion in loan guarantees. It wasn’t a bailout, he said. It was a way to enable the car companies to retool for innovation. I could not help but shout back at the TV screen: “We have to subsidize Detroit so that it will innovate? What business were you people in other than innovation?”
And:
Lastly, somebody ought to call Steve Jobs, who doesn’t need to be bribed to do innovation, and ask him if he’d like to do national service and run a car company for a year. I’d bet it wouldn’t take him much longer than that to come up with the G.M. iCar.
They may not get the Steve Jobs, but they certainly need a Steve Jobs type leader.