By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: November 21, 2008
Friday, 21 November 2008
- The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway ★
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A thoroughly researched epic typographic saga, by Paul Shaw.
- What’s New in iPhone OS 2.2 ★
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Comprehensive coverage from Jesse David Hollington for iLounge, describing and showing what’s new in today’s iPhone OS 2.2 update.
- Photo-Resizing Bug in iPhone OS 2.2 ★
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When you save a picture to your photo roll from email or the web, if the picture is larger than the iPhone display (480 × 320 pixels), the iPhone displays a scaled-up thumbnail rather than a scaled-down version of the large image. Here’s another description of the problem, with more examples, from Scott Johnson.
- The End ★
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Fabulous collection of “The End” movie title cards. Needless to say, this one is my favorite.
- The Official Netflix Blog: Encoding for Streaming ★
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Technical information regarding the formats Netflix uses for video streaming.
- Rich Mogull on Safari 3.2’s Anti-Phishing Features ★
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Safari now supports EV SSL certificates, and is using a blacklist of known phishing domains supplied by Google.
- The ‘O’ in Obama ★
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Steven Heller interviews Sol Sender, the designer of the Obama campaign’s “O” logo.
- Mozilla’s Dependence on Google ★
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John Paczkowski on the Mozilla Foundation’s finances:
[…] its revenue for 2007 totaled $75.1 million, up 13 percent from 2006’s $66.8 million. And 88 percent of that came directly from Google, which pays Mozilla to be the default search engine in it Firefox browser.
So Mozilla is utterly dependent on Google for its revenue, but competing directly against them with Firefox vs. Chrome. That’s a weird relationship.
- Billings 3 ★
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My thanks to Marketcircle for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Billings 3. Billings is a time-tracking and invoicing app with a simple, clear, and very stylish interface. It also produces gorgeous invoices. I would have killed for this app back in my freelancing days.
Billings 3 normally sells for $59, but is currently on sale for $40. (Upgrades are on sale too.)
- About the Security Content of iPhone OS 2.2 ★
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iPhoneHellas.gr was right — iPhone OS 2.2 was released today. Here are Apple’s security-related release notes.