By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: December 8, 2008
Monday, 8 December 2008
- Gmail Tasks ★
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Lightweight to-do lists added to Gmail.
- Broadcom Launches 802.11n Chip for Cell Phones ★
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The best part about an iPhone with 802.11n wouldn’t be the speed — it would be that I could switch my home network to n-only, rather than g/n dual band.
- Android Devices for Developers ★
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No-contract, SIM-unlocked G1 for $399, intended for use by developers. So would this just work if you pop in the SIM from an iPhone 3G on AT&T?
Update: Readers say yes, it should work. The scenario I’m envisioning is that iPhone developers who are curious about Android would be far more likely to spend $400 once than to sign up for a two-year contract they’re only planning to use for development and testing. I’d still like to see a $250 non-phone Android device like the iPod Touch, though.
- NBC Expected to Give 10 P.M. Show to Jay Leno ★
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Bill Carter, reporting for The New York Times:
NBC is expected to announce Tuesday that it has signed its late-night star Jay Leno to a new contract that will keep him at the network in a new format that will give him the 10 p.m. time period each weeknight for a show similar to the one he has done on NBC’s “Tonight Show” show since 1993.
Effectively, NBC is getting out of the game of providing traditional network programming at 10 P.M., and instead expanding its late night lineup by an extra hour. It seemed inevitable that they’d do something to keep Leno, but I didn’t expect this.
- Bloomberg: Wal-Mart to Sell iPhones Later This Month ★
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No word on pricing, but they quote often-wrong analyst Shaw Wu endorsing the “$99 4 GB iPhone only at Wal-Mart” rumor that Boy Genius Report published last week.
That seems unlikely to me. iPhone and iPod storage capacities tend to go up, not down, over time. Apple hasn’t sold 4 GB iPhones since last summer. And the difference in terms of component costs between 8 and 4 GB of flash memory is not $100 — Apple would make less profit on each one sold. My guess is that Wal-Mart will be selling the same 8 and 16 GB iPhones as everyone else, but for like $197/297 instead of $199/299.
- New Google AdWords Options for iPhone and G1 ★
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Google is treating the iPhone and Android phones more like real computers (or, from their perspective, real ad targets), and less like “mobile” devices.
- Photographs of Old Computers ★
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Beautiful machines.
- Flip Off: Ultra vs. Mino HD ★
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Beau Colburn compares the Flip Ultra and Mino HD side-by-side, regarding field-of-view and white balance. The Ultra has a significantly wider lens — this not only helps with framing in close quarters, but also helps minimize the effects of camera shake with hand-held footage.
- Some App Store Answers ★
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Good overview from Paul Kafasis.
- User Interface of the Week ★
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It’s cool because the “virtual keyboard” has a transparent background.