Linked List: December 23, 2008

Tuesday, 23 December 2008

Neato:

Textcast turns any text — documents, web pages and entire blog feeds — into personal podcasts you can listen to right on your iPod and iPhone.

The text-to-speech technology is built into Leopard; what Textcast adds is the automation framework for generating personal podcast feeds you can sync to iPods and iPhones. From Bit Maki Software, a new joint effort from Dave Dribin and Wolf Rentzsch.

Brand New: Best and Worst New Logos of 2008 ★

I don’t disagree with a single choice.

E-Book Banned From iPhone App Store for Obscene Content ★

So M-rated games are OK but books with R-rated content are not?

The Mac Giving Tree ★

My thanks to The Mac Giving Tree for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. This is the second year of their holiday-themed promotion. Sign up now and get two free apps — Pangea’s Enigmo 2 and the iTunes extender Synergy. Come back on Christmas day and get four additional, as-yet-unrevealed software gifts.

99 Cent Movie Rental of the Week: ‘Reservoir Dogs’ ★

An absolute masterpiece; one of my very favorite films. And, doubling your fun, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is also a 99 cent rental this week.

‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, iPhone App Edition ★

From Magnetism Studios and designer Jonathan McNicol, a $1 iPhone edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Excellent typesetting (in Adobe Jenson Pro) and very smooth interaction design, especially with regard to page-turning.