Linked List: January 1, 2009

Thursday, 1 January 2009

David Chartier Reviews the Incase Power Slider Battery Backup for iPhone 3G 

Sort of the opposite approach of the Richard Solo backup batteries.

Pre-MWSF Rumor of the Week 

Seth Weintraub:

I’ve heard that iMovie will largely (if not entirely) be a Web Application and Apple would offer its users to “upload your movies to us and edit them there.”

Sure, iMovie as a web app. Uh-huh. Slogan: And you thought USB was slow.

Weintraub has also reported that the iWork ’09 apps are going to be web apps too. (I like how, when linking to the one and only report of iWork-suite-as-web-apps, which is his own report, that he says the move is “largely believed”.)

There may well be a germ of truth in here — some sort of online web-based document viewing/editing for iWork document formats (tied to MobileMe, perhaps?). But the idea that these top-line iWork and iLife apps are going web-based strikes me as impossible. The whole appeal of the iWork suite is that the user experience is extremely polished; nothing web-based comes even close to the polish of iWork ’08 today. The way Apple stays ahead of the web app trend is by creating native Cocoa experiences that can’t be duplicated in web apps — both on the Mac and iPhone.

AppleScript 1-2-3 

New AppleScript book co-authored by long-time AppleScript experts Sal Soghoian and Bill Cheeseman. Soghoian is the AppleScript product manager at Apple, and Cheeseman is the author of the amazing GUI scripting developer tool UI Browser.

Cause of Zune 30 Leap Year Problem 

A bug in the code to handle leap years leads to an infinite loop. (Via Michael Tsai.)

Apple Redirecting Some Web Pages to Wikipedia 

Interesting: Apple is redirecting requests for apple.com/hypercard to Wikipedia’s HyperCard entry.

Broken Record 

Phillip “The Swanni” Swann, in his predictions for 2009:

In 2009, dismal sales of Net TV set-tops will turn into non-existent sales, no matter how many different ways the products are promoted. So, I predict that Vudu will close its doors in 2009 and Apple’s Steve Jobs will finally call it quits on his least favorite hobby, Apple TV.

Predicted same thing last year. And in 2007.

(Via MacDailyNews.)