Linked List: January 6, 2009

Tuesday, 6 January 2009

Ryan Singer on iPhoto ’09:

Apple realized that people don’t just want to find photos. Go back to iPhoto’s domain: it’s that situation where you have a bunch of photos and you want to look at them and share them. When you’re in that situation, you don’t just want to see random photos. You want to see and share photos of certain things.

‘Objectified’ Trailer ★

Looks great.

Up Is Down ★

Bizarre piece from Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider yesterday, claiming that Gizmodo “got the story right” about Steve Jobs’s health. The report with the headline that read “Steve Jobs’s Health Declining Rapidly”, and included this quote from their “trusted source”:

Steves [sic] health is rapidly declining. Apple is choosing to remove the hype factor strategically vs letting the hype destroy apple [sic] when the inevitable news comes later this spring.

So Apple issues statements from Jobs and from the board of directors which indicate that the cause of his weight loss has been identified and is being treated and that he expects to be in better shape within a few months — and somehow this proves that Gizmodo was right about a report which stated that his health is “rapidly declining” leading to some dreadful “inevitable news later this spring”? What the fuck.

Windows Executables Inside Picasa App Package? ★

A MacInTouch reader poked around in the app bundle and found Windows .exe’s. No wonder it looks so weird. Update: Doesn’t seem like the app is a WINE translation, as the MacInTouch reader speculates.

Macworld’s Keynote Coverage ★

Snell and Moren’s live coverage had a good mix of play-by-play and commentary.

iWork ’09 ★

Another good overview of new features, with a separate page describing iWork.com. You know it’s a Web 2.0 because it’s clearly labeled “Beta” right in the logo.

I wonder how iWork.com displays fonts that aren’t present on the client side?

iLife ’09 ★

Includes extensive guided tours showing the new features in iPhoto and iMovie.

So I Graded My Macworld Predictions ★

I predicted iLife, iWork, and the 17-inch MacBook Pro, but, as usual, I predicted a slew of other fanciful things that didn’t pan out. (It occurs to me that if everything I predicted had been included, it would have been a six-hour keynote.)

Kids Who Smoke: A Pictorial ★

Kids just aren’t as cool as they used to be.

MacHeist ★

My thanks to MacHeist for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. There’s something going on at the web site this week where you get a “mission”, solve puzzles, and then you get free software as a reward. You get the outliner Process (regularly $39) for free just for signing up.

DRM-Free Music at iTunes Store ★

As of two minutes ago, it appears you can now buy music from iTunes from your iPhone over EDGE and 3G, not just Wi-Fi.

Even better: all the music in the store appears to be DRM-free now. I’m guessing Phil Schiller will announce it later on in the keynote. Maybe this is the “one more thing”?

Update: It’s official.

Update 2: During the keynote, Schiller specifically said music was now downloadable over “3G networks”, but I was right — it works over EDGE too.

Live Tweetage ★

Doesn’t seem like Twitter is holding up well, but I’m jotting notes from the keynote there.

Macworld Expo Predictions From Previous Years ★

My predictions from last year, plus those from 2007 and 2006.