Linked List: February 13, 2009

Friday, 13 February 2009

Paid Apps Hit the Android Market ★: U.S.-only for now.
Early Pre-Release Version of Chrome Running on Mac OS X ★: Includes a screenshot.
Layer Tennis Today ★: The 2009 Layer Tennis season starts today, in a match pitting Threadless creative director Jeffrey Kalmikoff against author, designer and programmer Brendan Dawes, with play-by-play commentary from yours truly. Read the match preview now, then follow the action live starting at 3pm EST / noon PST.
OpenMeta Is a Hack ★: Long forum thread between Michael Tsai and the developers of the OpenMeta project. In a nut, the OpenMeta project description makes it sound like it’s entirely legitimate, but they’re storing the data in a name space owned by Apple, which Apple has explicitly stated is not supported for third-party software. Tsai has far more patience than I do.
‘A Helluva Long Wait’ ★: Lou Cannon, on Barack Obama’s comfort level as President:

For one thing, he follows his own timetable, as Reagan did. Before he was elected, Reagan grumbled when his staff awakened him too early. Stuart Spencer, an adviser, told him to get used to it because when he was president “that fellow from the National Security Council” would be there to brief him at 7:30 a.m. every day. “Well, he’s going to have a helluva long wait,” Mr. Reagan said.
Om Malik Dumps His iPhone ★: He blames AT&T — lots of dropped calls and spotty 3G networking. Anecdotally, I’ve found that AT&T service is pretty good here at home in Philadelphia and everywhere I travel on the east coast, but sketchy in San Francisco.