Linked List: August 21, 2009

Friday, 21 August 2009

AT&T and Google’s Responses to the FCC App Store Inquiry ★

Only Apple’s is available as a web page on the company’s own site. Engadget is hosting copies of the responses from AT&T and Google.

Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions ★

Did you expect Apple to publish their full response to the FCC’s inquiry regarding the Google Voice iPhone app? I did not.

Ajaxload ★

Create your own indeterminate progress spinners. (Via Leah Culver.)

Upcoming Nokia N900 to Run Linux-Based OS ★

Looks like Nokia is moving beyond Symbian with an OS based on Maemo (which is what they’ve been using in their tablets). Certainly looks interesting, but, judging from all of these screenshots, it doesn’t seem like the display rotates — it only works in landscape orientation. Other than for games, I almost never use my iPhone in anything but portrait mode. (Via Slashdot.)

Update: I stand corrected. There is one screenshot (out of several dozen) that shows the phone contacts screen in portrait orientation. Perhaps the phone app runs in portrait because that’s the only natural way to hold the device for use as a phone, but everything else is landscape?

Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad ★

Mid-’80s presentation from Alan Kay showing off Sketchpad, a simply incredible vector drawing application written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963. 1963! This is astonishing. (Via Swiss Miss.)