Linked List: September 22, 2009

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Arial Versus Helvetica 

How to spot the difference. In short, if the terminals aren’t perpendicular, it’s Arial.

Opacity 1.4 

New version of Like Thought’s vector drawing app includes a mind-blowing new feature: you can export as source code — Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, or JavaScript/Canvas.

Keith Lang’s ‘Stand Up Dock’ Proposal 

Nice idea.

Update: His blog (running WordPress, naturally) is fireballed, so I’ve switched the link to point directly to the video at Vimeo.

Jim Dalrymple: Microsoft Poaching Apple Store Managers and Sales Staff 

Jim Dalrymple reports:

People that have spoken to The Loop on condition of anonymity confirm that Microsoft has contacted a number of Apple’s retail store managers to work in their stores. In addition to “significant raises,” the managers have also been offered moving expenses in some cases.

Makes sense, given how blatantly they’ve copied Apple’s stores so far. Where else would they go to hire Apple Store-like employees?

Adium Software Update Statistics 

They’ve got Snow Leopard at about 24 percent.

Omni Software Update Statistics 

The Omni Group’s software update statistics offer a broader view of Mac OS X usage. Right now, they’ve got:

  • 10.4 Tiger: 36.4%
  • 10.5 Leopard: 40.0%
  • 10.6 Snow Leopard: 23.5%

(Click “Major Version” in their sidebar to get all three charted at once.)

Lightroom vs. Aperture 

InfoTrends survey of over 1,000 professional photographers shows Lightroom pulling further ahead of Aperture in popularity — even just among Mac users.

Kurt Vonnegut Reads ‘Breakfast of Champions’ Three Years Before Publication 

Merlin Mann:

I can’t believe I’ve made it this long without ever hearing this audio, described as Vonnegut’s “first public reading of the classic Breakfast of Champions, three years before it was published, on May 4, 1970 at the 92nd Street Y.”

As Merlin says, it sounds just terrific.