Linked List: May 31, 2010

Monday, 31 May 2010

‘Microsoft We Don’t Feel So Good About’ 

David Gelles and Richard Waters, in a piece titled “Google Ditches Windows on Security Concerns” in the Financial Times:

New hires are now given the option of using Apple’s Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system. “Linux is open source and we feel good about it,” said one employee. “Microsoft we don’t feel so good about.”

Looking Silly, Indeed 

Paul Thurrott, back on January 6, reporting from CES:

In the meantime, I wanted to briefly discuss some of the stuff Lenovo is doing. I spent about an hour and a half meeting with them this morning and while I am charitably described as a ThinkPad fanboy, the truth is, they just make the best notebooks on earth. And now they’re getting even better. It’s dizzying. I posted a bit about this yesterday, but there is so much going on here. In fact, their near-final version of a tiny notebook with a breakaway tablet screen absolutely kills anything Apple could possibly announce later this month. It’s not even close. […]

IdeaPad U1 hybrid notebook. Shipping in the second half of 2010, this is the device that will make Apple’s supposed tablet look silly. It’s basically a clamshell netbook-class computer running Windows 7. But you can pop-off the screen and use just that as a tablet.

Three days ago, Lenovo announced that they’re killing the product and starting over from scratch with Android.

Apple: Two Million iPads Sold in Less Than 60 Days 

It took two years for Apple to sell the two-millionth iPod, and four months to sell the two-millionth iPhone. (One significant difference between the iPad and iPhone, though, is that the no-contract Wi-Fi-only iPod Touch did not debut alongside the iPhone. When comparing aggregate iPad sales to the iPhone, it’s only fair to include the iPod Touch with the iPhone.)

Daniel Jalkut’s ‘Select Regular Expression’ Script for the Finder 

I’ve been using this script for years: you enter a Perl regex pattern, the script will then select all items in the frontmost Finder window whose names match the pattern.

I’ve made a one-character customization to Jalkut’s script. His line 69:

if ($thisLeaf =~ /$pattern/)

I’ve changed this to:

if ($thisLeaf =~ /$pattern/i)

which makes the file name match case insensitive.