Linked List: July 25, 2010

Sunday, 25 July 2010

Ostrich 

Free Safari extension Twitter client by Jérôme Gravel-Niquet.

Update: The website is flaking in and out; here’s a cached version in case you need it.

The War Logs 

Series of articles from The New York Times on material from a WikiLeaks archive of military documents regarding the U.S. war in Afghanistan.

An Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality Settings 

Great research and analysis from Jeffrey Friedl. Must-read for any Lightroom user.

Terminal Tips and Tricks for Mac OS X 

Great collection of command-line tips from Super User.

Japanese Author Ryu Murakami Skirts Publishers With iPad Novel 

Yoree Koh:

Ever since the arrival of the slim and snazzy electronic book devices, the magnates of the traditional publishing industry have feared the worst: that precious big-name authors might sign directly with e-book retailers, relegating the old-school publishers as the dispensable middleman.

Let the nightmare begin. Novelist Ryu Murakami plans to release his latest novel exclusively for digital bookworms through Apple Inc.’s iPad ahead of the print version.

According to an update at the end of the story, Murakami doesn’t even have a deal for the hardcover rights yet. Pure digital at this point.

The article doesn’t make clear that Murakami’s novel, A Singing Whale, is an iPad app, not an e-book in the iBookstore.

John Naughton: ‘If Apple Wants to Be a Major Player It Needs to Start Behaving Like One’ 

Apple’s response to Antennagate certainly was not above criticism. I, for example, think Apple gambled unnecessarily by mixing in media criticism (however warranted said criticism was) with its defense of the iPhone 4 antenna. But what exactly does Naughton think Apple should have done differently? What are the negative consequences they’ll face from the way they handled Antennagate? He doesn’t say.

And anyone who thinks now that Apple is a big company that they should start acting and behaving more like other typical companies — well, they’re going to be disappointed. I’m not sure there are any companies that reach this size that are “typical”, anyway. Microsoft, Intel, Google — all very distinctive, even idiosyncratic.