Linked List: July 27, 2010

Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Dan Frakes on the Magic Trackpad 

The buttons are in the front feet underneath.

Kickstartup 

Craig Mod on his experience using Kickstarter. (I just got my copy of Art Space Tokyo, the book whose printing he funded through Kickstarter, and it’s exquisite.)

Neven Mrgan Compares the New iMac to All-in-Ones From Dell and HP 

Not the computers, but their websites.

Adam Lisagor on The Pipeline 

Really enjoyed this interview of Adam Lisagor by Dan Benjamin. Funny and very honest.

Mark Huot: ‘A Real Web Design Framework’ 

Thoughtful response to Jason Santa Maria’s plea yesterday for a new web design app; in particular, how something like Interface Builder — or at least exactly like IB — wouldn’t work for web pages.

Dell Streak Pricing: $549 Without Contract 

Question for those who think commoditization is going to to relegate iOS to a Mac-sized niche: where is the $200 Android competitor to the iPod Touch? It’s been a huge hit for three years, and still has no competition.

Apple’s Original Desktop Trackpad 

Nice catch by Simon Beckerman.

First Philly Apple Store Opens This Friday 

There are a bunch of Apple Stores in the Philly area, but this is the first in the city proper.

London Times Loses Almost 90 Percent of Online Readership 

Josh Halliday, reporting for The Guardian:

The Times has lost almost 90% of its online readership compared to February since making registration mandatory in June, calculations by the Guardian show.

Dumb.

Apple’s Magic Trackpad 

Multitouch trackpad for desktop Macs.

New $999 27-Inch LED Cinema Display 

Replaces not just the old 30-inch Cinema Display, but also the 24-inch. This will be Apple’s only standalone display going forward. Doesn’t go on sale until September, though.

New iMacs, Too 

Another SSD option:

Customers of the 27-inch iMac have the option to order a 256GB solid state drive (SSD) as a primary or secondary drive. The iMac SSD supports up to 215 MB/s data transfer rates for faster startup and application launch times.

Apple Unveils New Mac Pro With Up to 12 Processing Cores 

First update to the Mac Pro in over 500 days. Looks good. And they’re finally pitching SSDs as being faster, not just more reliable:

For the first time, Mac Pro customers have the option to order a 512GB SSD for the ultimate in reliability and lightning fast performance. With the ability to install up to four SSD drives in the system’s internal drive bays, the new Mac Pro can provide ultra high-speed disk bandwidth and random disk performance, two times faster than the average performance of a standard disk drive.

Rare Video Footage of Yours Truly Making Predictions Regarding New Products From Apple 

I missed the AA battery charger.

Yahoo Japan to Adopt Google’s Search Engine 

Reuters:

Yahoo Japan, Japan’s biggest Internet portal operator, said on Tuesday it will adopt U.S. rival Google Inc’s search engine and advertisement delivery system and provide Google with its data.

Not exactly a team player, I guess.