Linked List: October 26, 2010

Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Apple Delays White iPhone Until Next Spring 

The good news is, Apple hasn’t had any problems with any of the other iPhone 4 colors.

Barnes and Noble Nook Color 

John Biggs, writing for AOL/CrunchGear:

It’s quite small and compact — much lighter than an iPad — and the UI is very handsome. Android users will be kind of miffed that the device doesn’t support the Android App Store, however, because B&N wants a “curated experience.” So much for the openness of Android.

It’s interesting because it’s only $249, but that still strikes me as a no-man’s land. A lot more expensive than the Kindle, a lot less capable than an iPad.

Update: Just watched the demo video in this post (Flash required, alas). The Nook Color is so painfully slow it makes me embarrassed for Barnes and Noble. Horrendous scrolling and zooming and touch responsiveness. Just horrendous. (Related: What in the world is Darrell Etherington smoking?)

Ben Brooks Makes the Case for the MacBook Air as a Primary Computer 

And he’s putting his money where his mouth is.

Adobe ‘Edge’ — Prototype Tool for Creating HTML5 Animations 

Great demo. (But, ironically, the video requires Flash.)

Travel Sites Oppose Google’s Purchase of ITA 

Thomas Catan, reporting for the WSJ:

Expedia Inc., Kayak.com, Sabre Holdings and Farelogix Inc. — which operate half-a-dozen leading online travel sites — are forming a coalition called FairSearch.org to persuade the Justice Department to block Google’s latest deal.

Here’s Google’s response.

Video of the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet in Action 

On stage at Adobe’s MAX conference. Not an extensive demo, but anything at all is more than RIM showed at their own developer conference.

Engadget’s WebOS 2.0 Review 

Looks like a great OS update, but they desperately need new hardware to remain relevant.

Zeldman on BBEdit 9.6 

Zeldman:

Given these antecedents, it’s no surprise that the new version adds support for HTML5, including published element lists from WHATWG and W3C; CSS3 properties, including vendor-specific properties for Mozilla, Safari/WebKit, and Opera browsers; a new contextual code-hinting feature tied to your chosen doctype that includes as-you-type popups for allowed elements, attributes, and (in CSS documents) style properties; and Bare Bones’s own offline validator (HTML 3.2 through HTML5, XHTML inclusive), baked right into BBEdit.

Jason Snell Reviews the New MacBook Air Models 

Jason Snell:

The new 11.6-inch MacBook Air, on the other hand, is the smallest and lightest Apple laptop of all time, and its base price of $999 ties it with the plastic MacBook as the cheapest Mac laptop available. I’m not sure I’d call it unlike anything Apple’s created before — it’s got all the stylings of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines, but is tiny like the legendary 12-inch PowerBook of old — but it might be the most novel new Mac released since the Intel Mac era began.

BBEdit 9.6 

Speaking of BBEdit, a new version just came out today. Copious release notes, as usual.

View Generated Source for Frontmost Safari Window in BBEdit 

Nice tweak by David Kendal to an AppleScript I posted back in 2003. Both show the source for the current Safari window in BBEdit. His tweak, though, shows the generated source, after JavaScripts have finished diddling with the DOM and WebKit has parsed the HTML. Update: I’ve made a few special modifications myself.

Update: Change “BBEdit” to “TextWrangler” and the script works just fine, by the way.

Last Week’s ‘Back to the Mac’ Event in 104 Seconds 

Really great. Incredible. Beautiful. Thank you.

Hand Pause 

“What hands do whilst waiting for devices to catch up with their intent.” Simple, true observation. (Thanks to Jim Coudal.)

Update: Fireballed already. Sheesh. Google has it cached, luckily.