Linked List: December 22, 2010

Wednesday, 22 December 2010

Indie iPhone Holiday Sale 

Six great iPhone games, all on sale for just 99 cents each. Even better, one-third of the profits are going to the Child’s Play charity.

DF RSS Feed Sponsorship 

The weekly RSS feed sponsorships here are usually sold out a month or two in advance, sometimes more. But for the first time a while, there’s a short-term availability — next week’s spot is still open. If you’ve got a product or service you’d like to promote to Daring Fireball’s audience of smart, good-looking readers, get in touch. Might be a good week to promote apps to people who’ve just opened brand-new Christmas gift iPads and iPhones.

Update: Sold.

‘I Am Rich’ Returns 

Remember “I Am Rich”, the $999 iPhone app that served no purpose other than as a statement that the purchaser could afford such an app? It’s back, but this time for Windows Phone 7, and the price has been cut to just $499.

Comments Posted to the ‘We Won’t Fly’ Blog From a Homeland Security Department IP Address 

Rude, confrontational, and poorly spelled and punctuated. Shocking.

Comic Sans Criminal 

Lovely little website by Matt Dempsey.

Word 2011’s New Find/Replace Feature 

Pierre Igot:

The applications that use a search-field-based approach, with or without a sidebar, are applications that are for reading/browsing purposes mainly, and not for writing: Preview, Safari, iTunes, Mail’s main Viewer window, etc. So why did Microsoft choose to copy that UI instead of sticking with the dialog-box-based approach that appears to be the preferable option for writing tools?

The generous answer would be to say that Microsoft is trying to innovate and bring to writing tools the simplicity/intuitiveness of the search UI used for reading/browsing tools.

The less generous answer would be to say that Microsoft simply didn’t really think the whole thing through.

WTF 

You can’t make this shit up:

The CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables. Its name? WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF for short.

This Is How You Deal With Design Ripoffs 

Just call them out. Update: Page was fireballed, but works now (thanks to the Fireballed.org cache).