Linked List: March 14, 2011

Monday, 14 March 2011

Bloomberg: ‘Microsoft Said to Stop Releasing Zune as Demand Ebbs’ 

When has demand for Zunes done anything but ebb?

Charles Arthur on Twitter’s Warning to Client Developers 

One dick move after another.

iPad 2 Sold Out? 

Jim Dalrymple:

The iPad 2 went on sale at 5:00 pm local time on Friday and by the end of the weekend, there wasn’t an iPad 2 to be found anywhere in the country, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.

Apple’s online store is quoting “3-4 weeks” shipping time for all models.

Using AppleScript to Open the Current Safari URL in Google Chrome 

Nice tip from TJ Luoma; possibly of interest to anyone using my instructions for going Flash-free on Mac OS X.

iFixit’s Smart Cover Teardown 

iFixit:

There are a total of THIRTY ONE magnets within the iPad 2 and Smart Cover: 10 magnets in the iPad 2, and a whopping 21 magnets inside the Smart Cover. They’re the reason why the cover works so well with the iPad 2.

Firefox VP on Flash 

Austin Carr, quoting Firefox VP Jay Sullivan:

So is Flash going away?

“I think so in the long run,” Sullivan says. “A lot of it has to do with HTML5. With Firefox 4, Internet Explorer 9, and Chrome, to the extent that we provide functionality in enough browsers, then the developers will switch over to HTML5, especially in mobile, where you can’t have Flash popping up on every page just to do some little animation. The idea that you’d have to embed an entire instance of the Flash player just to play a 30 second audio clip? It’s crazy.”