Linked List: July 8, 2011

Friday, 8 July 2011

My thanks to DaisyDisk for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. DaisyDisk is a terrific utility for the Mac. It presents you with a graphical overview of your hard disks, allowing you to easily see what they’re filled with. When you’re low on disk space, DaisyDisk a great way to find large files that you no longer need. Great for cleaning out old unwanted files in preparation for upgrading to Lion, too.

DaisyDisk is fast, easy-to-use, and looks fantastic. Right now it’s on sale in the Mac App Store for just $9.99 — 50 percent off its regular price.

Motorola Drops Price of Wi-Fi Xoom by $100 ★

So now instead of being more expensive and less popular than the iPad, it will be the same price and less popular than the iPad. (3G models without a contract still start at $799.)

TSA Agent Caught With Passenger’s iPad in His Pants ★

I love the lede on this story by Matthew Hendley:

While most Transportation Security Administration employees are busy groping people or taking naked pictures of them, the cops say one of those employees was putting fliers’ electronics down his pants.

(Via Rodolfo Roca.)

Murdoch Closing Tabloid Linked to British Hacking Scandal ★

Sarah Lyall, reporting for the NYT:

Britain’s media and political landscape shifted Thursday as the powerful Murdoch family summarily announced plans to shut down the disgraced mass-circulation tabloid at the center of a deepening scandal over journalistic malfeasance, and arrest seemed imminent for the paper’s once politically influential former editor.

Bizarre and sordid saga.

Buttering Both Sides ★

Episode 50 of America’s favorite podcast. Topics include the persistent rumors of fall iPhones and iPads, the broken glass on Dan’s phone, managing email, Microsoft’s Android profits, Google+, 115054901319079500672, and this week’s Bond movie: GoldenEye.