Linked List: November 23, 2012

Friday, 23 November 2012

My thanks to MacLegion for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote their 2012 Holiday Bundle. It’s a fantastic deal: 11 top Mac apps, including Tech Tool Pro, Freeway Pro, Fantastical, and Capo. The regular retail price for all these apps is $548; with this bundle you get them all for just $49.99. Buy now: it’s a limited time offer.

Apple Testing eBay Store for Refurbished Products ★

9to5 Mac:

We thought Apple might be testing the waters to sell refurbished products directly to customers through eBay, and it seems that’s exactly what is happening. We discovered that this is in fact an Apple-run Store within eBay. It is in trial, and it could open the door to much bigger things. No one would go on the record at eBay, however.

Weird but interesting.

Mozilla Kills Firefox 64-Bit for Windows ★

Emil Protalinski, reporting for The Next Web:

Firefox users are thus left without much of an option. They can switch to OS X or Linux, both of which have full versions of Firefox 64-bit. Windows 64-bit users meanwhile can only consider Internet Explorer and Opera, since both Chrome and Safari don’t offer 64-bit flavors.

Mac OS X’s transition from 32- to 64-bit apps sure has been smoother than Windows’s. Mac users simply don’t need to worry about it.

GigaOm: ‘Google Wants to Take on Apple With an Open AirPlay Alternative’ ★

Instances of the word “open”, including headline: 4.

Instances of the words “copy” (or any synonyms, e.g. “derivative”): 0.