Linked List: December 12, 2012

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Seems a little ridiculous that the chart labels 2010 “Tablets take off” — not the iPad, but generic “Tablets” — but then for 2011 has “Kindle Fire launched”.

Saul Bass Poster Sketches for ‘The Shining’ ★

Details, details, details.

The Unlikely Persistence of AppleScript ★

Yours truly, writing for Macworld:

To recap: Decidedly old-school-Apple/pre-NeXT technology. A programming language syntax that frustrated experts and failed to achieve its intended goal of empowering non-programmers to program. A technical mismatch with the Cocoa application framework. You need this historical context to understand how unlikely AppleScript’s long-term success was. Someone with access to a time machine could make a lot of money by going back to Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 1998 and accepting wagers that AppleScript would be alive and well in the year 2012.

I really like how this piece turned out; it captures a lot of what I’ve been trying to say about AppleScript for years.

#4A525Aholes ★

Speaking of Flickr and DF t-shirts (which are now available for purchase), when yours arrives, don’t forget to send a photo to the best group on Flickr. Going to be tough to beat this one, though.

Flickr for iPhone 2.0 ★

Complete redesign of Flickr’s iPhone app. There’s a lot to like. Clearly, it’s heavily inspired by Instagram, but at this point I don’t see how it couldn’t be. Scrolling is fast and smooth, and I like the way photos cleverly snap to the edge as you pan side-to-side through a user’s photos.

This, finally, is a good way to use Flickr from a phone.

Australian Police Warn of Safety Concerns From Google Maps ★

ABC News in Australia:

Now police in Colac, west of Melbourne, say faults with Google maps are putting people’s lives at risk along the Great Ocean Road and in the southern Otways.