Daring FireballMac and web curmudgeonry/nerdery. By John Gruber.HP Working on Their Own Desktop OS- September 15, 2008 Interesting report by Aaron Ricadela at BusinessWeek: The ecosystem that Microsoft has built up around its Windows operating system is showing signs of strain. In one of several recent moves by partners that sell or support the company&8217;s software, Hewlett-Packard, the world&8217;s No. 1 PC maker, has quietly assembled a group of engineers to develop software that will let customers bypass certain features of Vista, the latest version of Windows. Employees on a separate...http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_38/b4100084242512.htm Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update- September 15, 2008 In Software Update now. Long list of fixes in the release notes.http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2405 Things That Podcasters Rejection From the App Store Is Not About- September 15, 2008 Regarding spurious defenses of Apple's rejection of Podcaster from the App Store.http://daringfireball.net/2008/09/podcasters_rejection Best Buy Buys Napster for $121 Million- September 15, 2008 Seems like a clear response to the iTunes Store&8217;s rise to the top spot in the U.S. retail market. Selling music on CDs is quickly turning into a niche. You&8217;d think they could have built their own online store from scratch for less than $121 million, though. I think Best Buy&8217;s been taken to the cleaners on this deal.http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/sold-best-buy-swallows-napster-for-121-million-bby- A Modest Proposal- September 15, 2008 Jeffrey Zeldman: If youre selling toothpaste, your claims must be vetted by legal and medical professionals. But not if youre selling a candidate. If youre selling a candidate, not only can you lie about his record, but more to the point, you can lie about his opponent.http://www.zeldman.com/2008/09/15/a-modest-proposal/ Harpers Magazine: David Foster Wallace, in Memoriam- September 15, 2008 Harper&8217;s has published its collection of work by David Foster Wallace. &8220;Ticket to the Fair&8221; and &8220;Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars Over Usage&8221; are two of my favorites, but it&8217;s all good. &8220;Shipping Out: On the (Nearly Lethal) Comforts of a Luxury Cruise&8221; became the title piece of his essay collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I&8217;ll Never Do Again.http://harpers.org/archive/2008/09/hbc-90003557 Air Sharing 1.0- September 15, 2008 Air Sharing is a terrific utility for the iPhone. It uses Bonjour networking to run a WebDAV file server. You mount the server as a volume in the Finder (or on Windows or Linux), and you can send files back and forth to your iPhone. On the iPhone, it provides file viewersplayers for a slew of common formats, such as iWork, Safari web archives, PDF, RTF, movies, audio, and images. The regular price is $7, but the introductory price is free. (Via Michael Tsai.)http://www.avatron.com/products/ Financial Russian Roulette- September 15, 2008 Paul Krugman on today&8217;s Wall Street news: For example, today much of the Feds portfolio is tied up in loans backed by dubious collateral. Also, officials are worried that their rescue efforts will encourage even more risky behavior in the future. After all, its starting to look as if the rule is heads you win, tails the taxpayers lose.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/opinion/15krugman.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&a... Hope- September 15, 2008 Photograph by Michael David Murphy. Update: Server is down, alas.http://2point8.whileseated.org/2008/08/29/barack-obama-accepts/ Trip Cubby- September 15, 2008 Remember TripLog1040, the mileage and expense logging app for the iPhone with the, uh, questionable UI aesthetic Trip Cubby is the same idea, done right. Looks like a winner if you need this sort of app.http://www.appcubby.com/trip/index.html |