Quick Links: April 23rd, 2003
Published 5 years, 7 months ago in macintoshOnce again, I’ve been busy working, so here’s a collection of links and quick comments:
Scoble comments on Meckler’s non-weblog weblog — heh, name slinging is always a fun sport to watch.
Love the new look of the Apple Store.
Clutter for iTunes… nice idea [via MoreLikeThis]
OS X Command Line Fun from John Gruber
Very cool: TypePad, a new hosted solution for people wanting to use MovableType, which is superior to Blogger and Radio, in my opinion. Oh, and Ben’s write up of this announcement and Kalsey’s thoughts.
Note for work: How to do customer relations email marketing thanks to Adam Kalsey.
Interview with Bob Diener, of hotels.com. (Only interesting because I used to work closely with HRN and drove by their corporate headquarters in Dallas today… they really need to get a better sign on the outside of the building… it still looks like a cheap-ass sign on that building).
All the little buttons you could ever want for your weblog [via Scott]
Oh, and Jeremy, I use Klear Screen to clean my laptop screen… forgot to blog that for you.
RANT: Macminute launches a MacMinute Radio feature, but zips the MP3 (doesn’t StuffIt, which would be the Mac way of compressing the file) and oh, by the way, the MP3 is already compressed as much as possible, isn’t it? It should be (it is, they saved 23,000 bytes by zipping it), and that forces me to close my browser windows (or at least get it out of the way) so I can un-zip the file, to load into iTunes… instead of just offering the MP3 for clicking and playing in Safari, or IE, or whatever browser I’m using. Stupid. One more example of a technology publishing company that really doesn’t get today’s technology or how people use it. Fucking amazing how stupid zipping an MP3 for a Macintosh audience is. Amazing.
Oh, and Appleworks for Windows was updated in case you didn’t know. (Does anyone use it?)
My thoughts on the new Palm Tungsten C? I should’ve waited a month and a half to buy a new Palm.
Who’ve Known:
Bluetooth gets its name from Harald Bluetooth, a 10th century Danish king famed for uniting his nation with Norway [via Adam]
Just read an interesting article at the Asia Times [via Slashdot] I’ll come back and write more on this I’m hoping.
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Zipping an MP3 file for Macintosh users is silly, but a close second is Stuffing a PDF — which seems very common. Sheesh.
No images on archived pages.
Indeed. Zipping an MP3 file carries with it about as much logic as launching a Mac news site in a shitty economy.
In other related news, I’ve started referring to MacMinute as McMinute. I think you can figure out why. :p
It’s zipped so it will download to your computer… So you can maybe take it on the train on the way to work? It’s not meant to save space. If you don’t want the .zip, just use the .mp3 version–yes it’s provided:
http://insidemac.macupdate.com/daily.mp3
It’s updated daily at 7PM EST (I believe) and I set up a cron job to fetch it for me via cURL. Not bad.
I’m not a big one for getting news via audio since it follow it before 7PM, but for a lot of people that take the train to work in the morning this would be nice. Set your laptop to fetch it at 5AM and you got news on your desktop.
I’d like to see MP3 streaming for us “non-laptop” folk.
Also, I believe it’s zipped because both Macs and PC’s can decompress it by default. I think you have to download stuff to get a .sit to decompress on Windows.