The MacHeist Bundle is back, and it’s chock-full of some great Mac software. It’s well-worth the $39. ✓
So much good on this page. So much good.
(Mr. Stokes, you are forgiven.) ✓
Looking for some new, good music? Look no further [iTunes link]. (Via Chuck Skoda.) ✓
Milwaukee Bucks tell Charlie Villanueva not to Twitter during games anymore.
Bucks forward Charlie Villanueva got a talking-to from Skiles after the coach learned Villanueva posted a message to his Twitter feed — a “tweet” — from his mobile phone during halftime of Sunday’s home victory over the Boston Celtics.
The team wins, Villanueva scores a team-high 19 points, and the coach has the audacity to reprimand him? Unreal. If it were a team rule or policy I could understand it — well, no, even then I would question the policy itself. It’s time to embrace technology and leverage its benefits, not suppress it and lose out. ✓
Apple Previews iPhone 3.0 Software. This is a big update to the iPhone OS, and includes Cut, Copy and Paste (with Undo/Redo support), MMS, widescreen keyboard, and device-wide search. I expect the usual whining from the media about the lack of Flash and how it will certainly doom the iPhone.
[…] in the Q&A session at the end, Apple merely said that there were no announcements about Flash, but that there were plenty of alternative methods of distributing video that don’t require Flash.
For those keeping score at home, that’s: Apple, 13,700,000+ and Adobe/Flash, 0. Can’t you just feel the impending doom? ✓
As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping Up. The internet is changing the world, and the iPhone is getting the internet into places it’s never been. ✓
This is crazy talk. Happy Cog is redesigning mozilla.org — no surprise there. The crazy is that they’re documenting the process and asking for community involvement. ✓
Does owning an SUV make me an adult now? ✓
We’re selling our townhouse! We bought it in 2004 as a new-build and have absolutely loved it. The time has come, though, to find something bigger — and with less stairs. Interested? Please contact our realtor.
Update: We sold! Thanks for all the well-wishing and encouraging suggestions. We received a fair offer after only five days on the market — and took it. Now we’re on the other side of the deal; looking for a house to move into. ✓
Inquisitor for iPhone launched. It’s free. ✓
John Gruber’s thorough ‘observations, complaints, quibbles, and suggestions regarding the Safari 4 Public Beta’ is a great read for anyone interested in interface design — regardless of their OS or browser preference. (He also mentions my suggested design for the new Safari tabs.)
He summarizes my main beef with the tabs:
Consider: with the previous tab design, if you wanted to move a window you dragged the window, and if you wanted to move a tab, you dragged the tab. Now in Safari 4, if you want to move the window you drag a tab, and if you want to move a tab you drag the small grippy strip at the far right edge of a tab. This is more abstract, indirect, and worse. ✓
For the past two weeks here in Seattle, Starbucks stores have been passing out sample packs of VIA, their new instant coffee. I tried my first cup last week and tweeted my thoughts: it was surprisingly good.
VIA started as an idea 20 years ago and is now a retail reality; a very good tasting reality. As I type this I’m enjoying a cup of the Italian Roast with a bit of International Delight vanilla creamer. It’s almost as good as french press.