victor is dead slash luna presents:
The Terror Alert Banana
Source here. That is all.
Audio-stream capturing
Eric descibes how he’s been ripping John Peel to disc for later listening on iPod using the interesting multi-format capable MusicSafari.
In the past, I’ve used Ambrosia’s WireTap, which is free.
Mac hat trick: Scripting iChat
iChat Knows Where I Am, blogs EIC Jason Snell at Macworld. He’s whipped up a mildly kludgy AppleScript to set iChat’s broadcast indicator status to recognize his current location, either ‘at the office’ or ‘at home.’
Hm. This doesn’t directly apply to my needs right now, but it’s an interesting idea… I like the idea of status indicators available to good friends and family. In my case, something like ‘vacuuming,’ ‘washing dishes,’ ‘doing laundry,’ ‘jobhunting,’ and the like might be cool. Not that I have any idea how to automate that.
Tangentially: look! blogs at Macworld! Looks like Jason has been at it since January 20, and Mac 911 dude Chris Breen has been going since December.
Speaking of Steve Jobs
Pixar Sees End to Its Disney Partnership [NYT]. Well. Someone’s clearly lost their marbles. I recall seeing joking speculation that Apple would buy Disney if something like this came to pass… I’m sure the next few weeks will have some entertaining developments. I wonder, does this imply that Jobs has been spending a great deal of time paying attention to Pixar at the expense of Apple, thus the less-than-compelling product intros at Macworld earlier this month?
Macs at Microsoft
The Mac lovers of Microsoft: these ones haven’t been fired.
Kidding, Mac BU! This P-I story looks at the people that make software for Macs up Redmond way. It’s by Todd Bishop, who I’ve linked to far too much this week.