Daring Fireball: Translation From Apples Unique Dialect of PR-Speak to English of the Letter From Apple Regarding iPhone 4.

Absolute gold.

It turns out that FaceTime is like an Egg McMuffin and not like Coca-Cola. Coke is a combination of many readily-available ingredients plus the mysterious, top-secret, and proprietary Merchandise “X” that turns a Cola into a Coke. When Apple created the FaceTime standard, they combined existing, open, off-the-shelf standards for network communication, handshaking, and media streaming into a new recipe, creating a technique that practically anybody can replicate.

via iPhone 4 review: It’s a brand new, better smartphone :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko.

These are the treasures that await when you take the time to read a 6000-word Andy Ihnatko review.  Not only is Andy the only journalist I can think of who would even put an analogy like this into a review, he is the only one who could pull it off.

In Snow Leopard, Image Capture allows you to set a default application to open on a per device basis.

Snow Leopard is abound with small tweaks here and there that are really quite nice. I just noticed a new one this morning that is very useful.

In previous versions of OS X, you could use Image Capture to set a preferred application to launch (or not) when you attached a camera to the Mac.  My first run-in with this preference came because I wanted to disable iPhoto from launching every time I connected my iPhone.

The common complaint with how this worked in Leopard was that Image Capture managed this as a global setting, i.e. I could tell my Mac to not launch iPhoto when any camera was connected, but I couldn’t say don’t launch iPhoto for my iPhone, however do launch it for my Canon DSLR.  This led to some fairly clever, but hacky workarounds requiring Applescript.

However now in Snow Leopard, Apple has updated Image Catpure so you can set this preference on a per device basis.  A small tweak, but much appreciated.

Well as of tonight, I am excited to say there is a mobile version of the blog that uses Apple’s web app API for the iPhone and iPod Touch.  Here’s a screenshot of how it looks in mobile Safari:

I used Brave New Code’s WPTouch Wordpress Plugin, which is just a great piece of software that is very easy to configure.  The plugin has no effect on how the regular web version of the site is rendered on your desktop or laptop  and allows you to configure a number of options for the mobile version (including a switch to let a viewer see the “desktop” version of the site if needed).

The next time you are using your iPhone or iPod Touch, please check it out!