Facebook acquired Acrylic Software today, which created an iPad and Mac application for organizing your RSS feeds. The company is known for its iOS design prowess, which probably piqued Facebook’s interest more than the app itself.

The team moves to San Francisco in the next few weeks and will be absorbed into Facebook’s design team. Pulp and Wallet, the company’s other applications, were not, however, purchased by Facebook. These apps, which founder Dustin MacDonald says have been downloaded “hundreds of thousands” of times, will remain up and running “in their current form.” The terms of this deal have not yet been released.

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The deal seemingly stemmed from a trip to Facebook’s headquarters MacDonald took last year. He explained in a blog post that he found a lot of his design ideas and principles aligning with Facebook’s. He sees the acquisition as “an opportunity at Facebook to have a big impact in many people’s lives.”

mac-knack is a simple node script for finding Networking card vendors, based off of the first three 'sets' of a MAC address.

Usage

The API is simple to use, in the form of URL parameters. For example, to get an array of MAC prefixes registered to Apple:

The API can also search by MAC prefixes in the form of:

The command-line utiliy that comes with this repo operates by the same means, except it uses a local config file for storing the MAC database. I have having erratic movement of my mouse when using excel for mac.

Acknowledgments

The MAC Address:Vendor “database” was built from the list provided in the program macchanger for linux. Full credit for the creation of the list goes to those responsible for its integration into macchanger.