Archive for December, 2007

Apple is the Other

Seth’s Blog: Apple’s next problem:

When your entire culture is organized about being the other, the outsider, the insurgent, the one that’s better than the masses… what do you do when you are the masses?

Apple doesn’t have that problem quite yet; the office is still solidly in the Windows camp, and shows little sign of moving.

Flying Squirrel Suit

(Via Slashdot.)

I’m torn between thinking that this is the coolest thing ever and knowing that if I were to do it, I would flip out and plummet to my doom.

Free Rice

I have donated 10000 grains of rice

Help the world’s hungry out and expand your vocabulary at the same time: Free Rice.

For every word you get right, they donate 20 grains of rice. For every one you get wrong, they tell you what it really was. No pressure; just donate some time and they’ll donate some rice.

Dock Stacks: the Lost Features

The way it was supposed to be:

Instead I’m going to show everyone the way it was “supposed” to be.
This is not a hack, this Dock was taken from one of the Leopard beta installations that was seeded to developers and beta testers before the official release.

(Via Digg.)

It’s nifty, but I can see why it’s disabled: it hides certain apps (which might be running), and it adds makes everything more complicated.

Moreover, perusing my Dock, I can’t see any app group I’d like to do this to; they’re either important enough I want to have their position fixed, or they’re single apps (like iPhoto) that have no relation to others.