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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 [...]

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Apple Bug Saturday: iPhoto Keyword Searching

I have a *lot* of keywords; I keep one for every person in any of my photos. When I use the search feature to search for keywords, the dark black window that appears to let me choose a keyword stretches up above the screen, making the first few dozen keywords impossible to search for, since [...]

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The Non-Maximizing Maximize Button

The Non-Maximizing Maximize Button: That’s my problem with Apple’s non-maximizing maximize button. Allowing users to maximize any window to a monitor has its problems, to be sure. But Apple’s method of forcing users to deal with more windows by preventing maximization is not good user interface design. It is fundamentally and deeply flawed. Users don’t [...]

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Apple Bug Friday

In Tiger, when I put an open Mail message into the background, the Delete button disables itself. None of the other buttons do. Bizarre.

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Tim and Tiger

Tim Bray isn’t so sure he likes Tiger. And I’d agree, but with enough caveats that I thought a blog post would be worthwhile. OS X has gone through five major revisions since I’ve been using it. It had more before, but since I didn’t use them I don’t really know about them, and won’t [...]

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WebKit Nightlies

So maybe setting my default browser to the WebKit nightly wasn’t so great an idea…

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ApTel: Whither AltiVec?

So there’s talk all over the web about Apple moving to Intel processors, but one thing I couldn’t find was the fate of AltiVec. AltiVec, or the Velocity Engine, is the part of the G4 and G5 that does the heavy lifting when you need giant numbers crunched: it is the reason why G5s have [...]

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Growl

I Want. The problem with Sonja being gone is that I can’t just drop $150 to pick up a family pack (after rebate). Core Data is a siren; it calls to me…

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