This might be a hope rather than a prediction. The icon for Energy Saver in System Preferences has long been a light bulb.


When 10.6 comes, look for it to be a compact fluorescent light bulb.

Seems like everyone is gushing that Safari 3.1, bless its little heart, is the first browser to support CSS animations. Whoop-de-doo—web developers can now add animation with a simple CSS tag. JavaScript not necessary! (Swoon!)

Personally, I think this development is dreadful.
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Lately I’ve seen some wishful thinking about AppleTV sporting a Blu-Ray drive. I say, it ain’t gonna happen.
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One of my favorite Leopard features hasn’t received much discussion; none in fact, as far as I can tell. It’s the new font collection that contains only fonts appropriate for the user’s preferred language.
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I’ve just watched a couple of rented movies via the iTunes store. This could become habit-forming.
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I’m tired, tired, tired of reading self-proclaimed experts who insist that Windows has more malware because Windows has more market share, with the corollary that low market share is the main thing that keeps Macs safe.

This assumption is so wrong that I hardly know where to begin. As it happens, I recently found myself commenting on a particularly inane blog article, and that helped me to focus my thoughts.
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I really, really loathe stacks in Leopard, but here’s one I rather like. Because Screen Sharing works so well, I find myself using it more often than Apple Remote Desktop. The Screen Sharing application lacks a way to configure a list of favorite remote hosts, so I made a stack of Internet locations. Here’s the screenshot:
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My little DockAppsMenu worked to restore the functionality of a hierarchical Applications menu in the Dock as a temporary solution until something better came along. It’s now here: Quay by Rainer Brockerhoff.

I’ve been trying out the beta and I can’t wait to send him seven euros for the release version as soon as it’s available. Quay gets it right. Folders sit in the right side of the Dock and look exactly as they do in a standard Leopard setup. But a click (not a right-click) reveals a hierarchical menu rather than those hideous Stacks. Read more »

Important update: There are now two proper solutions to the Stacks fiasco. Either install the 10.5.2 update or install Quay. You do not need to use my application.

Leopard arrived with one major irritation: you can no longer drag a folder to the Dock and have its contents appear in a popup menu. This bugged me so much I couldn’t enjoy any of the great new features. So I whipped up a workaround to use until somebody comes up with a better idea.
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