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All these excuses are really funny. It doesn't matter whether the app is a beta or not. Apple KNEW hundreds of thousands of people would be downloading Safari. Whatever the license agreement says, it is extremely BAD PR to distribute something that can erase your home directory by accident...

Actually, 7.5.5 was released in 1996, but you're not far off :D Apple system software timeline: http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=tam&page=timeline&subpage=os

Well, I sure like the stuff Apple brought out at Macworld. However, if what Apple is doing now is "innovating", they sure as hell used to innovate a lot more in the past. When Microsoft brought out the first version of Windows, Apple was 10 years ahead. Since then MS has more or less caught up...

Wow, this is fast. I've never installed X11 on OS X before, and this was really a no-nonsense install. Window resizing is really fast, ie. what it should be! If only it was as fast in Aqua... :(

Finally a PowerBook in my price range. Perhaps next summer I'll have one of those, or maybe the next revision. Really, really great! It's also a good size, and supports an extended desktop without nasty hacks :D

The great thing about the pop-up blocker is that it's not buried in a preference pane. It can be enabled/disabled with a simple keystroke!

I totally agree. Tabs can also be confusing sometimes, because tabs that are in the background won't be listed in the Window menu or in the dock menu. The fact Apple hasn't implemented tabs in Safari is a sign that there's still someone at Apple who has read their own UI guidelines. :) What...

What's the deal with Nokia (and other) phones with GPRS and Mac OS today? I'm mostly interested in using GPRS for internet access (not WAP), and would be interested in knowing which GPRS-capable phones are compatible with Mac OS X.

By "over here" I presume you mean the UK. I don't think this can be generalised to the rest of Europe, and most certainly not the Nordic countries. Oddly, although in Finland we tend to make fun of our neighbour Sweden (and vice versa), Volvo is an extremely popular car here. And in case...

I've heard a lot of good stuff about Dvorak, but I believe it is designed to be fast when typing in English, so you won't necessarily get good results with Italian.

I use Path Finder occasionally, and it's mostly great. I don't like the way stuff on the desktop is organised, though, but that's a matter of opinion. The features it offers are great and the developer really listens to feedback. The only problems with it are related to usability, which...

How odd - I'm using the SmoothStripes (squared) theme and am having no problems at all.

Does this update screw around with themes? I'm using SmoothStripes...

Here's mine. I use DragThing as a launcher for most stuff, and I only keep stuff in the Dock that I really use all the time. I guess that says something about how much actual work I do on my Mac :D

No, it will only make your house dissappear, whereever you are... :D

Well "brushed aluminum" is making a bad thing worse, in my opinion. In addition to having all the problems linked to normal Aqua (except the stripes and the brightness) it makes the titlebar dissappear completely. By the way, I'm currently using Max Rudberg's Rhapsodized theme, which is mostly...

Yes, that's one of the very few things that is done better in Windows. :)

If you mean the part in the AHIG concerning the use of color in interface design, then yes. Originally though it was just about my own frustration concerning Apple's "modern" Aqua UI. It's all neat and lickable and all that, but I think they should've instead built on the stuff they had learnt...

Since they're doing changes to the window widgets, I wish they'd also make the widget symbols "X", "-" and "+" always visible. Having to scrub the buttons with a mouse to see what they do is just bad UI design, and goes against Apple's own guidelines. They should also come up with a replacement...

Apple would also have to make significantly faster hardware for people to even consider buying their stuff. Currently Apple can (and does, to some extent) take advantage of being the only supplier of Macs. Think about it, if OS X worked on all the various cheaper, faster PC hardware out there...