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I want one so. fucking. bad. Maybe since Apple changed their credit option I can get a loan…. Sigh.

StickyWindows:


Sticky Windows is an utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) which extends the tab browsing experience to the Desktop. Sticky Windows transforms your windows into tabs when you drag a window towards the edge of your screen. Providing you with a completely clutter-free workspace. By clicking on the tab the user can show and hide the window.

OS 9-style tabbed windows with any application, with any edge of your screen. Very nifty. Don’t bother watching the Flash demo though; it’s maddeningly slow.



If you’re really into tabbed folders, then check it out. But I have a few issues with it so far:

1. The windows don’t slide up and down from their tab location, they (very, very slowly) fade in and out from wherever they were before you docked them


2. If you dock a Finder window, clicking the Finder dock icon won’t create a new window for you, as it appears to think you already have one open


3. You can’t drag files onto it, have it spring-load and open and drop the file there. This is about all tabbed windows are good for (in the Finder, anyway)

I think i’ll be uninstalling it. But you might like it. If you’re a nerd.

Bush/Cheny 04: You’ve waited for armageddon long enough.” Go on, give Scott 3 bucks.

Dumb-ass computer company makes dumb-ass computer marketed to dumb-ass teenagers, while dumbassedly thinking they’re copying Apple in the process…

Last year, Digital Lifestyles’ CEO Kent Savage got his son Cameron, 16, and seven of the boy’s friends together and polled them about how they interacted with computers and the Internet.

One brand name that resonated was Apple Computer Inc., which has struck gold with its iPod music players and iTunes download service. But the teens said their parents resisted buying Apple computers because they don’t run Windows, the platform most people are familiar with.

So Savage decided to “Apple-ize the PC industry.

How does adding pink fur around the keyboard make it like a Mac? iPods are ‘gold” because the experience is flawless and unlike anything else. Stick pink fur or leopard print on a PC and it’s still a weaksauce PC. And don’t even get me started on a “professionally-written” piece ending a sentence with “with.” Grrr.



But the quintessential point in the article is the following:
Later the prototype went to focus groups nationwide, and now the hip-e is ready for release in November. Orders are being taken now, including at displays in malls where pop star Ashlee Simpson is performing.
Ah.. that’s it. Fans of Britney Spears copycat Jessica Simpson’s SISTER are the target audience; an audience clearly lacking in the headspace department. If they like Ashlee Simpson because she’s a copy of a copy then maybe they will buy a psuedo-copy of a Mac.

If you’re even remotely interested in graphic design, you should probably check out this Russian site that displays many of the icon systems for past olympic games. My favorties are Mexico Summer Games Moscow Summer Games, 1980, and of course the 1972 Munich Winter Games. Found via a comment on this post at DesignObserver about Olmpic Design Systems, via Kottke.

Apparently, my Colorstrology color is Pastel Lavender. The description fits me to a T, but damn if that’s really a terrible color that I hate. What’s your Colorstrology color?

Now this has the potential to be cool:

a chameleonic electronic device

What is Apple up to now?

I actually used the title of this post twice today, once on a car forum regarding a design change (back to an old look) and now for this useless little tidbit.



So whats the tidbit … well, you’ll have to remember back to the Syquest and Bernoulli days to appreciate my rant… Anyway, Iomega has recently released what is basically a Syquest.

Iomega Rev Drive

Historical Removable Media Lesson:
The Syquest 88 was crushed by the Zip 100, the Zips by the Jaz (Iomegas first Syquest rip off), the Jaz by CDRs, CDRs by firewire drives, and now they think they can pull their slowly dying company out of the ashes and to the forefront of removable media with yet another re-branded fucking syquest. Once again, damn tards.

Why living in a rich society makes us feel poor.



Put the question another way, however, and we seem a little less certain. Consider a choice between these two worlds:




World A: You earn $110,000 per year, others earn $200,000.

World B: You earn $100,000 per year, others earn $85,000.

The income figures represent real purchasing power. Your income in World A would command a house 10 percent larger than the one you could afford in World B, 10 percent more restaurant dinners and so on. By choosing World B, you’d give up a small amount of absolute income in return for a large increase in relative income.

So which would you pick? A majority of Americans, it turns out, choose World B.

Don’t forget to vote in the newest Alternate.org survey, answer #3 submitted by Phil. Via Kottke.