To the casual observer, Apple has never been more successful: more than one million 3G iPhones were sold in the first weekend, millions of apps were downloaded, and the company is churning out buckets of cash.

But I get the feeling that something is not right with Apple.

Leave aside for the moment the seemingly-deepening hardware shortages: frantically popular hardware products are always in short supply at launch, and often even for months or years afterward (Nintendo Wiis remain elusive, and the company is girding for a third straight Christmas season shortage, if you can believe it).

The first iPhone would have been just as scarce if it had been as heavily subsidized as the 3G version.

No, the rot at Apple’s core is more subtle.

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I was wondering at my Mac Dock. There were some Shiny dots at the bottom of some of the applications. I didn’t have any clue what they meant . I played around for sometime and later realised that the shiny dots were there only at the bottom of Application icon which were open . Basically the Applications wth shiny dots were running at that moment .

So this forms a new tip ( does everyone know it ? , i didn’t know it because i have macphobia ) - Shiny dots at the bottom of Application icon at Dock indicate that the particular Application is running ( foreground or background ).

In windows its pretty simple to know which appilcations are running by simply looking at the Windows task bar mostly. Or there can be background running programs in windows which lie in System Tray . Some other programs can be found at Windows Task Manager window .

There already is a problem with Mac with the window size . It seems that mac basically doesn’t let application go Full Screen ( hiding all menu bar and dock ) . For example i was trying go Full screen while editing in Microsoft word in Mac . Full screen doesn’t act like it does in Windows version of Microsoft word. It doesn’t really go full screen . It can be because of the Application limitation itself but there are other applications which work good with full screen in windows and the same dont even have full screen option available in “View” menu for Mac. Continue reading »

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