Well my favorite browser is Firefox but in Mac i prefer Safari to Firefox. But i noticed a small usability low in Safari today which irritates me much these day after i actually discovered it. What happens is when i search something using the Google Search bar built in the Safari and i open a new tab i lose the search string i just used. 

Seems the Search string remains in the Google bar only to that tab and is not shared in the Safari windows over all the tabs. People may find it good because they may ask why the hell do you want to search using the same search string which you just performed search with. But in my case i do quite a lot of search modifying my search string and keeping the previous Google search result saved in an open tab . In this scenario i am not pretty happy with this behavior of Safari. And this is not the case when using Firefox .Firefox keeps the search string in Google search box saved for all the tabs until its replaced by other Search string. May be this is the reason i find it irritating in Safari because i am too used to with Firefox in my Windows machine at work

Have you ever noticed the Finder’s toolbar has some kind of mistake ( i think so ). The finder toolbar has Back/Forward button , View buttons, Quick Look, Action and a search box by default. One interesting thing i am not comfortable with is that why is the Back/Forward button labeled “Back” only . If it was to be labeled “Back” there should have been only Back Button and not the Forward button . Do you think its some kind of negligence or something which is not much thought of when designed ? .

I was navigating through the Apple india site ( apple.co.in ) for some support information . The main page of the site has JavaScript errors ( hello apple ! ) . That didn’t bother me much but i tried searching for info from the search field at the top right part of the homepage . The  Ajax enabledsearch result are not displayed as drop down box as i type which happens in Apple global site. And yes the most importantly anything you search will result into a blank page . How weird.

The video was cut on a Mac.

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I got a new iPod touch and was playing around with it . Connected it to my Mac and accessed from iTunes . Damn why it cant be accessed like USB device why only with iTunes. I was trying to setup an iTunes stores account and what i got as Terms and condition while signing up . Weird it is . Seems after i have updated iTunes to latest version 8.0.1 . I am not able to reproduce it. This happened in iTunes 8.0.0. 

I sold my iPod touch today after using for some 2 weeks. I didn’t really like it ( lots of reasons to say ) except for its good UI and multitouch amazingness. 

Below is the proof ( Click on the image for clear and larger screenshot. )