• Your ego feels like it has a bit more room to move around.
• The Gap in Cupertino has a sale to get rid of the overstock on turtlenecks.
• The Apple guy is wearing a black arm band in the commercials.
• Bill Gates commits suicide (he always rips off original ideas from Apple).
• Apple’s stock price doesn’t have any digits to the left of the decimal point.
• His iPhone is forwarded to John Lasseter.
• A sudden run on floral bouquets in the shape of an apple.
• At the end of Strawberry Fields you can hear John Lennon say “I buried Jobs”.
• MacWorld keynote given by Noah Wylie.
• All next-generation Apple products are square and beige.
• All iPods only play “Nothing Compares 2 U” by Sinead O’Connor.

 

Mac Dock Item Jump

Mac’s Dock notification behavior is sometimes very irritating. Dock makes the dock items which are requesting my attention  oscillate.  When i am busy in some work and i accidentally click a dock item and if the Dock item has something which it thinks requires my attention , then it just starts Jumping and never stops untill i click on it and give attention. I dont understand why it Jumps forever. Wasn’t there anything Mac developers could think and put some new kind of notification behavior. I mean let the Dock item jump for some time and if it doesn’t get any attention from user just make it stop.

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 Sales of Apple desktop computers fell 38 percent in November, according to retail research firm NPD.The figure compares to a 15 percent drop in U.S. sales of Windows desktop PCs and a 20 percent domestic cut for overall desktop sales during the past month.

Mac U.S. sales were flat in November, falling 1 percent as PC sales grew 2 percent, according to NPD. The numbers appear to reflect a consumer spending tightening and Apple’s reluctance to shift from premium prices.

While PC makers, such as HP and Dell, cut holiday prices by up to 50 percent, Apple introduced 5 percent to 10 percent discounts since December of 2007, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told the Wall Street Journal Tuesday.

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I primarily use Firefox at my Windows machine but in Mac i use Safari ( why? ) . But there are multiple things i dont like about Safari than Firefox. One of them is how Safari shows popup confirmations to remember passwords . Safari doesn’t let you go past the password page till you decide yes , not now or never in its confirmation popup. I dislike this. I love the way Firefox handles this. In older version of Firefox such popup were there but in latest ones its removed with a pretty good banner at top which appears till some time after you passed the password page. Safari behavior is specially annoying when you ask Safari to remember the password and it happens to be the wrong password. ( so may things so many passwords you know ). The way Google Chrome handles is the advanced one among all the browsers i have seen. Its very intelligent. 

Safari and Internet Explorer match in this case because latest version of both Browsers use similar popups where your input is a must to go to the next page.. Safari and IE friends . Seems unconvincing huh..