Archive for August, 2008

Aqua Taskforce tracks UI quirks in Mac OS X

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Aqua Taskforce lets you “find, publish, and rate user experience quirks in Mac OS X.” Some of the quirks already noted there are visual, like “QuickLook windows have a contrasting scrollbar“:

When you have a scrollable document in QL, its scrollbars are in a very contrasting scrollbar which does not match the the look of QL.

Others concern behavior, like “After deleting a file, the next file should be selected“:

In the Finder, after you delete a file with Cmd-Delete, there is no selection. At that point, if you press the down arrow key, the first file in the folder will be selected — not the one that had been immediately after the now-deleted file. This makes it very tedious to work your way through a large folder and delete files as you go.

It’s not clear whether they’re automatically filed as official Apple bugs in Radar, but it’s an interesting concept.

Apple stock about to jump by 40%?

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Jim Goldman at cnbc.com points out that “Apple is typically up 40 percent between now and the end of the year”.

Year Aug Dec Gain
2004 $17 $32 90%
2005 $45 $72 60%
2006 $68 $84 40%
2007 $138 $180 30%
2008 $173 ?

If AAPL were to rise 40% from present levels, it would be at $241 by the end of the year.

Hard to believe, but wow.

By superior, we don’t mean better

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Favorite quote from APC’s Blackberry Bold review:

In fact, we’d rate the Bold’s screen as superior to that of the iPhone – because while they have the same resolution, the Bold’s smaller panel makes for higher pixel density (240ppi over 165ppi, if you must know). Of course, we’d rather actually use the iPhone’s larger and more panoramic display.