2007-10-30 at 9:30am
Automator World has a review of the new version of Automator in 10.5. It’s definitely an improvement.
Stacks are getting a bad review from the Ars community. I have to agree. Stacks seems kind of useless - Apple trumpeted it as a big enhancement, but for me, it’s actually regressive. Looks cool, but not actually tremendously useful.
Another review of Leopard picks up a bug which I’ve also been having: Spaces does have some weirdness. For example, when I switch to iTunes using command-tab, spaces does not switch to the desktop that iTunes is pinned to. Likewise, when I switch to Firefox, Spaces switches, but the Firefox window is not selected. The app is in the foreground, but the window is deselected so typing does nothing.
Chris Anderson has started blocking PR e-mails, plus naming and shaming them on the blog. Good. We need to start flushing the more lecherous PR and “Buzz Marketing” people out of the blogosphere.
There’s an interesting story coming out of the community of Java developers over Apple’s failure to put Java 6 into OS X. See Javalobby, Eric Burke and The Zeitgeist. Certainly something to watch.
