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@apple@

I’ve often cursed the inability to select and copy some text from a text clipping; turns out you can. It works just as you’d expect it, only that… the selection is invisible. How stupid is that?

 

@apple@

Winners announced for the Fake Leopard Screenshot Contest. I agree that the winner should be immediately hired by Apple; I’m not much impressed by the others, though.

 

@music@

Daring Fireball has a nice writeup of the Zune news, with a few interesting points:

And so now that Microsoft is abandoning the licensing model (or at least deprecating it) in favor of a closed model that they completely control, will all those pundits who’ve been predicting doom for the iPod for the last four years declare that Microsoft, like Apple, is now making the same mistake with Zune that Apple made with the Macintosh in the 1980s? […]

Sure, there are all sorts of innovative new features supposedly slated for the Zune, but if people look at it and their initial reaction is “Oh, it’s an iPod rip-off,” that’s a pretty crummy first impression. Does anyone at Microsoft realize that rip-offs aren’t considered cool?

On that last matter, I think Microsoft’s perspective is skewed by how much they’ve been able to get away with Windows, and particularly Vista previews: the thing is, Windows users couldn’t care less how much Vista is “inspired” by OS X; that might not be true at all when it comes to a consumer electronics device — especially as cool and iconic as the iPod is.