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A set of new status icons and message style for Adium that look pretty nice on my setup (for the record, I’m not using Adium 1.0, sticking with stable).

While I’m at it, why not offer my list layout and colors for download. That way they’ll be saved somewhere if I need them.

 

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A little detail of importance when you’ll consider that 4GB iPhone: OS X takes up a few hundred megs of that memory. Sure, it makes sense in computer terms, so you can’t exactly call that a ripoff, but people shopping for a phone or iPod aren’t exactly used to assuming that a sizable chunk of the device’s memory will be eaten up by the OS, and when the iPhone finally ships I’m pretty sure there’ll be a wave of blog complaints about that.

 

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iPhony Launcher for Palm OS — oops, too late.

Check out the video, it’s almost as good as the real thing! (Yes, that’s ironic, and yes, I’d install this in a heartbeat if I had a Treo. Because, hey, that’s what’s cool about being able to install your own software into your smartphone.)

Oh, and there was similar software for Windows Mobile and Apple C&Ds anyone who reported it.

 

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iPhone and the Dog Ears User Experience Model:

In the real world, we have physics. We have inertia. Things bounce and stretch and squash. We have follow through. Imagine a dog with long floppy ears sprinting for a frisbee. Now picture the dog coming to a screeching halt in front of the disc. What happens to the ears? They keep going. Then they “bounce” back. And it’s a big part of what separates a good animator from an amateur. […]

But it wasn’t the scrolling that made my jaw drop… it was what happened when the scrolling stopped: it bounced! The thing actually bounced if you flicked it hard and fast enough to send it flying up to the very (or bottom) of the list before it had a chance to slow down and stop. It actually bounced. And until you’ve seen it slow down and bounce, you haven’t felt that visceral, life-like, fluidity.

 

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Office 2008 for Mac screenshots. Looks like they’ve mostly done without the much-touted “ribbon” — the big honking ribbon-like thing in the screenshots seems to be only there for displaying templates and such, and I think it disappears in normal use; all formatting options are in palettes.

On the one hand, it’s nice that Office for Mac really bothers to fit in with OS X look-and-feel; on the other, the ribbon seemed really convenient, and palettes do take up more space (I don’t think I’ve ever actually liked palettes — well, they’re fine for Photoshop because you need them, but I don’t think they’re convenient for word processors, for instance).

 

Actually, I’m unsure — is that supposed to be based on the upcoming Office for Windows, or the last one? And, wait — Office 2008 ?

 

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Mac factory tour [via].