i'm tending to think that Apple is probably going to go with a netbook with keyboard/touchscreen tablet combo. sometimes you just need buttons. i'd say touchscreen typing is the only thing that you could say isn't as good, although if done well is definitely passable. you could go either way on it and i wouldn't blame you. but once they get voice control and touch working together really well, i don't think buttons could ever match touchscreens for everything besides word processing.

i can't decide, they're all so good.

yeah Safari has been bugging out on me recently. i feel like the whole "sandboxing plugins" with snow leopard has actually made it worse. crashes out constantly. maybe it would be fixed with a preferences wipe, but i'm hoping Apple releases an update that addresses with me not having to go through the process of redoing everything.

so if Google can get it going before Apple, i'll probably give it a good solid try (actually make it default and try to switch). i'm not really interested in alphas and betas.

2 million? companies could just hire a font designer to work in house to create fonts the company owns (by surreptitiously copying others with slight changes), though i suppose if 2 million is actually small, no font designer would actually take the job knowing they could have made so much more for less work.

yeah, i know, i'm being naive.

I thought Michaela was fantastic. I was sad to see her go.

"Bitch, please" was one of the few times I laughed out loud last season. SNL only really elicits muffled chuckles most of the time for me. Digital shorts are good, but it's usually just an endorphin rush and not really laughter. ("I'm On a Boat" is basically 3 minutes of pure glee).

Dollhouse was okay. It's no Firefly, and I won't equate the cancellation of Dollhouse with the cancellation of Firefly. So I'm not all that excited about it coming back. I kinda felt the whole season that Joss's heart just wasn't in it, that he pretty much assumed it was only going to last one season. If this changes next season, then I'll cheer along with the fans. But at this moment, I'll join the call for TSCC to come back. Come on, Fox, do it. The new Terminator movie is coming out. It can just ride on those coat tails a little while longer.

The chatter about hardware usually includes something about additional cores or additional processors. To take just a wild guess, I'd say there could be a core dedicated to background processes so that each iPhone has it's own built in "push server" that continually runs. Apple's challenge is then to somehow construct the SDK to reconcile the differences in hardware between "push compatible" and non-compatible earlier models. The main goal would to ensure apps could run on any model iPhone so that there wouldn't be different tiers of apps in the App Store so that you don't have to buy the latest iPhone to use the newest app, thus more app sales for a larger, nonexclusive install base. A possible implementation would to have apps on older iPhones only check for notifications on startup when they have precedence on the hardware, while the newer multi-core iPhones could be using that background process core to constantly check multiple apps' notifications at some predetermined interval, regardless of whether the app is running up front. It could also be possible to have this background process be made into a stand alone app on earlier models that would stop everything and check all "background processes" at once, similar to a "Check for new mail" or in this case "Check for new notifications".

While this comment has gotten more elaborate than I had planned when I first started, keep in mind that I have no training in programming and am largely speaking out my ass.

basically i only watched it for Summer Glau. i wasn't really won over by the pilot. i mean, i don't have to get hooked on it from the get-go, but they still have to win me over. but i'll be willing to stick it out for a few more episodes to see if it can sustain my viewership. my crush on Summer Glau will only get you so much, Fox.

this really is brilliant. i was trying to do this with a saved search folder, but it would only display it as a folder in the dock and not like how the downloads stack works. i don't miss the curved stack though since my dock is on the left and all stacks are displayed that way by default. between the downloads stack and this, i think this is the first time the dock has become actually useful for me. cool.

i've downloaded Audio Hijack before but i got rid of it. does that mean APE is on my system?