True, they've updated the article slightly to indicate they tested this with old ATI drivers - Flash 10.1 requires the new ATI Catalyst 9.11s. They haven't rerun any of their tests though (yet).

If idle time is counted, it's no wonder WLM has such a high percentage; by default it's set to load on Windows startup. That statistic probably isn't worth the magnetic particles it was written on!

FYI, Rogers didn't sign an ((most likely pricey) exclusivity agreement; they were de facto exclusive as they were the only GSM/3G provider in Canada.

P.S. Fido also carries the iPhone but it is wholly owned by Rogers.

It's not a bad OS, although to be fair it's a bit plain and utilitarian when stacked against Palm WebOS, Android and iPhone. Fortunately, OS 5.0 is bringing some usability improvements (plus a new Blackberry Browser) that are long overdue. It's still got a long ways to go to make it ultra user-friendly, however.

The Q100 on the left is an AOpen XC-mini MP45 which retails for about $700-$800 MSRP in a base configuration. Load it up with pre-configured Windows, RAM and an extra large 2.5" HDD will bring it in the $1k range.

I wish Twitter gave me threaded views of replies.

Actually there are a lot of usability gaps that can be filled that I'm currently using troynt's Greasemonkey script to take care of.

Thank you Erick for your super-fast response. I'm with Brad - I love the current timeline flyout because I just want a quick way to peek at what my follows are tweeting from time to time during the day. The auto-URL shortening is a nice touch, however.

I know Digsby has been giving everything a once over and I appreciate the Facebook timeline facelift, so thanks!

The devil's in the details, they say.

Favicons are what people see when one's site is in a bookmark list, and with all branding things, companies should make sure they look proper. People don't look too closely at hood ornaments, but I'll bet no car company will claim they're irrelevant.

A multimedia company like YouTube shouldn't have such a smeared favicon logo. It probably has the worse favicon of all the major social sites.

I thought this was an excellent article - not specifically because it highlights the Windows 7 jumplist issue, but it demonstrates a general callousness in Apple development when it comes to features that do not directly benefit their bottom line.

Another great example is the half-hearted automatic folder watching feature - it only works if you manually move all your music not purchased from iTunes into one particular pre-defined folder buried deep in your iTunes library.

I feel iTunes development seems to have stagnated somewhere around iTunes 5 in the same way Microsoft Windows Media Player and other media products seem to be advancing in version #s yet don't seem to bring many game-changing features to the table any longer.

I agree, yes, jumplists for a competitor's OS and watch folders don't push more iTunes store purchases. It may even make good business sense to do this w.r.t. resource allocation, but it often feels like too much mercenariness rather than genuine dedication is being put into the product.

Not to belabour the point, but ATI had abandoned their sufficed Pro/XT/XT-PE naming scheme two years ago starting with the HD3000 series.

Now all cards are Radeon HDxxxx, with the higher number equating to a faster/pricier model. The "HD" prefix was added for marketing reasons, probably also to insure against future confusion with their older cards (i.e. 9700).