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Flickr Find: Sad Mac O'Lanterns and more
More on the Halloween theme... This Sad Mac O'Lantern is sad in more ways than one - it looks unfinished - but I admire the effort.Then there's a classic iPumpkin, and the Mac Plus pumpkin with a twist. My favorite so far is last year's Matrix pMac by RantingPenguin. Nice work!
Wired on the Apple media backlash
Leander Kahney takes on all the recent Apple hating in this column today at Wired.com. He asserts that Apple, as a company, gets a lot of attention from the media at large for a number of reasons. Apple is seen as the 'thought leader,' where its hardware goes other PC makers usually follow.The downside to all this attention? When things go bad, and they always will at some point, everyone knows about it thanks to sites like TUAW (and others on the MacWeb). This has an 'echo chamber' effect where it seems like every MacBook turns yellow the second you touch it and your iPod is bound to get you struck by lightning.Leander thinks that things get blown out of proportion, and I agree.
Beat your Mac into submission
Sometimes, even on a Mac, applications go a little wonky. They stop responding, they freeze, or you are treated to everyone's favorite sight: the spinning beachball of death. Ted Landau has compiled a quick list of something things that you can do quit a misbehaving program, or to speed up Safari.Even after all that, once in awhile an application refuses to die and one must delve into the strange, and frightening world of the Terminal, however, Ted doesn't cover that.
I know I shouldn't, but
You're a good little Mac user. You back up your files. You repair your permissions. You install the latest updates. But, there's that one bad habit you maintain that isn't in accordance with your regular behavior. Maybe you don't back up regularly, or you've shut down your Mac by just yanking out the power cord. When I was using Mac OS 9 (and I still do at work sometimes), I've been known to force quit the Finder, just so I could rebuild the desktop without having to restart the machine (because laziness is the mother of invention). So it's confession time, TUAWers. What's your bad Mac habit? It's ok, we'll protect your anonymity.
