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[Martin Gordons Blog] feeling I get every time a new OS upgrade comes out. I’m not talking about just features wise, because who knows the last time I used the Dashboard or Smart Folders was, but also performance-wise and UI refinement (pinstripes anyone?).
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[Viewfromthemountain.typepad.com] Applepeels: An interesting consensus on OS X: Nowadays Apple is tweaking the UI constantly (read each Siracusa's review again) and the novelty tend to fall out of fashion rapidly, brushed metal was all the rage, now it looks like an aberration. In a way 10.1 looks more dated than Mac OS 9 because the OS X UI has been turned upside down with each new release.
[Macorchard.com] Macintosh Web Browsers Software at The Mac Orchard: Today, however, Netscape is no longer under development for the Mac (and it's barely under development for Windows, either, even though that platform struggles along with a version 8 release), at least under the "Netscape" moniker. The primary components of Netscape and Mozilla - both the web browser and email/Usenet client - were broken off into separate, optimized development efforts, known respectively as Firefox and Thunderbird.
[Atangledweb.typepad.com] A TANGLED WEB: Current Affairs: Consider the statement of core “Conservative values” that David Cameron has repeated almost verbatim in his campaign speeches and public debates: “We believe in the family, in personal responsibility, in lower taxes, in high standards of health and education, in limited government and in national sovereignty.” Neither David Davis nor any Tory voter could disagree with any of these principles, nor even with the slightly more specific policy commitments behind them ” for example the promise to “share fairly the fruits of economic growth between lower taxes and strengthened public services”, or to “strengthen the nuclear family, but not preach to people about how they should live their lives”. If such platitudinous ambiguities were really the essence of the New Tory credo, the rejuvenated party would find itself supporting not just Tony Blair, but also Gordon Brown, in almost everything they did or said.
[Marketingvox.com] major players news · MarketingVOX: The pessimism seen in these disclosures relative to Google's sense of the merits of the Overture case and of the political environment that would drive any business hindering privacy legislation should probably be taken with a grain of salt, as the purpose of these filings is mostly to have them on record so as to be able to use them as a defense in a future stockholder disclosure suit. CNET reports.
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