October 24, 2007
Classic is Dead
Still have MacOS 9 apps banging around on a PPC Mac, running in the Classic environment? As of MacOS X 10.5, they’re no more:
Classic applications do not work on Intel processor-based Macs or with Mac OS X 10.5.
[From the Apple Support knowledge base:]
Posted by jim at 07:04 PM
Leopard: Final Dock
Another good piece of news. MacOS X 10.5 Leopard has a new appearance for the Dock; it looks like a reflective 3-D shelf for your application icons. There’s been a lot of debate about this, centering around two arguments.
It flies in the face of Apple’s human interface guidelines in terms of the 3-D perspective and light-sources. If you aren’t aware of such things, then it just looks a little… wrong. If you’re aware of such things, it screams like a misused “it’s” to an editor.
It looks horrible at the side of the screen. Many users - especially those with multiscreen or widescreen setups - place the dock at the side of the screen. The sideways shelf looks really…. wrong.
Apple apparently listened. One last-minute change in the final release version of Leopard is an alternate appearance for the Dock that’s “flat” - avoiding the perspective and positioning issues of the Shelf appearance.
Whew.
Posted by jim at 10:14 AM
IMAP on GMail
It’s been long-awaited, but Google has finally added IMAP to GMail.
This generally has two reactions. If you’re in the “W00t! IMAP!” camp, then have at it.
If you’re in the “what’s IMAP?” camp, and ever have a desire to access Gmail from something other than the web interface, then rest assured this is Good News.
Posted by jim at 10:05 AM