[angelmb]

Originally posted by starman:

I like the main page, I dislike the Mac OS X section, so kinda tied.

[budster101]

Originally posted by Socially Awkward Solo:
It's not actually.

Plus it looks like this:

No, actually. It doesn't.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally posted by budster101:
No, actually. It doesn't.

Hey let's argue!

[budster101]

Originally posted by Socially Awkward Solo:
Hey let's argue!

You are one of the most rude individuals I have come across on these forums.
You are the first there to start threads against anything religous, or inject the fact that you're gay, and the world is against you, and always ready to tear someone down for any reason, just for the fact you don't agree with their politics.

It's pathetic.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally posted by budster101:
You are one of the most rude individuals I have come across on these forums.
You are the first there to start threads against anything religous, or inject the fact that you're gay, and the world is against you, and always ready to tear someone down for any reason, just for the fact you don't agree with their politics.

It's pathetic.

I guess that is your way of starting an argument

You failed.

[budster101]

Originally posted by Socially Awkward Solo:
It's not actually.

Plus it looks like this:

I suppose this was a compliment.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally posted by budster101:
No, this is YOUR way of being a little bitch.

Actually that was my way of saying it looks like Apples old high-tech theme and for some ungodly reason you throw a temper tantrum and call me names.

Do you want me to buy you some ice creme if you promise to stop crying?

[bradoesch]

Originally posted by Hawkeye_a:
Umm..i didnt like it. dont ask why. I just like the old bright Apple i guess, from the days before the website was aquified. it had a certain charm to it imo. Black is like...too Dell or something.

Check out this.

[blue storm 1337]

Budster has an uncontrollable penchant for starting arguments and an IQ on the same level as SpongeBob Squarepants.

But back on topic:

Does anybody else find it hilarious how Apple pushes Dashboard as "An elegant, uncluttered workspace?" This is biggest cluttered mess I've ever seen in an operating system!



sanity assassin said it best: It looks like an aborted attempt at mutating Longhorn and the worst Konfab. widgets out there into some new kind of vomit-inducing disaster.

[JHromadka]

It's cool as an introduction to Tiger, but black as a background is ugly and hard to read. There are websites like The Digital Bits that I rarely goto just because they are hard to read.

[milhous]

it's different to say the least. the effectiveness of the black theme is minimal as it's only an extension of tiger's outer packaging material and nothing with the operating system itself. if there was going to be, dare i say, a black appearance theme in tiger or a netural professional theme, it would make sense to have the site in black. but of course, we're not going to see this.

so i vote, "who cares, it's only a freakin' website!"

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by Socially Awkward Solo:
Actually that was my way of saying it looks like Apples old high-tech theme and for some ungodly reason you throw a temper tantrum and call me names.

Do you want me to buy you some ice creme if you promise to stop crying?

No he is right, you are a bitch.

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by blue storm 1337:
Budster has an uncontrollable penchant for starting arguments and an IQ on the same level as SpongeBob Squarepants.

But back on topic:

Does anybody else find it hilarious how Apple pushes Dashboard as "An elegant, uncluttered workspace?" This is biggest cluttered mess I've ever seen in an operating system!



sanity assassin said it best: It looks like an aborted attempt at mutating Longhorn and the worst Konfab. widgets out there into some new kind of vomit-inducing disaster.

Not when you can put it away at a instant.

Originally posted by Millennium:
It doesn't go well with the navigation tabs at the top, which are still white. Apart from that, though, it does look pretty neat.

It also uses the old pinstripes of the earlier OS X.

[Hawkeye_a]

Dashboard..... im not a fan. Im sure it'll have its uses, but i doubt it will be used enough to justify the resources it will use, not to mention it's another layer on top of the OSX desktop paradigm, which in my opinion, is just a poor attempt of organizing desktop real estate. Expose' does an awesome job with tiling all your documents so you can choose which one to look at...that was pretty elegant if you ask me.

It seems liek Dashboard is just some eye candy to entice ppl to buy Tiger. Im a meber of ADC so ill get a copy anyway...im not worried. i hope that Apple is working on a fully 3D desktop environment, lord knows Quartz Extreme was built for that reason. Hopefully 10.5 eh ? btw, does anyone know what the codename for 10.5 is ?

[Zimphire]

Dashboard is going to rock. My supervisor has already made little widgets for Filemaker and Bookman.

Gonna make my life a little bit more easier.

[blue storm 1337]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Dashboard is going to rock. My supervisor has already made little widgets for Filemaker and Bookman.

Gonna make my life a little bit more easier.

Ya I'm sure it will make things MUCH easier, being able to access flight information, business cards, a little puzzle, and french-english translations all at once! All the while, these little widgets are twirling around and making ripple effects using up all your system resources. On top of that, windows are flying all over the screen because you got your dashboard and expos� hotkeys confused. Yes, very intuitive and time saving. Why didn't Microsoft think of this?

This really is just another layer of eye candy, QED.

[Zimphire]

blue you just ignored what I said, and went into a flying frenzy of stupidity.

[blue storm 1337]

You said dashboard would rock, and I told you how stupid it really is. End of story.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally posted by Hawkeye_a:
Dashboard..... i just a poor attempt of organizing desktop real estate.

Say what? You want to explain how I can have Stickies, calculator dictionary and 5 other apps I use ever day running in a better easier to use way?

[xi_hyperon]

Originally posted by blue storm 1337:
You said dashboard would rock, and I told you how stupid it really is. End of story.

Then don't use it. End of story. I look forward to it myself.

[NYCFarmboy]

so sick of white...... white ibooks, white ipods...white emacs..it is so OVER.

bring back BLACK

I hate the white crap they put out on everything.

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally posted by Socially Awkward Solo:
Say what? You want to explain how I can have Stickies, calculator dictionary and 5 other apps I use ever day running in a better easier to use way?

Have them all open and use expos� to switch among them? Just playing devil's advocate

Originally posted by xi_hyperon:
...I look forward to it myself.

Same here. Based on what I've seen/read, it has a lot of potential. Also, from what I understand, if you have some programming experience, it's not very difficult to make your own widgets.

[blue storm 1337]

Originally posted by xi_hyperon:
Then don't use it. End of story. I look forward to it myself.

I'd rather use it and complain about it, sorry but it's true.

[xi_hyperon]

Originally posted by blue storm 1337:
I'd rather use it and complain about it, sorry but it's true.

Guess that's why you switched to an anonymous account.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally posted by E's Lil Theorem:
Have them all open and use expos� to switch among them? Just playing devil's advocate

Um ya right, makes much more sense.

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally posted by Socially Awkward Solo:
Um ya right, makes much more sense.

Perhaps, but it doesn't make any less sense.

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by blue storm 1337:
You said dashboard would rock, (for what you are going to use it for) and I totally ignored what you said, and told you how stupid I think it is, using descriptions that was totally irrelevent to what you posted.

I agree. Don't do it again.

[blue storm 1337]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Zimphire:
[B]

Originally posted by blue storm 1337:
You said dashboard would rock, (for what you are going to use it for) and I totally ignored what you said, and told you how stupid I think it is, using descriptions that was totally irrelevent to what you posted. Therefore making
I agree. Don't do it again.

Wanna clean up that post, chief? Make it coherent, perhaps?

[funkboy]

Only good for a quick, short promo. White (or even grey!) is much easier on the eyes. In my opinion, anyway.

And Dashboard seems a good way to fix the "I need a calculator real quick" problem, and to fix that problem on many many fronts with a variety of tools. I just hope a lot of other companies develop little widgets... I need to look into developing some widgets of my own...

In other news, I can't believe we actually have something in the OS called a "Widget." How many books will have to be written and use a different word in place of "widget?"

[Hawkeye_a]

Well.. im not saying people wont use it, or its totally crapor something. Its alright imo. But when you look at OS GUIs, in general they try to be like a metaphor hence "desktop". I just dont see how a second desktop 'layer' is so much more beneficial, in my opinion it's like a 2.5D desktop(as opposed to 3D if you know what i mean), its a cool stepping stone....to a fully 3D desktop GUI.

If i remember correctly, the original apple menu in OS9 and prior was the place for your 'small' apps , and dashboard is just mimicing that functionality. Nothing wrong, glad they found a way to include it.

But yeah having those apps you need to use and then just using expose' to choose the active one seems like a more pragmatic and logical approach.

And blue dude...Microsoft is coping it all....theyre rebranding the technologies and naming it after a cow found in texas.

[angelmb]

Originally Posted by NYCFarmboy

so sick of white...... white ibooks, white ipods...white emacs..it is so OVER.

bring back BLACK

I hate the white crap they put out on everything.

I want a black PowerBook back !, nothing beats the Pismo.

[ajprice]

from me for black hardware. I'm sure they could make it not look like a Dell if they tried hard enough.

Black Macs, hmmmm

[blue storm 1337]

Originally Posted by ajprice

from me for black hardware. I'm sure they could make it not look like a Dell if they tried hard enough.

Black Macs, hmmmm

I hated HOW THE APPLE LOGO WAS UPSIDE DOWN

[ajprice]

No need to shout, blue!

[ajprice]

Oh, I see now, just checked the 'Testing & Welcome to VB3' thread which is now locked. Well done, you have found a new toy, does it make you feel warm inside to make an arse of yourself like this???

[blue storm 1337]

Originally Posted by ajprice

Oh, I see now, just checked the 'Testing & Welcome to VB3' thread which is now locked. Well done, you have found a new toy, does it make you feel warm inside to make an arse of yourself like this???

I'm merely highlighting a vulnerability that needs to be addressed quickly! Aside from that, I'm bored with it already and its too much of a hassle to type the vb code necessary to increase the font size. (And I don't want to get banned)

[ajprice]

Well ok then, you were making a point.

Hey! The stars are back! Yay for stars.

[Hawkeye_a]

blue, forget to take your ADD medication ?

[wdlove]

When it comes to fashion black is considered very stylish. Its something that never goes out of style.

[budster101]

Black Aluminum will never look like a POS Plastic Dell. I'd love to see a nice black anodized aluminum POWERBOOk.. hey... think I'll wait until my warranty runs out and have it done. I got connections.

[Superchicken]

Black only works if you have bright colours to contrast with it... that said it's inherently less sophisticated unless you are a really skilled designer. That said, people at first almost always prefer black BGs... though to be honest white ones generally end up looking more classy.