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Linked List: January 16, 2006

Monday, 16 January 2006

Authentic Boredom: New iLife ’06 Packaging: Hot or Not? ★

Cameron Moll opens a discussion on the new iLife ’06 packaging. I prefer the visual from last year’s branding, but I like the new ones too. The biggest change is that the box is now roughly the size of a stack of CDs — I always found the wasted space in the bigger packages to be annoying. The smaller size makes it easier to keep the disks in the original packaging.

Jobs Suggests Dell Should Eat His Words ★

John Markoff:

It may not be the last laugh, but on Friday afternoon, after the close of the stock market, Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple Computer, shared an e-mail chuckle with his employees at the expense of Dell, a big rival.

(Interesting that CNet is now reprinting some content from The New York Times. Update: Actually, the CNet-Times partnership is old news, I just hadn’t noticed before.)

Path Finder 4.0 ★

Major new release of the leading alternative to the Finder for file management on Mac OS X. I’ve been beta-testing it for months, and if you liked Path Finder before, you should definitely like version 4 even more.

Note for those who care about hacks that modify all running apps on your system: Path Finder 4 silently installs Smart Crash Reports in ~/Library/InputManagers/; if, like me, you want to suppress this, you need to invoke a secret pref switch:

defaults write com.cocoatech.PathFinder InstallSmartCrashReporter NO