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11/12/2007, 12:50am, EST
Monday, November 12th
Apple posts three new 'Get A Mac' TV ads
Apple has released three new "Get A Mac" commercials, which began airing around the US during Sunday's NFL football games and then later in Sunday night primetime. The new TV spots include "PR Lady" in which PC hires a PR representative to help spin Vista problems and issues as Mac's new Leopard operating system hits the streets. In "Boxer" PC tries to show the world that he's not going down without a fight as Mac sales are going through the roof and in 'Podium', PC campaigns for Vista behind a podium, as users battle problems and issues the new Vista operating system (and upgrading)--even admitting that he downgraded to XP a few weeks ago.



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Kudos to the advertising guys that keep coming up with such entertaining stuff.
BTW, used Leopard over the weekend. Have to say, Stacks suck big time. My home folder in my dock gets an Application folder icon? OK, no confusion there.
Actually, its NOT a cosmetic glitch, its actually intended behavior. Just stupid intended behavior.
If you look closely at the 3-D dock (with its 2-D icons), you can actually see more than one icon there, since they're supposedly 'stacked' up (try it with an applications folder, something with different sized icons in it).
The problem is that Apple's trying to implement one metaphor using another. If you're going to pretend to follow some type of 'desktop' metaphor, then stacks are fine. But stacks are just that, piles of crap that's semi-organized. There's no way to organize a stack in OS X. You're just left with 'alphabetical' (and only 7 or 8 items, too).
Stacks would be much better if they were special folders (like smart folders, say) that you could just pile things onto, last one's on top. Stick 'em on the desktop or the dock, perhaps. Use funky quicklook crap so you can ruffle through them easily to find what you're looking for (hey, make them just like a pile on your desk).
Of course, what we've got now is folders that (a) you can't tell what it is, since you HAVE to know what's in your folder to know what folder it is, (b) no way to easily just click to open the folder (you can right-click to choose open, or command-click, but not the same), and (c) no way to navigate through a folder's contents via the dock. All in all, a real minus in productivity. But it looks cool...
And add to the horrible stacks implementation, the fact that PithHelmet doesn't work with Safari makes it a deal-breaker as well. I mean, how can people stand to write flaming posts at me with all those freakin' blinking ads????