Apple posts three new 'Get A Mac' TV ads

Podium, PR Lady: Thumbs up Boxer: Thumbs down

Boxer is pretty lame, but the other two are up to the usual high (and light hearted) standard.

.. what Vista can do for you, ask what you can buy for Vista!"... LOL

Boxer is the first of these ads that hasn't make me laugh. They're letting the side down with this dud.

While the other two made me chuckle, the "boxer" ad made me laugh out loud. The ending totally caught me by surprise, and I loved it.

Kudos to the advertising guys that keep coming up with such entertaining stuff.

I only saw that one. Didn't think it was much of anything. When they mentioned the Vista people switching back to XP, it made me think of the Leopard users switching back to Tiger. Maybe PC should mention that.

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.

I just tried adding my Home folder to my dock and had the same result, i.e. it appears as the Applications icon. Definitely something messed up there!

The Applications folder is the first item in your Home directory. Duh.

The stack icons are a known cosmetic problem. I suspect it will be fixed in an update. The workaround is to put dummy folder in the target folder with a name like "_1", so it will sort to the top of the list, and give it a custom icon that you would like to appear as the stack icon. You might have to restart the Dock or logout and login to see the change.

The stack icons are a known cosmetic problem.

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????