How about exposé’s animations? (and the fact that to het that é in exposé all I had to do was hold down the “e” key on my iPhone?) I could go on all day… ;-)

http://www.fileinfo.com/help/mac-change-program.html

I have to change .jpg files from opening up in Opera first. Silly! Why does Opera set that up when it installs?

Speaking of Apple Design: I actually leapfrogged OS 9, going from my NeXT computer (which was my main machine for most of the 90s) directly to an iBook and Panther. There’s a lot design elements taken from NeXTStep, and OS X is an elegant amalgamation of NeXT and a Mac. I felt immediately comfortable in OS X, and between the two OSs I have really only experienced the best in a stable, well-designed computing environment.

I wondered what they were for, ever since I got mine.

I thought that those were for hanging the adapter to some overly popular piece of furniture that US/Europe people have all over their houses, so much that Apple thought it a mandatory.

But then, PC users are stuck with 128×128 and more often than not, App icons will be 32×32 or 48×48. That was the case with me earlier.

When I plug anything on one port, more often than not, it obstructs the other port as well. And I cannot carry my USB hub everywhere.

You obviously weren’t around when OS 9 was killed off for OS X. It’s much nicer now, but in some areas OS X has yet to catch up with its predecessor. (But Apple has added a few of the old things as OS X matures.) In the early days of OS X, I can vividly remember the frustration of frequent spinning beach balls and crashes requiring force quit via power button. It’s much better now, but there are bugs even in Tiger (and later?) that are minor irritations. Happily, no power button force quits for me in years, except for two that were no fault of OS X.

Now that PPC won’t be supported w/SL, I expect there’ll be many more Mac owners in need of third-party software to enhance their older OS, and fill in any vacant spots Apple’s i-apps will leave. Some will still be using Tiger, either because they have necessary, expensive software that requires it, their perfectly good hardware isn’t supported, or ?.

Thank you (and all developers) for dealing with the difficulties of designing for Tiger and make your software available for as many Mac users as possible. I sure am grateful for your efforts! (And I will be searching for your website to see if you have a nice application to support.)

One more thing: Where’s the “uninstall” option on a mac? Just dragging software to the trash leaves all kinds of stuff behind, it’s just like windows.