Green Like Gitgan

“You know those stupid “here’s a thumbnail preview of the site this link points to” things that are suddenly appearing on a bunch of web sites when you hover the mouse over a link? They’re from a company called Snap, and the second question in their FAQ gives you a way to set a cookie to turn them off.

And if you have these things on your site, turn them off. They’re stupid and distracting.” - Quoted directly from Daring Fireball

I couldn’t agree more.

First off let’s do some accounting on my Pre-MacWorld Predictions:

• OS X 10.5 Ships today - Okay, Dead wrong on this one. I thought releasing the new operating system before Windows Vista was available to home users would be a huge deal. From what I’ve heard 10.5 is already a pretty stable build and beating the competition to market with the same (and better) features could kill a lot of the buzz around Vista.
• New iPods, full screen with video (New studios announce partnerships too) - I think I should get partial credit for this one. Technically, a full-screen video iPod was announced, it’s just in the iPhone(More on that later…). Paramount Pictures did join the lineup of studios now selling movies on iTunes (although its newest movies are absent) Read the rest of this entry »