I am the last person to nitpick OSX. I feel it’s a wonderful, stable and intuitive operating system. And after using DOS and Windows-based systems for over 10 years it was a breath of fresh air to use an OS so stable and pretty.
My only pet pet peve in my 5 years experience of using OSX is with a Dock item. iCal’s to be precise. It’s stuck on the July 17th prior to opening the application. Why o’ why did they do this? They think of everything else and leave this! It’s saddens me. I am sure there is a complicated hack to fix this and I’ve contemplated it, but why mess with it. Right?
In reality if this is the worst part of OSX, I think the folks at Apple are doing a fine, fine job.
Anyways.
thank you! i 100% agree.
I disagree and here is why. It displays the correct date when the application is open. July 17th is an important day. It was the day Apple first announced iCal, and it happens to be my birthday. So in my opinion, iCal is just fine!
Here’s a cron job you can set up that theoretically ensures iCal always shows the correct date:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030214163614514
Thanks to the joy of open source Gadgets, you probably wouldn’t have that problem with Vista.
(Instead you’d have 82,000 OTHER unrelated problems. I love my abusive relationship with Microsoft.)
Quicksilver: you’ll never need the dock again.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/25248/iconical