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Awesome animated ad for Google Chrome:

(Via Official Google Mac Blog.)

This happens to me all the time, using the shipping non-pirated version of Adobe Photoshop CS4:

What you’re seeing is a Finder window (full of yellow-labelled files) which has split a Photoshop window in two: the Photoshop window’s titlebar is behind the Finder window, while the Photoshop document’s contents are in front of the Finder window.

This persists if you move either window, creating the illusion that the Finder window is slicing the Photoshop document apart.

Weird.

Does it do this under Windows XP or Vista, or is this a Mac OS X-only “feature”?

I’ve been using BBEdit to markup HTML since version 3.5. If memory serves, it came out in 1995 or 96 (can anyone confirm this?).

The latest version has a long list of bug fixes — more than I would’ve guessed possible — but the one I was looking for was the first one listed in the Fixes section of the release notes: Workspaces are now saved properly.

This seems like a minor thing, but when you regularly switch between two offices with different external display setups, it’s a serious inconvenience. Well done!

[Before BBEdit, I used Rick Giles' HMTL Editor, whose markup colour scheme I still find myself using; old habits, I guess...]

How to Protect Yourself From The New Mac OS X Trojans

The first rule of using a Mac is to always trust Adam Engst. I’ve been trusting him for 15 years, and I’ve never regretted it.

This issue isn’t likely too likely to bite any individual user, but the precaution is easy to take.

All that remains to be seen is whether the next patch from Apple requires us to put ARDAgent.app back before patching.

Mac OS X first to fall: “In the first attempted attack in the PWN2OWN contest, a security analyst breached the defenses of Apple’s Mac OS X using a bug in the Safari browser and won $10,000 as well as the computer that he compromised.”

(Via SecurityFocus.com.)

The Street: “Mac Owners Are Snobs”

So, according to this article,

Mac owners are more likely:

• to be perfectionists
• to use notebooks
• to use teeth whitening products
• to drive station wagons
• to pay for downloaded music
• to go to Starbucks
• care about “green” products and the environment
• to own a hybrid car
• and last but not least … to buy 5 pairs of sneakers in a year

• Perfectionist? Nit-picky, maybe, but I’ve never really mastered it, so, no.
• I do use notebooks (paper ones and laptop computers; not sure which they mean…)
• My teeth don’t need to look like they’re made of plastic, thanks.
• Don’t own a station wagon. Ask me again in two weeks, though…
• I do buy all of my music from iTunes. I’ve become allergic to CDs, and I value my time too much to use P2P networks.
• I don’t recall ever buying a drink in a Starbucks. I might’ve, once: I was with other people, and wouldn’t have gone in on my own… Does that count?
• Caring about the environment makes me a snob? Wow. There’s a baseline in need of adjustment…
• No hybrid car. Doesn’t make sense when most of your driving’s on the highway.
• I don’t think I’ve bought five pairs of sneakers in the last fifteen years. Maybe I should walk more (would that make me an environmental snob, though?)

So there.

(Via TUAW.)