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Three things OS X could learn from the Classic Mac OS. ⇒

   22 January 2009, lunch time

Oh man WindowShade was great.

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  1. Minimizing windows in mac os is the most useless feature ever. You can’t command tab to them, and you can’t command tilde to them either.

    I wonder if path finder has window shade.

    by Krishna on January 22 2009, 11:45 pm   #

  2. doesn’t witch take care of this? since i switched only in th osx days, i guess i have never had any classic withdrawal symptoms. abt the only thing missing is a dropdown list of apps on the menubar. now, i just stick the applications folder on the dock and display it as a folder.

    by Sunny on January 23 2009, 7:57 am   #

  3. There is lots of interesting stuff that got dropped. Before you could make tabs at the bottom of the screen by dragging a finder window there. WindowShade was great for quickly seeing what’s behind a window. OS 9 had a very good and well thought out UI, which I still don’t think is true of OS X.

    by ramanan on January 23 2009, 9:43 am   #

  4. Don’t say that and rob me of my switch-back momentum… OS 9 was the bomb yo.

    by rishi on January 23 2009, 12:26 pm   #

  5. Well I think 10.5 is really nice, and it’s definitely light years ahead of Windows. I just think it isn’t as unified as Mac OS 9 was.

    by ramanan on January 23 2009, 12:32 pm   #

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