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I recently wrote about how the Mac dock bugs me and a some people seemed to agree.  Now I have a beef with iTunes.  You know what, iTunes just plain sucks.  When you see past the sexy interface and quality skins and get down to managing a large digital library, it falls completely apart.  I hate to say it too considering I have about 40 gig of music, videos and apps in my library.  It's painfully slow, always buggy, and ridiculously awkward if you're a serious digital collector and have a lot of digital detritus to manage.  I've been toting my incredibly bloated iTunes library around with me across multiple desktops, laptops and external d...

The big buzz around Apple and the iPhone seems to be http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368102,00.asp (their recent patent filing) that everyone says will let them deactivate a jail-broken phone.  The magazines and blogs are saying that; "... for those currently jailbreaking their phones, the Apple patent would allow them to begin limiting features on a compromised device and even allow Apple to delete all of the data."  This seems like a response to our Librabry of Congress' ruling that http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-26/apple-iphone-users-have-u-s-blessing-to-jailbreak-add-own-applications.html (jailbreaking is not a violation o...

The Mac dock blows. There, I said it. And I bet many of you avid Mac tweakers have been thinking this very same thing ever since http://idock.deviantart.com/gallery/11923933#/d2uz6h7 (Chinese Table by ~zurbaua) hit the http://idock.deviantart.com/ (iDock Project). I want something like the mock-ups above!  And the new and growing breed of Windows docks are getting better looking and more customizable everyday!  I am talking about the Mac dock versus http://xwdock.aqua-soft.org/ (XWindows Dock), http://rocketdock.com/ (RocketDock), and http://home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncher/ (RKLauncher).  These are great looking and more flexible dock utilitie...