I’m going to throw a “I agree” with Merlin about Dashboard. Those damn widgets consume a disproportionate amount of resources compared with their usefulness. I know a lot of things are moving toward web apps (I consider widgets as web apps), but I don’t find these dashboard widgets useful. Applications on the web are useful when and only when, in my opinion, when they do something a desktop app can’t. The best example of this is Facebook, which is nailing social networking.

While I’m very pleased we’re getting a new Finder, the biggest news of the day is Safari for Windows. I feel like the familiar world of web browsers on Windows has been blown apart. If I was working at Opera, I would have not been happy. Most of the blogs I’ve been reading are giving Safari a very hard time, but I think instead they have to just give it time. Competition never hurt, and webkit is still open source.