In Widget Manager, you remove a widget by clicking on a red circle with a white minus sign in it.
In the iTunes music store shopping cart, you remove a song by clicking on a grey circle with an X in it.
I had no idea what the red circle meant-- it didn't even have a tooltip. Where's the consistency?
In college I became really bored working with Windows every day and I didn't want to work with *BSD or Linux. I wanted to work with something new exciting-- something to keep me interested. I had been reading about different operating systems and one day ran across BeOS. I fell in love with the idea of running it and decided to build a nice system that would be compatible with both it and NT4 (my OS of choice at the time).
BeOS felt so much faster and was such a joy to use that it became my primary environment at home. I loved Gobe Productive and used it for all of my reports. I even talked my professors into letting me do many of my CS projects and programming assignments with it. BeOS had reminded me why I loved working with computers and technology. It really recharged my battery.
Sadly, when things hit rock bottom I decided to abandon ship. I didn't want to invest time and energy into a "dead end." I also had my eye on some new hardware that wasn't supported.
Then I got my current job and bought my first Mac, an iBook G3.
Now there are 4 Macs in the house and I enjoy them quite a bit, but they're nowhere near exciting as BeOS was back in the day.
Ah well.
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In Widget Manager, you remove a widget by clicking on a red circle with a white minus sign in it. In the iTunes music store shopping cart, you remove a song by clicking on a grey circle with an X in it. I had no idea what the red circle meant-- it didn't even have a tooltip. Where's the consistency?
In college I became really bored working with Windows every day and I didn't want to work with *BSD or Linux. I wanted to work with something new exciting-- something to keep me interested. I had been reading about different operating systems and one day ran across BeOS. I fell in love with the idea of running it and decided to build a nice system that would be compatible with both it and NT4 (my OS of choice at the time). BeOS felt so much faster and was such a joy to use that it became my primary environment at home. I loved Gobe Productive and used it for all of my reports. I even talked my professors into letting me do many of my CS projects and programming assignments with it. BeOS had reminded me why I loved working with computers and technology. It really recharged my battery. Sadly, when things hit rock bottom I decided to abandon ship. I didn't want to invest time and energy into a "dead end." I also had my eye on some new hardware that wasn't supported. Then I got my current job and bought my first Mac, an iBook G3. Now there are 4 Macs in the house and I enjoy them quite a bit, but they're nowhere near exciting as BeOS was back in the day. Ah well.