*Yawn*

Icons are important! (and my business too). though, they should have update the iTunes icon instead of this one. as it was pretty good before anyway..

@Tice: hehe. yeah. seen those. but mine is bigger! plus i suspect that quite a few of those were taken without authorisation from apple. still nice too see though. The preview icon is especially amusing, cause of the story behind it. the little boy on it wasn't at the beach as made out. but was actually taken on from some scary civil way / conflict photo i think, and then put on to the beach background. perhaps why he doesn't actually look all that happy.

oh, and if they'd only fix the terrible iTunes icon! the drop shadows at the bottom are clipped! argh! sloppy sloppy sloppy.

"icons shouldn't be drawn in X by X pixels at all as in a png file, but in a vector graphics format which takes much less memory space."

aye, perhaps. but vector icons tend to look nasty as smaller sizes. even with resolution independance, icons will be in bitmap or raster format for a lot more years yet.

If you were to take a very highly detailed icon (which you'd need if it was needed to be displayed at a very large size), and then just shrink it down to say half an inch (in non resolution independant terms), it would look god awful, full of really muddy details, and sloppy line work.

The only way to solve this would be to have multiple versions of the same icon, one with high detail, one with medium, and one with low. and then do some sort of blend between them. Again, i think bitmap icons will be around for a lot longer.

All new apple icons are drawn at 2000px*2000px at least. not 512. as that's too small. if you're interested take a look at my own attempt at redrawing the safari icon at 2000px i did a while back. so yeah. i totally noticed all the new changes on the icon.. sad as that sounds.. :-)

http://www.zyotism.com/Safari_rev1.png

iChat does jabber, so you can have your yahoo contacts, msn contacts, and even icq contacts in it. why do people use this when ichat does it all anyway? ahh well :-)

I might be a minority here, but i feel that Adium is terrible software, it actually reminds me of all the reasons why i left the windows platform in the firstplace. Ugly custom user interfaces, and far too many features that i don't want or need. And the duck i'm sorry, just has to go!

Aren't April Fools jokes null and void after 12pm?

iChat, all the way, i used to use adium, but it was clunky, and not very mac like. iChat works with all the protocols if you set it up with a jabba account. works really well too!