Like the iPad’s iBooks bookshelf? It looks like books on a bookshelf. Delicious Library’s Wil Shipley in The Inquirer:

I guess it’s not enough Apple has hired every employee who worked on Delicious Library, they also had to copy my product’s look. Flattery?

So, Shipley is miffed at Apple because the iBooks bookshelf looks like the bookshelf in Delicious Library. Oh, the irony.

The bookshelf view in Ibooks (sic) is nearly identical to the main bookshelf view used in Delicious Library. Not only that, Apple liked it and gave it the Apple Design Award twice, and made it a runner-up one other time.

So, I’m officially on record as being miffed at Wil Shipley because he stole the look and feel of my library bookshelf. Then again…

Of course now it could say that the whole thing is just a coincidence as one bookshelf looks much the same as any other.

It’s not so much coincidence as it is common sense. That’s how bookshelves look. Delicious Library didn’t invent the look and feel of books on a bookshelf. Nick Farrell:

Still, it is another nail in the coffin for fanbois who believe that Apple is the only creator of anything original out there.

Who says such things? “Nail in the coffin?” Of what? Walter Cronkite, where are you when we need you?

I love stuff like this. Andrew Hedges with a bunch of WebKit (the rendering engine that powers Safari, Google Chrome, and Palm Pre) CSS tricks including CSS animation.

Other browsers will hopefully implement these techniques as well. Apple have proposed all of the techniques I’ve used in my examples to the appropriate standards bodies. My guess is Mozilla and Opera will get on board relatively quickly. When The Beast decides to grow a round tuit is anyone’s guess. IE12, perhaps?

We should be so lucky. WebKit spoils us. IE soils us.

If Apple’s $29 price tag on Mac OS X Snow Leopard is too much, and you bought a new Mac after June 8, 2009, and it didn’t come with the new OS X, you can get Snow Leopard for $9.95.

Ian Paul states the clearly obvious and gets paid by PC Advisor.

I don’t want to fall into the trap of trying to argue that Apple is turning into Microsoft. That’s been done before, and we all know it’s not true. But we also know that Apple’s software, just like Microsoft’s, has problems, and, just like Redmond, Cupertino needs to issue software updates to fix these problems.

Duh.

Those of us who enjoy using Apple’s products are usually first in line to skewer the Cupertino company when they stumble. Likewise, we’re first in line to skewer those who spout off silly nonsense and call it journalism. Ian Paul epitomizes supermarket tabloid journalism with vaporous articles where the most substantive component is the headline.

Google’s Chrome browser for Windows has been available for months. Chrome for Mac is available and worth a try—if you don’t mind missing features, stability problems, and a plain vanilla look that makes Safari look positively, well, chromium by comparison. TechCrunch:

The (Google) team measures its progress by how long it can get Chrome to run stably on their computers, and they’ve moved from a few minutes at a time up to a number of hours. But it doesn’t sound like it’s close to being finished.

Do you mind living very dangerously and being totally bored with a less than shiny browser experience, check out the recent Chrome builds for the Mac. It’s ain’t a pretty browser, but it’s fast.