i was feeling tired last night around 1 or so, so decided to take advantage and try to fall asleep. i actually managed to, but around 3 or 4 i woke up, WIDE AWAKE. i the code red had kicked in. i couldn't fall back asleep until around 8, and then slept until 2:30.
while awake, i was playing around with ichat av. it's only the most recent app out of cuptertino to continue their tradition of not innovating when it comes to the ui. i mean, sure it's pretty, easy to use, and is not in-your-face-annoying like the aol client. but if you look at the following screenshot mosaics, you'll see that they are just copying ui ideas from red carpet, circa the year 2000:
using this many different styles of buttons makes it immediately clear to the user which buttons do something when clicked, and which ones, when clicked, do something.
speaking of apple, reliable sources have it that the rumored new 15" powerbooks were shelved in favor of models which have built-in video cameras (like the vaio picturebooks). these will become available when panther ships, and are in fact the reason no release date was announced for panther.