check out Enso. Its a dressed-up app and script launcher with transparent windows (and a lot of heart!). Watch the demo video for the product, its very pretty – but I know most of the commands or mouse clicks to do pull-off of the “wow” items (definition, add map, search google, calculator, translate) in my un-tampered OS X –and I’ve got them down to instantaneous motions, no interrupting of my ‘flow’. *cough* disclaimer: this website is no showcase of any ‘flow’ i might have. Anyway, just wanted to say- OS X (hodge, Leopard is released on Oct. 26th rawr!) has a all of great app launching, calculating, translating AND transparency goodness you need… why add something big green and up-its-own-arse on top of an already up-its-arse OS? I get the feeling the creators should stick to the web design, as that’s one slick site, and leave off the ‘world-changing’ for now.

today i was a little let-down, to pull off a vista-crushing ‘next generation OS’, for my money Apple’s new OS ‘Leopard’-s launch date (announced earlier today) should have been followed by some blow-you-away extras that haven’t been announced yet. why isn’t iLife part of the OS, still no “screen sharing” out-of-the-box (it does exist: you need a pricey .Mac account to utilize the technology), there’s no built in iPhone to iChat voice link-up (something a bit skype-y y’know), there’s no iChat SMS service, there’s no support for NTFS hard disks, there’s no Virtualisation of Windows (still boot windows or mac). what a rip-off for you students too- apple has raised the education price of OS 10.5. ouch. can’t blame AT&T for that. I suppose the box is very pretty.