Update 20090301 Apple: make them suck less

Update 20081224 Mail.app (Apple)
I have in front of me an open email with a lot of links on it. As I move the cursor over one of the links and take my hand off the mouse a popup presents itself telling me more information about the link which is useful I suppose but I would like to be able to turn that feature off and recover the processor cycles that it consumes.
same day Opera (not Apple)
I am waiting for a page to load and while doing so I allow the cursor to hover above the tab in another browser window which is in the background. I am sure this is useful to somebody but I would like to disable it and get my processor cycles back thank you very much

Update 01/18/2008 Make Time Machine suck less:

btw: nice goin Apple with Time Machine. With a 80 gb drive to start and a backup drive with 137GB Time Machine takes up all that 137MB just since installation so now it won't run anymore and thus useless.

Make the Finder suck less:

OK I just found something about the Finder that makes it look like the way that Firefox and Safari operate that annoys me.

I describe myself to others sometimes as terminally curious. At any time I can have multiple disparate threads of information in my attention space. This frame of reference when propagated into the use of Safari and Firefox reveals that I can have open at any one time 140 tabs in 40 or so browser windows. Today's(20080119) count after a Safari crash was 254 tabs in 53 browser windows. Command ~ tabs through the open windows probably through a linked list that has a pointer field to the window which is brought to the front when that record is reached in the list. Some arbitrary list. If I do something in a particular window such as refresh it or click a link with control down and select an option then when I return to tabbing through the open windows with command ~ then the direction through which the pointer progresses through the list is reversed. This might be convenient for some people's ways of thinking but I would like a preference option set such that once I am finished with some temporary task I can continue tabbing through the list of open windows in the direction I was proceeding before attending to a temporary task at a window I visit.

I just discovered that tabbing through the finder windows follows this same behavior. I told Apple in the crash report that I was adding this to my makeitsuckless page: http://inresco.org/makeitsucklessf/makeitsuckless.html

Update 12/18/2007 Thank you Apple for making Spotlight and the Finder's Find function suck less. I can now choose between searching in Contents and searching File Name only