Jobs on why Mac Design Awards are dropped

I'm not sure where the actual story is, but I just read that Steve Jobs explained in an email why the Apple/Mac Design Awards were dropped from the WWDC. He says this is "just the normal cycle of things".

Uh, that's great Steve (actually, no, that's not great), but why didn't you tell all the developers this a long, long time ago?

New "Hide Your Desktop" app

A few days ago Al posted his "Hide your desktop and desktop icons" app online. I thought I'd add to it some of our discussions on this project.

This project started off as another app that Al wrote many years ago to help with his blog writing. He created what he called a "curtain" that would swoosh in behind the main window of his app. We both thought this was pretty cool, and then discussed how to make it a general-purpose "Hide your desktop" app.

Beyond that, we started talking about Guy Kawasaki's DICEE acronym, and how that applies here. Either Al or I will write more about this in the future, but I think those are the two clear points for today: 1) Where this "Hide your desktop (and desktop icons)" idea came from, and 2) the DICEE concept.