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iDisk Turning Blue

Over the last few days I have noticed blue iDisk icons appearing, will my OS X 10.5 Leopard desktop icon be changing soon or is it in readiness for Septembers launch of Snow Leopard. When I took a screen shot on the 10th June for another post the icon bar at the top of the mobileMe web interface looked like this:

Now it looks like this.

The access to iDisk files is now represented by a disk icon instead of the previous folder icon. The icon looks like the desktop icon only it is blue instead of purple. The settings has also changed to bringit in line with the OS X desktop and iphone settings icons. I have also noticed that several images on the apple site iDisk / MobileMe section, in particular those relating to the soon to be released iPhone application for access to iDisk are featuring a blue idisk icon. One of these images is shown here.

So will I soon see the end of this purple iDisk icon on my desktop and the introduction of a new blue iDisk icon?

Energy saver light bulb in Mac OS X

Having upgraded using software update to Mac OS X 10.5.7 I found that I still had an old fashioned filament type light bulb for the energy saver icon in system preferences. And not the new compact fluorescent energy saver type of bulb icon that has been available on some of the very recent models. Having heard of some other issues relating to the software update version I decided to try the combo updater and sure enough after a smooth install I now have the new energy saver icon.