Some more or less random tidbits for this week:

- If you mouse over an HTML link in an email message in Mail, you'll see what's commonly referred to as a tooltip which shows you what the actual http address is that you're going to get sent to if you click on the link. This is particularly interesting when you get what looks like a "phishing" message, because you can see very visually that it isn't https://ebay..something that you're going to load, it's some hacked web site.

- Windows Mobile 2005 units are now shipping, yet the development environment (Visual Studio .Net 2005) is still in beta. Is it just me or is there something wrong with this? Or are all the 3rd party developers happy trying to produce the expected upgrades for their customers with non-production development software. Honestly, I do expect at some point that Microsoft will completely and utterly dominate the handheld/mobile market, but it's going to be through a war of attrition rather than through, say, quality software and business practices. It's tiring because it's been the same story for the last few Windows Mobile upgrades.

- Steve Jobs calls the music industry "greedy for considering a hike in the price of digital downloads" (link). I'm not sure if he's out to protect the consumer, Apple or both. But it feels like he's protecting us, so I say "good work".

- Microsoft released on update to Office 2004 (for Mac OS X) which, amongst other things, claims to provide significant enhancements to Exchange Server support. I actually use Office on my Mac and have only minor complaints with the Exchange support (mostly that I seem to get messages duplicated quite often) but I'm hoping this update fixes them.