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Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. Dave maintains three weblogs, The Business Blog at Intuitive.com, focused on business and industry analysis, the eponymous Ask Dave Taylor devoted to tech and business Q&A and The Attachment Parenting Blog, discussing topics of interest to parents. Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and frequent guest on radio and podcast programs.

Annoying Mac OS X Leopard Finder Stacks bug

Okay, I have to vent a bit. I download software from the net on my MacBook Pro and while I appreciate that Mac OS X keeps track and warns me before I run anything downloaded, what I don't appreciate is that the icon for the application starts out as a "don't run me" icon that's part of the system.

But, no, that's not the real problem. The real problem is that the system doesn't seem to know when it is safe to restore it to the regular icon, and given the way that Stacks works, it's really lame to have the "don't run me" icon staring me in the face from the Dock. Here, you can see what I mean:

When I click on it, you can more easily see what's going on:

This would be fine, except I've already launched and run VMware Fusion a couple of times, so the icon should have already been restored to its proper state.

Apple? When might we see this annoying bug squashed?

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