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Brief article on how MobileMe(and Joyent Connector) icons so much better than Google style word links:

Pure text-based interfaces must be “read” every time.

The one thing they don’t mention in the article is the fact that the icons should have different shapes to improve user recognition time.

In order to maintain an iPhone-like look, Apple has repeated the controversial decision to change Leopard’s folder icons to have the same shape, regardless of their content. Here is a great article from Indie HIG which talks about what should go into a Mac icon in terms of usability.

(Via Joyeur.)