Wednesday 27 July 2011

Mac OS X Lion

Initial thoughts about Mac OS X is that it is marvellous. After initially being concerned about spaces disappearing, I discovered the + button (top right) of mission control that allows you to add desktops (spaces).

Full screen apps are great, they feel like iPad apps of my MacBook (Safari is especiall good, everything opens as tabs on one screen). And you can quickly move between them with 3 finger swiping left and right. And 3 fingers swipe up gives mission control, which gives quick navigation to apps or desktops.

Launchpad is great, with a quick mouse movement to the appropriate hot corner I've got one click access to any of my apps, this bloody brilliant. It also allowed me to de-clutter my dock, which makes th dock more useful.

Just be prepared to spend 20 minutes reorganising the launchpad apps, eg removing duplicates.

Calendar and address book have new looks. Mail is totally new and just like the iPad Mail app. I stopped using it years a go. Now its one of my main apps that I use.

Other subtle changes are the login and lock screens, the management of multiple accounts has improved.

But I can't sing it's praises enough how good gestures, mission control, full screen apps and launchpad make using my mac. oh yeah and since the upgrade I'm getting into using the Appstore, like downloading Pages and Things.

Only strange thing was the "natural scrolling" which reverses the scroll direction. But I'm used to the new way now.


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Location:Hill Top Rise,Basildon,United Kingdom

Google+

Initial thoughts are that it's (Google+) very good. Video chat is great, huddles (group texting) via mobile is great, managing friends via circles is great.

What isn't so great is that I don't have enough friends posting to it yet, and people I have just followed are a bit spammy specially when there are multiple user comments.

I think if I could build up a group of users (not necessarily my Facebook fans, then it will become a complimentary social tool).

Oh yeah and Google needs to fix the iPhone app as the stream crashes, plus they need an iPad app.


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Location:Hill Top Rise,Basildon,United Kingdom