Rawr.

Happy Halloween!!


Leopard arrived Friday right on time around 10:30 am.

Its everything you've heard/read, very impressive but nothing incredible. But regardless, I love it. Yay for lists!

Issues

• Lack of Time Machine’s Airdisk support. This has been universally complained about, and you can add me to the list. I’m pretty sure official support for Airdisks is on the way. I have found my Airdisk to be pretty buggy in general.

  
  
  
  

  However I seemed to have unintenionally gotten a partition on my Airdisk to be supported by Time Machine. Basically I connected my external via USB to my Mbp (temporarily took it off the extreme) and made a new partition. When Leopard saw the new partiton it asked if I wanted to use it with Leopard, and I said yes. Then I ejected the disk and re-added to my extreme. Now Time Machine seems to recognize my disk even though its an Airdisk.




• I haven’t changed any icons other than my drives because I simply don’t have the patience without a working Candybar or Pixadex. I eagerly await new Leopard-compatible versions that are supposed to be coming soon.

Awesome

• Sleep display hot corner option. This is crazy useful if you have a laptop. Its a great way to save a little power when you’re on the batter and don’t have to look at the screen for a few.





• Sexy. Leopard, for the most part, is the best looking OS I’ve ever seen. I really enjoy the unified look. I still don’t like the dock, though and I’m use that ‘no-glass’ hidden preference for a dock on the bottom. I also really wish you could change the color of the Finder’s sidebar, that blue kind of bothers me. Otherwise, I pretty much totally love it. Good riddance brushed metal!




• Spaces. I’m really liking Spaces. Its nice not having every program on the desktop at the same time. I do, however, wish you could assign specific windows to follow you around. I know you can assign programs to follow you around, but what about just a window? I’d love for my todo list window in TextMate to follow me around, but I want the rest of TextMate in its own space.





• AutoFS. The other night I was at Matt’s and was connected to one of his computer’s drives. When I left I put my mbp to sleep, and when I came home and woke it up… it didn’t freeze! It just asked if I wanted to disconnect from the disk and moved on. Fantastic.




• Snappiness. It just is. I hardly ever see the rainbow ball of death anymore. Everything just feels so smooth. Even Spotlight is pretty usable. In fact if there was a way to add web search strings to spotlight (like you can in Quicksilver/Launchbar) I think I might not even use Quicksilver anymore…





• Mail also seems much faster and smoother. I just miss Letterbox and Mail Act-On hopefully they will both be upgraded soon.

So overall I am very pleased with Leopard. Totally worth upgrading, in my opinion.

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AutoFS

I just read this and learned about probably the best new feature in Leopard: AutoFS.

I won’t go into it because Garrett did such a wonderful job, but I just thought it was so awesome that I had to pass it along.

Basically every time you’d try to connect to a networked drive that had been previously been and suddenly stopped being available would cause your mac to totally freeze. Never again!

Hard restarts no more! Weeeee!

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A Little Less Than a Month

So I’ve been struggling for things to say. So here are a few totally unrelated thoughts…

• Grad school still sucks.




• However, sometimes for my Theories and Methods of Psychotherapy class I get to read random dirty Freudian phrases. Like the “female sexual channel”. So that is fun.





• Speaking of funny dirty things, here is way-too clever comic.




• So far I am fairly disappointed with tv this season as a whole. Except for The Office. I spend an awful lot of time quoting The Office. Andy has somehow gone from the most annoying character to easily the just funniest thing ever. Please watch this show.





• Whoever made my Halloween costume really over-estimated the bodice. I’m going to have to wear a bra twice the size of my body.




• With the iPhone being released legally unlocked (in France) and the iPhone SDK, its probably going to take over the world. Ok, so maybe it won’t take over the world, but its still going to be awesome.





• I have to admit that I’m a little excited about Leopard, even if I’m not sure why.




• I saw the new iMac for the first time today. It is very pretty. It was also the first time anyone working at an Apple Store has ever offered to help me without me prompting them. It must have been because it was one of the few times I’ve ever walked into an Apple Store with no intention of buying anything.





• We saw Rilo Kiley in the city a couple of weeks ago. It totally rocked. They always put on a great show. I highly recommend seeing them live.

So in conclusion, we have learned that I have a useless dirty mind, love The Office, Rilo Kiley, and all things Apple. Surprise, surprise.

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