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Apple’s Magnum Opus

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Post by ralfd »

rayiner wrote: post #15

Re: the "this is how it should have always worked" comment. I've watched my girlfriend use her computer, and this is essentially how she works. She just leaves everything open, never saving anything. She's comfortable using Expose to manage the million windows she ends up having open, but doesn't bother exiting apps when she's done with them and then starting them when she needs them again. If she could do this and h…

@Auto-Save

In Snow Leopard 10.6 when I close TextEdit the program asks me nicely and naggingly per pop up if I want to save the document as a file. To the hard disk. And this file needs a name. Because everything is a file. And if don't save I lose my changes!

In Lion 10.7 TextEdit simply quits dutiful. And opens at restart all unsaved documents again. Auto-save seems like a small feature, but conceptually it is big. Damn, it should have always worked that way!

(The TimeMachine-like versioning still needs a saved document. Every Command+S acts as a saved point you can go back in time.)

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joebadmo wrote: post #8

Am I the only one that thinks Apple is using revolutionary technology to work toward the perfection of a deprecated computing paradigm? I mean, yes, iCloud makes computing work like magic, but it sort of ignores what post-web computing means . Computing anymore isn't just about working on the same documents on any device that you own seamlessly (that part is, to be sure, great), it's about sharing and collaboration.…

I noticed the same and it is interesting that hyped-up "social features" are absent. But I don't think it is necessarily a bad or old-fashioned thing. More like, hm, old-school and retro.

Think about Facebook: It is part of its DNA that they want all data of their users to be open. But most of my photos, videos and documents I don't want to share with the world! I treasure every bad photo taken on a boring vacation, but I don't care to upload everything to Facebook or Flickr.

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Post by sp332 »

rogerbraun wrote: post #60
banjomonster wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My girlfriend does exactly the same thing. I wonder if its a gender thing? Her PC kept freezing, but she loves her new Mac Air.

Please don't say things like this. Why should it be a "gender thing"? This only alienates people. "You don't close your windows? Like a girl?"

I can say that one person is male and another person is female without insulting either of them. Pointing out a difference between genders is not automatically derogatory.

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Post by seabee »

bad_user wrote: post #62
seabee wrote: post #61

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> download an export again on my computer What does this step achieve? The process was pretty easy for me - install Motorola Phone Tools, export the CSV file containing my contacts, make some changes in Excel, upload to Google. There's even an 'Import from SIM' option on my phone (possibly a feature of HTC's People app). Even on a featurephone your SIM contacts will conflict with your phone-stored contacts. There's a…

Since I had to go through all this trouble, I also wanted to take care of all the duplicates and all the junk, to have a single source of truth for my phone numbers - so I deleted everything from my phone, which in turn deleted everything from Google, and that export was a backup that I uploaded to Google's Contacts again. It's weird, but that's what I did to get what I wanted. This file I also processed locally with…

For reference this is the feature I'm talking about, and it will import it to your Google account (though it wasn't useful for me, since my contacts were stored on my old phone rather than a SIM).

http://www.htc.com/www/howto.aspx?id=14183&type=1&p_...

This kind of feature should be in the standard Android Contacts app IMO. But I can't comment on that, since I've not used a vanilla Android phone.

The Google Contacts 'find duplicates' feature did a passable job for the few duplicates I had, but I doubt it would fit some systems (e.g. matching together "Bill Posters" and "Bill Work") nor would it be worth the effort to try too hard. I guess that's a pain we have to live with.

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Post by sp332 »

banjomonster wrote: post #28
rayiner wrote: post #15

Re: the "this is how it should have always worked" comment. I've watched my girlfriend use her computer, and this is essentially how she works. She just leaves everything open, never saving anything. She's comfortable using Expose to manage the million windows she ends up having open, but doesn't bother exiting apps when she's done with them and then starting them when she needs them again. If she could do this and h…

My girlfriend does exactly the same thing. I wonder if its a gender thing? Her PC kept freezing, but she loves her new Mac Air.

I like Windows 7's window management features well enough that I leave everything open (most things minimized) all the time. I've got 18 windows in 12 applications open, 3 of them visible. Win7 isn't perfect for this, but it's really pretty pleasant.

I'm also using about 6 gigs of RAM, but since I have 8 to play with, why not? :)

Re: Apple’s Magnum Opus

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Post by rogerbraun »

sp332 wrote: post #73
rogerbraun wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't say things like this. Why should it be a "gender thing"? This only alienates people. "You don't close your windows? Like a girl?"

I can say that one person is male and another person is female without insulting either of them. Pointing out a difference between genders is not automatically derogatory.

No, but saying "hey, your girlfriend does this, my girlfriend does this, too! It's probably because they are both women!" is insulting if there is no reason whatsoever to believe that there really is something genetic behind the behaviour. I have seen the reverse of this too, when a friend visited and told me that I had a big LCD, just like her boyfriend, and that it was typical for males to buy large screens for their computers.
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