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OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by lean »

jamesu wrote: post #133

I feel greatly let down by the Calendar and Address book apps. The whole "looks like a real office object" metaphor reminds me too much of Microsoft Bob. Also the menu to select calendars feels poorly designed and doesn't always update correctly. The default view in mail is practically useless to me as often i tend to sort messages by date, person, or subject in order to find stuff. So in some regards a step forwards…

A show of hands, does anyone use these apps?

I haven't used anything but a web interface for webapps for a while now. iCal and Address Book are always among the first things deleted by me on a new OSX install.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by gte910h »

ry0ohki wrote: post #112

The reversing of the scrolling direction is certainly going to take a lot of getting used to. The new way feels semi-natural with the track pad, but with a mouse wheel not so much.

I found the big deal was reversing my windows computer as well. (I reversed mac scrolling weeks ago with Scroll Reverser).

It's lovely once you get used to that (as scrolling matches most smart phones then)

Auto hot key script:

  WheelUp::
  Send {WheelDown}
  Return

  WheelDown::
  Send {WheelUp}
  Return

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by napierzaza »

gte910h wrote: post #148
masklinn wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I know, 4.1 is still in GM, not released yet, you need a paid developer account to get the GM. In fact, not only is 4.1 not available, 4.0 is gone from MAS.

I forgot people really used it without the developer program. Good point for those users.

As an active developer with apps in the store etc, I don't like upgrading xcode until it's a final release. I've used GMs and betas too many times and then found out I can't submit code built from it.

It's really annoying, and I'm not about to test out the buggy xcodes or manage multiple installs. The current 4.x retail releases are buggy enough.

So if that's the way it's going to be I will also wait for everything to be released fully.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by tambourine_man »

blinkingled wrote: post #30

How is the backwards compatibility in general? I got a Oracle 10g database running on SL that I am particularly worried about. I got it anyways - will have to do a full backup and find out I suppose. Speaking of 4GB downloads - OS X still does not have something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_Intelligent_Transfer... which can utilize priorities, throttling and do idle bandwidth downloads. That means my…

But gcc does work right?

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by Jakob »

wesley wrote: post #156

Does anyone know of a scanner software that supports 8ish year old scanners? (epson in particular) Since rosetta is not supported any longer, lots of scanners will not be working..

Vuescan supports a lot of scanners:

http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#supported

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by Johngibb »

masklinn wrote: post #145
jonknee wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It was never part of the base install so that's unsurprising. No, but it was always included along with the install disks. No install disks this time and no X Code. It's worth mentioning.

I fail to see how it's worth mentioning. Xcode not being included in the Lion DMG is not surprising, it's "no shit": Xcode was never in the OSX image in the first place, why would Lion be any different? The only difference is that 4.1 is not released yet, and thus not currently available. That's it. That it's not part of lion (let alone installed by default) is anything but surprising.

XCode was in fact always included with the OS X images.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by ben1040 »

sigzero wrote: post #141

Does Lion "reset" the file system? I have stuff like Perl and Python that I installed myself. Some stuff resides in /usr/local/bin and other stuff in ~/Library/. Was wondering if that all got wiped on the install?

All my /usr/local remained intact on upgrade.

I believe this was the standard behavior with an upgrade install on previous OS X releases, and it got moved out of the way when you did an "archive and install."

I couldn't even find an option to archive and install on Lion, does it even exist? I would rather have done that and gotten rid of all the cruft I've accumulated.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by gte910h »

funkah wrote: post #132
ry0ohki wrote: post #112

The reversing of the scrolling direction is certainly going to take a lot of getting used to. The new way feels semi-natural with the track pad, but with a mouse wheel not so much.

Agreed on both counts. I think it's too unnatural with a mouse so I switched it back on the desktop. On my laptop I left it alone.

I think about it as using my finger to drag the screen up or down on the mousewheel (like I'm scratching the page down or up with my fingernail). After about a week it is very disconcerting to do the opposite.

I did also need to setup my windows computer to do the opposite direction on scroll though to make the transition work (autohotkey script is on this page).

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by ceejayoz »

masklinn wrote: post #146
gte910h wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was told 4.1 is working fine.

As far as I know, 4.1 is still in GM, not released yet, you need a paid developer account to get the GM. In fact, not only is 4.1 not available, 4.0 is gone from MAS.

It's available now: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id448457090
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