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What?! Exposé is still there. It’s just not called Exposé.
It's really not still there though. Mission Control always groups by app. No way to get an immediate spread of all open windows. Instead you have to explore the bundles of windows grouped by app.
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It's really not still there though. Mission Control always groups by app. No way to get an immediate spread of all open windows. Instead you have to explore the bundles of windows grouped by app.
I didn’t have to do that until now. I could always tell the windows apart.
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Ultramon does a pretty good job. But I always wonder why MSFT didn't just clone the ultramon features. Why not? How hard could it be?
You might want to check out ActualMultipleMonitors as well. It adds some features that I don't believe Ultramon has yet, such as the ability to have a completely functional taskbar on your secondary, complete with its own start button and notification area/clock/etc. I didn't need this feature until I started running multiple 30''s, but now that I am it's invaluable.
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I didn’t have to do that until now. I could always tell the windows apart.
Er, so you agree? Want the "all windows" mode back?
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You might want to check out ActualMultipleMonitors as well. It adds some features that I don't believe Ultramon has yet, such as the ability to have a completely functional taskbar on your secondary, complete with its own start button and notification area/clock/etc. I didn't need this feature until I started running multiple 30''s, but now that I am it's invaluable.
+1, trying it out now and it works pretty well. Really wish there was a simple multiple monitor app though. The ActualMultipleMonitors settings screen is a clusterfuck, has all these 'features' like extra title menu buttons that I don't want and can't figure out how to turn off.
By the way, you can definitely remove those buttons. I don't remember how, but I do remember thinking it took far too long to find the setting to disable them.
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Downmodding me doesn't make it any less true. Tigers are bigger than lions, despite whatever misconceptions the writer of the article may hold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion
I'm sure people are downvoting you purely because it has nothing to do with the discussion.
Lion's just another big cat name, right? Within seconds, we were on to the next slide, where Jobs was pitching the new release's message: not "king of the jungle" or "the biggest big cat," but the "back to the Mac" theme underlying the entire event.
I don't miss the karma. However, it was interesting to see this petty, gang-like downmodding behaviour from HN. More interesting still was that I provoked it merely by acting upon a desire that any nerd should be able to love-- a desire for correctness.
Woah. I actually reported an erratum and John responded within 10 minutes for clarification and subsequently updated the article. (Previously, page 18 stated that "The old lock screen didn't allow account switching." Turns out it has, since at least Panther back in 2004.)
I've emailed John before to ask him about language issues on OS X – I think this was back around the time that Apple decided they weren't going to roll their own Java runtime anymore. He responded back promptly and pointed me toward some reading material he thought was insightful. Not only are his reviews and articles awesome, he seems like a really decent, chill guy.
I like it so far, some nice touches, but there really are some serious usability issues, including discoverability, with Mission Control. Very unlike Apple, at least for the last few releases of OS X.
When I read the section on dropping support for PowerPC-application support altogether on this version of Mac OS X, I couldn't help but think of the video of someone upgrading from Windows 1.0 all the way to Windows 7, and many of the features/applications still working. Why did Mac throw out a feature they had working? Couldn't they have retained it, just not upgraded it anymore? (Or given it to the community?) Full…
Another is that software still built with old tools and compilers will still be using old deprecated toolkits, more cruft to keep running, and likely will be unsupported, potentially creating a crappy user experience.
It is really neat that really old stuff still runs on Windows, but why are people still running crappy old 16-bit software?
>Unfortunately, the settings are linked; you can't have >different values for each kind of input device.
This turns out not to be true, you can indeed making scrolling different on the mouse and the trackpad. The trick is that link is only one way: changing it for the mouse changes it for the trackpad, but not vice versa. So by changing them in the right order you can make them do what you want. Confusing, but at least you can get it to work.
When I read the section on dropping support for PowerPC-application support altogether on this version of Mac OS X, I couldn't help but think of the video of someone upgrading from Windows 1.0 all the way to Windows 7, and many of the features/applications still working. Why did Mac throw out a feature they had working? Couldn't they have retained it, just not upgraded it anymore? (Or given it to the community?) Full…
I can think of a few reasons. One is that Apple want to minimize cruft and crap bloating the install. I think my fresh install weighed in about 6 GB or so. Very nice, just 20% of a 30 GB drive. Another is that software still built with old tools and compilers will still be using old deprecated toolkits, more cruft to keep running, and likely will be unsupported, potentially creating a crappy user experience. It is re…
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