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John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
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Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#42One thing that continuously strikes me is Apple's ability to invest great level of detail when they want to. Take the FileVault recovery key, for example. For something so crucial like file encryption, not only do they offer you a quick solution but a practical and more "human usable" one; they offer to store it for you. And then they go the extra mile with those security questions! http://static.arstechnica.net/2011…
Being picky about the childhood phone number: does anyone even remember that? Since I have the iPhone I can only memorise something like three or four phone numbers.
Well, maybe that point just got me all excited because I had to work on exactly that dilemma of bad security questions a few years ago for a big identity management installation and we would end up with exactly those kind of a bit more personal/specific questions like who was your first manager, lyrics to favorite song, most significant politician...
In my case, being European and only moved from my parents' house once in my life so far - yes, I do remember my (old) home phone number better than the one my mom switched to now.
Either way, it is a surprisingly difficult topic and very dependent on the organization and people.
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
About GMail archiving: Really not? (I haven't read trough this massive review yet.) At least on iOS it is possible to convince the delete button to archive. (By setting the trash folder to 'All mail', if I remember correctly.) I would imagine that Apple Mail should be at least as configurable as its iOS counterpart.
Yeah... And then you delete how?
Move it to the folder Thrash
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#44As someone who has never used OS X as his primary operating system, I am confused about what is being shown off as new in the Window Resizing section [1]. Were you not able to resize windows from all of those eight points before Lion? 1. http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...
Nope, and no "Full Screen" mode or "Maximize" mode for windows on OSX.
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#45"Lion adds Emoji support to Mac OS X. So that happened."
:D
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#46Siracusa strikes me as a power user type so I'm extremely surprised that he neglected to mention how patently awful and useless Mission Control is on multiple monitors.
Whereas in the Spaces view in Snow Leopard I could move a window to a different space AND a different monitor with a quick drag, Mission Control doesn't allow this - I have to first move the window to the correct "Desktop", then exit MC and drag it to the correct monitor.
Full Screen Apps are similarly useless on multiple monitors - regardless of which monitor the window originates on, clicking the full screen button returns it to whatever display is designated "primary". Even worse, while you're in full screen on one display, the others become useless as it blocks them out with Apple's new favorite canvas texture. Why?
At first I thought all this was intentional and that Apple was leaving multi-monitor users in the dust to focus on Macs that are very close to iOS devices (11" Macbook Air comes to mind), but today they also announced a new Cinema Display that lets you daisy chain two monitors off a single Thunderbolt port. Clearly it's still a mode of operation they intend to support for some time - so why have they crippled it so horribly in this release?
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#47On resuming application state: >So, how's that "geek panic" now? Still there, huh? Well, let me try to reassure you. As a committed user of a great Mac text editor that, years ago, implemented its own version of almost all the document management features described so far, I can tell you that you get used to it very quickly. Spoiled by it, in fact. Ruined by it, some would say. Yes, it's a very different model from t…
Don't worry - Adobe won't be updating the Creative Suite with these features until at least the next release cycle. I imagine that, as you said, "Resume" will not be supported for performance reasons alone.
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#48I'm disappointed in the answer to the following questions: Can I tile two windows without 17 clicks and mouse movements? Fortunately for the creator of Cinch, it seems the answer is no. Can I archive a gmail message? No?
Flexiglass is the best:
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you use tiling for? If anything Apple is moving even farther away from tiling with the full-screen changes in Lion.
I use tiling when I want two Windows to each occupy half of the screen. Let me ask you a question: What on God's green earth does the little green plus button do in OSX? I just pressed it three times on Chrome and here's what happened: 1) The windows was occupying the entire screen (thank you Cinch) and when I clicked the green plus, the window changed to roughly 600x800. 2) Window changed to to 600x1100. 3) Window d…
The green button tries to remove all scroll bars and it will also shrink the window down to where there are just no scroll bars (i.e. shrinking it one more pixel would activate the scrollbars).
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you use tiling for? If anything Apple is moving even farther away from tiling with the full-screen changes in Lion.
I use tiling when I want two Windows to each occupy half of the screen. Let me ask you a question: What on God's green earth does the little green plus button do in OSX? I just pressed it three times on Chrome and here's what happened: 1) The windows was occupying the entire screen (thank you Cinch) and when I clicked the green plus, the window changed to roughly 600x800. 2) Window changed to to 600x1100. 3) Window d…
It fits the window to the size of the content. Or something. Can't deny it's confusing and I never use it myself
I'll have to give cinch a try, I've just gotten used to really janky window layouts in OS X.