Preparing Your Mac for Leopard

cuttime · Post by **cuttime** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:56 pm

I just sat through the Leopard guided tour. Cover flow on the
Finder...stacks...built in greeting cards in mail...please wake me when its over...zzzzzzz

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:15 pm

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YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:18 pm

cuttime wrote:I just sat through the Leopard guided tour. Cover flow on the
Finder...stacks...built in greeting cards in mail...please wake me when its over...zzzzzzz

I know... I'm hoping there's something meaninful to use. Looks like stupid flash and eye candy for the consumer market. Although I could use the Mail templates I think.

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:24 pm

OldTimey wrote:since leopard has new screen sharing features (very cool in my opinion, no need for third party VNC thingies anymore)

Oh... I must mention that I found that in at least one case, a third party VnC thingie worked better and was more responsive than the built in capability. VineServer outperformed the built in VnC function in terms of responsiveness and screendraws on the remote machine.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:24 pm

The greeting card thing in and of itself doesn't excite me, but the application for doing nice promo material to email does... Can't really do that now with Entourage.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:26 pm

James Steele wrote:
OldTimey wrote:since leopard has new screen sharing features (very cool in my opinion, no need for third party VNC thingies anymore)
Oh... I must mention that I found that in at least one case, a third party VnC thingie worked better and was more responsive than the built in capability. VineServer outperformed the built in VnC function in terms of responsiveness and screendraws on the remote machine.

I never got Vine Server to work outside my own local network. Kind of bummed, but I think it was a firewall issue on the remote side. Hopefully Leopard will scratch that problem away.

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:34 pm

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:...but the application for doing nice promo material to email does... Can't really do that now with Entourage.

Exactly!

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:41 am

The whole Finder experience seems to me to be an incredible waste of CPU resources... the reflections, the animation... useless! No wonder they're leaving PPC machines in the dust. Every time there's an advance in chip speed, Apple piles on crap to negate those advances. I mean, how much time do you spend in The Finder anyway? Seems to me yet another bit of pointless eye candy for the ADD crowd.

Gee, Stacks. A revolutionary organization tool, eh? They're folders with animation. Besides, you can already see the contents of a folder without opening it by putting it on the Dock and just click-holding your mouse on it. How gullible does Apple think (know) we are?

I don't see any point to upgrade to Leopard until our apps are 64-bit, and the dust has settled over the wave of problems that switch is going to trigger.

I do kind of like the Time Machine, but I'd be surprised if that kind of function isn't already available as a third-party utility for 10.4, or earlier. And there are many search utilities way superior to Spotlight, and some are free.

IMO

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MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:59 am

Jim wrote:The whole Finder experience seems to me to be an incredible waste of CPU resources... the reflections, the animation... useless...

If I were an accountant or lawyer or some other tradesman like that, I'd agree with you 100%. But as an artist sitting at a machine ALL DAY for the most part, I have to say that the 'beauty' of the interface is not a waste of resources for me.

I don't have ADD so it's not that I need the stimulus, it's that I cannot just work, work, work without some kind of peripheral stimulation.

Yeah, the new OS is filled with all the new fancy bells and whistles and that may well be a marketing ploy. But again, it's a little like sex. Sure, you can get an inflatable doll and do your thing, or you can find a live, stumlating, sensual partner to do it with.

Windows for me is the inflatable doll. Does everything that is essential. Mac (especially Leopard) is the beautiful woman who wants to sit next to me when I work and help when she can.

So what will it be? The lady or the tiger? Or should that be the troll or the leopard?

My 2 centavos...

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:29 am

Please pull that photo would you? Thanks.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:51 am

James Steele wrote:Please pull that photo would you? Thanks.

What photo...?

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:54 am

Cheeky Gorilla.

If you weren't so big and ugly James would've booted you out long ago.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:48 pm

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:I don't have ADD so it's not that I need the stimulus, it's that I cannot just work, work, work without some kind of peripheral stimulation.

Isn't your work stimulating enough? You could always load up a video game or some porn or run some u-tube videos of George Carlin. And how stimulating is the Finder animation going to be, do you think, after you've lived with it for a thousand hours? I thought the Genie effect was amusing the first few times I saw it, but after a week I was looking for ways to turn it off.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:57 pm

Jim wrote: Isn't your work stimulating enough?

Truth be told, it is way over stimulating at times and a diversion is welcome. But to each his own. I say tomato and you say pajamas (or something like that). In a perfect world, we could decide what eye candy we want.

BTW, believe it or not, I don't do porn and haven't had a video game on my computer or elsewhere. EVER. To me, THAT is a waste of time, money and intelligence. Again, to each his own. Getting back to the initial comment: my work is more than stimulating

If I get "bored" I'll go play some Mozart on the old Yamaha grand. No frills (but lots of trills) there.

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:38 am

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:... BTW, believe it or not, I don't do porn and haven't had a video game on my computer or elsewhere. EVER. To me, THAT is a waste of time, money and intelligence. Again, to each his own.

Aah... the intelligent Gorilla.

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Getting back to the initial comment: my work is more than stimulating If I get "bored" I'll go play some Mozart on the old Yamaha grand. No frills (but lots of trills) there.

Cultured Gorilla, eh Magilla?

Perhaps this is why Jimbo hasn't given you the boot yet...
Or could it be that wicked sense of humour?