If there’s one thing that drives me crazy about Lion, it’s the bugginess of the Finder. I’d mentioned the problem where Spaces clears the Desktop of icons in my initial review. But I’ve since found additional problems. For years now I’ve kept my Desktop organized by file type. I like this because it groups all [...]
What percentage of attempts at doing a thing must be failures until that thing is deemed unreliable by a user and abandoned for another more effective method? I don’t know the answer, but whatever it is, Siri has passed it. Siri’s great when it works, it just so seldom does. The most common thing I [...]
There are two things that the controversy surrounding Siri’s apparent stance on abortion demonstrates. Siri is a believable and convincing enough piece of software to make people react to it as though it is a real person, with real thoughts and opinions. Most people either just have no clue how technology works, or no interest [...]
Here’s a Versions mistake I’ve made numerous times at this point. I open a document. I make some temporary or test changes — changes I don’t intend do actually keep. Once I’ve seen what I need to see, I quit the application. In the past I’d have been asked if I wanted to save the [...]
I’m starting to not like Lion’s whole “Versions” implementation. It’s a system that’s supposed to simplify file management, but is, in fact, complicating it in certain situations. Case in point: Locked Files. Lion now locks files that haven’t been edited for a certain period of time. It does this in order to prevent accidental changes [...]
Apple has released Final Cut Pro X 10.0.1, a small point release with some important new — or maybe I should say “returned” — features. Most important among these is XML import/export which should allow users of FCPX to open their legacy FCP projects. But here’s the grind: I’m not sure how you’re supposed to [...]
Google has recently been rolling out redesigns of their flagship products, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Maps, and, of course, Search. I have to say, I’m both pleased to see it and impressed with the results. I’ve argued several times now that, as great as Google’s products are, they could be made even better if [...]
I admit it: I’m an OS nerd. I get very excited about new OS releases, particularly (okay, only) those of my OS of choice, Mac OS X. Mac OS X 10.7 — or Lion as it’s affectionately codenamed — is certainly no exception. In fact, Lion looks to be a very exciting release, both for [...]
Another Xcode update, another bad App Store experience. This one was the best so far, but still not perfect. After the last update I pretty much just gave up and started keeping the Install Xcode.app in the /Applications folder where it’s expected, despite the 4.5 gigs it takes up. So when I went to update [...]
So after purchasing and downloading Xcode via the App Store only to discover I didn’t have enough disk space to install the app, I came up with an acceptable, if less than ideal, workaround. I’m not terribly happy with the state of things, but hey, at least I was able to get things back to [...]