I’ve recently made the switch to an SSD for my boot drive. And, yes, it is good. Everything feels all buttery smooth now; I don’t feel like I’m waiting for my system to catch up to me as much. It was a bit of a hassle, but totally worth it. But that’s not what I’m [...]
I’m always excited to hear about new OS releases for the Mac. But that excitement is increasingly mixed with trepidation, and the Mountian Lion sneak peek is no exception. Concerns Count me among the “Pro” users who fear that the Mac and its OS are quite possibly headed towards an iOS-ification that would relegate [...]
Well, it wouldn’t be new OS season without some complaints, now would it? Yes, as always, I have some beefs. The inaugural article on this blog was a piece called Tiger Beefs. Tiger was — and remains — my least favorite Mac OS release of all time. I really hated it and couldn’t wait for [...]
At long a last the time has come for me to post my impressions of Mac OS X 10.7, affectionately referred to as Lion. Lion is a mixed bag, for me. There are few areas where I think it really impresses and then some areas that are a bit less well thought out. Overall it’s [...]
Hi, folks! A lot has been going on here recently: Lion has been released, I’ve been playing with Final Cut Pro X, and I’ve migrated TASB — and all my other web sites as well — to a new hosting provider. Posts are in the pipe for all these things, and I’ll post them as [...]
Just wanted to share some of my initial reactions to Apple’s recent announcements at WWDC 2011. iCloud First off, iCloud. iCloud is really the engine behind the bulk of this year’s significant announcements. As I see it, iCloud provides centralized storage and services that are primarily aimed at managing all your various devices — your [...]
I recently complained about the the Lion Finder’s iOS-style toolbar buttons, which look like the sort of slider-style switches found on iPhones and iPads. This metaphor works great on those touch interfaces, but to my thinking isn’t so well suited to the mouse-driven desktop OS. Well, it looks like someone at Apple has agreed, at [...]
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 [...]