nit.
Let me just nit pick a little:
ugment it by adding shredding capability, a nice adjunct to the new File Vault encryption capability. (Shredding should be done on a document-by-document basis, since by its nature it takes a long time.)
DONE! It's called "Secure Empty Trash" however it's in the Finder menu rather than in the context menu for Trash, for no good reason.
... unable to use the help system. Why? Because there was no search box ...
sounds like the app he installed purposefully hid it. Or something did. I don't recall having to open that chrome.
If you choose to adopt them, you will have a desktop that can outperform not only a Dock-dependent Mac system, but also Windows XP and a fully decked-out System 9.0 computer.
I'm sorry, System 9.0 blew even if you "fully decked [it] out". One poorly written app, that you needed - like perl - and you were in cooperative multitasking hell.
Yes, this is the exact same content, not crowded in at all, in a window which is one seventh the size of the original! There is nothing you can do in that giant window that you could not do in the classic view with a proper redesign.
Except that you got rid of
ALL the chrome which cut out all sorts of functionality, like quick access to common locations. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not certain that functionality was needed anyways though. It's true he mentioned that there was too much chrome and not enough car, but just the same you did lose functionality.
Someone please explain this header and the following paragraph to me, "I have met the enemy, and he is usPogo". Is he saying that the mouse should be developed for just as much as the keyboard? Is he trying to rationalize why he thinks his beloved method of using finder isn't receiving enough attention?
You cant elect to import bookmarks into Safari, and theres no way to get them back out.
Not to criticize, but tell him to turn on the Debug menu item. Import is there, but not export. My guess is import doesn't exist in Safari normally because they figured .mac syncing would solve any importation issues much more smoothly and prevent users from screwing up their bookmarks. *shrug* I didn't say it was a good plan.
Windows handles this much better, offering small, if excessively frequent, patches that load and install themselves in the background.
Windows does this because it has more frequent issues that need to be fixed, yes? Also, I like that I control when and how updates get downloaded. But yeah, pause throwing away partial downloads is bad.
No comment on the whole dock opinion piece, except to say that it could indeed use some improvements. And YES it is a selling point. Everyone I know goes, oooOOohhh when they see it. But they do that for Expose too, so there are middle grounds between fireworks and usefulness.
Let me finish by saying that his opinion pieces was a good set of reads, so that no one thinks I'm totally riding the guy.
joey.
