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Is 10.2 all it's cracked up to be? |
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 In my opinion, Yes indeedy. Apple has made some rocking good changes and I like them. This is a brief look into 10.2 for all of you out there. The first thing you notice when you boot up 10.2 is that there is no more "Mr. Happy Mac" to greet you. Instead there is a grey on grayish-white Apple logo with a little spinning spiky thing under it. You can see it on the count-down to Jaguar on the Apple site (keep the drool in your mouth I'm not even close to being done yet). Another thing you'll notice is the "spinning color pizza wheel of death" is new and improved sporting a new 3d suit, it's very purty.
Next up is the ultra fast startup. It took about 10 seconds for the progress bar to complete, and that's on a B&W G3 400 (if Apple is reading this writer could use a new 1.25Ghz *wink* *wink*). The overall speed and response in Jag was about 20% better than in 10.1.x. Now the first thing I did try was the auto changing desktop. I set it for 5 seconds and to my surprise it didn't fade in and out as nice as it did for Phil Schiller. Though I haven't played with all the settings because again this is just a teaser until I've played with everything.
The next thing was iChat, iChat is pretty freaking cool. By default the comic book bubble text is on. It works like AIM pretty much with some differences like when a user logs off there name goes grey and slowly goes away. The interface needs some work but, it's still only the first version so give them a break.
The Terminal, Yes I can be a geek if necessary but it's messy so I don't do it often. Anyway, the terminal seemed faster and more responsive than before. I would say that the new gcc 3.1 helped out with compiling speeds as well. And of course it has the transparency slider in the prefs. Gone are the days of write com.apple.TerminalOpaqueness 0.8, or whatever that was, Yippe!!!
Mail's new junk mail feature is really kick ass out of the box like Mr. Jobs said at MacWorld. Though it does miss some of those porn and dating emails but it'll learn that im not a hopeless romantic that likes porn, oh wait maybe I am. The interface of mail got tweaked a bit. Different icons mostly.
Sherlock 3 is simply amazing, from the Movies to the restaurant. You could plan a whole date right from the new Sherlock. It did take some of Watson's abilities but if ya can't beat um, join um. Right?!? The maps come up in seconds as well as the directions. It's quite simply the neatest little app in the world.
iTunes 3 I'm sure most if not all of you have this already so I'm not even going to say much other than, Keep up the good work, and lemme change the look of it damnit like soundjam used to be, that's all I ask, it's not much is it?!? NO! I didn't think so.
I still haven't been able to test out Rendezvous yet but don't worry I will, and I'm sure it will be as good as we have been hoping for.
That's the skinny of what I can remember for now. More to be posted when I pick it apart piece by piece.
That's the news and I am outta here...
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August 20 2002, 10:40 PM EDT, by
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Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk? That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question.
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