OK, this is a little creepy. I took four different shots of my dog this morning, with no thought of combining them ... and without any prompting at all from me, Google created this:
At a high-end electronics shop today, I overheard an earnest young salesman explaining all about computers to a new customer: "You can use three different operating systems on a computer -- Apple, HP, and Google."
Installed the Lion upgrade on my iMac this morning, though not without difficulty ... the download crashed the App Store application! My initial thoughts are mixed. Safari seems much improved, and the left/right swipe action there is brilliant. I'm already used to the "reversed" scrolling, but I re-enabled the always-visible scroll bar ... it makes no sense at all to have that disappear on a desktop device. Launchpad is useless for anyone with more than a handful of apps, and since I don't use Spaces I don't really like the new look of Mission Control. Mail seems more solid, though I went back to the classic UI there. There's a lot of serious ugliness in the UI, especially for a design-conscious company like Apple. The Finder and Mail went way too far towards the monochrome look ... the font choices, spacing, and graphic layout all suck. On the other hand, Apple went too far in the other direction in the Address Book and iCal, sacrificing usability and
So for those of you who haven't heard, the engine on my poor old Toyota finally gave up the ghost last week. This is the car I got to replace it -- a new Subaru XV Crosstrek. And of course I had to get it in orange. :)
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ReplyDeleteHuh. It's still creepy, but now I'm also kind of intrigued ...
ReplyDeleteThat's cool. I wonder why Google did that. Did you look into it? Is it an automatic feature? It couldn't be an accident.
ReplyDeleteDavid A Yep ... it's apparently a new feature.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah ... my unwitting canine subject and I are definitely going to have to play with this! :)