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. :)
I'd give anything for my car to smell like my dog again...what an awesome bunch of passengers you have, here!
ReplyDeleteNow I have puppy envy.
ReplyDeleteYou guys would be less appreciative if you knew that the dog on the left rolled in fresh cow manure not long after this photo was taken.
ReplyDeleteBut still -- every good car needs a good dog, or three.
What's wrong with fresh cow manure?
ReplyDeleteI sit in the driver's seat with that in my hair often times! Dogs wear it better...
Mary, you and my dog Charlie would get along famously! And that's a compliment. :)
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ReplyDeleteCharlie's a classy hound...