Mac OS X Lion

So, i have Lion on my 17" MacBook pro. It came pre-installed so i didn't have the hassle of downloading and installing it. One thing i noticed was that there was no install disk in the box. I thought this meant that i was out of luck with that pre-lion install trick of saving the files from the lion.app directory.

Checking the little white manual that comes with the mbp and it say you can boot to an installation screen even if you can't boot normally. Hopefully i'll never have to do that (i keep both a time machine and superduper backups up to date. I'll google around to see about the success people are having with it.) Although OS X is stable enough that i've never had boot problems in the three years i've been using a Mac.

Anyway, Lion. After watching that guy's YouTube rant i thought i'd have some major productivity issues. Specifically with mission control and launchpad.

Launchpad. Yeah it's iPad like but to me it's a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist on a mac. ie. launching applications. There's already a few ways to native ways to launch apps on the Mac and a ton more for free or pay easily available. Having said that i find myself using it all the time. And to address that guys rant (re: alphabetical order) Just move the friggin' icons around. it's not rocket science you already do that on the iPad.

Mission Control. I admit i miss spaces the way it used to work. I had a space for the different workflows and used a program called "Docks" (which mostly works on Lion but seems to have disappeared from the weeb, so no Lion update from the googling i did) that let you assign a different dock for each space. For me mission control makes the process a little more freeform.

Oh, one more thing :) the scrolling reversal. Using the trackpad it's fairly intuitive especially if you already use an iPad.

Use a mouse though and it's mind numbingly stoopid [sic].

Tecnology on the road

Took a trip to the east coast. Up here in the gwn that's nova scotia, p.e.i, or newfoundland/labradour. I decided that the only technology i was going to take with me was my ipod touch. My phone is an iPhone so i had to take that anyway. :)

It really turned out to be a toss up between my 13" MacBook pro and my iPad. Given the amount of space we had to work with for carry on luggage i opted for the two smaller devices and my Nikon D5000.

I used my iPhone the most though.

I bought the "trip journal" app for it to document my vacation. You can send updates to Facebook along the way. I could connect with facebook exactly once with it, so it was a waste of $0.99. The Facebook app on the iphone turned out to be a better way of documenting the trip.

Google server +1

I guess I only had to wait a day or so for google to add another server just for me. Using google+ and liking it so far. Not sure using a clone of the Facebook interface is smart. Google could design a much better one.

Google runs out of servers

I think I got my google+ invite. I think. When clicking on the link I got the dreaded "exceeded capacity" message from google.

Google.

Really?

Google+ scams

So I decided to try for a google+ invite. Went to one site that said to post and ask for an invite and users on the site who have them will send you one. Seems to me I did this at the same website when I got my gmail invite. Couldn't post. Page errored out. numerous times.

Some other page made you jump through hoops, 'course they were just link bait. Thanks d-bags. I've already removed all the hoops. Feeping d-bags.