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Quote: Originally Posted by tyler82 The last thing I want is my Mac to be more like my iPod. Crossing fingers that Apple doesn't screw this up... Agreed, I don't want my MacBooks, iMacs, Mac Pros and PowerMacs reduced to cheap cell phone funct…
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Can't wait to have my $2500+ laptop act just like a $49 cell phone. Oh joy.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil So you're mad that it's doing its job exactly as designed. And if you're just opening them in Preview, that's all that will happen. No sense getting upset about the changes you made to a file actual…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil QuickLook is the new Preview. Then rename Preview so it's functionality once again matches up to it's moniker. If the new OS is indeed the Nanny, then drop all of this to the lowest common denominator (…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil That's what the two-finger scroll that we've had since 2005 is for. That's the new Apple way. What used to take one finger on the down arrow now takes 2 fingers on the trackpad. I usually try to save…
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Quote: Originally Posted by coffeetime Apple, give us back our fracking scroll bar arrows!!! Yeah, scrolling on a tiny laptop monitor is a freaking necessity! Give us back these tools, puhleeze. And return the Address Book's 3-pane view. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by stratokaster I think it's a good idea to share some of our least favourite features in Mac OS X Lion and how to mitigate them. Thanks, stratokaster! You've got a great idea here, and it's already helped me better my…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sirozha I am not disparaging you.. Sirozha wrote: "...you must be too old for the innovations that came with Lion." Yeah, yeah, I'm sooooo friggin' old, you're so fresh & new & totally cool but... you're …
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Quote: Originally Posted by noirdesir Even John Siracusa, the person who wrote the most in-depth review of Lion (80+ pages when printed) does not intend to switch to it for next couple of months, for his private computer. Well stated. I think …
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Quote: Originally Posted by sirozha Paranoid. Case closed. I, for one, am very impressed with auto-save and versions. Many a time have I heard screams coming from my wife's office when Word would crash and take down pages of unsaved work. As …
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Quote: Originally Posted by freckledbruh What kind of contracts take up over a gig of space?? Are they for people's souls? Very funny, actually. But not as dramatic as you might imagine. Sometimes, they can be 100-140 pages, double-sided, and…
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna You don't like it, fine. Suggesting you go back to Snow Leopard and avoid all of this is a valid comment. Here's another valid comment. Don't use iWork. Go buy a copy of Microsoft Office 2011 which works on …
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Quote: Originally Posted by sirozha Dude, chill out already. If this is the reaction you are having to Lion, go back to Snow Leopard. Or better yet, retire -- you must be too old for the innovations that came with Lion. At one point, the technolo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sirozha First create a duplicate of an existing file and then Cmd+S it. You will be prompted to give ita new name. At this point you have forked you original file, and the auto save with versions kicks in on the forked…
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Quote: Originally Posted by noirdesir If you think a second about it, the duplicate command obviously serves the purpose 'save as' did before. It creates a new document based on the current state (and without any version history). It does not …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Or he could just lock the document and it wouldn't auto save anymore for just that document. I think people tend to forget that Apple does do usability testing and they try every scenario imaginable. How…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lochias First of all, it does not save versions as full documents requiring a massive memory commitment. A version is a virtual document, constructed from change pointers invisible to the user and taking very little e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by noirdesir Well, if it does not work for you, switch it off, nobody is forcing you to use it (or iCloud). You can't switch off Auto-Save or Versions. Those are the problems. They need work, they need much more though…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jabohn Photostream is no apparent replacement for the current Gallery. I can't see any reason why I would automatically want my photos uploaded to the cloud. I prefer to choose, and the current method looks like it tak…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Object-X It's happening right now. I think Jann Wenner is insane if he thinks it's going to take decades. I suggest he go back and review his high school math and take a look at the exponential curve; the rate of…