© 2008 Tim Finer
10.5 Leopard installed
I installed Leopard last week. Woo! I like a few of the new things quite a lot. The install took a long time, but I was grateful that it scanned the DVD and my HD before installing.
I bought a pair of Western Digitals from NewEgg and have them configured as a RAID 1 mirror. That was incredibly easy. Time Machine asked immediately if I wanted to use the drive as a backup and I said yes. I already used Time Machine to recover my iTunes DB after an inadvertent erasure. Awesome.
The new preview in Finder kicks ass too.
I'm also trying out Mail and Safari again.
I'm liking Mail but for a couple of small things. Like most Mac apps, I really wish that the keyboard shortcuts were more developed. For instance, there is no way to universally skip to the next unread message in Mail. By universal, I mean that I don't have to move the focus to a pane or some other contortion before a keystroke works. In Thunderbird, you can hit 'N' anywhere (except while composing, naturally), and the Next message will be opened for reading.
Safari is a lot faster in a lot of ways over Firefox. The Adblock for Safari works mostly too. I really want NoScript, and the extended tab preferences (like Duplicate, etc.) that Firefox has.
I'm actually using the new Finder over PathFinder now. It's fast and lean enough to do what I want mostly.
Spaces completely replaced VirtueDesktop too. Nice!
posted on March 19, 2008 at 7:46 a.m.
tags: mac
© 2008 Tim Finer