After a RIDICULOUSLY long wait for OS X to download, i'm finally running Lion. The new OS installed w/o a hitch, tho both the download and installation took much longer that wat others reported in the app store. played with the new OS for barely 10 mins... needless to say the 1st thing i did was to change my dock and program icons back to the custom ones i had last time... esp the dock. after getting so used to my wavy lined dock, the white one looked outright ugly.
still have not settled the issue of the finder icon on the dock... liteicon doesn’t work this time round even after i restarted... darn! well its not THAT impt tho, so i'm gonna explore the other aspects of the system 1st. the finder sidebar icons for one looks really really plain. i miss having my miniature maple characters in the sidebar etc... gotta see if there's a way for me to get them back. seen some not so good comments abt lauchpad already.... have gotten round to using it yet, but since i had to try sooo hard to find the liteicon app just now since i forgot the app name, and looking through the whole list of apps in finder didn’t really help (in the end i had to open up my blog, look for the blog post i made abt all the mac apps, find the app name, and type it in alfred, how pathetic!), i'm really looking forward to grouping my apps together in folders. we'll see how it goes when i get round to using it more.
oh yeah, the new gestures... they have the natural scrolling thing that basically reverses the direction of scroll... i don't really see the benefit/difference (quite ok with both directions) on the trackpad... but once i use the mouse wheel to scroll its... arghs! the difference becomes so hellya obvious.. and irritating. can't take the scroll wheel moving in the wrong direction issue and switch the natural scrolling option off within 5mins of trying it out. kinda sad but oh wells.
guess the rest of the features like auto save + version history etc will take a while before i get to try them out... gonna try out lauchpad now than head to bed. sch's starting in a week so i guess the timing of lion release is just nice for me...
k, till next time.
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