Alright alright, here's my rant/chat about Lion. I have my mixed opinions on the OS as it were, and mainly Voiceover. I do to some extent, feel that Apple didn't give as much thought to Voiceover, or didn't focus more on important areas and major bugs and correcting them. For someone like me, Item Chooser is a really big deal, as I frequent lots of web pages with thousands of items. I really only started to use the Mac the day SL came out, and I certainly don't remember seeing this many issues. I've had some pretty major things like VO refusing to go into menus, and sometimes even the dock. Turning VO off then on again still didn't cut it. The only thing that resolved the issue was to restart the OS itself. iTunes... Well, I'll rest that one a bit, due to issues really starting to hit in 10.3. mail: Well, for the most part its ok, and the viewing options can be changed really, so that's a user descression thing, and something I haven't played with enough to go striking that app down with opinions. Safari in general: Again, not sure. I'm not sure if I really like the downloads window on the toolbar, seeing as it seems to screw round with Voiceover focus when I move it back to the page. However, that's probably a bug that Apple overlooked. I do find it kind of irratating that Apple feel the need to stress new Voices as a feature, when there are other more broken things they could have spent time fixing, or at least somewhat considering. There is no way that I'm expecting the thing to be free of bugs, simply because that's just not the nature of new stuff. Take for example, a new kind of chocolate. You don't know how it will taste, so you are a bit unsure. You take a bight, and you don't think you like it as much as the old brand. However, you stick with it. After a certain time, you develop a fondness for it, and leave the old one dead in its tracks. End conclusion is, give the OS an update or two, then see how it goes. If much of this stuff is still not addressed, then its time to get worryed. P.S I can't say I'm all that impressed either with the Scansoft voices, especially the compact ones. What's the point of them anyway? I dunno why Apple didn't just make a bunch of new Voices of their own, and just leave that to iOS. Maybe its just me, but I think Realspeak is a rather over-used synth in general, and sounds very over priced. If Apple were to use something like Ivona instead, then I would be more than happy. Once an update comes ouut, I might post back another review. Catcha later, James
On 7/25/11, Krister Ekstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > 25 jul 2011 kl. 02:40 skrev matthew Dyer: > >> If you remember when 10.6 was released, 10.6.1 came out with in a week of >> its first release. >> > And i have read in the Swedish Macworld, that 10.7.1 is due out within a few > weeks. I'm not worried at all and i as i said before don't even begin to > dream of downgrading back to SL, there's too many goodies in Lion i will > miss should i downgrade. Now if only i could figure out how to open a folder > i created in Launchpad… > /Krister > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
