Re: Mac App Store / Lion - hmmm

2011-08-31 Thread S Beach
Apple style: 1997 - no more beige! 2011 - Grey IS a colour scheme. Great work Apple. Good products... but, ugly. And yes, I have changed the image on my login screen from crappy grey linen to a nice photo from my recent trip to Kakadu.

Re: Mac App Store / Lion - hmmm

2011-08-31 Thread Tim Law
All, After a couple of weeks of using Lion with my Mac Mini and 27 monitor, I have not had any problems with it. It appears stable for my use. I've not got around to using some of the features such as Mission Control and Launch Pad. I do like the way the apps are displayed in Mission

Re: Mac App Store / Lion - hmmm

2011-08-31 Thread Stuart Evans
So when you have a product based on a Golden Lion why choose grey? Elephant in the room? On 31/08/11 2:06 PM, S Beach sbscr...@gmail.com wrote: Apple style: 1997 - no more beige! 2011 - Grey IS a colour scheme. Great work Apple. Good products... but, ugly. And yes, I have changed

Re: Mac App Store / Lion - hmmm

2011-08-31 Thread Reg Whitely
Sorry Tim, I don't have Lion, but I do have Aperture in Snow Leopard, with shades of grey... grey buttons on a grey background. I thought that was idiosyncratic of Aperture, not a new progressively backward Apple step. Please tell me I'm mistaken. Is there a way to change stupid greyscale

Re: Mac App Store / Lion - hmmm

2011-08-31 Thread Ashley Mulder
Titanium Software's 'Deeper' will easily change the login picture/background http://www.titanium.free.fr/download.php Ash On 31/08/2011, at 7:46 PM, Stuart Evans wrote: So when you have a product based on a Golden Lion why choose grey? Elephant in the room? On 31/08/11 2:06 PM, S Beach

Re: Mac App Store / Lion - hmmm

2011-08-31 Thread Ronda Brown
Hey Daniel, I have found that as it stands, NO App distributed via the App Store can use an update mechanism other than the Store’s own. But that would not explain why you are unable to update iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes etc from the updates that you have on your Network or Portable Drive. Unless

Re: Mac App Store / Lion - hmmm

2011-08-31 Thread stuart . evans
Hi Ronni, I have concerns about the App store both from a user aspect and from a reseller aspect. Putting aside my reseller concerns, as a user the App store has both attraction and concerns. It's great to be able to search and download apps, have free or lite versions and have an easy

Re: Mac App Store / Lion - hmmm

2011-08-31 Thread Roger Kortas
Hi Guys Personally I find I quite like the app store BUT professionally I don't!! We have quite a few Macs at Wanews and we sometimes have a need to buy software for just one Mac. So how do I do this ? set up an Apple account for each user? Use our corparate account but how would that work?

Re: Mac App Store / Lion - hmmm

2011-08-31 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Stuart, Yes, I agree with your comments. Also App Developers are ’not happy’ with the amount of time Apple takes to ‘approve’ updates the developers make to their Third-Party Apps, especially 'security updates’. Therefore users of Apple Mac Store, may be putting their computer's security at

Re: Mac App Store / Lion - hmmm

2011-08-31 Thread Rod Lavington
I think its a very dangerous path that Apple are heading down. What has worked well on iOS does not necessarily translate to the desktop. Security updates are much more critical in the desktop environment, as Apple by large has much less control over what you can install or visit (via web

Re: Mac App Store / Lion - hmmm

2011-08-31 Thread Ronda Brown
Yay Rod, Spoken like a man after my own heart ;-) Apple appears to be preparing a 10.6.9 update to Mac OS X Snow Leopard in order to provide compatibility with the company's upcoming iCloud service. The following notice appeared in one developer's .Mac preference pane in Tiger after he had

Re: Mac App Store / Lion - hmmm

2011-08-30 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Daniel, I feel this is a ‘Big Deal’. It is one of the concerns I had about Lion when it was due to be released. I think actually we discussed similar on the mailing list back then. The way you do your setup of a new computer for a client, is the same way I do ( I have learnt a lot from you