OSX Lion [modified]

[Lost User]

And how fucking typical - despite the positive exchange rate, it's more friggin' expensive in Oz! I mean, $31.99 for an OS! What do they think I am, a billionai.. wait - what, Thirty-Two bucks! Once my wireless access is sorted I'll be downloading it - right now, it took four days to download Portal 2 (MUCH more important than OSX) due to all the dropouts since Her Indoors moved the mac into the comfort of the lounge where she can use it in the warmth during winter without her fingers freezing off From what I've seen, I'll have to go out and buy the touch pad now!

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[AspDotNetDev]

Chris Maunder wrote:

I can resize a window using...wait for it!...any side of the window

Finally, I've been waiting decades for this! I can finally buy a Mac.

Chris Maunder wrote:

They reversed the direction you need to stroke

*Mutters to self* "remember the Lounge rules, remember the Lounge rules, remember the Lounge rules..."

Martin Fowler wrote:

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

[Chris Maunder]

I found the way to fix the reversal of the mouse gesture. You uncheck the "natural scrolling" checkbox in preferences. Surely that counts as ironic, no?

cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

[AspDotNetDev]

Now you're getting it! :)

Martin Fowler wrote:

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

[_Damian S_]

Chris Maunder wrote:

I found the way to fix the reversal of the mouse gesture. You uncheck the "natural scrolling" checkbox in preferences.
 
Surely that counts as ironic, no?

No... having spent far too much time thinking about this, natural scrolling indeed would bring stuff from further up the top into view when you scroll in a downward motion... think of a globe with the axis attached through the equator... when you scroll "down", the northern hemisphere comes towards the centre...

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[Lost User]

The scrolling thing is meant to be because it is more natural on touch screens to drag the screen down, so they've applied that to the touchpad... think they may be releasing a touch-screen mac soon??? I thought from the little i have read that the desktop would be completely changed by the new OS - all your apps installed on the desktop like a giant ipoaphone (using a three-finger-and-thumb pinch to bring it up)

Chris Maunder wrote:

I can resize a window using...wait for it!...any side of the window.

OMG! I only got the Mac about a year or so ago, and spent the first three months swearing at ti when I had to move the mouse to the bottom right to resize, then went just that little too far and got teh bloody toolbar thingo at the bottom of the screen instead!

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[Christian Graus]

I have not bought it. I know they claim there's lots of cool new stuff, but I assume they are lion about it.

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

[Steve Mayfield]

I'll bet they charge more than $29 :laugh:

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[_Damian S_]

Christian Graus wrote:

I assume they are lion about it.

No need to get catty!

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[Abu Mami]

Hey Chris, do you use XCode? I've heard that some people are having trouble with XCode (4.1) after upgrading to Lion and XCode 4.1. I think I'll wait till I hear everyone saying how great the upgrade is. In any case - thanks for sharing your experiences. Interesting that it didn't make much of an impression. Reading Apple PR on this, you'd think that every other OS was rendered obsolete with the arrival of Lion.

[Septimus Hedgehog]

I've yet to download it but what other machine would give you an upgrade for £29 and from what I understand, the same version is true for all; no variations for home, student, apprentice, January, dual-core, quad-core, Wednesday, 2005, 2008, 2011, SP3, late afternoon, which seems to dog Microsoft's somewhat different approach. Heck, if only VS ran on native iMac/OS (not using a VM) then I'd never go back to MS again. :-D Mate of mine at die kantoor did download it and spent an evening working through some of its features. He's a seasoned iMac user he's upbeat about it so far. As for me, I'm perhaps still seduced by the experience being new to the Apple game but I've a feeling we're going to be firm friends. Like you say, you can't bitch about the cost of it.

[Septimus Hedgehog]

Chris, my Apple guru tells me there is a (new?) preference to reverse the scrolling direction.

[Christian Graus]

Just like if you dig deep enough you can find the new way to make the iPad keep it's aspect ratio when you rotate it. Apple seems like a sheltered workshop to me nowadays.

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

[Henry Minute]

I was just reading a review[^] as I opened your message and amongst the enhancements they mention apart from the any-side resize and inverse-scrolling are the autosave and versioning for compatible applications, full screen apps and the download manager for safari.

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[Chris Maunder]

If it were natural, you wouldn't have to think about it ;)

cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

[Lost User]

Christian Graus wrote:

Just like if you dig deep enough....

I understand that the preference for "natural scrolling" is on the main trackpad/mouse preference page. Where EXACTLY would you expect it to be?

[Chris Maunder]

I'm too scared to update the machine in the office (the one we have XCode on) to Lion. I'm holding off until we get some updates from Apple.

cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

[Abu Mami]

Chris Maunder wrote:

I'm too scared

Hmm, my sentiments exactly. I'm afraid I'll upgrade and then find I can't open/build/whatever my XCode projects.

[gdaley]

This is what you need: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id448457090?mt=12[^]

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[vkuttyp]

Because I bought my mac pro after June I was entitled for a free update. I downloaded and installed LION like a charm. Every thing working except Xcode. As per Apple developer site, we need a different version for Lion.

Kutty