7 posts tagged “mac os x”
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My little OmniFocus random action widget told me to post about this, so I am.
So, I've had my MacBook Air for ten days. My impressions are, well, that it does everything I used my MacBook for. Once the thing is open and I'm using it, my experience is essentially the same as it was before. Sure, the keys light up, the trackpad is a bit bigger, and there are a couple of differences in the keyboard layout. But the experience is not drastically different.
Wow, I just discovered the "sparse bundle" feature in Mac OS X Leopard. It's a disk image (which you can encrypt), but it only updates the chunks inside it as necessary, so that Time Machine can still back it up efficiently. This is really nice for me, because I keep my Journler database in a big 2-gigabyte encrypted disk image, and if I keep up with my writing schedule Time Machine would back up the whole dang thing every other day. So if you are in a similar situation you should use sparse bundles. Thanks Apple!
Mac OS X's new Cover Flow feature seems to be doing some interesting analysis of your icons. Normally a Mac OS X icon has a shadow below it; if the icon were drawn normally, there would be a gap between where the main element of the icon ends and its reflection begins. Instead, Cover Flow apparently analyzes the bottom of your icon, looking for the beginning of pretty opaque pixels, and then cuts off everything below them. In most cases, this results in finding the bottom of the icon's imagery and chopping off some shadow:
I just read through a bunch of old e-mails to battle insomnia. I discovered:
- The very first communication I ever had with Tom Lipschultz, asking him to pick up the Xenosaga LE for me; we have been friends ever since (September 3 2002)
- My initial impressions of Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
- The exact moment I first listened to Shiina Ringo and was so impressed I interrupted a sentence I was writing to Tom in order to comment on it (September 28 2002)
