Archives for May, 2005
It’s Been a While, Hasn’t It?
I just realized that it’s been a while since my last post. The past week and a half have just flown by, and I didn’t even realize it. Let’s see… what to share?
We’ve been really busy at the HBISM getting ready for the grand opening of our next exhibit - “History of the Ukulele” - which will feature ukes from all eras of surfing culture. We have some awesome talent and personalities lined up for the opening event, so it should be a party! If you’re in HB on May 21st, drop by for the festivities.
Here’s the really exciting news. It looks as though I will be attending the WWDC keynote (at the very least) early next month as a contributing editor for Macsimum News. Being that I’m already on the left-hand coast, and since Dennis has other commitments, I get to take the drive up the coast to San Francisco. I’m all giddy with excitement. It’ll be a good chance to hook up with an old high school buddy too. More as it develops.
Finally, I’m frantically prepping for my Mac Gathering presentations. Fortunately, I don’t have as much to do as I first thought I did, so I should be in good shape after all. I will be happy when I can finally get more than four hours of sleep a night. I don’t do very well on anything less than seven.
There’s lots of other great stuff in the works here at the beach hut. More on them later.
The Most Annoying “Feature” of Tiger
I’d have to say the most annoying new “feature” of 10.4 is the new Finder UI sounds, in particular, the “crunch” sound when emptying the Trash. It’s just a little too over the top if you ask me.
Yes, it can be turned off via the System Prefs, but that means the very handy “You Just Moved Something to the Trash” Ker-Plunk gets turned off too. I rely on that little bugger to let me know if I’ve done some bone headed key stroke without thinking about it. Now it’s either an all or nothing situation. I think Apple needs to give us the option to toggle UI sounds on a per instance basis.
On the flip side, I absolutely dig the new Smart Folders feature. Thanks to Spotlight indexing, it found all 8,000+ image files on my drive in just over 5 seconds. Pretty darn impressive if you ask me.
All in all, after a day of Tiger, the iBook feels much snappier and responsive. I did have a scare with near meltdown when Mail 2.0 wouldn’t import my previous messages no matter what I tried after doing an Archive & Install. Once I got that all worked out, I felt much better. The trick is to import the data as “Other.” Next to check out is “Burn Folders.” Sounds like it could be interesting…
