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It’ll be a while before this ends…

You can’t blame the Mac users in the net flooding their blogs with Tiger stuff, I for one am one of them. As each day passes, one cannot help but be pleased with how Apple is shaping their OS. I’ll be discussing the other nice little surprises I’ve found while on the new OS.

But before that, lemme get the other kwentos out of the way:

I just got a new 200GB hard drive and nice aluminum enclosure to boot. The enclosure was a great deal, considering it was the last display stock. It was aluminum, with grilles on the side (for ventilation) and can connect to a USB or FireWire port. Another bonus was a secondary FW port which allows you to put another FW device should you decide to (like an iPod for example).

I already migrated my whole music library there which freed up about 51GB in the laptop. I also set it as a scratch disk for Photoshop.

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OSX Fever

I just reinstalled Tiger, and I can’t help but be amazed (again) on how brain-dead simple it is to backup and restore…

Nono has already narrated how he installed his, so I don’t have to restate the obvious. Only difference with me is I did a custom install, and left out all the “foreign” language packs (and a couple of drivers of Printers I know I’ll never come across)

I guess this is a first time “restore” for Nono and I on the Mac platform. Because of that, the next scenario (wherein I was restoring and installing applications) deserves a special mention… especially through the perspective of a PC user.

Imagine:

iPod transferring 51GB of MP3s back to powerbook WHILE installing from DMGs mounted from the same iPod WHILE installing Adobe CreativeSuite2 (4 disc images, all mounted via network) WHILE installing MS OfficeX 2k4 via powerbook’s CD drive. WHILE copying backed-up files and settings from a sparsedisk over the network.

No delays, no hangs, and no errors whatsoever.

As a PC user, you know you can’t go through that scenario without an error at some (early) point. I mean most major PC applications require a restart for good measure. Try installing more than one simultaneously, and you’re asking for trouble… but here was OSX, merrily copying, installing, authenticating, replacing/updating system settings. All at the same friggin’ time!

I ask you: isn’t that simply incredible?

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Tech support

http://www.bukaspalad.com, as of this posting, is dead. We’re forced to move it to a new server since the old one was terminating the account.

I was informed of everything, and I basically just agreed to whatever arrangement they intended to make. I wasn’t paying the bills so who was I to suggest anything.

I wish I had though…

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Kingdom of Heaven

I’m slowly getting back to my routine, it’s really great to finally get some rest.

We watched Kingdom of Heaven the other night – I liked it. I don’t know if having just been to Jerusalem had anything to do with it. I definitely appreciated the geography in the movie and trying to compare it to what we saw during the pilgrimage.

THe story was not bad too. Simple and tells a story mostly fiction I guess. But nonetheless I appreciated that the Muslims were portrayed as the more decent people. Fiction or not, the movie at least reminded me not to generalize a whole belief system simply because I disagree with them. I guess it all boils down to “time” and “situation.”

I also liked how the movie reminds people that Religion, which teaches love, peace and justice – is also one of the leading causes of death to date hehehe. How’s that for an irony?

Is it just me, or does Orlando Bloom have only one facial expression?

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Tiger first impressions

Finally installed Tiger (or 10.4, or build 8A428, whichever naming convention you prefer). I must say I’m impressed. Not so much so to be raving about it. While spotlight, and all the other new features are beautiful additions. I’m more inclined to be on the it’s-not-a-breakthrough-since-it should’ve-been-done-from-the-start mentality.

There is something positive to be said however out of all of this. Tiger simply proves that Apple takes its user interface designs seriously. We can see that while all OS manufacturers claim to be in constant pursuit of the best OS experience, it is very telling that Apple actually delivers.

Sure, even Tiger still has a few irritations here and there – but as far as the competition is concerned (Windows, Linux, etc.) I’d have to say that OS X is on the right track.

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