1. It is much faster than IE on the Mac [win users might not find that]
2. It is lighting fast compared to netscape [last Netscape I used was 6.0 for Mac, even worse than 4.7 - if that was possible]
3. It is not by Microsoft - which as a Mac user really should be up there at number one.
4. Themes, and I found one that is very nice thanks.
5. Some pages which IE did not render properly or very very slowly now work in Moz1.1
6. Text is much sharper and maybe it is my imagination but...
7. The gamma is different making the colours much warmer, and closer to the way Win machines display it.
8. Includes an IRC plug in - which I think is very cool, even thought my irc days are long gone.
Dislike so far is that the blogger site still doesn't seem to work properly - although it works better than IE, which used to make naviagtion very difficult on long posts, and like netscape it just cuts off the toolbar favourites instead of giving you a little drop down menu for the ones that don't fit across your monitor - hmmm and I just noticed that it isn't drawing the post or post and publish buttons in blogger :( this is bad. I think it must be a blogger issue, cos I scrolled up and found them. Weird. [Comment] [GuestBook] [Archive]
I was going to write an Inside Out about it, but I can't be bothered - so I will just say that I am not happy with the stance of America that they have to invade Iraq. It just doesn't seem that when UK and other sensible people don't think it's justified then maybe it isn't. Plus, if the locals aren't calling for it then I don't see they have a right to invade - killing many civillans to outst a tryant without a clear answer for replacement from a country that hasn't attacked you just doesn't work for me.
And I feel that it is fair for the Arab nations to say, help with the Palestinian question before worrying about Iraq. Unfortunately Israel seems to have too much influence or control over the US and the US doesn't seem willing to do anything about the situation. They both seem to be difficult situations to resolve and if the US feels invasion is the solution in one case, then they should be equally willing to step directly into the situation in Palestine. Well, they're my thoughts for all it's worth. Not doubt very naive and uninformed - but hey, that's never stopped no one before ;) [Comment] [GuestBook] [Archive]
It seems like a fair and balanced review - although the speed of opening a Get Info window makes me wonder what he has running - I have no delay on opening get info windows. I guess the important thing to remember is that his comments on the use of the OS represent HIS USE.
Browsing forums and various sites of mac users finds that most people find 10.2 IS quicker than before - more than stately though not speedy. In other summaries - installing takes way too long [1 hour], windows sharing and connecting works seemlessly, ftp on the desktop sounds cool, although some things don't seem to work properly with the buggest worry being CD Burining - the built in CD Burning software sounds like it doesn't burn cross platform CD's properly with some windows machines not opening folders past the first level - this is seriously bad news. I don't find IE seriously flawed and as noted elsewhere it adhears closely to the w3c standards [more so than IE Win] although I know that the Win version is certainly quicker than the mac version [but then shouldn't it be, after all it is very tightly tied into Win itself] I was intending to wait a few months for the initial bugs to be ironed out and still will. [Comment] [GuestBook] [Archive]
!! g33k 3rlt !! I have to talk about this amazing service NOW - I can wait no longer - it's called zeroconfig, Apple call it Rendezvous and even have a very nifty logo for it. Begun in 1999 I will let the workgroup tell you what it is all about in it's own words...
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The graphics are ok with a few nice touches - but sorry I have to say XBOX is better in the graphics department. [Comment] [GuestBook] [Archive]