Leopard Happiness
A couple of things I am happy about with Leopard:
- It fixes the annoying print dialog bug that allowed you to save a printer configuration, but didn’t actually save it. For instance, in Tiger, I save a “grayscale” print profile and made it my default, thinking this way I wouldn’t accidentally print in color, thus saving me some ink. In Leopard this actually works now.
- iCal finally allows for setting up a default alarm for any new meetings. This is a step in the right direction, the next being the ability to set defaults for most of the values (meeting length, attendees, etc.)
- I love Time Machine, but I can already think of improvements. For instance, as a developer I have a set of projects/files/directories that I am almost always working on. I would like to tell Time Machine that the files in those indexes should be backed up more than just hourly, perhaps every 10 minutes or so. Essentially, give me more control over the backup process. I also could see wanting control over file types, etc.
Other random note, I had to upgrade to the VMWare Beta in order to get networking to work when running Windows in VMWare Fusion.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:00 am
In fact, I would add an even better option for Time Machine, possibly (and this would have to be optional), but I bet it wouldn’t be that hard to program up some heuristics that automatically adjusted the backup schedule for those files you are directly working on. This is, essentially, dynamic version control and would be a huge win for someone like me. IntelliJ (http://www.jetbrains.com) does this somewhat with it’s local history capabilities in it’s programming environment, and many individual programs do this with their auto-backup/recover settings, but this would bring the functionality to all. Kind of like how it makes more sense to do image stabilization in-camera instead of in-lens!
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Another thing that is fixed now is related to iCal. It used to be that when you got a event reminder and clicked to close it, iCal would gain the focus and be placed on top of all other windows or, if you “hard” closed it, the iCal icon would sit and bounce endlessly until you brought iCal to the front. Well, no more. Close the event and go back to your business.