The ScooterBlog

Ok, I do dig it big time! I’ll hit on the initial thoughts quick:

* Spotlight is something that I don’t think I use enough, but when I do, I’m never disappointed. I was looking the other day for an e-mail where I got confirmation of selling RPG Maker 2 on Half.com and I had not shipped it quickly, so it was dated. Pop RPG Maker 2 (no quotes even) into Spotlight and it found the e-mails I needed quickly and popped them right now.

* I’ve always thought OSX Mail was very good at spam filtering, and for that reason, really never had a desire to switch to something like Thunderbird even though I would’ve liked more HTML coding support. But with that spotlight searching and a more “chic” look to it, I’m re-invigorated with Mail again and plan to use it a lot more.

* One more word on Spotlight … initally, I thought this would be replacing my beloved Quicksilver program, but really it doesn’t, but Quicksilver still acts as a truly better app launcher and quick script file utility. It’s the swiss army knife on startup whereas Spotlight is the library.

* Dashboard is growing on me! Initially, I was disappointed that it wasn’t a complete re-make of Konfabulator cause you had to bring the widgets to the desktop with F12, but it is growing on me, and I do like how I can just drag out a widget for a moment, lik ea radar screen or comic, and then put it right back away and take it out of memory, Konfabulat’s widgets weren’t really made for quick access.

* A bit of an iBook complaint though … the default keyset was totally not made for laptop users! F12 is the eject key! I finally perfected it, making F8 the “Quick Spotlight”, F7 for Dashboard, Apple-Space for Quicksilver, and Alt-Apple-Space for the detailed Spotlight. I’ll use the heck out of these 4 shortcuts.

* It does seem to be a bit more of a memory hog, I think my reasons just grew to want to bump up to 640 MB, the iBook maximum, cause you can tell that Tiger’s got enough stuff for the power user that it’s going to really eat up memory, not in a Windows “bloated” sense, you actually feel like you’re getting bang from the memory use here.

* The other features, I haven’t messed with yet, there is prolly quite a bit under the hood that I have not touched, but the big features are useful right out of the box.

There’s the quick thoughts, more soon.

What does it say that Friday Night Live is sometimes the most relaxing part of your day?

It’s kind of true right now. I’m sitting at the front of Game Junkie, dutifully keeping an eye on the front area (which is admittedly pretty cake stuff, I AM writing a blot entry after all!), talking to some of the guys about whatever, downloading widgets for Tiger, and generally getting my relaxation on. Of course though, to continue on the old these, the fact that this, and loud music, is relaxation, might be worrisome.

The plan when I go home tonight is to set up 2 XBox systems that are modded with the Halo 2 update pack (not the easiest thing to do), as well as a regular system, which thankfully, will be cake. Then, do laundry, then go to bed! If I’m lucky, I’ll be in bed by 3 AM and up by 8 AM again. Earlier today, it was all about the panic, that realization that there is so much on my plate that I have no chance of getting it all done.

Now, it’s more like, I have a chance and it may not suck too badly! We’ll see what materiaizes. More posts tonight, I want to go on a bit about Tiger!