Here's another: Why is there no Finder feedback while making a Command-F Spotlight search as to whether the search is ongoing or has stopped? I want complete search results and have no way of knowing if Spotlight is finished or not!

It's sloppy coding of fundamental features that I doubt requires a brainiac to solve.

Maybe I should have said that I have love the POTENTIAL of Speakable Items…and that potential is just about here.

Thats why the App Store is successful and why so many developers are making money. I don’t want a 200 lb gorilla on my machine, but I like that fact that I can pick and choose the lightweight extra that I need to fulfill a single use. And if you don’t the newest version OS, don’t buy it.

If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. Get over yourselves.

No one, including Apple is forcing you to buy into the new ML OS version. I continue to use Panther, Tiger and I like Lion a lot. Would I buy ML? I wont know until I read comments and articles of other users and get a real sense of what would affect me and my use of it.

Well, I will point out that Gatekeeper is ‘buzz word compliant’ within the computer security field as it provides app certificate security, theoretically killing off ANY chance of Trojan horse infections when used properly. This can be absolutely critical if you are the admin of a Mac or a network of Macs and you’ve got ‘LUSERS’ on the loose who will download and install any damned thing they’re emailed or can scour out of the sewers of the Internet.

In any case, as an admin you can completely turn Gatekeeper OFF if you so desire. Apple’s XProtect will continue to work in the background as well improved ASLR.

I write about this stuff HERE.

At least I can say that in 10.8 the Finder is [Censored for your protection]. And that’s a good thing. Meanwhile, there continues to be a place in the world for PathFinder and the various replacements for Spotlight.

I don’t think I’m breaking the NDA by mentioning that dictation comes at the price of removing one very old related Mac technology. At least that is the current state of the beta. I’ll let you figure out what it is…

Screen sharing works on all Macs and it has nothing to do with what you heard and it isn’t the issue at all with the video cards used, some people just don’t know how to set up a router that is non Apple designed to let it work correctly, proper ports need to be allowed, and old routers that are non Apple have had a problem letting through the correct ports.

Also if Remote management it turned on then it stops screen sharing unless you set remote management to control screen sharing correctly.

Listen, first time I heard of it and it works fine on my Mac Pro 2007, Mac Mini 2009 & 2011.

So please enlighten us with a link and proof, if not your blowing in the wind.

I don’t know about disabling auto-save but I’m sure there’s a way to do that in Terminal.

Instead,
Add Siri integration, MobileMe like services, to say the least.

There are however, a lot of people who do use Facebook. Some even need to use it for their career. For those people, the Facebook integration could be an invaluable tool.

Why do you believe that just because you don’t need something, no one else should, need, or want, or use it?

As for Facebook, if you don’t have an account (like I don’t) and/or you don’t enter your account info into the OS then it’s essentially off.

To the auto save thing…I just don’t get the vitriol spewed in it’s direction, I love that feature in Lion. I don’t have to think about saving documents anymore, it’s awesome.

It is autosaving.. but not like it did in Lion.. and doesnt take over your workflow. Editing images in Lion was freaking impossible due to versions telling me documents were locked.. and then reverted back to pre-edited versions. This is much, much better.. and is more like autosave in word.. but this actually works. Browsing old versions is actually helpful.

“progressiveagentprovocateur” is all about the B and the S.

Elaborately! Adamantly!

——RM

Let’s be honest, how many professionals use the current OS without first installing extras like Forklift, PathFinder, Alfred, ABFR, DragonDrop, Leap, Yep, FontExplorer, VLC, dupeGuru etc? But no no, instead of looking at productivity issues, Cupertino decides to shove fucking FaceBook down everyone’s throat. WTF?!

TL;DR: Dear Apple, just because there is a shitload of money to make with FB teens and casual users in general, please realise that a big part of your user base use your OS for actual work.

Me? I’ll upgrade to Mountain Lion.. There are a lot of new features that I could care less about, but there are a few that I welcome too, improvements to the Mail app, Notifications, Reminders, Messages, Dictation, Airplay mirroring, deeper iCloud… and $20.00 is worth it to me for the few features that I do want.

In other words, rather than focusing on the crap that you don’t like/don’t need, see if there’s anything there that you do welcome and focus on that and ignore or don’t use the other stuff. If there’s nothing there that you welcome or something that breaks a feature you use right now, then just don’t upgrade to it. Also, when you say things are “unneeded” you mean that their unneeded to YOU. In case you are unaware, Apple makes their OS’s for the masses, not just for you. For example, I welcome the deeper iCloud integration even if you don’t. If you really do want an OS that has everything that YOU want and nothing you don’t, then you better start learning how to program and write your own customized OS, because that’s the only way there will be an OS that only has only the things that you want and nothing you don’t.

(By the way, iCloud isn’t an all or nothing thing, you can choose what to sync in the preferences, so you can turn on bookmark, address book, and calendar syncing and turn off photo and document syncing to keep the data use low if your worried about blowing through your data cap.)

Formula One doesn’t allow full-automatic transmission. F1 cars are semi-automatic, so drivers still control when they shift up or down.

NASCAR is manual transmission too.

Trust me, he isn’t complaining about that.

All this cloud shit is going to be great until the inevitable happens and a bunch of people are robbed blind.

Yes, even amateur photographers sometimes want a real optical zoom, and some control over aperture and exposure instead of pre-sets, convenient as they are.

Way to bring up a stupid analogy. Some people need more control, period. And not for obviously irrelevant things like signal light cycle times, which have zero bearing on how a driver handles the car. Not everyone is like you, and that’s a good thing.