Leopard Reviews, Online Apps, iPhone Restrictions
Mac OS X 10.5, alias Leopard, was released last week and PC World Editor in Chief Harry McCracken gave it a try. Harry came up with a list of 25 things that could be improved. What do you think of Leopard? Have you has any problems? Tell us your experiences.
Could you live your computing life without desktop software? Contributing Editor Scott Spanbauer tried it for a week, and he hasn't gone back. Read his article and let us know where you stand on the desktop vs. online apps debate.
Do you have an unlocked Apple iPhone? If you do, you're far from alone: Apple admits that there are a quarter million unlocked iPhones out there. The debate rages on. Are iPhones locked for good reason? Join the conversation.
It's no surprise that Leopard stories are the most popular this week. Check out our list for overlooked gems in the OS, a comparison between Microsoft Windows Vista and Leopard, the Guitar Hero 3 setlist, and how to switch from Windows to Linux.
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25 Quibbles I Have With Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
RastaMon says: I don't think Stacks was intended for large folders. If you want to browse through your applications folder, the Finder is undoubtedly going to be faster, just as it was compared to the Applications folder in Tiger's Dock. Now, if you just want to browse through your media players, or perhaps your Internet browsers, Stacks is ideally suited for such fairly common tasks involving small groups.
TomWolsky says: If you want two real losers in 10.5 it's that the sidebar in iCal has been removed, and that tabbing between mailboxes and arrow navigation has been removed from Mail.
MFreitag says: The one gripe I really have for Leopard is the new interface when using the remote. If I am listening to iTunes and switch to the menu interface using my remote, iTunes stops playing. In Tiger it kept playing, which was appreciated for a seamless switch.
blackcross says: All my current minor complaints center around Safari 3.0, a backslide as far as I'm concerned. Yes, it now auto-sizes pictures in the window (thank you) and yes there is a right-click menu option for "save as" (thank you), but why oh why do we need to right-click to change the name or URL of a bookmark?
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Life Without Desktop Software
yearight3 says: No thanks. There are, unfortunately, too many bugs with Web-based apps.
luvduchovny says: I use Google Docs because I have Gmail and it was there. I don't use it for work, more for personal documents. Mind you sometimes I can't remember which draft of things is more up-to-date. And Google Docs sometimes does some funky spacing of things if you export it out as a .doc file. So you end up cleaning up more than you might want to. But for a quick and dirty way to work on a document, it's not bad.
trevor97007 says: I have been using online apps for a couple of years now, and haven't been happier. I switched because I needed a cross-platform solution for document editing/storage. My school has a centralized storage solution, but it's the most half-baked POS I've ever used. This gave me the cross-platform solution that I needed.
rowfus says: I'll consider trusting Web-based services for important daily computing when the Net becomes as reliable as a common analog telephone; ISPs become more responsible for their services and support; and when our government makes the previous two conditions possible by requiring ISPs to obey our laws.
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A Quarter Million iPhones are Unlocked, Apple Admits
Tankan says: Multi-network phones have been available forever, it seems. Apple needs to get its head out where the sun shines--maybe then they'll discover we're living in the 21st century. Perhaps they will then learn to work with the consumer and not stubbornly against.
cnjackson88 says: You don't get it. Apple entered into a legal contract with AT&T to offer the iPhone for the first two years as an AT&T-only phone. If you don't like it, don't buy an iPhone.
dwil49 says: When are these companies going to wise up? Anytime they produce something that tries to limit the consumer's choice as to how they will use it, some of those consumers will find a way around the limitations. It's happened over and over, with cell phones, DRM, and so on.
Heilend says: There's a simple solution. Don't buy an iPhone. The world existed before them; it will continue to exist without them. It's not worth the money wasted to purchase it.
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