Summary: This week's hosts are: Allison Sheridan NosillaCast Mac Podcast http://podfeet.com @podfeet Bart Busschots International Mac Podcast http://www.impodcast.tv @bbusschots Don McAllister ScreenCastsOnline - http://screencastsoonline.com @donmcallister Adam Christianson, Maccast http://www.maccast.com @maccast John F. Braun, Mac Geek Gab http://www.macgeekgab.com @johnfbraun Lion Hits the Virtual Shelves: The Good: The app store download was painless, and you CAN easily move the PKG file around to the various machines in your house, so only have to DL once If you know to move it to another drive before you run the installer No problem burning bootable DVD I don't think I was charged, I had downloaded the developer's GM version earlier, is it supposed to be free if you're a developer? Apple have announced a version of USB thumb-drive for those not on Snow Leopard or with bad internets - coming out next month at $69 Full disk encryption with FileVault2 is an absolute breeze - you can even keep using your Mac while the disk is encrypting itself Also, to protect your machine's drive from being mounted Firmware Password Protection http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1352 The OS-wide auto-correct is really nicely implemented - a great carry-over from iOS On the whole, I think the new 'natural' scrolling is a very positive upgrade, it takes us from controlling the scroll bar which controls the page, to just controlling the page we want to read. The iOS-like scroll bounce is a lovely little touch Hard to switch between Macs If you do want to change it back, System Preferences | Trackpad | Scroll & Zoom | Scroll direction : natural -> UNCHECK There is an app to add natural scrolling to Snow Leopard - Scroll Reverser: http://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/ Like the full screen apps a lot - more useful to me than Spaces ever were Zoom in window is cool for visually impaired (but I can't find how to zoom the whole screen) Love love love email - threads so clean and crisp, I almost hope I get email from someone on aol! Reverted to older layout (Preferences | Layout | Use classic layout -> CHECK) I prefer msgs on top content on bottom, not side by side - me too, so glad they left the classic option The iOS-like auto-save is both really cool and really disconcerting - will be confusing for a while as apps are updated, but sould soon become the new normal. Saving state when re-opened is nice, you can disable (hold down option to Quit and Discard Windows) The Bad: The total lack of any indication of what does and doesn't scroll is very annoying - particully on web pages where just parts of a page scroll - don't need scroll bars, but surely SOME indication is needed! Scroll doesn't work in Help! Spaces has really been hobbled for power users - more people will use the feature now, but power users are taking a real step back The new monochrome Finder with the most important stuff at the bottom (hard drives) is REALLY annoying " edited entries in com.apple.security.plist and they're gone. No "obvious" way to hide the "message" pane in the new mail layout. When I delete a message it jumps to the next one and marks it as read which I may or maynot want.
