Topic: Roar of the Lion: OS X Lion has arrived! Join us this month as we review the new features of the 10.7 operating system. We will also cover tips, tricks and things to look for in this major upgrade. As always bring your Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod questions with you.
Note to self – get better writing meeting summary posts.
Apologies, sitting quietly this morning and realized that I hadn’t actually posted anything about the last meeting. This is it. It will be brief.
The meeting centered around Lion – which if memory serves – had been released that day !
The most important take away – PowerPC Apps will no longer work under Lion – so careful. Want to know the status of all the other apps you use under Lion – check out this link.
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
Look forward to seeing you all at tonights meeting – and will try harder to get a more timely summary posted to the blog!
Another useful link that has emerged relating to our last meeting. If you recall, Dan talked about installing Lion on a remote drive – so that you can boot off a different space and not commit to Snow Leopard just yet.
This is a related link – enjoy.
At our last meeting, I commented that one potential Apple play is the ubiquity of wireless. They were the first to talk about wireless back in the day and steadily releasing communication apps that are wireless only – apple device to apple device.
Think the new messenger product appearing in upcoming iOS5.
Think FaceTime – available on EVERY Apple product.
Think iChat.
My contention was – and remains – that they are setting up a framework to bypass the carriers – and their extortionate prices.
Even now, all of these products are usable – and UNLESS you need absolutely always on cell communication – there strong argument that a lot of us could really live without a cell phone – so long as we had ability to make calls from the variety of hotspots there are today.
I know that there are a LOT of infrastructural issues before we have an always on wireless network – but it is coming – and was delighted to read this earlier today:
The truth is, high speed wireless is critical. We’re just a few years away, I believe, from pervasive, high quality wireless anywhere, and I hope we can scoff on the minor issues we see today with congestion, slowness and even pockets without access.
Read the full piece here : WiFi Day in a Wireless World
Speedtest.net – The Global Broadband Speed Test is the place to go to test the sped of your internet connection.
Posting this since a couple of people have asked how to do it recently.
At the last meeting, we had a healthy discussion on Final Cut Pro – and it’s failings. When I saw this article – decided to share it. As I said in the meeting – I am not a video guy, so really have no valuable input to the debate – however I thought this article from someone who ‘is in the biz’ …
I don’t know if 100% of our customers are FCP editors. They range from ambitious freelancers, to ad agencies, to Hollywood post shops, to in-house editors at the BBC. We believe that the vast majority of these editors – and probably you, too – will be using FCP X as their professional editing platform within a year.
and
Conclusion: In a Year, Most Professional Editors will be Using FCP X
Full Article With Comments : CrumplePop Blog.
Found this to be a useful, complete and reference-able summary of the new features in Quicktime under Lion. With thanks to Mac Stories.
Lion’s QuickTime Player: Screen Recording Improvements and New Sharing Features
Have to say – being a big user of expose and spaces in Snow Leopard – on upgrade to Lion, and find them all gone – apparently – got me to wondering.
This explains nicely why they haven’t – how to do it – and why the new way is better. [ Well it doesn’t explain that last bit – but it is 🙂 ]
The quickest way to tell is go to Google, do a google search – and if you are infected – you will get a warning like this at the top of your page.
Want to read more about it …. follow the link.
Google Warning Users They May Be Infected By Malware (From Mashable)
Careful – the attached document is over 100 pages long and comes in at a hefty 70 MegaBytes or so. (BTW – because it is so big, I have stored it on one of my own servers, hence you might not recognize the address ‘BeyondBridges’ when you download. But it is safe. It is valid.)
It is a great piece of work that you will enjoy. It is the Apple Users Spotlight – Issue Number 15 – covering June and July 2011. To help you understand what delights are contained within – this is the list of contents.
Click on this link and the doc will download and be visible in your browser. It will take a little while, so once it is down there – use file / save as and store the doc locally – and then open it up in Preview or Adobe Acrobat.
That means you will be able to navigate faster and search the doc quickly in the usual manner for items of specific interest.
Enjoy.