That Bruce Horn (yes, THE Bruce Horn) has been doing on a totally new Spotlight was a direct - and somewhat hamstrung - lift of the work Track with the word “summer” anywhere in the name. Went from Mac OS X 10.3 to 10.4 I could no longer find every MP3 Words inside document contents, but it is a retrograde step. I guess this is so you don’t match substrings within I noticed very quickly too that Spotlight lost the ability to searchįor name fragments unless the text was at the beginning of a file At one point I told the Mac not to index the fonts archive,īut that meant I couldn’t search for fonts. Except in my case I think it took even longer.įonts are a particularly troublesome kind of thing for Spotlight to Was an old Mac IIsi on valium, with a mouse with a dodgy connection, A dual-processor 2GHZ G5 with 8GB of RAM behaved like it Spotlight was a nice addition – after theĪbsolutely! It can take a glacial age to catalog large drives for theįirst time, and while it does this you may as well not bother using or do I wait another 6 months for Adobe to sort themselves out… glad I held off on CS3… as CS2 appears to work on Leopard… ahemĪlso LOVE to see some screenshots of Freeway running on Leopard. Yes I read that John Siracusa at Ars Technica is the word on reviews… though I’ll wait for 10.5.2 then jump in, more than likely over the Christmas holiday period… by which I will most likely do a erase and install… clean clean and clean… should only take a day to re-install everything!. So – again – a review ofįreeway and the new OS will be much welcomed by many, I’m sure. I can’t help but wonder what performance tradeoffs Quicklook,ĭon’t get me wrong – I would love these new features… provided they Already I am hearing that “large” Stacks are problematic, and Precious drive space for photographers who have large numbers of IPhoto (and its big brother Aperature) can hog enormous amounts of Useless if you have a thousand or more typefaces to work with… When its database becameĬorrupt, it was super easy to fix – and wait another day for it toĪpple’s innovations are cool but not always practical – Fontbook is For example, Spotlight was a nice addition – after theĭay it took to catalog my drive contents. Ideology and reflect very little in terms of everyday or practicalĮxperience. Some benchmarks are like political polls – they are skewed by While I do not wish to argue with the likes of Mr. I agree, a review of Freeway under the new OS would be most useful! To get the full listing you have to click again It shows a 50 icon max grid listing which is maybe half of myĪpplications folder. What it does now is either the new “fan” effect which I detest, or Shocked that Apple released something that has such obvious visual It canīe surprisingly difficult to read quickly and easily! Try dropping down a menu over the top of a textĭocument, something with lines of black text on a white page. On Macs with reasonably powerful graphics the menusĪre translucent. It seems it mayīe very dependent upon the graphics card you have. Interestingly, I don’t see the transparent menu bar.
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