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So i have Lion for a bout a week now, on both my Laptop and iMac.
I am mightily unimpressed and more annoyed with it than anything. Where are the cool and awesome new feats? I have yet to find anything new i actually like in Lion.

Some more quirks i found and find hard to understand why ANYONE would even think of making it a default…

- Opening a video in Quicktime 10, then closing it after a few seconds, then quit quicktime and opening another movie. Opens the first AND the new one. SO you have 2 videos running. Why?
If you finish the first movie it stays away… Is this some encouragement to finish earlier vids first? Wtf?
This only happens in QT10, not in QT7.

- Sidescrolling in Finder… Yea, turn if off please. Oh wait! i cannot! (Or i cannot find the setting) :( So i cannot use a sliding gesture anymore to go back and forth between folders like you do with browsers to go back and forward between sites.

- Fullscreen apps don’t stay fullscreen and forget which space they belong to.

- Opening Excel opens all previous files too. Confusing me to no end since i open only one! Stop fucking restoring the previous state! I quit that file. When i want it i open it myself tyvm!

- Messy gestures in the trackpad. Luckily i could disable them all!

- Window positions not saved? Yahoo Messenger keeps being too low when i start the app. iChat ALWAYS end up somewhere in the middle of the screen no matter where i place it.

- iChat and Yahoo. Yay! i thought. But that fun was short-lived since Live! (MSN) Contacts in iChat’s Yahoo are not visible. Wtf!?

And i’m sure there is more that i forgot or didn’t even see yet :(

I wonder when we can Upgrade to Snow Leopard again!

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So last night i tried iOS 4.2 for iPhone 3G… on my iPhone 3G.

While it works, it’s no where near as snappy as 3.1.3 is. Also CalDAV support is still broken.
Everytime you ‘open’ the screen or simply have the phone switch from 2/3G to Wifi it looses the password and asks for it. Obviously Apple doesn’t care for it’s server integration, it’s only a few months since this bug came to light in 4.0 and still no fix.

Bottomline, i’ve downgraded once again to 3.1.3 and now it works! Yay! *sigh*

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So for a few months i have a PC now to play games on. And it’s fun. Much better than using the iMac for my main gameplayingbusiness. I run Windows 7 Ultimate on the PC and a few things kept nagging at me.
I love the Apple keyboard and for the PC i initially bought a Logitech G110 keyboard. Today o swapped it out for a full size Apple Aluminum keyboard. However, i then found out the key layout and mapping were all wrong.

This was quickly remedied by installing the Apple driver from the bootcamp package.
I then found out that the media keys on the key board don’t work. This was also quickly fixed by remapping the keys. And for the volume up and down indicator i installed 3RVX.

Here’s how to do it:

First plug in the Apple keyboard. Let Windows do it’s thing in installing.
Find and download a bootcamp package. This must be version 3.0 or higher.
In the package of drivers you’ll find an Apple folder inside the Drivers folder. The driver you need is in here.

Remove everything related to Boot Camp except for these 4 files: AppleKeyboardInstaller.exe, AppleSoftwareUpdate.msi, BootCamp.msi and BootCamp64.msi.

For my windows i used BootCamp64.msi since my windows is 64 bit. And installed the keyboard driver.

When done you’ll be able to select the Apple keyboard layout in windows.

Next you’ll want to start the Apple Software Update from the Start menu. Cancel the check for new software and go into the Edit menu and open Preferences. Disable automatic updates. Since Boot Camp is installed. You’ll get the full driver package when you update. You don’t want that.

Next. To get the function keys to work for volume. Install SharpKeys (http://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/).
Map the keys you want. I just needed the volume ones.

Sharpkeys is very easy, click ‘Add’ and map select the key to be pressed on the left and the action on the right. Click ‘Ok’ to save it. Once you have all mappings set up press ‘Write to Registry’, reboot the PC and it should work.
Since Windows doesn’t recognize the media keys by itself you need to press them in combination with the ‘Fn’ key.
Maybe there is a tweak/thingy to enable them, but i couldn’t find it.

Finally Install 3RVX (http://matt.malensek.net/software/), which ads a OSX like volume indicator. Other themes are available. Some nice ones. But personally i found the OSX one best suited. And BOOM! a bit better controls and use of Windows using a Apple Keyboard on a PC.

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After a week of annoyances, sluggish performance and bugs i found, got informed of, a solution for the issue. To re-install iPhone OS 3.1.3 instead of 4.0.
Downgrading IS in fact possible and it is happily syncing my music as of this writing.

Using this handy post i was able to put 3.1.3 on my iPhone once more. And supposedly work on a more stable, fast and better OS than Apple promised 4.0 would be.

What will i miss in 3.1.3 that IOS4 has? I can’t think of a single feature. Since i have an iPhone 3G all the good stuff didn’t work anyway so blah!

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2 Months or so ago i bought the new 27″ iMac, last summer i bought the then new MacBook Pro 13″.
And both needed backing up.

With the ever bigger harddisks and increasing lazyness when it comes to connecting peripherals to computers i wanted something simple. I have never really backed up any iMac. Just the MacBook as i drag it around to places and thus is more prone to defects. however, with me moving my development files to my iMac and the hassle for IF it goes wrong a backup is just nice to have.

I used to back up my MacBook Pro with SuperDuper, which i bought, and synced an Western Digital 500GB Hard disk with every wednesday and sunday. It was manual and tedious. Too much steps for something i didn’t really want to do. Later i figured out that Time Machine didn’t really need the disk at all times and wouldn’t make a fuss if the disk was not found. I still use SuperDuper regularly for various things and i like it alot. But for a drive that isn’t always there it’s not really what i wanted.

So here’s how i do it now. In iCal i have made a repeating event to make some noise 3 times a week, prompting me it’s time for the backup. Then i simply hook up the drive and let it connected for a bit. And a few hours, or minutes, if i think about it. When Time Machine did it’s thing i simply disconnect the drive again.
I now do that for my iMac too since this week and it’s been really simple. For the iMac with the ports less accessible i bought a Western Digitial 1TB drive that shut’s itself off after a minute inactivity and just leave it connected.

It almost couldn’t be simpler.

So here i am, ending up using Time Machine and even liking it. When it was first introduced i didn’t like it much for it’s lack of options. With some tweaks using the preference pane Secrets even that can be solved. Like setting a longer interval for backups every day or every 12 hours instead of every hour.