OS X Mountain Lion

[Hyperion]

I have no idea what RSS was useful for? Seems it was nothing than next to useless for me. What DOES it do exactly

 

[Superphil]

I use it on my website ( won't mention the name, don't want anyone to think I'm spamming), I put rss news feeds on the team pages, hence, you visit the Brighton page, you see Albion news in the column down the side of the page. Also use it on International pages, in fact on pretty much all the pages. Just gives the visitor a little something else to read when the look at the site.

 

[Hyperion]

I just don't see its need for me as a user. It seems to do nothing for me. If it can do more, then whoever invented had failed miserably in explaining its advantages.

 

[Marxo]

I use RSS feeds to keep up with all the podcasts I listen to, when a new edition is available it shows up within 30 mins. Also the Argus updates about The Albion and Sussex CCC etc. and other things too. It's very handy, or was.

 

[Bozza]

I use RSS feeds to keep up with all the podcasts I listen to, when a new edition is available it shows up within 30 mins. Also the Argus updates about The Albion and Sussex CCC etc. and other things too. It's very handy, or was.

I still don't understand - how and where was it supported within OSX, and why don't you use one of the zillion OSX RSS readers that are available?

 

[brightn'ove]

I like how it looks, sure. BUT I do get software crashes now AND I've had to totally reboot my Macbook several times due to crippling slow down. These things NEVER happened in Snow Leopard (I didn't bother with Lion).

I'm going to keep trying and hope some updates come along to improve performance but if things don't improve I'm downgrading.

Out of interest, does anyone like the reversal of up and down scrolling? I understand the reasoning behind it but frankly I like scrolling DOWN for down and UP for up so I'll be buggered if I'm going to adapt to the new style.

Lion was exactly the same, scrolling on my iMac used to be perfect with the magic mouse before I upgraded to lion and now it is a pain in the arse, when trying to scroll through 25,000 songs on iTunes I need it to be able to stop scrolling instantly, not 2-3 seconds afterwards....

 

[Cypriot-Seagull]

Took 1 hour to download and 30 mins to install.
Been using for about 40 mins now and I can say that there doesn't seem to be many visual changes out of the box (other than the notification centre and a few icon changes).
The reminders and notes apps seem interesting. Overall a little snappier that Lion and no compatibility issues with most of the programs I have installed.

 

[Bozza]

Lion changed the default scroll direction to match that we all use on phones and tablets. It was bizarre because you suddenly realise you use completely opposite logical scrolling techniques without even thinking about it.

You can change back to pre-Lion 'normal-ness' in Systems Preferences if you want to keep things as you're used to.

 

[Bad Ash]

Only got wifi so taking an age to download! Will all be worth it though as I'm looking forward to the new features.

You must have a blindingly fast internet connection if your wifi connection is a bottleneck.

 

[Marxo]

I still don't understand - how and where was it supported within OSX, and why don't you use one of the zillion OSX RSS readers that are available?

It was integrated in Safari, I put all my podcast rss feeds in a folder on the bookmarks bar and when a new edition of for instance The Albion Roar came out it showed on the bookmarks bar and just had to scroll down and download, very handy. I've now found a stand alone rss reader but that is an extra app that I didn't need before.

 

[Gary Leeds]

waiting for apple to issue my free upgrade code as I bought a Mac Mini the day after they announced the free upgrades. Cant understand why I could not have registered before hand though and then when ML was available they could just send all the codes out, rather than wait until it was available and then have to request the code.

As for the mouse scroll, the most confusing thing is when you jump from an OSX to Windows based system, I always scroll the wrong way so because OSX is the "non standard way" (yes I know that technically they are the right way based on movement of your finger but its been like that for years and nobody found it an issue) that is the system that gets changed

 

[Arthur]

Upgraded yesterday. As others have stated haven't really noticed a great deal of change from Lion.

Notification centre is ok, but doesn't do allot different to what growl does from what I can see.

iMessage, I don't think I've got configured right as messages from it come from my iCloud account and certainly don't sync with my phone like it showed they would on the promo vid.

Notes and Reminders....meh! Again plenty of third party apps out there that could have serviced my needs had there been one.

I'm a big Apple fan but everything they released of late has all been a bit meh!

That said iOS 6 looks good, but they often do at the keynote.

 

[Gary Gurr]

The world's most advanced operating system makes another leap today.

Enjoy Apple fiends.

I would Bozza except my IMac (Mid 2006) is just slightly too old and dosen't appear in the list of supported machines.

 

[Tomnorthi]

Downloading now.

 

[Aadam]

Got this last night and extremely underwhelmed. Cannot get Twitter in my notification centre. Other than the icons looking cleaner, I've not noticed any difference.

 

[Worthingite]

call this a dumb question if you like, but is there any way of using mountain lion on a PC? If there is, can you use Opera with it?

 

[Aadam]

call this a dumb question if you like, but is there any way of using mountain lion on a PC? If there is, can you use Opera with it?

No. Well, not easily. There are a few hackintosh computers around, but I wouldn't recommend it. Opera can be used on a Mac and OS X

 

[Worthingite]

sod that then. I toyed with ubuntu for a bit, but I didn't really understand enough about it, and I'm not as good with computer tech as I used to be. I'd love to migrate to an easy to use OS, but I just don't understand Linux enough, I want something thats as easy to use out the box as Windows is, but less buggier if that makes sense

That said, Opera is a bloody great browser, easy to use, and easy enough to customise to the requirements you need.

 

[Cappers]

Took 1 hour to download and 30 mins to install.
Been using for about 40 mins now and I can say that there doesn't seem to be many visual changes out of the box (other than the notification centre and a few icon changes).
The reminders and notes apps seem interesting. Overall a little snappier that Lion and no compatibility issues with most of the programs I have installed.

Mirroring looks good for those with Apple TV. Seagulls player finally on my big 40"-er

 

[Deleted member 22389]

sod that then. I toyed with ubuntu for a bit, but I didn't really understand enough about it, and I'm not as good with computer tech as I used to be. I'd love to migrate to an easy to use OS, but I just don't understand Linux enough, I want something thats as easy to use out the box as Windows is, but less buggier if that makes sense

That said, Opera is a bloody great browser, easy to use, and easy enough to customise to the requirements you need.

Ubuntu is not that hard. Everything can easily be installed through the software centre or via the terminal, it is up to you. As with all new operating system you need to get used to how they work. After x amount of years using Windows, anything else will feel a bit alien, but the more you use Ubuntu or OSX the more you will grow to like it and in some cases never want to go back to Windows again.

Remember in Ubuntu you can always install Virtualbox and run Windows in a Virtual machine.
I don't know what they have on Mac, but again you can install Windows in it.