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A few things that OS X Lion should have added. |
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Monday, 22 August 2011 |
I have been running OS X Lion for a few weeks now and I am pretty happy with it over all, but a few things are still on my wish list, and have been well before Lion was even conceived.
I love the fact that Notes syncs between my devices and mail client; although, it’s totally insane that this app doesn’t sync between my device and client without the need of a third party service. Why do notes need to be stored anywhere other than my phone, tablet, and PC? I think connecting my devices to my PC, WiFi or otherwise, to sync notes, contacts, etc. should be an option that’s not reliant solely upon iTunes or some cloud service if I don’t want to use them. Also, why are notes unaware of the Stickies application, and vice versa? It would be nice to click a note and have an option to make it sticky note on my desktop. Damn it, it only makes sense!
Another thing I was really hoping to see was a drop down calendar off the clock in the menu bar that also displayed my calendar events as well as a way to set events without opening the full calendar app. This has been a feature in Linux for years, and even Windows shows the calendar these days. I use a free little application for this, but I think this should be a part of the OS. If you’re interested in this, the product is MenuCalendarClock .
During my install of Lion I was forced to do a clean install since I had used BootCamp; rather annoying, but I honestly prefer a clean install. Anyway, I was amazed yet again that the home directory, /Users, is still in the main partition. I left it this way even though I am sure it may be possible to set up as it’s own partition in fear this may have repercussions with the next big release, so I chose the default. This is the wrong way though! In Linux I always set /home as it’s own partition. When I upgrade or switch to a new version/distribution of Linux, all my files and settings stay unaffected. It would have saved me time considering I had to backup and restore 200+ gigabyte of pictures and files.
One final complaint, put iDVD in the damned AppStore! Between that and HandBrake, life is happy, but doing a clean install of Lion wipes all the iLife files and iLife ’11 in the AppStore only has iPhoto, iMovie, and Garageband - that sucks!
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