WWDC – Almost Christmas in July

1. 30. Inch. LCD.

2. Dear Lord, that’s huge! I’d need to sell my girlfriend’s car to finance that — if only I could sell it without her noticing!

3. (I’m working on that…)

4. I haven’t watched the video of the keynote, but I have had a quick look at the new features in Tiger. It’s looking pretty good, but I’m not sure I’ll be upgrading. I don’t need the 64bit capabilities, I won’t use Dashboard for the same reason I stopped using Konfabulator (which, for all intents and purposes, are the same thing). I will however love to get my hands on Spotlight, the unified search interface, and Automator. I’m disappointed by the lack of Finder improvements. I’m sick of having to personally refresh a Finder window every second time I copy a file from somewhere to somewhere else, I sick of how slow and unresponsive it is when there’s a lot of files in a folder, and I’m really sick of how each window has a different view setting, and going from one to the other will change views (i.e. from icon to view to column) without warning — it’s really distracting. Major blemish on an otherwise easy to use system.

5. In other news, I’ve settled in nicely with my Tungsten C. I love being able to take what I’m reading on the computer with me — all I have to do is go to Print >> Save as PDF, then sync with the tungsten. I’m reading an 8mb PDF, filled with wacky formating and pictures, and while it’s not terribly pretty (the formatting is all over the place, but the screen is only 300×300 px after all) the text is readable and the sheer fact I can take it with me out weighs the lack of proper formatting.

6. I’ve also set up a local WebDAV server on the laptop so I can share my iCal calendars with my girlfriend (who uses the same computer). I’m trying to get her used to iCal, so I have some idea of where she might be on any given day. Not that I really need to keep track of her day in day out, but it’s really embarrassing when I call up after work and ask if she wants to go out for dinner only to be reminded that she was already having dinner out. We might live together, but neither of us have any idea what each other is doing!

7. What’s particularly interesting with the WebDAV server is that I might now be able to bypass the “wing and a prayer” approach to Mac/Windows file sharing. Now, I know they’re supposed to work, but the amount of time I’ve had it mysteriously not work is staggering. It always works with my own PCs, but strangely it fails quite often with other people’s PCs. WebDAV’ is well supported by both Windows and Mac, and hopefully that might solve any future file sharing problems.

8. Maybe Tiger will have even better support for Windows networking. I might well pay for that.

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