Re: Jaguar preview

2002-05-08 Thread Paul & Caroline van der Mey
Rod Lavington wrote: On 7/5/02 12:07 PM, "Shay Telfer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip * Handwriting recognition (unless it brings back Newton like functionality)as major improvements. snip I just think there could be many possibilities with Ink (as long as it works!

Re: Jaguar preview

2002-05-08 Thread Shay Telfer
I guess what interests me is that he didn't say much - he just got on with the job, and the UI didn't hinder him. That's difficult to say without an actual comparison with how he would have worked with a different UI. People are usually quite bad at determining if things are more or less eff

Re: Jaguar preview

2002-05-08 Thread crazy_ebot
I agree with Lara's thoughts, here's why: I 'left' a copy of OS X as the default on a work collegues (160meg) 333Mhz iMac. He's a script editor and filmmaker, so you can class him as a mac user but not an evangelist, or power user. After a week I'd had only one request for assistance - two qu

Re: Jaguar preview

2002-05-07 Thread Lara Hopkins
Brett Carboni wrote: > * A reviewing and fixing where necessary of the Mac OS X 'human' interface A big amen to that! [snip] The whole point is Macs are supposed to be easy to use. This OS definitely needs a user to make it user-friendly. I'm definitely sticking with OS9 for as long as possible

Re: Jaguar preview

2002-05-07 Thread Brett Carboni
> * A reviewing and fixing where necessary of the Mac OS X 'human' interface A big amen to that! Didn't realize it was so bad until I had to get my Dad up and going with his new iMac Monday. (Never used OSX before). I had to read a book on OSX to understand it. And I've been trying to get him to b

Re: Jaguar preview

2002-05-07 Thread Andrew Nielsen
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Re: Jaguar preview

2002-05-07 Thread Shay Telfer
P.S. Shay, what other improvements would you like to see in the next release? * A system wide database for use by all applications, ala (on a small scale InternetConfig), BeOS, the Newton and upcoming versions of MS Windows. Only then will we be able to move towards the Knowledge Navigator co

Re: Jaguar preview

2002-05-07 Thread Matt Huitson
On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 12:07 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: > > Except that I don't really class > * A chat client > * An address book that's already there (but has no developer > documentation so no-one can use it. Although there is a WWDC session > this week). > as major improvements. Well pe

Re: Jaguar preview

2002-05-07 Thread Matthew Healey
On 7/5/02 12:07 PM, "Shay Telfer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For those interested, >> >> The next major release of OSX (code named Jaguar) has been previewed. >> Looks like we can look forward to some major improvements. >> >> > > Except that I don't

Re: Jaguar preview

2002-05-07 Thread Matthew Healey
On 7/5/02 11:55 AM, "Rod Lavington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sherlock 3 looks suspiciously like Watson :-) It's not. Regards Matthew Healey -- Matthew Healey Information Systems Western Orthopaedic Clinic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 (08) 9489 8700 Fax: +61 (08) 9381 8300 Suite 213 25

Re: Jaguar preview

2002-05-07 Thread Rod Lavington
On 7/5/02 12:07 PM, "Shay Telfer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For those interested, >> >> The next major release of OSX (code named Jaguar) has been previewed. >> Looks like we can look forward to some major improvements. >> >> > > Except that I don't

Re: Jaguar preview

2002-05-07 Thread Shay Telfer
For those interested, The next major release of OSX (code named Jaguar) has been previewed. Looks like we can look forward to some major improvements. Except that I don't really class * A chat client * An address book that's already there (but has no

Re: Jaguar preview

2002-05-07 Thread Rod Lavington
On 7/5/02 10:48 AM, "Matt Huitson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those interested, > > The next major release of OSX (code named Jaguar) has been previewed. > Looks like we can look forward to some major improvements. > > > > Cheers, Matt. > > Ooo

Jaguar preview

2002-05-07 Thread Matt Huitson
For those interested, The next major release of OSX (code named Jaguar) has been previewed. Looks like we can look forward to some major improvements. Cheers, Matt. Matt Huitson Dept. of Psychology University of