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Saturday, August 24, 2002 |
I am attempting to use Apple's Mail application
With the release of the new version of Mail which is bundled in Mac OS X 10.2, I am taking yet another look at Apple's default email application. I am trying to use it off and on today, but so far I am being pushed back to my favorite email application PowerMail by:
- Mail's lack of keyboard navigation between the mailbox pane and message pane.
- Difficulties creating new Rules in Mail compared to other email applications (Why do I have to go into Preferences to create a Rule rather than being able to Control-click on a message and create a new Rule based on that specific message?)
- The relative slowness of the Mail interface, such as the delay when selecting a large mail box between the selection and actual display of the messages.
I am pleasantly surprised with the Junk Mail features of Mail, and things have improved with the program in general. I still miss labels in the Mail program, but I can see getting around that limitation with filtering or a set of mailboxes that reflect the labelling system I use in other email applications. The jury is still out...
7:38:27 PM 
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What parts of Jaguar are not Dock worthy?
I am making some quick judgements today on what parts of Mac OS X 10.2 are worthy of space on my machine, and the best judge of that is determining which default applications bundled with Jaguar are Dock worthy. For instance, it took just a couple of minutes to determine that iChat was not worthy of Dock space on my PowerBook. I am sure that the chat program will appeal to some due to its simplicity, but it takes up too much screen real estate and just feels too cartoony for my tastes. Simple...it is gone!
What parts of Jaguar have you removed from your Dock? Is Mail still there? Sherlock? The Address Book?
6:45:23 PM
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A last note before I go enjoy the sunshine
The other persistent oddity I am seeing after upgrading to Jaguar on my PowerBook is that the battery icon in the menu bar constantly says "Calculating until full" if I have the icon set to display the time remaining rather than the percentage full or neither...
1:07:08 PM
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Color me surprised
My Samsung ML-1210 laser printer that worked under Mac OS X 10.1.5 still works under Jaguar or Mac OS X 10.2! I didn't have to install anything. All I had to do was to choose the printer in the Print Center application when I printed my first page from within Mozilla...
1:03:54 PM
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One notable oddity
I made posts in Radio earlier this morning to talk about my upgrade process, but after making my post-installation post then all previous posts from today are gone...
11:46:10 AM
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Nearly 90 minutes later
The installation of Mac OS X 10.2 was flawless on my Pismo PowerBook. No problems with the fact that I have 1GB of RAM installed, and so far only one software glitch with my email application PowerMail that unexpectedly quit a few minutes after I started using Jaguar.
A couple of notes for PowerBook users, especially those like me who may have a third-party CD-RW drive that they usually use in the drive bay instead of the standard CD/DVD drive that shipped with the machine. If you want to have DVD software working after you install Jaguar, find your old DVD drive and put it in your machine for the installation process. Otherwise, any updates to DVD software will not be installed.
Otherwise, all you need for the installation process is some patience and good reading material.
As far as the disk space used by this new version, I started my Upgrade type of install with more than 2.5GB of disk space remaining, and after the installation I have 1.66GB of disk space remaining. I also want to note that I chose to do an Upgrade install since it is the default type of installation that Apple expects users to do and I wanted to experience Jaguar as Apple wanted me to experience it...
11:26:30 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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