Clueless Wonder

Yesterday Apple released the latest version of Mac OSX, codenamed Snow Leopard. Being the geek that I am, immediately after work I ventured to the Apple Store closest to work and purchased it. Between last night and this morning I have successfully upgraded both of our machines with very little hassle.

For Stephanies’ MacBook, I just upgraded from the disc and it looks like every one of her programs is working without a hitch. For my iMac I chose to do a wipe of the harddisk and install from scratch since I tend to mess around with my machine so much. A few of my programs didn’t want to work right away but the majority already have an update out to fix any issues.

I also was able to reinstall most of my programs and all of my settings from my Time Machine backup. What a timesaver and great backup system that is for Apple users! Overall, you don’t really see a difference visually other than your applications menu, which now has full-size icons and just adds a scrollbar to see everything.

Overall, for the price of $29 for an individual license, or $49 for up to 5 Macs in the same household, it’s a bargain and any increase in speed or reliability is worth it.

Stephanie and I decided to create a little introduction page for our various web endeavors. Since I just upgraded to iLife ‘08, which is a suite of home productivity applications from Apple, it provided an opportunity to try out the new features. The site was created using iWeb, which is Apple’s easy to use beginners’ web design program. The results are coming out nicely and I hope to actually finish the rest of the stuff in the next day or two before we head off to Pennsylvania for Stephanie’s work and their annual off-site weekend. We’ll be at the Hershey Hotel enjoying a nice relaxing couple of days out of the big city!

Oh and the page is located at http://web.mac.com/jbrdweb so make sure to stop by. And don’t forget to bookmark it! Let me know what you think.

[posted with ecto]