OSX Leopard - Time Machine
07/11/06 00:44 Filed in: Mac
Apple have been showing off some planned features
of
OSX Leopard.
The most astonishing feature is Time Machine, which allows the user to browse back through previous 'states' of his/her computer to find deleted files, entries in address books, purged emails, lost photos etc. The implementation of this idea is as lovely as you'd expect, but it does beg the question: How disorganised are we expected to be? Spotlight (introduced with OSX 'Tiger') allows you to save documents wherever you want to and find them via a system search-and-launch. Time Machine allows similar sloppiness with data over time.
Clearly, I'm harumphing and adjusting my tweeds here, and any moment will start muttering about 8+3 filenames and strict Directory organisation. I sometimes watch how my partner accesses the web resources which she needs regularly. No bookmarking for her - she uses the Google search box every time, putting in keywords and waiting for the drop-down auto-complete to...well...provide her with the equivalent of a bookmark.
The most astonishing feature is Time Machine, which allows the user to browse back through previous 'states' of his/her computer to find deleted files, entries in address books, purged emails, lost photos etc. The implementation of this idea is as lovely as you'd expect, but it does beg the question: How disorganised are we expected to be? Spotlight (introduced with OSX 'Tiger') allows you to save documents wherever you want to and find them via a system search-and-launch. Time Machine allows similar sloppiness with data over time.
Clearly, I'm harumphing and adjusting my tweeds here, and any moment will start muttering about 8+3 filenames and strict Directory organisation. I sometimes watch how my partner accesses the web resources which she needs regularly. No bookmarking for her - she uses the Google search box every time, putting in keywords and waiting for the drop-down auto-complete to...well...provide her with the equivalent of a bookmark.
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