Gingerbread tastes better and a Lion ate my Snow Leopard
Well, lots has been going on lately, but at the same time not much has been happening. I know it doesn't make sense. I have been doing stuff for work, but I have also been doing different things at home.
One is rooting my android phone. I have a Samsung Captivate (AT&T) and it has pretty much sucked since day one (last fall). Multiple wipes and starting over, upgrade to Froyo made some things better but it still performed about as well as a seahorse at the Kentucky Derby. So, I decided to say screw it all and I put the new Cyanogen 7 ROM on it and holy crap is this phone suddenly amazing! No samsung apps. No samsung interface. No AT&T apps. No bullcrap! The phone and honestly, the AT&T network, seem to be MUCH faster than before. Programs work the way they should. They open when the should. The are responsive. It also upgraded me from Froyo (2.2) to Gingerbread (2.3.4) It is such a novel idea to actually make something work the way it was advertised. Needless to say, I should have done this a long time ago and it should be a strong warning to the manufacturers and the carriers that they are ruining Android for the masses. Hopefully Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility will help some.
As for the other topic of recents posts... OS X Lion. I upgraded from Snow Leopard (10.6) to Lion (10.7) a few weeks ago. Way to make my iMac at home completely useless. It's a crazy day when my Android phone and my Windows computers are more useful than my Apple machine. 4 out of 5 times I cannot login the machine because it simply locks up as soon as I enter my password. Once I am in it might work for an hour or two before it decides to freeze. BUT here is the interesting part. When I can login and use it for a bit and then it freezes the iMac is apparently still working, its just what is displayed that freezes. I can still connect to the iMac and transfer files and what not. It just wont update what is on the screen. Here is to hoping that Apple can release OS X 10.7.1 soon in order to make my iMac useful again. I wont be installing this on my Macbook Pro at work until this comes out and I can use my iMac again.
UPDATE: Apple just released 10.7.1 (linky). We will see if this fixes my issues...