I need to take a moment to express my delight about the announced Oct. 26 release date of the new Mac OS/X ? and to express my confusion over why people still use PC’s. Given the problems some of my students have been having technology-wise, I now regard windows Vista as the spawn of the evil one. It really does make sense too. You may recall the verse in 2Cor, “Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.” This also applies to Vista. It is blatantly trying to look like Mac OS/X, but it is a wolf in sheeps clothing. Don’t be fooled!

I could highlight many really neat improvements, but some that caught my eye which will improve my study and research are:
1)RSS feed reading in Mail (to read the extraordinary biblioblog musings)
2) a much improved Preview. For PC lovers, preview is a pdf and image viewer that isn’t a beast like adobe reader. The improvements? Better annotations, like post-it notes, that are saved right on the PDF. And, the new preview will allow you to rearrange the pages in a PDF. How cool is that?
3) There is now a system-wide grammar checker. I need it!
4) Time Machine is a gargantuan addition to Mac OS/X. Say bye-bye to ever losing data again.
5) The Safari search and PDF enhancements will be very nice when doing research on the web
6) the last one is iChat theater. I am mulling over in my head how this may be useful as a teaching tool, here’s why: iChat now lets you go through a Keynote presentation in iChat. A second improvement is allowing you to record your iChat. So, theoretically I may be able to do a pretty decent video recording of myself going through a keynote presentation. I already do this with just audio for my Greek students, but adding my face to it could be pretty cool too!

Let me just reiterate? Macs Rock!

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