On 14.08.2011, at 01:09, Geoffrey Heard wrote:

> At 9:32 AM +0100 13/8/11, Doug Browne wrote:
>> 
>> (…)  'Gestures' opens up a whole new way of operating my Mac.
> 
> Huh? Haven't we always been able to do this? Or perhaps I'm thinking of just the bottom right corner. So now you can do it with any corner. Wow!


Gestures are what you do with your fingers on a Trackpad (tapping, sweeping, sliding, with one, two, three or four fingers.) It’s the best feature in Lion that I am aware of. It saves you a *lot* of time and using it in Safari, for example, is a great fun, no back and forward clicking with the mouse anymore, you just use your fingers as if you were browsing a book or a newspaper. Here is a list of Gestures:

http://www.danrodney.com/mac/multitouch.html


> Why waste time learning a new way of doing essentially the same thing?


As far as Gestures is concerned they are easier and faster than the mouse, you save time and are more productive. If I would buy a new desktop Mac I would buy it now with an extra Trackpad so that I could use Gestures. 


> Lucky there was a nearby Apple store. Most people in the world don't have that luxury. (…) In Papua New Guinea (and vast swathes of the rest of the world) our Internet access is limited and there is no Apple Store

I agree. The new download practice and Apple Store are a severe restriction.

By the way, I’m back to OS 10.6.8 again. Too many applications and plug-ins are not yet compatible with Lion. :-(


Best wishes,
Þorvarður