It was fun while it lasted. I learned a lot.

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Speed is insane, most things don’t even get to bounce before they’re open.

Time Machine was crippled at the last minute. Backing up to an AFP / SMB / NFS share no longer works, even with the widely publicised .com.apple.timemachine.supported workaround. Sad. :( Only two working scenarios:
* You have an external HD (not iPod!) directly connected
* You have an HD connected to another Mac RUNNING LEOPARD

New Finder takes some getting used to, but it’s not bad.

TABBED TERMINAL!

Spaces is what Virtue / Desktop Manager should’ve been.

New Front Row is cool, but I rarely use Front Row now.

Spotlight is Quicksilver fast. No need for Quicksilver as a launcher now. Spotlight also finds dictionary definitions of words in the spotlight menu.

Quick Look is fast, as is Cover Flow in Finder.

Mail.app is rocket fuelled. Just as well, seeing as Thunderbird dev will probably stall now.

I want to say the new folder look is ugly, but it’s better than it’s been up until now.

Menus have rounded corners. Translucent menubar looks pink in the middle with default desktop.

Guest account auto purges. Neat.

New Airport menu is more intuitive. Much quicker to open, too. No Internet Connect app at all now.

Glowing blue dots to signify open apps are almost invisible unless you’re looking for them.

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The Web Browser for S60, based on Safari (or more correctly WebKit), is fantastic for many many reasons (my favourite being the Page Overview mode, identical in functionality to the iPhone’s zoom feature within Safari).

Basically, navigation around webpages is done with an on-screen mouse pointer controlled by the N95’s D-pad (rather than just jumping a page, or jumping to the nearest link when a button is pressed, like most other phones). If you keep pressing a direction to navigate through a page, it’s smart enough to make the cursor translucent so it doesn’t get in your way. The mouse cursor auto-snaps to UI elements such as form fields, links and buttons, but can also move freely around the page.

However I noticed something different the other day, something very subtle indeed. I suppose the developers were faced with two options: set the ”mouse” pointer to move really large steps for each keypress, and be able to navigate quickly (but probably skip right past all the important UI elements that the user’s trying to reach), or set the “mouse” pointer to move tiny steps and be able to reach every single pixel (but move around the page painfully slowly).

Their solution is genius: if the phone thinks you’ve missed something it’ll make the steps gradually smaller.

Example:
I press down. It moves 20 pixels.
I press down. It moves another 20 pixels.
I press up. It moves 10 pixels up.
I press down. It moves 5 pixels down.
I press up. It moves 2 pixels up.
I press down. It moves 1 pixel down.

Slightly off topic, but also came across this N95 advert today. Seems like a bit of a jab at the iPhone, no?

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Also, I have an incredible idea: the world should be flat. Big walls should be placed at the edges so the water doesn’t escape, and people don’t fall off. It would solve all timezone confusion.

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In the past day I have learned that Saint Eteinne are from Croydon, and that Fatboy Slim was born in Bromley.

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