I’ve been a fairly happy Apple/OS/X user for the past three to four years. Before that, I was a Windows user that finally became disgusted enough to finally make the jump.

Most computer users are well aware of the arguments, both pro and con.

Up until now, I’ve been happy. Up until now, everything simply worked. Ahem, up until now…

What is different now? It’s called Lion. Depending on what you use your machine for, Lion can be great. However, there’s a dark side to Apple’s latest feline incarnation. If you use a wide variety of software with your particular Mac, chances are Lion is going to break things – perhaps things that you rely on. Say, a podcasting application called “Ubercaster” that no longer functions 100% for starters, or how about a Verizon USB 3G aircard that worked fine in both Leopard and Snow Leopard, but Lion somehow just cannot recognize?

Being a long-time Windows user, I’m used to the new version of the O/S screwing things up, sometimes royally. However, that bad Microsoft habit of releasing half-baked, buggy operating system updates seems to have migrated from Redmond down to Cupertino.

It wasn’t as if I expected something like this might happen. I’m prepared – I have a backup machine in the form of a 13” white plastic Macbook that I purposely kept on  Snow Leopard. Unfortunately, the most recent Snow Leopard updates Apple has sent out have broken Ubercaster entirely on that machine, rendering the backup machine rather useless at the moment for podcast recording. The Ubercaster application will no longer load, even the latest updated version.

Ubercaster still works on my Macbook Pro running Lion, but the setup is now unreliable.

Also, Lion seems to not even work properly with Apple’s own hardware. When I touch the touchpad on my 3-year-old Macbook Pro 17 it no longer makes the screen wake up after it has turned off – it’s now necessary to hit a key to make the screen come back on.

What was Apple thinking? Probably of money.

Big weekend for my son details in my show! Bad weekend for Hilton Hawaiian Village plus we have a time capsule winner of a $50.00 gift certificate. I spend some time of the Google and Amazon digital book debate going on, looking for Ohana weigh in. We had a great round table this weekend show will be posted shortly at TechPodcasts.com as well.

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DRM Opening Up?
Surfer Dude with Physics Doctorate blows Scientist Away
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17 Inch RSS Photo Framed
Zune Issues
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Rosetta Flies By
Suit Problem may cause delay in EVA
China Spying Through Technology?
Microsoft Vista SP1 to testers
Homes Comet
Hacker of Year arrested
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Blogger Grammar Errors
NBC Crying about Apple iTunes Pricing
Google Spam and how it works
CFL Bulbs Savings
Cable Rulings for Apartments
Controlling the Internet
AT&T does the Right thing for once
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Nick Wants more use of NOINDEX
Video Not Easy or Cheap???
Automatic Turns away 200 Million
Harmony Mounted and Occupied
New Pages on Blubrry!
Net Neutrality Rears its head
RIAA has another Set Back :{
Comcast P2P talk can get you Fired
User Contributed Meta-Data
Leopard Hacked to Run on PC
Solar Wing Gears at ISS
Vinyl Sails to kill CD Sales?
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Long Live PodTech
TiVo Update
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Domain Snatching Investigation
10 Google Products you forgot about
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Senator Slams Comcast
Naked Eye Comet Suddenly Brightens
Whois threatened
SanDisk Sues Everyone
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Google Pagerank
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GTalk and Yahoo Messengers Updates for Blackberry
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Shutlle Arrives at ISS
Japan has Mobile Issues as Well
India call center worker shortage
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Why Internet Explorer is so Bloated
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Apple Fanatic
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Plastic Shell Shears
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Internet Explorer 7 Update
China Blocks RSS Feeds
Podcaster Awards Coverage
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Leopard Shipping Date this Month
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Email Search Warrant Required
Shuttle Repair and ISS Spacewalks
ISS Computers
Truss Installs
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Newspaper Aggregation
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Google Labs
Google Public policy
Shuttle Image
Top 10 Destroy Planet Earth
Blockbuster = Blu-ray
HDMI Switch
Nascar and AT&T
Zune Marketplace Expands
Safari Bashed by Windows Users
Car Buried for 50 Years
100 Legal Free Games
Mac Defrag
Fix Dead Pixels on LCD
Ten Photo Mistakes
Leopard PC Switching
Wash a Keyboard
WordPress Themes
33 Free TV Websites
Digg Effect on Shared Servers
Dell does the right thing!
iPhone not so Sweet
Google Gears of War
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