New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

atlantic monthly: is GOOGLE making us STOOPID?

dude, stop reading your blogs!

which one of you posted this? http://www.metafilter.com/92604/Why-wont-you-call-your-mother-and-let-her-see-you

that dfw post is linked

hahahaha @ caek

dude i read a lot of blogs & other bs online -- i am 100% part of the problem :-/

Not that I read him very much anyway but this did it for me:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/11/cameron

yeah, i think i linked that. great days.

blogging is important

http://photos.media.macrumorslive.com/p/2010-06-07/f1275936380.jpg

the annoying thing about that is i assume he would be opposed to conservative policies based on his occasional post about U.S. politics, but he's convinced himself that his congratulations are meaningful. not like he literally believes david cameron got the message. more that if he doesn't acknowledge this news with a post (or "essay" as he probably calls them) then his readers will not hear about it.

I really have no idea why he'd link to something like that either, tbh.

I don't think he actually believes "that if he doesn't acknowledge this news with a post (or "essay" as he probably calls them) then his readers will not hear about it," though. Not sure what his posting it means; I'd have to think about it more than I want to, really.

That video is horrible. I mean I'm a fanboy, but godddamn I want to punch everyone in it in the face.

xp, no, you're right. its more the assumption that his opinion on this issue will be of interest to sentient adults

Yeah, I think you're hitting on something there -- there really is no rationale for a post like that to end up on DF. Sure it's his personal blog, but it's clearly a blog of a particular type, and a post like that has way more to do with his signaling stuff about himself than it does about saying anything useful.

totes.

still he just posted this, which cheered me up http://www.flickr.com/photos/gruber/4680380848/

also looks like iBooks is no longer glaring white

I hate how in the iBooks app, it is made to look like a book, with the stacked pages on the side, and the shadow leading to the center crease. I want ebooks, because it doesn't have those distractions. I don't want to replicate the act of reading a real book, I want to eliminate the visual distractions. Kindle app is much better.

still he just posted this, which cheered me up http://www.flickr.com/photos/gruber/4680380848/

― stet, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 12:18 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but can ibooks do quotes and apostrophes properly now?

re: gruber on tories, think he's being sarcastic: the "unusual elections" he's comparing it to
must be 2000/2004 not 2008. of course you might still think he should stfu.

Why can't pre-order yet?

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June 15th, isn't it?

New Safari's out. Has Reader which is pretty nice (same as Readability bookmarklet basically) and extensions. Can't make any, need a "safari developer certificate". Here we go again.

anyone know what options someone might have if they got an iPhone at the AT&T store yesterday?

(lulz etc but a friend did this yesterday without consulting me. i know if you order from apple in a two-week window before you get obsoleted they'll usually let you exchange but i'm not sure what the deal would be in this case)

all I know is that I eligible for the upgrade price. how to shot selling current phone in ebay

idk but o2 in the UK is offering £197 or something to recycle an iPhone 3G so that probably makes an iPhone 4 almost free w/ contract.

thanks for the Safari 5 heads up -- downloading now

how to shot selling current phone in ebay

Not selling my old EDGE iPhone - as soon as I get a new iPhone, my old one gets jailbroken and consigned to drum machine/synthesizer duty.

Load of developer updates going up, including iTunes 9.2. Also release notes say the iPhone 4 doesn't use Helvetica anymore. (cheers cheers)

hopefully iphone4 will distract everybody from ipad 3g and let some stock build up

So the "Reader" functionality in Safari 5 is basically Instapaper?

So the "Reader" functionality in Safari 5 is basically Instapaper?

No. It's more like Readibility.

keeping in mind that "it" = Reader: http://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/15658043858 [Instapaper/Tumblr dev]

"Text bookmarklet" = Instapaper's "Text bookmarklet," which is different from its "Read Later" bookmarklet

Yeah, I loaded up Safari 5 and the functionality is pretty limited.

need a "safari developer certificate". Here we go again.

lol ;_;

SAFARI ADDRESS BAR STILL NOT A SEARCH BAR

with the 3G currently £349 and the 16GB 3GS £449 can we expect the 3GS to be £349 (£249?) and the 16GB 4 to be £449?

anybody want my unlocked 3GS? ...

my main issue with my 3G is how slow and unresponsive it often gets (am I alone?) - so I don't know how much the iP4 would be worth it for me

my friend says her 3G has the same problem. how much free space do you have left? how many apps do you have installed?

yeah people have been telling me to get rid of apps and free up some space but I did try that and the phone remained as laggy as before (the weird thing is that this problem appeared progressively over time as if the phone was worn out)

Gruber turns Howard Hughes:

One thing that Apple didn’t mention in the keynote, though, is that the LCD pixels are much closer to the surface of the touchscreen. On existing iPhones (and iPods, and iPads), there is not a lot of distance between the glass surface and the LCD, but there is some. There’s also a very narrow amount of air between the touchscreen glass and the underlying LCD. If you’ve ever got a bit dust under your display, that dust is in the air between the glass and LCD.

baaderonix, you might have some luck from doing a reinstall and restore. also if your total free space on the phone is, say, less than 1 GB, that may also cause problems.

thanks dyao - yeah I generally try to keep 2GB free but I might do an overall restore and see if that helps.

My 3G is laggy as hell too, I got it replaced because it was bugging me so much and I'd restored it a few times and all that. But my new one is pretty much the same now too.

I used my friends 3GS and it made me sad to see how it was all supposed to run. Really smoothly. Honestly I just think that's how 3G's are going to be with each successive new OS/software etc. I mean telling you its because of apps or that one thing is causing the phone to be slow is some bullshit. It just feels like an old computer struggling to run the new stuff people are coming out with. Sure, it can technically run it, but not without a bit of a struggle. Seems more disheartening with a phone though. The whole thing kinda runs like using the 'all windows' function in exposé when you've got way too many open... (apparently having 11 firefox windows open each with multiple tabs slows things down some, who knew?)

my 3g only gets slow if i accidentally check mail in the bg while i'm trying to do something else, which is easy to do if you "turn it on" and it's in the mail app

Yeah I'm afraid I have to agree with Suedey. The 3G really feels like a sad old compaq 386 struggling to keep up. Yet this phone is what, two years old? ah modern times...

just dont check your email and do something else! i swear! mine works great when that's not happening!

maybe you just don't know what 'great' truly is

never check your email or your bank balance.

most irritating lag is when texting and the stuff you type comes out in a blurb 10 seconds later - and then realizing that you need to go back to correct a typo with that annoying magnifier.