New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

"remember chldren use the cloud only for backup"

Moses

halfway through typing that i felt like an asshole

― lukas, Tuesday, June 7, 2011 5:52 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I feel like this is the default mode for whenever we talk about any new feature in an apple product

One of the quiet but useful features of Lion per Gizmodo:

• Recovery Partition: Speaking of recovery, you might be wondering how you reinstall an OS that's download only. Well! Apple is clever, and Lion will include its own recovery partition—in other words, it can reinstall itself if your OS goes to hell.

fuck that, this 64gb disk is small enough already.

apple invents recovery partitions omg

xp otm, I'm struggling with space on my ~350gb mbp as it is

"a link on the Apple iCloud page reads "Try it today — download iTunes 10.3, free for Mac and PC", which takes me to a page where i can download iTunes 10.2.2"

I have already snarkily filed a complaint with my friend who works on the Apple Store.

suddenly smug conscientious ID3 taggers got a whole lot smugger

HI DERE

Full commentary on this to follow as soon as I can get into my dev account (was at JPL briefing when this all went down).

iOS5 also has location based notifications which will be neat:

Give Book to John> When I arrive > John's address
Call Office > When I Leave > Client's address

Also here's the link for iTunes 10.3

Give Book to John> When I arrive > John's address
Call Office > When I Leave > Client's address

whaaa seriously? i need something like this

whaaa seriously? i need something like this

Yup, seriously.

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html

REMINDERS

A better way to do to-dos.
Next time you think to yourself, “Don’t forget to...,” just pull out your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and jot it down. Reminders lets you organize your life in to-do lists — complete with due dates and locations. Say you need to remember to pick up milk during your next grocery trip. Since Reminders can be location based, you’ll get an alert as soon as you pull into the supermarket parking lot. Reminders also works with iCal, Outlook, and iCloud, so changes you make update automatically on all your devices and calendars.

MORE stuff

Highlights:

- (Mac app) updates will also now be delta updates — meaning you’ll only have to download what’s new, not the entire app
- Software updates will now come over the air, and they too will be delta updates (much smaller)
- iOS 5 Safari for iPad has tabbed browsing
- The iPhone iPod app has been broken into Music and Videos apps (just like the iPod touch)
- The iPad Music app has been entirely redone
- iMessages was built on the Push Notification infrastructure
- The LED flash on the iPhone 4 can be set to visually show you when you have a message or call
- Developers are also being granted access to the LED flash on the iPhone 4
- Developers are also now able to change the backlight setting (like iBooks — apps like Instapaper previously made their own solutions)
- iCloud will have storage APIs that developers can use
- If iTunes Match can’t find your music on the iTunes server, they will upload it for you

http://cl.ly/7NYq/Screen_shot_2011-06-07_at_12.51.46_PM.png

The fact it backs up game date will this mean if I say, delete Infinity Blade and some other large Apps from my phone, when I redownload them from iCloud all my save data will download too?

presumably yeah

I mean it's designed to allow you to start something on one device and finish it on another so it's the logical conclusion (perhaps not)

iOS5 also has location based notifications which will be neat:

Give Book to John> When I arrive > John's address
Call Office > When I Leave > Client's address

Oh fuck me, this was my idea for an iPhone app

sadly i have heard no mention of other location or time-based settings, i.e.

Set to Silent --> at midnight
Do offline download of Guardian app --> at 8am

or battery-saving measures, like

Set to airplane mode --> After failing to find signal for 5 minutes

stop hassling me --> every time you lose signal for 0.5 sec
stop dropping to 2100 mhz without my permission --> fucking ever

YES

Do offline download of Guardian app --> at 8am

newsstand should handle this.

location based reminders sound a bit less useful than i thought, on the other hand:

jfalconer In theory, Reminders that trigger on location is one of the cool things in iOS5. But it's clunky -- addresses have to be in Contacts.

grr.. would be nice to just choose a spot on the map with my finger and say like "within .5 miles of"

straw poll, who will buy match? need more info?

i dont think i will.... maybe if i had more than 5GB to store the stuff i have on my computer that wont be in itunes

I'm considering it. I'll have to see when it launches but its not big money so I probably will.

you can do some of this location based trigger stuff on your laptop already if you're a weenie like me, e.g. i have:

- screen locks when my phone is not in bluetooth range (i.e. i am away from desk)
- time machine target disk changes based on what disk is connected

I guess most of the stuff I use spotIfy for is stuff I also have in my collection back home and £25 a year is way better than £10 a month so yeah, I expect I'll switch.

I don't think I can be bothered tbh

I mean it's all on my 120 gb ipod and that's doing all right without clouds so

I have 423 gigs of music and an 8 gig iphone and a separate macbook pro for work at the office. I can see using it for those sudden urges to hear something that I don't have with me at work or on my phone. With the 25,000 song limit, I'd like it to work with a playlist or something, so I could choose what goes in the cloud. Otherwise how will it handle that? Will it just stop once I hit my limit? I should probably prune my iTunes library. Next time I have 10 free hours....

make a playlist that syncs to the cloud - I wonder if you can

apis is what i'm talking about

― caek, Monday, June 6, 2011 2:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

B-)

With iOS 5, you no longer need a computer to own an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.

― It's not like we could go to Islam (Autumn Almanac), Monday, June 6, 2011 4:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

srsly

- The LED flash on the iPhone 4 can be set to visually show you when you have a message or call

― It's not like we could go to Islam (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, June 7, 2011 5:02 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

iberry

I've wanted that feature since I had to ditch my first cell phone. I rarely have my ringer on. I used to like being able to walk in the room and look across the room and visually see that I have messages. Can they control the brightness? That flash is pretty strong.

yeah i felt like notifications were the weakest part of the igame up til just now when apple stole the best aspects of both andriod and blackberrys approaches, swag

I want to hear about iCloud to google contact syncing.

Oh fuck me, this was my idea for an iPhone app
Lots of people feeling like that here. They killed a lot of little apps too, like Instapaper (sorta), Fantastical, all the messaging apps, Camera+ etc etc.

on the fence about instapaper. Marco (creator) seems to think/hope that his social sharing aspects of instapaper will be one thing that saves it, and that reading list will introduce more and more people to the concept, some of whom will want to upgrade to more robust features. I only use the most basic instapaper features, so maybe reading list will be fine for me. I assume if I'm on a PC using Firefox or whatever, I can log onto iCloud and access my reading list, like I can access instapaper from anywhere? I also assume other apps will pick up the link, like currently I'll be using reeder on my iPhone and hit an article I want to "read later" and depending on how I want to remember it, I'll either star it, or I'll send it to instapaper. I assume I'll be able to send it to reading list as well.

Yeah, Marco is high. Think this will do to instapaper what iTunes did to Audion. But only if apps can also add to the list (I think they can) and if the last works offline (not sure about this).

being a lil indie developer bro is tough, almost like you dont want yr app to get too popular

http://grab.by/cAVz

lol

Set to Silent --> at midnight

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, June 7, 2011 6:33 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Yeah, dumbfounded that a night mode still doesn't exist. there are these things http://www.thesilentnight.com/ but you might as well stick the phone in a drawer instead

yeah better to suck because then yahoo will buy you xp

They are doing unconscionable things to file > quit in lion btw.

hahaha what are they doing?

The thing I find annoying about the concept of "never start from scratch again!" is... what if you WANT to start from scratch?

If you leave an app and the system wants to, it will quit it. But the dot will stay in the doc and the icon will stay in the cmd-tab switcher. When you click on it then it will relaunch silently.

BUT if you actually choose file -> quit, the app will look like it has quit -- the dot disappears, it disappears from the switcher etc. Except ... It’s still running and doesn't quit. It might do later, if the system wants to.

Dan: yeh the persistence is scary -- they're going to persist apps across reboots and even restarts. Turning it on and off again is going to leave just as fucked as you were when you started.