New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Lion mostly pwns except it broke bettertouchtool's three finger gestures which at this point i can't live without /:

If Steve Jobs was Davros the Daleks wouldn't be covered in all those buttons.

Why do you think he ripped the shell off himself?

Oh no, wait, he still had the bottom bit, doesn't he? Good point, well made.

actualyl steve jobs designed ILXOR - taht is why its so stripped down

Having a hell of a time trying to work out how icloud will work for families who share an apple id but want unique icloud/mobileme functions per person (e.g. email address, file storage). Google proving useless atm. Perhaps I should just wait until people actually get to use the thing.

(obv if I do find out I'll post it here)

I'd assume playlists

it's already a pain the ass to sync two iphones on one machine. every time I do this I forget to log out my wife from itunes and it half-syncs all these apps I didn't buy, and then can't use.

checkmarks xp

is there a book or something i can buy that explains, in technical detail, how mac os x works

if so, please refer AA to it

But really I would recommend digging around arstechnica.com for their history of OS X articles. They're long-winded, but really informative for that sort of thing.

lmfao mh, i was literally JUST reading a john siracusa article (although not one of his mac os x reviews, which i should go read [at least the latest one])

i also listen to his podcast hypercritical -- http://5by5.tv/hypercritical -- regularly

\(^o^)/

haw xp

The short answer is "don't share an apple ID", tbh. Have separate IDs and separate iTunes accounts.

(You can still download apps the other has bought by signing into the store as them)

ugh

markers depends how technical you want. siracusa's reviews are the place to start. if you want more after that then get amit singh's thing: http://osxbook.com/

"OS X is a Steve Jobs hack of linux" - my former coworker, the network engineer

he sounds like an mcse with a reddit account

wtf is reddit

ilxor max's favourite website

I guees its where you get emoticons

I want to punch anyone who refers to OS X as "just like Linux."

thanks caek! :D

well the little "close window X" IS in the upper left side

it's worth going through the siracusa reviews chronologically btw, or at least be sure to read 10.2-10.4. as the os has become more mature the reviews have become more about specific new features rather than "architecture"

yeah, maybe i should just read a bunch of those. (i haven't read any of them yet. i just read the first of his three part series on "avoiding copeland 2010" and need to read the other two now)

Plus, if you start at the beginning you get fun info on Rosetta and the other possibilities that were planned.

good point -- i don't even know what that is

and what is Darwin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

the tl;dr version is that it's the core kernel and system tools and it's BSD-derived

http://hanlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Darwin_Operating_system

You've got that punch coming, Hanle y

:(

Siracusa's OS X reviews. Skip the developer preview ones if you want to keep your sanity.
DP2: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/1999/12/macos-x-dp2.ars
DP3: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2000/02/mac-os-x-dp3.ars
DP4: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2000/05/mac-os-x-dp4.ars

10.0: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2001/04/macos-x.ars
10.1: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2001/10/macosx-10-1.ars
10.2: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2002/09/macosx-10-2.ars
10.3: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2003/11/macosx-10-3.ars
10.4: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2005/04/macosx-10-4.ars
10.5: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2007/10/mac-os-x-10-5.ars
10.6: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars

Also decent reading for background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP

In the late 90s I wanted a NeXT machine really badly, as they were being phased out and you could get them for a reasonable price.

NeXTSTEP was around 88-89ish, whereas the linux kernel didn't exist at all until 91ish. Linux was a hack to get a decent unix on commodity hardware.

the computing lab during my undergrad was entirely nexts. that's how i ended up rocking OS X DP. i still have the CD somewhere.

actually it was the public beta i installed

<3

so I see that Apple is now selling unlocked iPhones in the USA. quick q's:

1) in the USA, can you get a month-by-month voice plan for one of these (with AT&T, say)?

2) in the USA, can you get a month-by-month *data* plan?

(prob this is not the best time to write a q looking for American answers though)

I think generally AT&T's prepaid/monthly plans have really mediocre data options. You're probably looking at $25/500MB at best, and that's on top of voice.

T-Mobile has historically had much better rates on that sort of thing, but their 3g network isn't supported by current iPhones.

thankig you for that list of siracusa's reviews, mh

http://store.apple.com/us/engrave/MC540LL/A?msg.0=give+me+fellatio++me&msg.1=&add-engraved=add-engraved&id=84519253-ea95-46e7-a548-7a879fcfcd15&id=84519253-ea95-46e7-a548-7a879fcfcd15&mco=MTA4MjA4NzE

http://www.cultofmac.com/os-x-lion-to-launch-july-19th-alongside-new-macbook-airs/102860
http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-might-be-preparing-to-kill-off-the-white-macbook/102887

^ I keep seeing speculative stuff like this that reinforces my expectation that the Air is slowly devolving into an ipad with a keyboard. Apple really does seem to be gearing up for a simultaneous release of Lion and the new Air, the latter of which I reckon will be Apple's biggest push yet into the mass laptop market.

'er indoors is going bonkers with our horribly outdated and clunky Dell Inspiron running Ubuntu 11.04 (Unity is still weird enough and buggy enough to be a problem for her), and we just got a hefty tax return, so I'm thinking about grabbing her one of these new Airs. They need to not be $1200 though. I'm hoping that the new one does turn out to be an upsized ipad of sorts and slides in well under a grand.

why does "apple are releasing a new air" = "air is devolving into ipad with keybaord"?

maybe if you let er outdoors once in a while she would stop going bonkers

she hated computers until she discovered facebook