New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

anyone else finding the restore process not... working?

Loads of reports about that. I'm not even getting that far.

it didnt work for me at first, then i just restarted my phone and it worked fine

Mine backed up and immediately gave me some message about an internal error. Giving up, have to go to work.

is match live yet? that's all I'm interested in, since I never buy anything from itunes

nah, match isnt out yet

Saw a couple random glitches in the browser on iOS "gold master" on an iPad, gonna update when I get home and hope it works a bit better

Just use a direct download link. Much easier.

No need for me so far. Downloading the OS X update first, then grabbing iOS 5, then... onward!

Looks like they just released XCode too.

*posts from 10.7.2*

Having people on iMessage is grebt

is there a way to use that via the desktop yet? ichat? not yet tho?

I didn't realise but the icloud login screen is where you can create a whole new icloud apple id that's separate from your itunes apple id. Useful for when you've got multiple people sharing one itunes id but need separate icloud ids for doc/contact syncing etc. <-- TYPING THIS gave me a headache.

I have a choice of updating my dumb-phone to an iphone 4S or waiting to get iphone 5 when it's released sometime next year

I think it's probably worth the wait

Boy, getting iCloud/Apple to verify my AppleID is a pain. Still waiting on them to send me an email. Otherwise everything else running smoothly.

I logged into icloud (from the mac) using my itunes apple id. It fartarsed around for a while, said "INCORRECT PASSWORD" in big red letters for a while, then just logged in as though nothing had ever happened.

Yeah, nothing quite so smooth like that. Still gives me a 'resent verification email' option and then of course refuses to actually deliver one.

'Resend' rather. Anyway.

My email came through. iOS 5 never installed for me, mind.

About to find out if it will for me!

i haven't had an apple id in a while so i just signed up for a new account using system preferences --> icloud, and i got in

on my imac

Whut how can u not have had an appleid markers?

my syncing is a total clusterfuck. Google sync via exchange, imap, mobile me account, icloud. Total mess.

Whut how can u not have had an appleid markers?

― stet

don't currently use an ios device, and i use spotify for my music, so i've had no need for it for a while. i deleted it a while back and didn't have a reason to get a new one until now, when i want to test out icloud stuff

iphone all set up and I'm up to the icloud backup setup screen where it's failing but because the language is still in CHINESE i have no idea what the fuck is going on

so apparently i have an icloud problem that the other 250 million ios users haven't had

mac os x lion is worth the $30. gestures and mission control are key tho: swiping from desktop to full-screen iTunes to dashboard is fundamentally easier than Expose/Spaces. I spend less time on the computer now b/c of it.

Good to see Apple TV is even more packed with useless American shit that I will never ever use and cannot get rid of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI

xp even apple hates the apple tv. it hardly seems worth getting excited about.

I never used Spaces before, so I'm still struggling to figure how to get the most of multiple desktops, etc. - I assume you put iTunes on full-screen as a separate desktop?

I've never understood the point of full-screen apps either. Is it to appease Windows users who are addicted to maximizing every program?

that and people who find it difficult to be alone with their thoughts

I like fullscreen on a macbook air where vertical real estate is limited

What's the point of word processing if I can't be constantly dragging in clip-art of adorable kittens?

I bet some things still creep into full-screen mode though, i.e. Growl notifications

good to see growl is now (1) app store only (2) not free.

I think I sort of hate Growl

growl is the WORST and I don't know why it needs to occupy a pane in my system prefs

Well, uninstall it

I don't wanna

:|

good to see growl is now (1) app store only (2) not free.

― caek, Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:58 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark

why is it good that it's not free?

information WANTS to be free iirc!

especially bad information

iirc it's still open source so you can build it yourself for free if you want.

motherfucker

I have an old AOL account that I use as my Apple ID; apparently it is not recognized by iCloud.

You can upgrade it at appleid.apple.com iirc

... Where? Everywhere I've looked basically says "call Apple customer support and tell them you're canceling your AOL account"

The problem is that if your AOL account is named "bitterblackman", you can log into iTunes etc by selecting AOL and using "bitterblackman" as an ID. However, if you enter "bitterblack✧✧✧@a✧✧.c✧✧" as an Apple ID, it isn't recognized and the system will guide you into creating a new, separate Apple ID tied to that email address that is not connected to any of your apps/music. I know all of this because this is what happened to me about 3 years ago; I have been studiously avoiding my &qu✧✧✧@a✧✧.c✧✧" Apple ID in favor of my AOL account, which actually has record of all of my purchases, but now if I want to use iCloud it seems like I have little to no choice in the matter.

None of this is unsolvable, I'm just very annoyed.