New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

I'm also getting a kind of 'nintendo wii' vibe from this
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GDcK6VtL4g4/Safaa6DRfyI/AAAAAAAAACY/rEXANAiTzqY/s400/08.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/oRffH.jpg

Guess what? It has more than one, one user specific and one system-wide. I think it's all bullshit.

I am with you an a lot of what you're saying, but I don't see any real alternative here, unless you want a single-user machine.

Sounds good to me.

Cozen if you deleted yr downloads from the dock and didn't know it was in the home folder wouldn't you just Spotlight for it?

but i'm sure with a little imagination there's another way to handle this stuff. How about there's only one library, only one font folder etc etc, and each user has their own prefs and when an application is booting it knows what user is logged in and looks at their preferences. It shouldn't be as messy as it is.

yeah, that's what I said

spotlight rules

xp so rather than something like the filesystem, you're advocating some kind of database to store preferences and configuration?

also 500% of the the problem with this in creative suite is adobe's fault. per-user stuff involves nowhere near this much confusion in almost any other application (including lightroom)

going back to content distribution: it's tantalizing to restrict the ways we can work with files, so that it can all be monetized better. The question is whether it's made appealing enough so that people want to do it rather than doing things the old way (cf. Netflix on xbox, xbox originals). The app store seems to do this because enough apps kick ass on the iPhone.

and Apple also gets, as it were, to outsource development partly without entirely giving up quality control by controlling the app store so tightly...and these companies pay Apple for each sale they make! It's a great deal for Apple!

hitler vid's up btw but it's underwhelming

I think Apples philosophy for several years now has been "we'll kind of make it simple and easy for novices to use so long as they don't fuck around with stuff too much, and the pro users will do what they want anyway, so why bother designing software and/or and interface for them?"

OTM. This is why (and I can't believe I'm writing this) I'm enjoying my Lenovo Win7 laptop at work more than my MacBook at home these days...

hitler vid's up btw but it's underwhelming

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:41 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u should do a hitler vid about it

http://gawker.com/5458812/collage-of-shame-media-who-took-obvious-ipad-prank-seriously

Small bit of info from the 3.2 SDK docs. (reported here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/ars-ipad-reax.ars/3 - I'm not busting NDAs)

One of the benefits of iWork on the Mac is that content from one app can be easily included in documents for the others. For instance, you could include a chart based on data from a Numbers spreadsheet in a Keynote presentation. When that data is updated in the spreadsheet, the chart can be automatically updated in Keynote. If documents were sequestered away from each other on the iPad, you wouldn't be able to do this. Furthermore, how would you get your iWork files onto the iPad for editing, and how would you get files created on the iPad back to your Mac?

Thankfully, Apple has addressed this in the iPad-only iPhone OS 3.2. The documentation for the SDK indicates that it uses a "shared folder" that any iPad application can read and write. This shared folder will also mount as a disk whenever an iPad is plugged in to a Mac or PC, allowing easy file transfer.

I'm very curious about iPhone OS 4.0. I suspect that feature set (whatever it is) will induce a fair amount of crow-eating in iPad detractors.

such as? multi tasking?

iFrot

icrowkitchen

Pretty sure there isn't going to be multitasking, tbh. Do expect some kind of live widgets on that clearly underdesigned homescreen -- no way you get a full-screen weather widget, for instance.

You could get some kind of dashboard for desk accessories, too: double tap home to bring down overlay.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2010/01/iphone_home.jpg

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=179957&d=1246335195

got this on my iphone like two minutes ago

got what?

John Appleseed? fuck him he's holding you back. 'sounds great' my ass.

also Anna's gonna dump you.

in mexico

nah she's going to mexico with paul. emily knows all about it.

cutty: the app, pictured above my post

what is it called pray tell?

it is called jailbreaking yr phone and getting an app called "lockinfo"

NB - sms notification does not appear to work, i tried it out from google voice

Adobe's Flash Developer Blog on the iPad

It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. Unlike many other ebook readers using the ePub file format, consumers will not be able to access ePub content with Apple's DRM technology on devices made by other manufacturers. And without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70% of games and 75% of video on the web.

If I want to use the iPad to connect to Disney, Hulu, Miniclip, Farmville, ESPN, Kongregate, or JibJab -- not to mention the millions of other sites on the web -- I'll be out of luck.

So wait a second here. The examples you're using are Hulu (which as I said earlier is going to be irrelevant soon), ESPN (which already has it's own iPhone app), and fucking FARMVILLE? That piece of shit that spams everyone on Facebook and Twitter? BWAHAHAHAHA!

If I wasn't so dependent on Illustrator and InDesign I'd delete all Adobe apps right now.

Hulu is going to be a non-entity exactly one day after they start charging for subscriptions. They haven't set a day for this other than "sometime in 2010" but that will be the end of it.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:54 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

If comcast don't detonate it first

lol jibjab

where will i get my biting political satire now

I actually don't mind lack of multitasking, as the things I do rarely require realtime. but it is nice to use safari while making a phone call ON IPHONE or whatever

also I just tried to use time machine for the first time and it didn't work. also my coffee was awful today. FUCK YOU JOBS

time machine has saved my ass a bunch of times!

I'd love to delete all adobe apps but then I'd be SUPER broke. I'll switch back to Freehand and Quark and make really messed up PDFs.

Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing Apple Tablet

CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple's new tablet computer. "Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you're running out of time," the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray. "Okay, yeah, this will work. This will definitely work. Just need to write 'tablet' on this little strip of masking tape here and I'm golden. Oh, come on, you piece of shit! Just stick already!" Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer.

if you put your documents outside of Documents, Spotlight won't search it

spotlight only searches inside your documents folder??

I exaggerate. It also searches Applications, System Preferences, Music, Movies ... check Spotlight Preferences to see the whole list.

But it does not, for example, search ~/Library/, and there's no way to make it search that or any other random folder not part of the default list. Annoying!

Ok, playing around ... it seems to search your whole home folder *apart* from Library, which makes sense for 99% of users. Still, wish I could change that.

aha i see. yes that sucks. but not as much as i thought it did

Geeky ideas for iPad: I know this is going to make iPad seem even more lol California/Segway, but mind maps! Multitouch makes iPad even better than pen and paper for this.

Really any sort of graph (I mean a connected set of nodes, not a chart - org charts, process diagrams ... ) would be fun to make with this.

but mind maps!

It's too early to be reading this.

spotlight searches desktop too im pretty sure

oh wait that's in home folder

*blushes violently*

guys you can search the entirety of the hard drive with the search (apple-f) function

yeah i know - i always use Cmd-space though