New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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

i know it's hard for you to press another two button combo

your understanding comforts me, cutty

;)

It's too early to be reading this.

It's 7pm where I am, Ned. Time to drink a beer and reminisce about our days together in management consulting.

That does have an appeal. The beer part.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f7a03edbd7/pee-wee-gets-an-ipad

somebody needs to rip off take inspiration from the lemur and make it an ipad app. and let it work over bluetooth. wondering if jazzmutant will do it themselves, out of fear of being undercut.

dumbest response I've seen yet:
http://kotaku.com/5458822/why-the-ipad-is-crap-futurism

Reinventing The Television

Apple is marketing the iPad as a computer, when really it's nothing more than a media-consumption device - a convergence television, if you will. Think of it this way: One of the fundamental attributes of computers is that they are interactive and reconfigurable. You can change the way a computer behaves at a very deep level. Interactivity on the iPad consists of touching icons on the screen to change which application you're using. Hardly more interactive than changing channels on a TV. Sure, you can compose a short email or text message; you can use the Brushes app to draw a sketch. But those activities are not the same thing as programming the device to do something new. Unlike a computer, the iPad is simply not reconfigurable."

sigh kotaku

what a tard.

apple is being clear _not_ to market this thing as a computer: "The best way to experience the web, email, photos"

Jobs rallies the Apple troops

Steve Jobs held a town hall meeting at Apple late last week following the iPad launch to field questions from Apple's employees about the launch. Wired reports on what was said at the meeting by Steve Jobs. Two of the big topics included Google and Adobe.

On Google, Jobs confirms the much-reported competition between the two companies.

Quote:
On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says.

As for Adobe, Jobs said they are lazy and Jobs blames Adobe for a buggy implementation of Flash on the Mac as one of the reasons they won't support it.

Quote:
Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.
Those are the main points covered by Wired's article. We had received a more detailed report of the Apple meeting, but hadn't been able to corroborate it until now. Many of the details of the Wired report line up with our anonymous submission, so we believe it likely to be accurate. Some additional key points that we learned:

- Apple will deliver aggressive updates to iPhone that Android/Google won't be able to keep up with
- iPad is up there with the iPhone and Mac as the most important products Jobs has been a part of
- Regarding the Lala acquisition, Apple was interested in bringing those people into the iTunes team
- Next iPhone coming is an A+ update
- New Macs for 2010 are going to take Apple to the next level
- Blu-Ray software is a mess, and Apple will wait until sales really start to take off before implementing it.

- Next iPhone coming is an A+ update

when is this incoming? march?

it's typically June or July. doubt it'll be sooner, conflicting w/iPad

you know what would be awesome - integrated dictionary app for iPad. for the iBooks thingy. hover your finger over a word and the definition pops up. does this exist on other eBook readers?

you know what would be awesome - integrated dictionary app for iPad. for the iBooks thingy. hover your finger over a word and the definition pops up. does this exist on other eBook readers?

In OS X (think it's 10.5 and later), hold down cmd-ctrl-d and hover over a word. (you have to be in a Cocoa app for this to work). Hopefully, something like this will filter down to iBooks

Or just select the word, right click and choose "look up in dictionary"

doesn't work in either chrome or ff :(

cocoa only

which is very annoying; hope apple builds dictionary.app into iPhone os 4.0 and context look up etc etc

ooh did not know that dictionary trick, awesome

try ctrl-alt-cmd+8 next

whoa

known that one for yearssssssss

(my mom's vision impaired and reversing the color makes reading much easier)

your moms so vision impaired she uses ctrl-alt-cmd+8 on a regular basis!!!!

No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.

Ok, this is like the third or fourth time I've read this from the Apple camp. I've been making websites in Flash for around ten years now but just doing it freelance/learning on my own time/etc. Would I be able to do the same kind of script-based animation controls in HTML5? Does anyone here have any experience with the two and would it be relatively easy to pick up HTML5 for someone that has 10 years experience with Flash (3 all the way up to CS3)?

'Relatively easy' in the sense that given a weekend I was recently able to learn Actionscript 3. I'm no programmer tho!

i'm pretty sure you can use the CANVAS tag to do a lot of that. IANAFD though. This article's a good intro -

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/get-ready-for-html-5/

Apple is saying this in the hope that if they say it enough times it will happen. One thing that is lacking is a set of development tools to rival Adobe's flash offerings. Flash may well be a heap of junk* but it is easy to develop for and there is massive installed based of developers.

Apple may of course be able to do something along these lines, add something to Xcode, but it hasn't shown any sign of this. Google could do something along these lines. I find it very interesting that HTML 5 has been Google's route to getting voice onto the iPhone and I saw an interesting piece (wired or Ars, I forget) saying that the future of apps for devices like these is cloud based and using HTML 5 rather than through Apple's walled garden model.

*When Steve Jobs says that Mac crashes are more often than not caused by Flash, he is not wrong, I don't think I've had a crash caused by anything else recently.

Yeah Flash is actually a whole lot of fun to develop sometimes because it feels more like making and animation than making a website...

most of these seem to work on my copy of Firefox -

http://html5demos.com/

clearly it has no future as a mechanism for playing videos. and for more complex stuff, there may be no alternative for now, and there are a lot of developers who would like to see it stay, but in a future where the majority of casual users (and who else uses flash-driven sites) cannot see your site, does that even matter?

Dashcode is quietly getting better and better; it's not what you're talking about, but if they felt the need they could turn it into one. Or Adobe could sense what's happening and work on HTML5 tools, instead of betting on IE never changing.

During his Q&A Jobs was apparently also getting wistful about the old, good Adobe, back when they rocked. If Adobe could go through an Apple-style recovery it'd be amazing. Right now, it's packed solid with lose and Macromedia people with chips on their shoulders, though. xxp

it is absolutely insane to me that there is still no good, affordable multitrack audio editor for apple macintosh computers

adobe has people who get it, and if they can spread the attitude that created lightroom, particularly among the ex-macromedia divisions, then i don't think a turnaround from being microsoft-but-with-cs-instead-of-office, i.e. a return to relevance, is out of the question.

At this point I wouldn't mind even Silverlight gaining more traction, just on reliability grounds, but again I'm not sure if it does much other than playing videos.

http://www.betalogue.com/images/uploads/adobe/Adobe-Updater-Details.gif

Mr Hand, I thought it had disappeared when we last spoke, but it still seams to exist. Have you checked out MOTU audiodesk?