I HATE APPLE

Why the fuck is the antenna on the iPhone at the bottom, underneath your hand? I end up losing calls and getting no data in weak areas unless I hold it really stupidly so that the antenna is free. ffs.

I'm hoping the latest version of iTunes phones home to tell Apple how many mp3 I have that are from Amazon and eMusic and how many songs I have from their shitty store (ZERO, SUCKERS).

is it just my computer or is iPhoto a total dog since Leopard?

I'm using Leopard and iPhoto 7.1.3 and iPhoto is running fantastically (iPhoto library is 3GB, 4100 images)

hey iTunes: i don't wanting to fucking update you because then i have to restart my fucking computer every. single. time.

lol @ sad truth of worthless itunes/quicktime updates being the number one cause of OS X downtime

itunes update gave me safari for windows, which is pretty sweet

Hey, don't be so down on it. The new iTunes is really quite amazing. It seems they have found a way to utilize DAAP(tm) to prevent Macintosh users from eating too much salt, swearing in front of their parents, or waking up next to an ill-chosen partner. Incredible. What can't they prevent us from doing?

I would like to retract that last post because it is boring.

But I am wondering who else has had a story romance with the Mighty Mouse. It's really kind of a piece of crap, especially because of that "touch sensitive" button thing that works when I have my fingers in EXACTLY the right places on it, but who can put their fingers in the same place every time on a totally smooth, very gently curved bit of plastic? I guess it's cool if you never take your hand off the mouse, but that's a little vintage nowadays, isn't it? So instead I resort to forcing my fingers to the extreme edges of it to avoid the hundreds of undesirable things that happen when you accidentally push the wrong mouse button, and that's how to throw a splitter, not how to use a mouse. Would so many hearts really be broken if the mouse has TWO smooth pieces of plastic on top of it? They don't even have to be VERY distinguishable -- I don't want the moon. Just SOMEWHAT distinguishable.

And yet... that tiny 360-degree trackball. It's just perfect. I miss it when it's not there. This mouse is like an unstable girlfriend who's super hot.

stormy romance, should have said. :(

See, I don't have my nice new apple keyboard here, and life is harder without it.

that tiny 360-degree trackball. It's just perfect.
For the three months that it works, until it gums up and stops tracking down, and is impossible to clean with breaking the mouse into bits.

+out

you know, i've heard that, but mine went backwards somehow. It gummed up a lot when I first got it, and i nearly tossed the thing. But for months now it has worked perfectly. Shrug.

I'm on Mighty Mouse #2; love the customizability. My natural click-gesture is with the middle finger on the right side of the mouse, so it's nice to be able to make right side primary and left side CTRL-click side.

The scroll ball tendency to get gummed up pisses me off, and they'll really have a winner on their hands when they figure out how to make it user-cleanable or more dirtproof.

xposts

you know, i hadn't even thought about it, but i think i know why it hasn't gotten sticky on me lately: dry winter air, dry radiator heat. Now i predict that as soon as things get all sweaty again, the trackball will get all gummy again. :(

you know?

i'm going to start ever post with that from now on.

For the three months that it works, until it gums up and stops tracking down, and is impossible to clean with breaking the mouse into bits.

I've had a wireless Mighty Mouse since day one, and this method for cleaning it has been 100% effective every single time.

what exactly does the mighty mouse do?!?!?

I have a wired MM or two, and I have had no problems with gumming or clicking. One reason I use it rather than one of the approximately 30 mice and trackballs I have is that it accelerates correctly on the Mac. 3rd party mice often have huge problems with this issue.

At work, I use this:

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/3628/imageuploadimagehx1.jpg

because it's the most ergo pointing device I have ever tried.

It has like a right click and a left click but it's all invisible?

It also has middle click.

The clicks are triggered by body odor.

tom:

http://images.appleinsider.com/images/mightymouse4r.jpg

Apple will tell you that it is a 7 button mouse. I have found this claim to be somewhat tenuous.

The right click only works if you take your left finger entirely off the mouse, which is a pain. The side buttons are too hard to squeeze.

Elvis: I tried that method for cleaning mine, but it only seems to fix it for an hour or two, then I have to do it again and invariably end up killing the thing.

you know what I do with the mighty mouse? I make it just a one button mouse and control-click on things for contextual menus/right-click features. I've been doing that for years, no need to re-learn.

at home I use the Kensington Expert Mouse Trackball. Used to use the Orbit as well.

The right click only works if you take your left finger entirely off the mouse

NO DEAL

i disabled all the functions on my Mighty Mouse except the trackball.

you may as well. Yeah, I hold-click for system stuff, too, but I still attempt the tricky moves involved in rt-clicking when i'm using photoshop, etc.

has apple made a mouse that doesn't suck? in my limited experience with the hockey puck and the pro mouse they were pretty awful.

the microswitched versions of this lasted forever:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Apple-ADB-mouse.jpg/800px-Apple-ADB-mouse.jpg

woah huge

oh yeah, i do remember using that kind in school. they were pretty good.

If Logitech ever stops making their basic trackball, I'm fucked.

should i pull the trigger on this? it's the recently discontinued model w/o the multi-touch trackpad. i'm not sure about the glossy screen ...

15" MBP
2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / 2 GB
200 GB HD @ 7200 rpm
glossy / LED

$1249

No

y not

because you could buy this instead?

http://www.psystar.com/index.php?&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=1&category_id=3&manufacturer_id=4&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=72

which is no doubt lol illegal

i like the mighty mouse :) apart from its ability to eat batteries :(

I hate Mighty Mouse :(

i like the mighty mouse :) apart from its ability to eat batteries :(

Get rechargeables

my mum stole them all for her 'back massager'

should i pull the trigger on this? it's the recently discontinued model w/o the multi-touch trackpad. i'm not sure about the glossy screen ...

15" MBP
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / 2 GB / w/ 256 vram
200 GB HD @ 7200 rpm
glossy / LED

$1599

or i could get a matte screen for $1649

matte's the way uh huh uh huh i like it but fuck glossy DOES look pretty nice. i noticed this using my friend's computer the other day.

and unless you're doing colour-intensive design/photo stuff the saturation won't get in your way.

i am doing very stuff: word processing, making very simple webpages, keynote, playing w/ photos, blogging, emailing, etc

please advice

I find glossy to be mildly annoying.

I haven't checked, but is it easier to wipe stuff off glossy? I'm good at setting down drinks and getting droplets on the screen, sneezing in the vicinity, leaving it open and getting dust all over. Matte wipes off fine but I'm always worried about pushing too hard and wrecking the thing.

Yes, glossy is much more resistant to that kind of thing. If you use any kind of solvent -- e.g., Windex -- you can damage the screen. With glossy, you are a bit less limited.