I HATE APPLE

http://code.google.com/p/flukeformac/

yeah, that's the one (you may even have mentioned it on that other thread). dunno if it works with iPods but I have a different portable now anyway cuz of the flac issue.

Fluke didn't work well for me (files are imported into iTunes as 'Quicktime Movies' or something), but I downloaded another program that converts FLAC to Apple Lossless. Which I now seem to have lost.

I use Max to convert

http://sbooth.org/Max/

u r insane if u listen to flacs on your iphone or ipod imo

^haha, not a bad point actually

Second the recommendation for Max, though it can be a little buggy it usually gets the job done well. there's also XLD which is pretty good too

did anyone start having trouble with mail.app after upgrading to snow leopard? it hangs a lot--takes forever to check for mail, or takes forever to register something as read.

the internet tells me to re-enter my SMTP info, which seems dumb, but which i did, and it didnt do much. anyone else have this?

my internet has been absolutely terrible for the past 4 months and i've been on the fone with the cable company numerous times trying to get it fixed. someone on this board mentioned that it might be a problem with network settings on now leopard so i decided to look into it. lo and behold, deleting my network settings and recreating them has fixed the issue. while i'm glad my internet finally works smoothly again i just really have to say FUCK APPLE for these past 4 month of refreshing a webpage until it doesn't timeout EVERY SINGLE TIME i click a link.

I have a weird problem and I'm not sure if it's Firefox or what. On one of my machines, whenever I try to upload a photo somewhere (say, blogger), I'm given that option of choosing from 'photos' (I'm on snow leopard) and I also have a 'last import' selection....all annoying that I can't just navigate directly to the photo files anyway but whatever. Anyway, at some point Firefox just stopped showing the actual last import. It's showing stuff I imported weeks ago and I can't get to the newer files. It's all fine in chrome or safari. I know the answer to this is 'use chrome or safari' but it's actually my wife doing this and she won't actually listen to this reasoning, plus, I'd like to know why firefox is being so stubborn. Anyone else run across this problem? I've even upgraded Firefox to a newer version and it's still doing it.

LOLK how did u do that

Last year, Ruben Caballero, a senior engineer and antenna expert, informed Apple’s management the device’s design may cause reception problems, said the person, who is not authorized to speak on Apple’s behalf and asked not to be identified. A carrier partner also raised concerns about the antenna before the device’s June 24 release, according to another person familiar with the situation.

Apple are holding a press conference on Friday. wonder if they'll admit there's a problem or try to brazen it out.

this is reaching absurd proportions. a fucking press conference over a phone?

Well they were going to get LeBron James to talk about it but...

LOLK how did u do that

― young werther's originals (s1ocki), Sunday, July 11, 2010 11:49 PM (4 days ago)

go to the network settings prefpane, choose 'edit locations', remove the problematic location, and click the + to create a new location

having a press conference is "absurd proportions" for billions of dollars worth of underperforming hardware?

I would like to call a press conference to discuss that one pencil that wasn't sharpened properly.

press conferences are for cheating politicians, not inorganic pieces of steel and metal.

not to get all gruber, but it's not clear from the outside whether this is really underperforming hardware for more than a few. it's certainly got a lot of young single, male tech bloggers in the gizmodo comments section excited, but that happens every time there is a fault with an apple product: "omg apple has to fix this because i have no theory of mind and cannot believe this isn't their priority and they aren't issuing a global recall".

having said that: fuck apple and fuck john gruber.

cheating politicians, not inorganic pieces of steel and metal

Or they can be both (allegedly):

http://watersecretsblog.com/archives/Al%20Gore_1.jpg

loooooooool caek

lol ned

Even endgadget is saying many of their users aren't having the death grip problem, but the other day I met a woman from san francisco, visiting NY, who said even with the bumper, if she holds it with her left hand, signal goes way down.

that woman needs to stop eating nails

the one person I know with an iphone 4, who is not a big tech-head or anything, says it's pretty annoying and the calls drop all the time.

I am getting tired of all the people who always gnash their teeth about how they wouldn't buy an iPhone are using these issues as an excuse to... talk about why they wouldn't buy an iPhone.

I just have this image of a podium surrounded by microphones with an iPhone 4 at the center, and on the screen is Facetime w/ Steve Jobs

I have yet to have problems with mine

you are a liar

ooh, you got me; mine actually molested my wife and emptied my bank accounts

it told me I wouldn't tell if I knew what was good for me but I can't live under this umbrella of fear anym- oh shit, it's coming

SO LIKE I WAS SAYING MY IPHONE 4 IS AMAZING AND I CAN'T EVEN FATHOM HOW I WAS ABLE TO BREATHE BEFORE I GOT IT... okay it's gone

plz notify the police

akm did you fix your firefox prob? i had a weird one where whenever i tried to look at gmail it would refresh the page to the calendar after maybe 3 seconds. turns out its a bug in one of the addons so maybe uninstall any recent ones?

and Dan <3

i was reading about 4G the other day (the one reason i didnt get the iphone 4 because its not 4G compatible) and the article was saying sprints 4G isnt actually 4G but an enhanced 3G and real 4G is going to take replacing every transmitter in the country so ATT wont be in full 4G swing until 2011. I was all "2011?!?!?!.........oh wait. its 2010!". I lost a few years somewhere.

Also after spending 3+ hours removing malware from father-in-laws pc last night i kind of love apple right now.

i actually never did fix that. I just did what we needed to do with chrome. but what was weird was that about half an hour later, the 'last import' thing was up to date. I'm not sure why it would be days behind in one browser and up to date in another. I kind of hate how osx makes navigating directly to photos in iphoto impossible in any manner except using those shortcuts.

is there any way this thing is just going to be them announcing the usa is finally getting iphone on a functional carrier like the ROW? seems suspiciously shortly after the signal bars statement to be them revising those comments.

Yeah, especially given that iOS4.01 or whatever just arrived, with the reworked "look, your signal's fine really honest" graphs.

iPhone 4 has consistently better reception than 3G or 3GS imo so wtf with the bellyaching

Mine has been completely trouble free. I haven't been able to reproduce the death grip thing. I wonder if 4.1 will show the effect more?

and real 4G is going to take replacing every transmitter in the country so ATT wont be in full 4G swing until 2011. I was all "2011?!?!?!.........oh wait. its 2010!". I lost a few years somewhere.

Seriously though, if you want good mobile reception then move to Europe or Israel.

or kenya. i got better reception in rural kenya than i do in los angeles.

i had amazing reception in rural uganda!

africa def a total case study in cell phone infrastructure. gonna produce a lot of econ dissertations imo

leapfrogging, innit

aren't the only two major countries in the world with cdma networks the us and iraq?

vodaphone is the same co as verizon and they are in a bunch of countries. australia and germany for sure. maybe UK too? dont know if theyre all cdma though

last vzw webcast i had to watch was a huge shocker because for years they were mostly an hour of corp heads saying 'oh the iphone is nothing! its certainly not the reason we are losing 1000s customers per day' 'who needs that kind of gimmick?....LOOK AT OUR MAP!! ITS GOT LOTS OF RED! NOT LITLE BITS OF BLUE. NO, SIR! Here let me overlay the blue map and red map. WOAH, GUYS, LOOK AT ALL THAT RED!' but in the last webcast some upper corp guy proudly declared that they had approached apple and informed them that they would love to carry their phone on THE NATIONS LARGEST NETWORK just as soon as they could get around to making a cdma version.

california lolz heard all the way to jersey im sure

vodafone is uk-based. going by http://b2b.vzw.com/international/Roaming/rates_coverage.html, no commercial cdma networks anywhere in europe except ukraine. none in africa. shut off in australia ~5 years ago. understandable then that apple went with a gsm carrier even if at&t apparently the worst mobile phone network in the world in the biggest apple market in the world. i don't know how much it would cost to develop/maintain a second version of the iphone, but it would only ever be sold in the u.s., which is admittedly like 50% of their market, but is much more iphone-saturated by now than, e.g. europe or asia. i think i was reading someone speculating that apple probably has a cdma prototype to beat at&t with in negotiations/performance review meetings.

yeah I have no doubt that apple has a cdma version (ffs they kept an intel version of osx for how many years?)

I feel cell phone carriers in America are sort of given a raw deal* in that America is a really, really, really big country, and you need a TON more infrastructure to cover the entire US than almost anywhere else in the world

*lest I be construed as an AT&T apologist, here I will say AT&T enjoys molesting goats for spare change

sure, but the iphone problems are in san francisco and new york, not west texas