I HATE APPLE

Different Gamma for Mac and windows, innit. I hate adjusting my photos on the mac and finding that they don't look nearly as rich in Windows, yes I could switch my Mac into washed out windows mode but I don't want to.

windows gamma used to be much darker - did that change at some point?

render color correctly

I get what you're saying, but this last bit is pretty meaningless.

for web design maybe, but not meaningless for print

Not what I was getting at. There is no absolute measure of the human perception of colour. You can do what you like to calibrate every device in the chain (paper, ink, screen, ambient lighting conditions), but you're never going to be able to define "correct" because everyone's eyes are different.

Is there any absolute measure of the human perception of anything?

folks, just wanted to chime in that i have changed my mind. safari blows & i hate apple.

caek i don't understand - even if i'm color-blind, a puce green on a calibrated CRT is going match the output of a calibrated printer better than an LCD will, even if i see that color as "red"

new version of itunes sucks ass and the gui keeps redrawing wrong (no scrollbars)

How do I know that what I see as "orange" doesn't look bright green to you? Answer: irrelevant. That's what color profiles are all about -- yannow, like when Photoshop starts bugging you about that and you hit cancel a buncha times. (I do too.) "US Web Coated (SWOP) v2" is trying to compare the color against what, to the best of its knowledge, printed material will look like coming out of a printing press made by the U.S. Web company (confusing name), on coated paper, using a standard ink set known as SWOP. Version two. I guess.

So in a way, you're totally right: your monitor color doesn't mean a thing.

But Tracer otm: it's not meaningless. The difference is in the contrast and the blackness of the black, which kinda has everything to do with the rest of the color, relatively. Check out what your LCD monitor right now thinks is the blackest black it's got, and then imagine you're the best man at a wedding, and that's the color tie you have to wear with your tux.

Different Gamma for Mac and windows, innit.

Yeah. You can do like I do, though -- set the gamma to PC standard, turn down the brightness, and sit in the dark enjoying the warm reddish glow of PC-like pixels. (Really, with a mac and a pc monitor sitting next to each other, it's easy to see that the mac color is way too "cool.")

SWOP = Standard Web Offset Press

Yeah, whatever, print boy. ;)

Careful Kenan, us print boys have better weapons than you do. (folders, cutters, stitchers, etc)

Hydraulic Guillotines

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You use your full real name for your iPod? I change mine like the name of a non-beloved cat. Right now it's "Loverboy Hercules."

you have a smart playlist for that kompakt 100 comp?

and he wastes valuable space with unused "TV Shows" and "Movies" playlists! ha! indeed, ha ha!

wtf is going on with yr Quicktime install that the system can't open Tiffs any more?

probably didn't reboot after the itunes/quicktime update, they're serious about that shit sometimes

I did reboot :D

just saying, because I had about four updates to do yesterday and I picked all but quicktime since it'd take a reboot, then when I reopened iTunes it was all like "Man, some stuff is just not going to work since you haven't updated QuickTime yet" but I had no issues.

sonned by quicktime in a tiff

today my powerbook g4 told me that i didn't have a soundcard installed at all, err OK

i rebooted and guess what, it had forgotten all about it! aw bless

how do you remove the "movies" and "tv shows" playlist things?

I second that question. I just googled it and got a million and one results for making your movie playlists way more awesome. Uh huh.

uh, i think i just hit "delete"?? i have an old version of itunes though

Yeah the latest update calls your mother and tells her you've been bad if you try that.

it's in preferences or view prefs or something....you can totally modify the source list.

ugh. Yeah, I'm an idiot. It's a frickin' checkbox under Preferences, first tab that pops up. However, I only noticed this after I had wasted 30 minutes combing through the most LOL HUEG plist file that man or beast hath ever laid eyes on, surely a work of the devil himself, only to suffer humiliating defeat and THEN discover the checkbox, which I am beginning to suspect was not there before, but appeared only to laugh and point at me and say "Haha, way to go there, Mister poweruser!"

I'm awesome.

wow @ ical / leopard mail integration ... i just figured this out

prefs -> general -> show -> uncheck 'tv shows' (useless) and 'movies' (useless)

czn: if you don't use the movies playlist, how are you getting movies on to your iPhone/touch (can't remember which you have)? sure, you could drag 'em on manually, but ... i dunno, i quite like the automaticity of it.

(although: most of the things that live in my "movies" playlist are actually episodes of "the wire", so ... go figure.)

visual hub + sync selected movies... I haven't synced since I (just) removed the movies playlist... will I have difficulties then?

ach, not really. if you did, it'd be nothing you couldn't work around in a minute.

wow @ ical / leopard mail integration ... i just figured this out

Seriously cool shit!

In other news I just traded in my practically new iMac for a new MacBook due to travel/portability reasons. I am feeling very happy about it so far. There was always something about that iMac that was too ... big, or too much like a real computer. I love being back in Lego computer land.

i got a macbook pro today - discontinued 2.6 ghz 15" w/ 4gb ram ($2000). i'm not too concerned about the multi-touch trackpad but it's a shame that i'm only getting 256 mb VRAM and a 4 mb L2 cache. so much for "hardcore gaming".

Anyone who has been missing tunneling/forwarding in 10.5 should download this:

http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/tuntap/

and install OpenSSH 5.0. Seems to have fixed my issues, at least.

OMFG somebody please tell me why when I try to change the name of a file in the finder it times out on me, like it thinks I hit return and am finished? WHY? I tried messing with the key repeat rate but that's not it. Is there a preference for this? Is this a bug?

Also Mail keeps quitting.

Other than those things I love Leopard.

Guess it's high time to check software updates for protools and the ilk.

I've only really experienced two bugs

1) sometimes it's very slow to wake up. when it does wake up, the trackpad is jerky. like i move my finger and it responds 2-3 seconds late. if i open the airport control the whole thing crashes. from what i gather it's a well-known but not explained issue, like the 10.4 bug where the speaker balance moved hard-left for no reason after hibernating.

2) all of my mail (in all of my mail folders) disappears for no reason at all.

btw i am super happy w/ this new 15" laptop. can't really imagine it being any faster w/ a bigger l2 cache or another 256 on the video card. who uses that stuff anyway?

Anyone else find that DVD Player just doesn't work under Leopard?
No matter what disc I put in my G4 Powerbook, as soon as DVD Player opens I get a spinning beachball and the only way to recover is to force a shutdown.
I'm using VLC to watch the same discs on the same machine, so it's got to be a problem with DVD Player.

dan i think that happens when the attributes of another file/folder in that directory change at the same time that that you're typing the new name of the file/folder; i.e. if something's downloading in the same directory and you're trying to rename something else, it keeps losing focus. i consider that a bug. however i THINK if everything is static it lets you wait as long as you want?

treefell i always use VLC to watch DVDs because i need to change the aspect ratio to make it work on my TV, which DVD Player can't do (= it is lame)

nah-there's nothing else going on in those directories. It's really sudden and random, and very frustrating.

Dan, I have this happen to me on network drives I think. I think it has to do with the access time changing when Finder descends into the subdirectory to generate previews (QuickLook) for images, mp3s, etc.

yeah i was going to say it's a network drive thing too. but then i couldn't think of why that would be.

trefell: it's probably the DVD Player's perference file (where it keeps track of which discs you've watched) is corrupt. Trash it and see.

I'm not on a network. This is happening on my own harddrives. I'll live with it.

i hate sh*t like that though, there's no rhyme or reason to it. for the record this DOESN'T happen to me.