New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

yuright.

Apple TV update! Adding airplay to this thing might alleviate (not eliminate) the main problem I have with that futching interface.

What, the old school one or the new one?

it removes checkboxes?

can i say hell yes to these updates:

• Find text on the web page in Safari
• New fonts setting available for Notes

finally done with that notes font!

come on multifunctionality, get in my gadget

xp to stet: New one. Adds voiceover, too.

My fave - Get Find My iPhone without having to sign up for MobileMe. Could have used it a week ago when my iPhone was stolen...

6hrs to download the update, i think I'll wait

damn, are you on dialup? took me a few minutes

It's all gone slow but someone pointed me in the direction of these handy direct links:

http://shadez.tumblr.com/post/1649909087/ios421epoch

Must be different servers, because the download estimate is now 2hrs instead of 7.

After download, you put the file in "~/Library/iTunes/iPad Software Updates" folder (or iPhone Software Updates if its for iPhone) and connect your device and it should update.

How do u search for text on a safari page? Btw is it me or does the keypad look a bit different?

My download took 5 minutes for the first 440meg but the last 100Mb or so has been downloading for over an hour.

How do u search for text on a safari page?

was wondering this myself.

Do like a google search, look at the bottom of the suggested searches. Boom.

that's kinda weak

Counterintuitive but w/e. Might have helped to call the box 'search' rather than google

Early days but I thunk this update has fixed iPad Safari's infuriating habit of reloading web pages you've got in the background when you return to them.

Thunk = think.

Shame it's still a pisser to type on. I actually think it's because - in landscape mode at least - the keys are too big, or too far apart.

Great to be able to play Spotify and Fstream in the background at last.

Ha, WTF? I knew Apple was changing the switch to be a mute switch instead of orientation lock, but it doesn't actually mute anything! It just shows a mute symbol on the screen but all sound continues as usual. Thought it maybe didn't work on third party apps but just tried it on the iPod app and still ... nothing. Bizarre.

still cross about that.

Yeah, but does your mute button actually mute?

I'm not actually that bothered about orientation being a software switch, as I always found the physical switch quite fiddly to find with my cl,sy fingers and stupid brain. But I do object to the switch now doing nothing at all.

can't tell you -- still not upgrading till they cave. Or I do.

Come on in, the water's mostly fine. Not noticed sluggishness as a result of multitasking yet.

Slightly annoyingly, app switching to my Twitter client of choice, Osfoora, still seems to suffer from the same two-second lag before displaying my timeline that it has when launching it from scratch. Maybe it just needs a 4.2 update.

I'm sold on the new Twitter client now they've fixed some of the dafter UI stuff. I like the layers a lot.

Yeah, it's pretty good, especially with the notifications it now has. But it's missing a few things. When I view someone's profile, I like that Osfoora tells me whether they are following me or not. And, being ego-crazed, I like having access to "My tweets, retweeted".

yeah, odd it doesn't have the followback status -- the iPhone one does. It has yr tweets retweeted too, but doesn't tell you who by!

I can't find yr tweets retweeted. Where have they hidden it?

Profile > retweets > my tweets, rtd.. (iPhone only, like the follow back status)

Ah, yeah, iPhone only.

As someone who primarily uses the iPad for displaying reference images for painting, I am pretty pissed about the loss of the orientation lock. That is all.

Really nice to have quick access to brightness on that panel where the orientation lock is.

Wow, a hell of a lot less chequerboarding when I scroll through long web pages. I'm really surprised how much better this update makes the iPad.

jeff, it's not lost, just changed to a software thing instead of a hardware one.

That said, it's still a loss in a way. IMO the reason the switch makes sense on the iPhone is because switching whether the ringer/speaker is on is one of the top phone functions. Really, this just makes me think that having audio alerts on the iPad is going to be more common, which I don't really need.

that's true, it is not lost. but now it's an annoying minor process, especially when i am constantly doing it because i have to rotate the ipad a lot based on what i am working on. will probably add a minute or two of tedium to my day. i will take this one for the team so that each person who is constantly muting and unmuting their ipad will be able to save 5 seconds each day.

This really is one of Apple's dumber decisions. I know Jobs is pathologically scared of buttons but the orientation lock was put there for a reason. Oh btw from December the accelerator on all Mazda cars will suddenly become the radio on/off button. Ridiculous. I don't have an iPad btw.

makes literally nil sense

yo aa which linux tablet u recommend

But Apple has been partial to some pretty awful design decisions lately (iPod Nano Touch, new iPod Shuffle, Game Centre fit-out).

xp I suspect that is a zing but couldn't and wouldn't advise buying a Linux tablet regardless.

i blame steve jobs for these awful design decisions

going to "uncheck" apple from the "playlist" of companies i respect

i blame steve jobs for these awful design decisions

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The dumber ones (except iPad switch) do seem to have happened around the time jobso was sick.

what a disaster for apple

(somebody had to)

I actually find the orientation lock a pain in the ass to use when the iPad is in a case (both figuring out where it is + fitting my finger between the edges of the case) so double-clicking the home button is preferable. Also brightness control there is great too.

My guess is they'll get rid of the physical button altogether in the next revision, since a mute switch on the ipad is pretty much useless, considering you can just hold down the volume button for a sec.

alright some freelance ass ilxor pitch a story abt jeff painting from an ipad, lets all scratch each others backs

prob with doing the hardware lock button in software is the damn thing moves. So if you're in the wrong orientation you need to chase it around. Compared to the hardware one, where you can move the iPad and lock/relock as you go.