Hate Growl. Apple goes to extraordinary lengths to make the OS intuitive and useable and Growl goes and turns the whole thing into Windows XP.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Hate Growl x2.
― I am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
It beats bouncing dock icons, imo
― mh, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I hide my dock most of the time. I use MoofMenu to put a pulldown menu of my most used apps so I can open apps from the menu bar like the good old days.
And I use Mailplane for my gmail, which puts a pulldown menu in the menu bar with an icon that changes color and ads a badge for emails.
I also use iTunes menu so whatever is playing at the time appears in the menu bar.
I only occasionally need to drag a file onto an application folder in the dock.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
hate growl x3, but iscrobbler (and some other apps?) insist on it
― .\ /. (dayo), Thursday, 2 December 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
yah tinygrab uses it and tinygrab is my new fav so
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 2 December 2010 06:13 (thirteen years ago) link
dan i like your style
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 December 2010 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I still don't under stand why Mac never thought it was a good idea to have a task bar so that you can switch between windows of open programs without havin g to close every window on top or go hunting for the window you want. Also isn't it funny to think as has been pointed out, if you actually filled an ipod classic with music you legally bought , how much you would have spent? HAHa. Also, fuck this shit about being able to read but not write to NTFS!
― Latham Green, Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
lol ntfs
― caek, Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:12 (thirteen years ago) link
ice cram, how do i shot tinygrab
― .\ /. (dayo), Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
u can find it here http://tinygrab.com
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
seems real cool, don't wanna buy it
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
it is free tho
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't want to buy it
― caek, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
u have to buy it, its the law
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
seems cool, not buying it tho
― caek, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
its cool, i bought it for you
http://tinygrab.com/static/images/logo.png
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
thx bro
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
np
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
how does the apple student discount work when ordering online? do you need an NUS no.? and I presume you can get one on the air (I know you couldn't on the ipad)
― mo loko (cozen), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
you need a university IP.
― caek, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
air discount prices
http://i.min.us/ibgZkc.png
― caek, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
you need a university IP.― caek, Thursday, December 2, 2010 3:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
― caek, Thursday, December 2, 2010 3:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
weird. here you just click the option that says "i'm a student" and it takes you into the educational store. and when i bought something at an actual apple store with my student discount they didn't even check an ID or ask for any confirmation, they just took me at my word.
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
uk discount is bigger and involves government tax law, so they're a bit stricter
― caek, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
it's pretty easy to get though. i must have bought ten macbooks for friends.
just select 'education store' then 'school or any other education establishment', they never check
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
ahhh, clever
so if I (or a friend) can order from a uni IP that's sufficient? ie no student matric card check on delivery?
― mo loko (cozen), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
depends on exchange rather, but an education discounted mac is sometimes cheaper in the uk than the us, and it comes with nearly free applecare.
cozen, no. there's never a check once the order is placed in my experience.
― caek, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
"rather" = "rate" (drunk)
uni discount is 15% DG, which is a lot bigger than the 'school etc' discount
― mo loko (cozen), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
cool, thanks. that should be easy enough to sort out.
― mo loko (cozen), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i take what i can get!
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
lol not sure I know any students anymore now I come to think of it
― mo loko (cozen), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.screampubs.co.uk/
― caek, Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://grab.by/7HIT
<will.i.am>whatcha gonna do with all that ipads</will.i.am>
― .\ /. (dayo), Friday, 3 December 2010 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
tinygrab is not working out for me, h8 u tinygrab
― .\ /. (dayo), Friday, 3 December 2010 09:50 (thirteen years ago) link
did you pay for it?
― caek, Friday, 3 December 2010 09:54 (thirteen years ago) link
you have to pay to unlock the "tinygrab" feature
no, do I need to wait for ice cram to buy it for me :(
― .\ /. (dayo), Friday, 3 December 2010 09:57 (thirteen years ago) link
"I'm going to get mugged and file sinurance papaer"
― Latham Green, Friday, 3 December 2010 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
sry tinygrab didnt work, heres a free box of ipads
― ice cr?m, Friday, 3 December 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
tinygrab is amazing
although they added ads without warning to even people who'd paid :(
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually found out abt tinygrab by clicking thought on a pic u posted!
― ice cr?m, Friday, 3 December 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
do you have an apple store nearby? they should be able to replace it on the spot. just back it up before you go.― joe, Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:48 (5 days ago)
I took it to the nearby apple store. They replaced it on the spot. I backed it up before I went. Happy days are here again.
― Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 3 December 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Next question:I've got Windows Calendar on my PC, which doesn't sync with the iphone. Is it possible to download some software that will sync with the phone (i.e. some kind of appple calendar thing, or will their stuff only work on macs)? Preferably something free, obviously.
― Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 4 December 2010 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I use google calendar.
― sofatruck, Saturday, 4 December 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
having said that, i'm on a mac and I think gcal syncs with the apple calendar, which then syncs with my iphone, so maybe thats not a solution.
― sofatruck, Saturday, 4 December 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
im sure there some middle ware thingy thatll do the job
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 4 December 2010 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
You can make Google Calendar sync directly w/iPhone. They have an Exchange server mode, and you'll even get your calendar items pushed to the phone. Pretty smooth.
― mh, Saturday, 4 December 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
there's something called nuevasync that I used to use to sync google calendar with ical via exchange mode. I can't remember why that was needed but it was. Now the service costs money and I never look at my calendar mobil-y anyway. Thing was I have an iPod touch, no iphone, and the idea was to sync so I could pull out the ipod and see if I was busy on a certain day.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 4 December 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link