New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

max mini

xp yes but I think we have moved from from helping max in a useful way and bickering about media centres.

and to

apple tv is a lil more fluid than roku but roku has more stuff, havent used the others

converting all these avis to mp4 for my dad via handbreak was sort of a pain in the ass - itunes org scheme is p nice once its set up tho

1) playlist called "not ipod". put stuff you previously unchecked in there.
2) smart playlist which is all of your library except tracks on "not ipod"
3) sync this smart playlist to ipod.

in future, instead of unchecking/checking you move stuff in and out of "not ipod".

and now you can play your entire library on your apple tv.

― caek, Sunday, 21 November 2010 11:34 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Just did this. I am indeed a moron for not doing it sooner and in the future will buy you one (1) caek.

think i decided to go with the roku instead.

Just did this. I am indeed a moron for not doing it sooner and in the future will buy you one (1) caek.

― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac), Monday, December 13, 2010 3:17 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

spirit of christmas right there

ayo : )

Wish I could set some sort of router-level QoS for AirPlay. Having to kill all downloads/xfrs every time I want to play music through the Apple TV.

Can't you, if your router supports that?

Sorry, by 'could' I meant 'knew what I had to do in order to'. There's a QoS section in the router's menu thingy but it might as well be written in Arabic.

If Enable QoS checkbox is selected, choose a default DSCP mark to automatically mark incoming traffic without reference to a particular classifier.
If Enable Qos checkbox is not selected, all QoS will be disabled for all interfaces.
The default DSCP mark is used to mark all egress packets that do not match any classification rules.
In ATM mode, maximum queues can be configured: 16
In PTM mode, maximum queues can be configured: 8
For each Ethernet interface, maximum queues can be configured: 4
If you disable WMM function in Wireless Page, queues related to wireless will not take effects.

http://www.anatomorphex.com/picts/shatter/FX013_EXPLODING_HEAD.jpg

hahaha, that looks like the stuff that was on my parents' router after my friend put a "good" firmware on it

high on features, low on comprehensibility

If there were an option that said 'MAKE ITUNES SHIT PLAY THROUGH APPLE TV WITHOUT STOPPING ALL THE FUCKING TIME' I would just tick it.

I think that is the main feature of Apple's own wireless gear, that it has that ticked by default.

According to research I did yesterday loads of people with Airport thingoes have the same problem.

Are they using 802.11n? If so, seems pretty messed up that it's saturating the network.

Yep.

Mac App Store opens 6th January US time, according to Steve Jobs who was 'speaking through a press release'.

I wonder if that's like 'talking through your arse'

I am stoked for this btw. Guessing it will have a huge impact on Mac software sales and availability.

I wonder if that's like 'talking through your arse'

Genuine lol.

yeah thinking this will be v good for mac development xp

Even it only makes buying things easier (no manual credit card payments etc.). Impulse purchases on the iPhone are ridiculously easy to do because you don't have to jump through those hoops every time.

Best case: developers and publishers will find a market for apps that didn't exist, and programs will drop in price due to more sales.

Worst case: Half of the garbage from the iOS app store shows up on Mac OS poorly ported, or the people who can barely get their apps to compile but somehow got approved start releasing a million shitty applications

both those things will happen ime

yep

In the longer term, do people see this as a step towards a world where you can only install App Store apps and have to jailbreak your Mac to put non-authorised software on it?

Ultimately yes, but jailbreaking will always be viable and easy.

Nah, I really don't want that. Psychologically, feeling like an OUTLAW living in fear of the bricking sheriff doesn't appeal to me.

Bah, as long as these people implement geographical restrictions I will never have any guilt about jailbreaking anything.

It's not guilt, it's just not wanting to have something else to worry about (ie things not working because I've jailbroken it)

OS X isn't ever going to be locked out like that without major changes, but I could see the Apple seal of approval being a big factor in your success.

I'm wondering how long until Adobe or Microsoft has a "rival" app that's mostly a website wrapper with just their crap for buying their applications.

Yeh, there's no way they lock down OS X -- Microsoft and Adobe would never wear it, for one thing.

I dunno, I can see there being a hard distinction between home users of computers (iOS, probably a MBA-like iPad with a keyboard) and business users (full OS X but heaps expensive) in 3-4 years.

Yeh, there's no way they lock down OS X -- Microsoft and Adobe would never wear it, for one thing.

Why not? They might not like it, but Adobe don't much like Apple keeping Flash out of iOS either.

Yeah, good point: when recently has Apple bent over backwards for anyone? Apple's used to calling the shots and everyone else is used to doing what they're told. Look at the whole Flash thing.

(I'm not talking the near future, btw, I'm thinking maybe 5 years time? When perhaps the OS isn't OS X at all)

(oops, xp on the flash thing)

feel like in the long run industry standard for all devices will be jailbreaking as a native switch

They're not going to give them 30% cut for the price of Office or Creative Suite-- It's bad enough they have to give them a huge cut to sell the physical boxes in Apple Stores. And Adobe are never, ever going to ship a copy of Photoshop without DRM again (which you *must* do on the App Store).

While an iPad without Flash is a pretty great thing, a Mac without Office, Creative Suite, etc etc is barely competitive with a PC. They'd cave, just like they did with Carbon, because the big software companies would both not make their apps available and then sue.

I can totally see iOS-style laptops/big touch devices in the future, yes. But they'll be selling general-purpose computers too, and you'll be able to install software from anywhere on them. They'll shove the Mac app store hard, but this it wont be exclusive. For one thing, it isn't intended for selling £1200 applications; it's designed to create a £3 app market. Final Cut and the other pro apps aren't going to be on it, for instance.

have heard photoshop cs5 for mac sucks massively, can anybody else confirm?

Everything since 5.0 sucks, tbh.

it has some pretty amazing new features but its def comically bloated and disjointed and just not up on the zeitgeist - havent really used it enough to say definitively tho tbh

For one thing, it isn't intended for selling £1200 applications; it's designed to create a £3 app market. Final Cut and the other pro apps aren't going to be on it, for instance.

I wouldn't be surprised if even that changed, especially if the developers/publishers see it as a way to greatly reduce piracy. Not holding my breath though.

they replaced http://grab.by/7Wro with http://grab.by/7Wrm which comes off oddly hilarious and wrong for the mouse pointer

on the other hand content aware fill is like magic

dang, I can get the student/teacher version of cs5 for like $100 - but the only app I would even maybe use is photoshop?

cs5 for $100 y/n

xp

its available for free on the internet iirc - download the trial vers via adobe.com, change one system file and boom

For one thing, it isn't intended for selling £1200 applications; it's designed to create a £3 app market. Final Cut and the other pro apps aren't going to be on it, for instance.

OTM. I see the App Store as a pre-emptive move on whatever Google's notebook ends up using.