I HATE APPLE

quite some time ago, after they ran a couple "are vaccinations bad for you? (*cough* autism)" articles.

huffpost is a cesspool

hey guys, any of you apple product nerds that could help me? on my new (non apple, i'm not rich) i tried to download itunes only to be told not to get the 64bit one as it wouldnt install. so i got the 32bit one it recommended only to say i needed to install the 64bit version first. all i wanna do is update my ipod. DAMN YOU STEVE JOBS FOR THIS PERSONAL HELL. ;_; Anyway, any suggestions?

maybe install the 64 bit vers

but it wont let me

http://www.pbs.org/now/news/images/jonathan-kors.jpg
My iMac and I got off on the wrong foot. Turns out there's a video camera embedded in the screen, and before I could boot her up for the very first time, she wanted to take my picture.

o i c sry i dont know xp

maybe download an ipad instead

"I'm working with a video editor right now," I told KGO's news director, "to compact the hearing into a brief clip that can go viral on YouTube."

I think my grandfather was more computer literate than that guy.

Today's the first time I've ever used iWork to do actual work and it's driving me up the wall.

― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac)

curious why? i love pages and keynote and would way rather work in those than in word or keynote, though it's hard to quantify exactly why ... i do think numbers really sucks compared to excel.

whoops meant word or powerpoint

can you not detach dashboard widgets now in 10.5.6?

ah you can. had to enable dashboard devmode

baja: Numbers. It's fiddly. There's no official keyboard shortcut to edit a cell (although in the end I found one by accident), and the keyboard shortcut to move the cursor left one word is exactly the same as the keyboard shortcut to insert a column. There's other stuff but I've already blissfully forgotten it.

hoy: I don't know Windows 7 (which I assume you're using) stuff but is there a chance you're running some crucial part of W7 in a 32bit mode for compatibility reasons?

btw this huffpost bloke is clueless. I'm up the font size thing and every whine so far is about stuff he's just incapable of doing.

I had battled the QuickTime player, which proved unable to make playlists

Wow, I don't even know where to start with this.

did you get to the bit about checkboxes yet

OH ZING

I'm returning my iMac, then headed to Best Buy to snag a PC, one four-times faster than my current computer and $400 cheaper than that iMac.

I'll spend the difference on a video editing program, a new haircut and a first-rate pair of swing dancing shoes.

Will he return the shoes when they don't do the dancing for him? http://www.neowin.net/forum/style_emoticons/default/emot-iiam.gif

(in my head I have this image of that bloke walking into the shoe shop with the shoes on his hands going 'waaah I am not dancing and they don't even fit my hands properly')

Also I love how he's using a mouse on a bare mahogany desk then blaming Apple when it gets scratched.

Because I can't help but kick someone when they're down, there's some more howlers on that guy's web page: http://www.joshuakors.com/ starting with "In November I spoke with two of the great minds of our time: Dr. Drew Pinsky and comedian Adam Carolla."

loool, huffpost obviously trolling for hits so they can up their ad fees

Truth bomb.

i hear you on numbers. there is a lot of serious bullshit going on in that program. i tore my hair out trying to make a scatter plot one day before i realized you just can't. i think this feature has been fixed for the newest version, but still ... sort of ridiculous!

numbers is very good-looking though and has very nice templates, and if you want to do something real fast and integrate it with other iwork apps (pages and keynote) it's great at that.

Hmm ... what's the best way to get videos I've taken on my iPhone transferred to my Mac? I don't want to use iPhoto unless there's a way to tell it to ignore all the still photos. I use Lightroom to import photos but that doesn't handle video.

I feel like this should have an obvious answer.

imovie

dropbox is the easiest way to get one-off stuff out of yr iPhone. Open the app, hit the camera icon, upload file to yr dropbox.

huh

Dropbox is for putting it in the cloud, isn't it? I just want it on my hard drive.

I created a project in iMovie and then went to Import, but my iPhone wasn't available as a drive.

I'll try Dropbox.

Oh, I just remembered Image Capture. That seems to do what I want. Thanks though.

Wow. This is a big problem with macs - if you want to do something The Normal Way you're fine, but if you step an inch outside that boundary you're hosed.

I have tried accessing the iPhone's camera roll in OS X. iirc I had to go through 'Volumes' from the file system root and basically guess my way from there. That's the sort of thing you have to do with a Linux system ffs.

did the normal way not work?

By 'the normal way' I mean iPhoto import. This is all iirc, mind.

image capture? (not sure)

so i just plugged in my iphone and, weirdly, it looks like the way to get videos off the iphone is to sync, ~in iTunes~, videos w/iphoto

dumb

itunes has become a ridiculous application, but if, like me, you only ever use it as a jukebox it does a pretty good job of concealing that from you.

(aa here) ITunes is indeed a ridiculous mess now. I think we all hoped that version 10 of iTunes (iTunes X, perhaps) would be a major reboot, but I think the fact that it's not means it will soon be replaced by something with a new name and purpose that actually works and isn't packed with legacy bugs. So iTunes for the web shop, some new name for the content and syncing client.

Mac app store being a separate app bodes really well.

Nick: dropbox is cloud, but also local. If you don't use it you should, esp ON IPAD. 10.6 doesn't have Image Capture any more, which is a big pity.

I have Image Capture on 10.6. I suppose they don't take it away if you don't already have it.

If you *do* already have it, I mean.

This is JUST like my experience­. I rode a bike for nearly 10 years. I switched to a car and it didn't work the same, so I returned it two weeks later. I didn't try to learn how to operate the car, or find out how it was different, I just returned it because it wasn't the same.

Love this comment in that HuffPo article.

I have Image Capture on 10.6. I suppose they don't take it away if you don't already have it.

Honestly surprised at the number of folks who don't use/forget about Image Capture. Also, IC is not something Apple quietly forgot about... it was updated in 10.6, has a SDK, and some nice Automator actions. Image Capture also works with scanners too and you can use it share a scanner (or a camera) across a Bonjour network.

Check out: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031028064213303 It's describing Image Capture in OS 10.3, but the features are still there.

yah, IC is there on a fresh install/new mac on 10.6. solid app.

I'd never heard of Image Capture before today in this thread.

hey guys, I just got off the phone with steve jobs....he told me that in 10.7, the whole OS is just iTunes...everything is gonna be done through iTunes...just a heads up

dayo: 'Will 10.7 be just iTunes?'
Jobs: 'Yes. Sent from my iPhone'

Image Capture nowhere to be found here. Am sure I wouldn't have deleted it, so wtf. Does it still have that nifty gallery creator? That was very handy. Need to dig out install disks now.