I HATE APPLE

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.

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.

Might have mentioned this elsewhere here, but I'm all in favor of something like "iTunes Pro" - a paid app that can handle tens of thousands of media (books, music, movies, whatever) in an intelligent way. Heck, I have faith that Apple software engineers can come up with something terrific as long as they don't assume that the typical user only owns 40 albums and reads only two books a year.

I'll pay for it too!

it maybe true but my enjoyment of this thread seriously compromised by flashing 'genius bar people are useless' messg.

can we just talk about huffpost guy for a second again

90% of his problems were "i bought a computer and didn't buy any software for it"

Love the bit where he sledged TextEdit for not having fonts.

he shouldve used the program image capture which i have

The final straw came when Mac's Firefox took me to my website. To my horror, all the spacing was askew, the graphics tossed left and right like the wreckage of a hurricane. I asked myself: As a web designer, how can I design web pages when I can't see what 90 percent of my viewers are seeing?

so if he returns his imac and doesnt have to see his shitty website layout, it will cease to exist i guess

the best line is def

The idea started in San Francisco. I was at KGO, ABC News' Bay Area affiliate, appearing on "The Ronn Owens Program" to talk about my recent military reporting, which sparked a Congressional hearing.

a congressional hearing on... shitty writing!!

granted this guy is actually writer not a web designer but its pretty lol that he used this question rhetorically

As a web designer, how can I design web pages when I can't see what 90 percent of my viewers are seeing?

when you know it has an actual answer that he wouldve found helpful

I don't understand, do the only people who visit his website run IE5 or something

how is this dude a reporter, is this real

I can't remember the last time a non-ActiveX website didn't work in Firefox on either Linux or OS X, so maybe he had installed noscript or something.

well that's the thing that confused me---how would firefox on osx somehow render differently on windows? isn't the whole point of firefox that it's the same across platforms?

There are definitely differences. In testing at work we've identified OS X-specific issues that occur in all Mac browsers and no Windows browsers.