I HATE APPLE

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.

also maybe he was using ie on his old pc

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Can anyone suggest a way of automatically turning off time machine when I launch parallels? Sick of my computer grinding to a halt as parallels unpacking its virtual HD initiates a 30GB backup.

Is there a way of turning off 'voice control' on the iphone, and the way the ipod moves into shuffle mode if you're walking up or down stairs?

The best you can do is turn the code lock on to stop voice control. YOu can turn off shake to shuffle in Settings->Ipod.

Delay masturbation until you reach desired floor.

I use a program called Time Machine Editor to switch my Time Machine to only run once a day instead of every hour.

Every two minutes the Apple TV is asking me if I want to upgrade to the latest firmware. EVERY TWO MINUTES. Hopefully one of the things the upgrade fixes is this shit.

THIS IS DRIVING ME INSANE

Chose 'upgrade now' instead of 'upgrade later' by accident and it's stopped my music. SO FUCKING ANGRY RIGHT NOW

Maybe you should upgrade

This upgrade had better come with maggots.

i think it wants u to upgrade

FUCK U IPOD. "No Music" WTF. I can see the fucking files you bastard.

Is there an Apple utility that can rebuild your iTunesDB file?

I was writing a Python script that would do it until I ran into that fucking encryption thing Apple put in to force everyone to use iTunes because they are such incredible cunts.

You could drag the files from the drive into the iPod in iTunes.

I've heard that dragging just one song the iPod can repair the database. Worth a try as well? Do backups first though.

so i spilled beer on my macbook keyboard last night--i turned it off immediately, turned it upside down, let it drain... just turned it off and its working fine (so far) except keyboard shortcuts seem to be totally messed up--some of them dont work at all (command-tab), some of them only work from one command key (command-n in safari). doesnt seem to be a weird system preferences thing so im worried its a bad hardware situation. any hope for me?

maybe let it dry (while off) for another 24 hours?

if the keyboard needs replacing you can DIY for ~100$/£

unfortunately i need it tonight

"oh well"

HOYL FUCKL

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Wrong thread, sorry!

external usb keyboard xxp?

external usb keyboard would def be a good temp solution

other than that you could try taking it apart and dipping the entire keyboard in 100% isopropyl alcohol

it's easy I do it all the time

yeah i dont have one lying around, and its not anything crucial, just annoying given how used to keyboard shortcuts i am. ill see if i can borrow one later, or just replace this bad boy. going on 4 years with this laptop anyway and my eye is starting to wander...

dont worry though ill keep this thread updated.

i rebooted my MBP and it hung at the grey screen - didn't get the ? indicating the hard drive dead, just a grey screen

came back later in the afternoon to see what was happening, still the same. cold booted it, same thing again - tried coldbooting it with the option key down to see if would boot off that, same thing - seems to be before that

on i think the 5th cold boot it booted up ok

my mbp from 2007 is fucked, it just makes the startup chime over and over when i turn it on. i think its the logic board >:(

old man yells at apple computer

i rebooted it again to see what would happen and its just rebooted fine - there's been no clicking to indicate a problem with the hard drive, and when it hung it seemed to be before it got to choosing which drive to boot off

maybe its just the time of year, i haven't really been at the races myself either