I HATE APPLE

fuck one (1) apple

the key to a successful product launch: MAKE SOME PRODUCT

ON IPHONE

what would be the UNIX/terminal command to delete the file LockBackground.jpg from private/var/mobile/Library

??

worked it out: rm -i /private/var/mobile/Library/LockBackground.jpg

ok ok ok what the fuck

everybody do this with me

place one finger on your trackpad. move another finger up and down on the trackpad. voila, you're scrolling

don't even bother calling me a noob, this is fkn exciting!

"hold down the B button and swing like you're really bowling, then let go"

My TimeMachine back ups still keep failing.

The only solution seems to be to eject the external HD, re-boot and re-select external HD as TimeMachine back up.

I get frequent failures too, but I just select "back up now" from the toolbar menu and all is well.

so, remember when we derailed the thread spectacularly by discussing the human league? well, here's some good news

August 8, 2008 9:35 AM PDT
Apple boots $1,000 app from App Store
Posted by Marguerite Reardon 29 comments
The $1,000 application on Apple's App Store, which lets people know how rich you are simply for buying it, has been removed without explanation, making some developers wonder what it takes for Apple to pull the plug.

The "I am Rich" application developed by Armin Heinrich, a German software developer, does nothing more than display a picture of a red ruby on the iPhone screen. After initially approving the $1,000 application, Apple removed it from the store this week. Eight people managed to dish out $1,000 to buy the useless application, generating about $5,600 in revenue for Heinrich and $2,400 for Apple, which collects 30 percent of each sale on the App Store, according to a blog on the Los Angeles Times Web site.

Developer Heirnrich told the LA Times in an e-mail that he had no idea why Apple had pulled his application, since he was not aware of violating any rules of the software store. He claims that Apple has not provided an explanation as to why the application was removed.

Gizmodo reportedly received a screenshot from one of the users who purchased the application and later called it "a scam", turning desperately to the tech blog after he "jokingly clicked 'buy'", forgetting that his wife has previously "activated iClick" on his laptop (the "One Click Buying" option in his account on the iTunes Store).

"THIS IS NO JOKE... DO NOT BUY THIS APP AND APPLE PLEASE REMOVE THIS FROM THE APP STORE.... APPLE MUST MUST MUST START TO SCREEN THESE FAKE APPS AND RIDICULOUS SCAMS," he wrote to Gizmodo.

"jokingly clicked buy"

This brings up a v imp problem: How to tell which clicks are serious and which are ironic or humorous????

Where is a serious click that really aims purchase?

Time Machine backup causes kernel panics with me so it is sitting there doing nothing. Fuckers.

Fuck Apple for doing a deal with AT&T.

Worst experience buying a phone evah.

At least it works better than the 1.0 does.

I love how my friends new iphone can listen to a song on the radio and tell you what it is :)

That's Shazaam, right? We've had that over here for years as a number you could ring up and point your regular phone at (and get a text back IDing it), but it cost 50p a go. I take it the iPhone app makes it free?

Oh, I see that it isn't free, after a 30-day trial. How do such services bill you on the iPhone? Does the app just make a point-to-point call for you and have it added to your phone bill?

i'm not sure how it works. i'm waiting to find out :)

I can't find a reference to charges anywhere. Weird.

Weird problem with my iPhone: it all of a sudden will only play albums on shuffle, not in sequence. I can't find that there's a shuffle-only option anywhere, since you do it from the individual playlists. WTF is wrong wiht this thing? Anyone else have a problem like this? I feel sure there's some simple answer that's going to make me look like an idiot.

I spent a few hours this weekend making all of my language instruction CDs into "Audiobooks", so that I can use the iPod's snazzy audiobook-only features, like 1.5x playback, and bookmarking.

I finally finished the conversion process (convert to AAC, change from .m4a to .m4b), synced, and then, with great anticipation, clicked on the Audiobooks menu. What I saw: a long, flat list of every track from some 20-odd language instruction CDs, alphabetized. i.e. "Lesson 1, Lesson 01, Lesson 01, Lesson 01" etc. Unreal.

Of course, in iTunes, they're nicely segregated. WTF.

so i've had my new iMac up and running since last thursday and i have to say ...

... it absolutely rocks fucking bells. wow. it's quite blindingly good.

er, that's all.

Weird problem with my iPhone: it all of a sudden will only play albums on shuffle, not in sequence. I can't find that there's a shuffle-only option anywhere, since you do it from the individual playlists. WTF is wrong wiht this thing? Anyone else have a problem like this? I feel sure there's some simple answer that's going to make me look like an idiot.

-- antexit, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 19:33 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Probably a dumb question, but is it playing albums in alphabetical order?

Fuck Mobile Me. I have all sorts of sync problems with my iPhone now. Fuck me for EVER thinking that I could get a reliable mobile platform.

Look all of my contact just disappeared from my iphone. i wasnt syncing. i have nothing to do with mobile me NOTHING. what the hell?

excellent. 10.5.5 has completely destroyed my fucking mobile me syncing. well done, crapple.

Within 2 years, Google will have rendered MobileMe obsolete.

The most annoying bit about MobileMe is that it offers a subset of .Mac services for the same cost.

Within 2 years, Google will have rendered MobileMe obsolete.

...and SkyNet will be truly complete.

There's also an I HATE GOOGLE thread you know.

I suspect that google will do this, actually. Ical/gcal syncing in Leopard already works very well. I guess that apple might lock them out of getting everything to sync wirelessly on the iphone, though.

It doesn't work that well, I can only get my main calendar, not others I can see. Even the balckberry gcal sync can do that.

I only have one calendar, so it hasn't been a problem. Sounds annoying if you have multiple ones.

Opening a folder makes that folder's modified date change.

But rename a file? Its modified date stays the same.

????????

Opening a folder in the Finder updates .DS_Store inside it, which causes the folder (directory) to be updated. You see, a directory is really a file containing info about the files inside, including times and dates of modification. Renaming a file, on the other hand, just changes its metadata, so there's no content change timestamp to record.

Open a folder with a tool that's NOT the Finder or a similar app that touches files inside, and you'll see that the mod time isn't changed.

the DS_Store thing REALLY annoys me

about two weeks ago I fumbled my iphone out of my pocket - no signs of damage then, except for a scratch on one corner (I keep it in a padded case that covers the back and sides).

Last night I pulled it out of my pocket and it had shut itself off, and when I went to turn it back on it gets into a cycle of trying to turn on over and over but never making it - unless I have it plugged into a charger or computer.

Anyone want to place odds on me getting a replacement without a massive hassle?

Opening a folder in the Finder updates .DS_Store inside it, which causes the folder (directory) to be updated. You see, a directory is really a file containing info about the files inside, including times and dates of modification.

I can sort of buy the idea that a filename change should be treated differently than, say a couple of new paragraphs added to a Word document.

But if a directory is "really a file containing info about the files inside, including times and dates of modification", then in what respect is simply opening a folder going to change any of that info?? And isn't that just "metadata" about the files inside anyway - no actual bytes of file content have changed, i.e. they remain unmodified, so why would their container be modified?

I thought I had this one figured out, but I guess I don't. I've opened several folders today to test this, and the mod time hasn't changed. Of course, that's after applying the latest update, so it's possible that Apple saw this as a bug and fixed it.

Perhaps the metainformation hadn't changed so it didn't need to write a new copy of the DS_Store.

what's the difference between the ds store and the app store?

.DS_Store is simply a Finder "cookie" used to remember folder view settings so that the OS doesn't have to maintain an unwieldy and prone-to-bugs universal view settings database. Close a folder, delete. DS_Store, and reopen it if you want to see .DS_Store remembers.

The app store is where you buy apps.

What is it with .DS_Store!?!? I understand what it does (see above) but why does Apple think it's okay to alter the contents of my drives (in my case flash cards) without asking me just to _look_ at them?!?!?

I had a virus which does almost exactly the same thing!

Weird it doesn't do it for me either, any more!

libcrypt the problem with your last post is that the Finder doesn't remember per-folder view settings as of Leopard.

So - what the hell is .DS_Store for anymore

why does Apple think it's okay to alter the contents of my drives (in my case flash cards) without asking me just to _look_ at them?!?!?

Almost every file system ever has been doing this since the 1980s.

Sure it still remembers per-folder view preferences. Apple-J, muck around with settings, come back, and it's all as it was. (xp)

oh shiii-- good tip, libcrypt

libcrypt ah yes true but you have to explicitly tell the Finder to remember those preferences, otherwise it's won't even attempt to. blech!