I HATE APPLE

Mac Office 2011 means I can work from home sometimes, and it was cheap so eh. I prefer it to iwork, probably out of familiarity.

B-)

that's the "deal with it" emoticon isn't it

haha :-) B:-) B-)

guise how do i shot jailbreaking now that i mistakenly upgraded to 4.2.1??? i miss pdanet

I'm still using a powerbook G4. I felt it was really time about a year ago, but then it sort of hit a second wind and has been running well. I don't know. might give it til like July.

― sonderborg, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 11:11 (12 hours ago)

Does anyone know if it's possible to resurrect an old mac with Linux?

Does anyone know if it's possible to resurrect an old mac with Linux?

Yellow Dog Linux runs pretty well on a PowerPC Mac. Haven't used it in years, but I recall that installation was easy enough for an intermediate-level Penguinhead. Looks like it's still being worked on too: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/

Thanks - will check.

Flash Player 10.2 is a revelation. This 2010 MBP no longer gets burny-hot after 12 seconds of youtube.

I'm adjusting to my verizon iphone and there's something that's REALLY bothering me and the little googling I've done suggests that I'm not crazy and this is just how it is. On all dumb/feature phones I've had over the years, you would simply slide the ringer volume down...it would get quiet, then quieter, then it would turn off but would turn on vibrate, then one more click and vibrate would also turn off and it would go silent.

With this phone it seems like you either have vibrate on or off and you can't turn it off without going into settings. 90% of the time the phone is on vibrate and in my pocket with the ringer off. But I should be able to pull it out of my pocket and put it on the table and turn off vibration easily, or turn on the ringer and have the vibrate stop. It seems independent. I don't want it vibrating on the table when it rings...though that may not matter since I barely feel it vibrating in my pocket, which sucks. Verizon iPhone is supposed to have a more subtle vibration. Am I missing something?

Why don't you want it vibrating on the table?

Because it's annoying to everyone.

steve jobs wants you to want it vibrating on the table dan

And if it's out of my pocket, I have the ringer on and don't need it to vibrate.

settings - sound

silent - vibrate - on

ring - vibrate - off

ah, missed that. Still don't like that I can't turn vibrate off and ringer off, or if I put it on ring and turn the volume all the way down, is that muted or just quiet?

On all dumb/feature phones I've had over the years, you would simply slide the ringer volume down...it would get quiet, then quieter, then it would turn off but would turn on vibrate, then one more click and vibrate would also turn off and it would go silent.

I have never owned a phone that does that.

You've really missed out then.

i lold, for some reason

http://grab.by/917K

single stupidest story ever

'BUSINESSMAN DISMANTLES OWN HOUSE!!!!!!!'

DESTROYED is the best

So, I take it there is no way to re-download music off of iTunes store, and no way to import music from an iPhone to a different computer, right?

Yeah there is. If you bought it through that account you should be able to download it to another device through the same account without paying again. Also if you bought music after DRM was lifted you should just be able to copy the files.

Sorry for being a dunce, but what is the procedure for those two maneuvers? I tried going into iTunes store and looking at my account info. Saw the records of the purchases but no way to redownload. I tried going to the track and clicking on it again, but iTunes prompted me to buy it again. Thanks.

itunes is garbage. It doesn't offer a simple way to re-download your purchases despite being in operation for several years. The way I have done it in the past (with apps, at least) is this:

1. Log into the same account
2. Find the item you purchased
3. Buy it again
4. itunes flashes up a box saying 'you have already bought this item, to download it again free of charge click OK'

In other words, guess work and crossed fingers.

I dunno maybe someone else here knows of a better way.

Does that work for music/video items? It does for apps, did not used to for music.

Ah, no idea. I only ever bought one album from itunes (back in the DRM days) and ended up buying the CD anyway.

If you've "lost" some purchases or somehow screw up your account, you can contact iTunes support and they'll throw certain items back in your download queue if you ask nicely.

What itunes needs is one button that's all 'Download all purchased items' or something. I even have an iphone app that has such a button. Why Apple doesn't already offer that fuction is a mystery ghost.jpg.

Used Senuti to copy from iPhone to computer. Worked like a charm. Fuck you Apple.

I'm never using iTunes store again. Don't know why I was using it at all.

Contacting iTunes support to get them to push purchases back out seems... somewhat reasonable. Otherwise, why not just send your friends your username/password and they all click that button?

If they've got you user/pass your security's compromised anyway so what difference does it make? I'd rather have a stranger play music I've already bought than buy a load of new stuff under my name, and the latter function is there.

There is some procedure about authorizing computers that could probably help with that. One computer at a time could be authorized for re-downloads and Apple could have a max number of re-downloads per year or something.

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You can't even see what you've previously bought without sifting through a really, really horrible list of purchases that appears in blocks of 10 (date/time descending) and is completely uncustomisable. That whole procedure is dogshit and has not been improved at all ever.

You can't redownload music or movies from the store except via support. If you give a good sob story they will let you redownload everything *once* otherwise they're really hard ass about it.

You can transfer iTunes purchases back from an iPod/iPhone/iPad easily though -- just hook it up, right-click in the source pane and hit "transfer purchases".

(This even works if the i/i/i isn't synced with that machine: if the Mac is authorised for the account, "transfer purchases" is an option in the "want to sync" dialogue that appears.)

let go

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/28/charlie-brooker-pfroblem-with-macs

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/steve-jobs/8354215/Gordon-Brown-blocked-knighthood-for-Steve-Jobs.html

guess who else hates apple

[iTunes is] a hideous binary turd that transforms the sparkling world of music and entertainment into a stark, unintuitive spreadsheet

this is true

I think they confused iTunes with ilx.xls

otm w/ the syncing comments, it largely the reason i dropped ipods altogether

still admittedley use itunes for just playing music tho. foobar takes far too much time to get "looking good" and winamp does this bizarre thing with toshiba laptops where it disables the soundcard. it only happens after using winamp for the first time...next boot-up, plip goes my soundcard.

as a veteran of the days of having to grapple w/config.sys to wring as much out of the 640k of ram as possible i am somewhat confused as to why plugging in an ipod and having it copy yr music automatically confounds some people

there is no copying. if you plug it into a comp. foreign to where you have your music it finds nothing on the comp and deletes every single thing you've got on the ipod. i'm constantly switching between desktop and laptop + uni. computer labs so it became mostly a hassle, as i have music spread out on (save for uni.,obv.) both comps

Uh, that is if you SYNC IT with a foreign comp. And it asks you if you want to sync with that one instead. If you want to fuck with the contents of your ipod at a foreign computer, turn on manual library management.

the sparkling world of music

What is he, a Twilight vampire?

Don't get me wrong, there needs to be a lot more configuration with libraries and something more advanced than the iTunes Home Sharing feature, but blaming Apple for not doing something awesome and innovative with file management when you're having trouble managing your own files is kind of a non-starter.

Having actually read Brooker's piece now, the only thing he's missing is that there is a checkbox to do exactly what he wants to do, but he'll end up dragging the files in iTunes, not in the Finder. Pretty sure the computer industry is still ineffectively trying to deprecate things like the Finder and Windows Explorer, but they just haven't found a better system yet.

imo having iTunes or whatever manage all your media is easier because you don't give a shit where the files are, but I might just be rigidly embracing my new anti-ocd aesthetic.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/steve-jobs/8354215/Gordon-Brown-blocked-knighthood-for-Steve-Jobs.html

guess who else hates apple

― Neu! romancer (dayo), Tuesday, March 1, 2011 2:52 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol that article is by my brother