I HATE APPLE

It's a sort of postscript to the discussion of Gruber's concern about Snoop.

Oh, duh.

hey! so backups are useful. woke up this morning and found my hd was making a 'clicking noise' occasionally - when it did so, my mac would 'hiccup' but everything ran fine. updated my backup with Super Duper, swapped disks, everything's peachy.

the affected hard disk seems to be fine, I'm wondering what I can do to flog it and force it into failure so I can RMA it easily. any ideas?

magnets

lol maybe whack it a few times with a hammer. I wonder if it has a diagnostics log or something.

So I update my Apple TV and suddenly I've got some dumb shit called 'MLB.tv' that I can't get rid of AND it reset my time to somewhere in America.

Oh wow, I didn't think it'd show the sports stuff outside the US

HILARIOUS

mlb.tv is not lame!

it's batshit if you're not american or into bas(k)e(t)ball

it's pretty dumb if you can't get rid of it.

I don't know if I could listen to him in podcast form. Is he ranty?

Not ranty. More controlled, very slow. Lots of pauses in the conversation. I'm sure it's pretty much intended to come across as unscripted but they're obviously working to some kind of schedule/rundown.

This week's has this marvellous bit towards the beginning where they're talking about how to import video to the iPad version of iMovie and Gruber can't understand why it can't be easier to copy videos onto the device. He suggests that cameras should have wireless technology built in to enable this. It's like he thinks everybody should upgrade and buy new versions of equipment they already have - as opposed to Apple should include a USB port or SD card slot in their brand new product (which nobody owns) - because that would mean the decision Apple has made is wrong.

It's worst when he's talking about Google or Android, because it's obvious he's clueless. Pretty sure last week's podcast had them discussing that Samsung executive quote about "smooth sales" that Apple used in their iPad presentation and the show was recorded at least a few days after the quote had been explained and debunked.

Wow, what balls:

Apple said on Tuesday that it would delay the planned March 25 launch of the iPad 2 in Japan, writes Joseph Menn in San Francisco.

Nat Kerris, company spokeswoman, said Apple wanted to focus on helping employees and their families affected by the quake and tsunami.

"Our hearts go out to the people of Japan, including our employees and their families", Ms Kerris said. She said Apple's decision was not driven by supplychain issues, and that all Apple stores and other facilities in the country remained open.

good balls imo

They ran out of good balls due to supply chain issues, have some version one balls instead.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/18/apple_christian_conundrum/

Worst article ever. Yeah, I am sure Apple's "Christian base (wtf)" is unanimously for this app.

Receiving a 4+ rating from Apple (applications in this category contain no objectionable material), this application is designed to be a useful resource for men, women, parents, students, and ministry leaders. Christ.

I've got an iphone 3GS and I've shot some video on it which I was going to try upload to youtube, but the file is massive. I want to edit it: nothing too sophisticated, just cutting the start and end off and then making it lower resolution to get the file size down to something more manageable. It seems that I can't do that without Quicktime Pro which I don't want to buy as a)it's expensive (well, not cheap) and b)it's got totally shit reviews. Is there any free software which will do the job? Or an app which is affordable?

quicktimeX can do this iirc

Wikipedia says: Mac OS X v10.6 "Snow Leopard", includes QuickTime X, the latest version of the player. This version lacks cut, copy and paste and will only export to 4 formats, but its limited export feature is free
which suggests I can't use it with a 3GS iphone, or a PC, and it might not even do what I want it to anyway.

avidemux?

can't you do this with imovie or idvd?

first time a system update has ever caused me any trouble - emails and PDFs now print with fonts missing. the issue is all over the forums and the only real fix seems to be a downgrade.

Do they display on screen correctly? I may never see this issue before it's fixed since I don't actually ever print anything.

yep, displays fine.

actually i take that back. the lovely emma b has a document that she's due to present in another city and it's completely garbled.

if the pdf looks ok, try opening it in illustrator and converting everything to outline before printing.

it's in powerpoint (yes, i know) and she needs to present it as slides in powerpoint. and it's too late, her flight was this morning. the only way we were able to even print out her tickets was by opening the PDFs (which looked fine) and then choosing "print as image". otherwise they printed with half the fonts missing. from reading around this looks like a major, far-reaching fuckup.

Yup. Apparently Acrobat will still print correctly, tho.

http://indesignsecrets.com/mac-os-x-10-6-7-update-causes-font-problems—but-probably-not-in-indesign.php

sorry

http://indesignsecrets.com/mac-os-x-10-6-7-update-causes-font-problems—but-probably-not-in-indesign.php

ok. I don't know why those spaces keep getting added, but you can figure it out.

Hey Keith

anyone evr ordered a MBP battery from a semi-sketchy ebay site? a new battery is liek 200 from apple but only like 60 on ebay, and my laptop's already a few years old, and investing 200 in it seems stupid, but i need a battery since mine completely fucked off and died recently.

i have, but i made sure it was an official one and not off-brand.

still much cheaper than from apple btw.

do you remember jhow much you paid if you don't mind my asking?

I'm considering buying a new battery and things seem pretty cheap/not screwy on amazon. Maybe check there?

i've been having hell of battery problems lately because i use my laptop as a desktop 95% of the time, and it's plugged in 94/7. was just at the apple store* and could have gotten a replacement for $99 but it doesn't seem worth it since I'll prob replace the computer within 6mos i'm guessing

*lol new iphone :-/

and speaking of hating apple: like 66% of my apps won't sync now??

I wouldn't know about that since the lovely emma b has taken my computer with her to another country.

It turned out the weird garbled font thing was my fault - during my frantic search to solve the printing problem I was turning fonts on and off and managed to disable "Symbol" without then turning it back on.

Apparently Powerpoint requires Symbol to be activated OR ELSE... Arial is rendered as Greek text. Yes that's right. If the text is in Arial (the Powerpoint default) it will be rendered as Greek text. The little font selector dropdown menu says "Arial". Yet all your text is Greek. Activate Symbol font and all is well.

...

(Note this is still an issue even with Powerpoint 2011)

Is that to make it difficult to open ppt files on non-Office macs, b/c of the Helvetica thing?

Watching all the desperate fanboys clamour for ipads is at least twice as entertaining as an actual ipad.

I don't think it has anything to do with Helvetica. It's purely to do with whether "Symbol" is activated. If it's activated, Arial displays correctly in Powerpoint. If it's not, Arial displays as Greek. ??!

what the everliving fuck

http://i.imgur.com/wUcWN.jpg

I swear that the sense of aesthetics and sense about what the base applications should look like went out the fucking window with that one.

My friend bought an ipad, laptop and iphone in a very short period of time. She's unhappy: too expensive, battery runs out on her iphone much too quickly (in her opinion),...

I love Apple. Always will, I fear. Just bought myself an iphone4. YEEHAA.

Wrong thread for me then. heh

faux-stitching aside, i think it's a pretty cool way to display the days information.. do you have a screenshot of the other views?