mlb.tv is not lame!
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 12 March 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
it's batshit if you're not american or into bas(k)e(t)ball
― Birds (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 12 March 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
it's pretty dumb if you can't get rid of it.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 13 March 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 13 March 2011 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
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.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 07:00 (thirteen years ago) link
good balls imo
― shit shit shit shit shit (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 08:00 (thirteen years ago) link
They ran out of good balls due to supply chain issues, have some version one balls instead.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 08:07 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/18/apple_christian_conundrum/
― dayo, Sunday, 20 March 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Worst article ever. Yeah, I am sure Apple's "Christian base (wtf)" is unanimously for this app.
― mh, Sunday, 20 March 2011 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 21 March 2011 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― in a wonderful balloon! (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 27 March 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
quicktimeX can do this iirc
― tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddave85), Sunday, 27 March 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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 freewhich 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.
― in a wonderful balloon! (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 27 March 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
avidemux?
― avant garde a clue (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 27 March 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
can't you do this with imovie or idvd?
― akm, Monday, 28 March 2011 05:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 March 2011 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Do they display on screen correctly? I may never see this issue before it's fixed since I don't actually ever print anything.
― sarcasdick (mh), Monday, 28 March 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
yep, displays fine.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 March 2011 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link
if the pdf looks ok, try opening it in illustrator and converting everything to outline before printing.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Yup. Apparently Acrobat will still print correctly, tho.
― stet, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://indesignsecrets.com/mac-os-x-10-6-7-update-causes-font-problems—but-probably-not-in-indesign.php
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry
ok. I don't know why those spaces keep getting added, but you can figure it out.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey Keith
― caek, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Postmodern Bourbon Development (Will M.), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i have, but i made sure it was an official one and not off-brand.
― caek, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
still much cheaper than from apple btw.
do you remember jhow much you paid if you don't mind my asking?
― Postmodern Bourbon Development (Will M.), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm considering buying a new battery and things seem pretty cheap/not screwy on amazon. Maybe check there?
― Clay, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
*lol new iphone :-/
and speaking of hating apple: like 66% of my apps won't sync now??
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
...
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 31 March 2011 09:42 (thirteen years ago) link
(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?
― Euler, Thursday, 31 March 2011 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Watching all the desperate fanboys clamour for ipads is at least twice as entertaining as an actual ipad.
― You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 March 2011 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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. ??!
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 31 March 2011 10:28 (thirteen years ago) link
what the everliving fuck
http://i.imgur.com/wUcWN.jpg
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 31 March 2011 10:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― sarcasdick (mh), Thursday, 31 March 2011 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 31 March 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddave85), Thursday, 31 March 2011 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, the bottom 80% of that picture is awesome. It's the top that makes me stabby.
― sarcasdick (mh), Thursday, 31 March 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
no I just meant re. the Helvetica thing that on macs w/o Office Ariel's not available (though Helvetica is & is more or less equivalent), so that MS is looking to make sure there's no easy way to kludge together readability of ppt docs w/o installing Office. I dunno! But I know the problem you mean & it sucks; whenever someone uses my macbook to give their pc-created ppt presentation this is a concern (esp. since these are usually mathematician types with lots of math symbols therefore, which makes things look horrendous sometimes).
― Euler, Thursday, 31 March 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I hate Apple for making Mac Pros pretty awesome. That used one I got a couple months back is turning into a money sink since it's too damn addictive to upgrade it.
― sarcasdick (mh), Thursday, 31 March 2011 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Latest Gruber podcast, 40 minutes in:
Dan Benjamin: What do you say to somebody when somebody says "I'd love to get a Mac but it's just too expensive, they're just so much more than a PC"?John Gruber: I don't know, I just feel good about myself.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 10 April 2011 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh
― You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 10 April 2011 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Do a little bit of research, buy the cheaper PC with well-supported kexts, and turn it into a dual-boot Hackintosh. You can have it even better than Mr Feel Good About Myself!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 10 April 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
so my imac now does this thing where after it starts up the keyboard doesn't work and the mouse can move but can't click anything. after about 5 minutes, tho, it's fine - but what a pain in the ass! can't seem to find a solution online.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 10 April 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link