I HATE APPLE

16pt fonts are big but at least you can change that. massive line spacing like this _impairs_ readability and wastes space. and you can't change it.

the scrollbars and scroll behaviour are pretty much indefensible.

if newsfire works for you then it's probably fine, but the developer is kind of a legendary weirdo asshole

i know, right? you can't delete the "david watanabe products newsfeed" on newsfire!!

still, i keep buying his stuff (see also: xtorrent)

ok, it's not reeder's fault: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/10/21/apple_leaks_new_scroll_bar_ui_details_in_mac_os_x_10_7_lion.html

just wow.

Reeder doesn't use the system implementation, so it's probably more glitchy than the upcoming Lion one, but you are correct: the whole OS is getting those.

Yeah, that's what I was saying. Lot of old-school people going to hate Lion at first, I think. It even changes the direction of two-finger scroll to match iOS.

OK, that will drive me nuts.

i don't mind if they get rid of scrollbars, since most people haven't clicked them for years, but they need to be replaced with something show the user where they are in a document. not having that information presented appropriately is one of the big problems people have with magazine and book reading apps. and apparently now i have to scroll around in the document to make the scrollbar appear so that i can find out where i was before i scrolled around? and this is all so i can get an extra 20px on my 1500px wide display?

not feeling that at all

getting rid of them on iphone makes sense because you rarely work with long documents on a phone, and in any case, horizontal space is so valuable that its worth the lost information.

Yeah, that's what I was saying. Lot of old-school people going to hate Lion at first, I think. It even changes the direction of two-finger scroll to match iOS.

99% sure there's an option to flip it back, but they'll probably just remove it in 10.8.

I've not used the new scrolling yet but I think it'll feel intuitive pretty quickly.

how will you intuit where you are in a document?

lol

i feel like AA on a checkboxes tip here, but this is so, so stupid. if they want to put in some useless feature like the zooming dock thing that looks pretty and makes people go woooo in an apple store then that's fine. but this is bullshit.

I agree that removing the scrollbar is mentalist btw

I never really pay attention to where I am on the page until I'm scrolling, so I don't know yet if I'll be annoyed at having to do so. I can see it being more annoying on a mouse with an actually wheel, but the two-fingers-on-trackpad gesture is ok.

dont knock it til u try it

Reckon the Apple menu will be gone by 10.9, and it'll be hilarious.

you can turn the scrollbars back on, i've just seen, but I haven't because it turns out I don't care. They flash when a document arrives or when you scroll, so I pretty much always know how where I am.

scroll bar is excellent for letting you know how much clusterfuck is left in clusterfuck threads

otm

THOU SHALLT HAVE NO FILE SYSTEM DICK!

Wireless is fucked on my mbp, evidently due to a s/w haemorrhage. Trying to get web help on wireless issues is always the worst but apparently reinstalling the whole twatting os fixes it

Often it's enough to delete the relevant networking/AirPort preference files in your Library folder. Give it a try.

Ooh I will, thanks heaps.

Have so far tried deleting the wireless network from the network settings *and* the keychain. That improved things a bit (in that the network no longer vanishes) but it's intermittently slow as hell.

I also tried booting from the SL disc (but you can't open a browser to test the network) and a Ubuntu 11.04 Live CD (but Firefox would only stay open for 5-10 seconds before crashing).

Last thing I tried this morning was to repair permissions. It found a load of busted permissions to do with Airport files but I had to go to work and couldn't reboot to see whether it had done anything.

what if you don't use google reader?

You might want to check out NetNewsWire Lite 4. It's the complete ground-up rewrite of NNW that's promised for the regular version of NNW.

Often it's enough to delete the relevant networking/AirPort preference files in your Library folder. Give it a try.

― Millsner, Thursday, 16 June 2011 16:05 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I did this (and rebooted obv) and it already feels normal again. Too soon to get excited but I'll give it a couple of days.

http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2011/06/loc.jpg

Sam I Am has a pain in her gulliver

the latest update to DP4 has made my computer unable to interpret ctrl+a wtfff

u dont know what u got til its gone

What's up with that story first reported in the UK, that Apple is working on ways to block use of the camera with infrared inhibitor rays? Sounds ridiculous, but here it is via Pitchfork:

"The Golden Era of browsing shaky YouTube footage of last night's big show may be drawing to a close. Soon, you may be able to actually go to a concert without seeing the band reflected in the glow of at least 10 iPhone cameras around you. According to the British newspaper The Daily Mail, via the Times, Apple has filed a patent application for a technology that will block iPhone cameras from recording live events, and they're apparently going to sci-fi lengths to make it happen.

According to The Daily Mail, this technology will involve infrared sensors placed around venues. If you hold your phone up, those sensors will detect and disable your camera while allowing all the other applications on your phone to continue working. Apple reportedly filed the patent application 18 months ago in California. The Daily Mail reports that Apple is supposedly doing this to placate broadcasters and record companies upset that their intellectual property is making it out into the world in unlicensed, shakily-filmed form. It would also allow Apple the option of charging users to film events."

I can only imagine if this went through what could possibly go on down the road, not least, say, governments blocking use of cameras, etc. with the same technology. Also, dunno if this would block non-Apple phones. Also also, don't know if Apple would actually be so insane it'd implement this, patent or no.

Don't see them ever doing this for music concerts etc; it's too dumb. I wondered if it was either a protective patent to stop anyone else getting there first, or was to do with the govt/mil installations that won't allow any devices with cameras on the premises. This way they can sell them the infrared emitters and not have to make a camera-less iPhone.

yeah what venue would even bother?

some hooligans are gonna figure out the infrared code and sell DIY kits though

Lots of venues would bother I bet. I saw Beady Eye over the weekend, and while security obviously could not stop most folks, they made a point of asking people to stop making movies. Anyway, plenty of venues have no taping rules, and the better quality these phones get, the more they're going to want to figure out how to enforce their policies.

It would still be a terrible idea. This sort of disrupter ray makes more sense applied in locker rooms and places like that.

a lot is being made out of a patent application here

Any other video editors on here? Has anyone gotten a chance to check out FCPX? I've read good stuff and bad stuff and it seems to me that once they fix some backwards compatibility issues most of those complaints should go away.

Apple are adamant they aren't going to do backward compatibility. See David pogue's blog post yesterday

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/professional-video-editors-weigh-in-on-final-cut-pro-x/

haha apple is really feelin itself right now

is there ANY way to make the ipad2 cameras better? a tricky app of some sort??

http://gizmodo.com/5819418/mac-os-x-lion-this-is-not-the-future-we-were-hoping-for

iCal and Address Book are the ugliest pieces of shit yet. It's the new brushed metal, this faux-real stuff.

mac-os-x-lion-this-is-not-the-future-we-were-hoping-for

but these multitouch gestures are!

that article doesn't make me to compelled to change my OS; when I consider that I'm about 80% happy with the current one. we'll see.

That's it exactly. I ended up at OS X because the alternatives were pissing me off.

That new iCal / Address Book styling reminds me of those Cinermaware games on the Amiga.

i have to say that I still find the OSX finder annoying and clunky. will lion fix this or get rid of the finder entirely? I mean, I think windows xp explorer is better for viewing all the files in a directory. maybe no-one cares about this anymore.

otm, finder is worse than death imo

i feel like windows is more responsive when looking through a directory with a million files but just as clunky as anything.

there was an interesting booklet by Jef Raskin that made the argument that you don't need discrete files or filenames per se, but something closer to a tagging system, but are people really ready to give up files?

OS X has been inching away from files for a while. all it would take is for spotlight to be be able to index something other than "files" and we'd basically be there.