I HATE APPLE

the heavyweight features of textwrangler will mostly stay out of your way, but it will syntax higlight your latex, which is nice.

gotcha thomp. i get paid to find problems with computers so when it happens unexpectedly at home I find myself kind of pissed like im giving myself something free when i should be getting paid

caek, it's 10.6.8, and i'll try that, thanks

I do like syntax highlighting of tex.

related q: have any of you sent tex documents written in Lion to other people, to confirm that they *can't* see the previous versions of those docs?

found a solution to my controlling itunes on one comp from another: OS X's inbuilt screen sharing, crude but effective

and with lion's full screen spaces I can just have the other macbook as a space on my desktop

I am really liking having windows and linux on the same pc - its like a mullet - windows for work, ubuntu for party!

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I did that for years, realised I only ever booted into windows for itunes, and blew away the whole partition and bought a mac.

...which somewhat complicates my 10.7 fallback position, because what I would be falling back to is ubuntu.

i don't really like this "full screen apps" thing and i can't understand natural scrolling without a touchscreen.

def. not seeing the value of full screen yet; on a widescreen monitor doesn't this just make e.g. browsing or text editing bizarrely wide?

I don't use it for those two things! Not unless there's a website with wacky fullscreen stuff.

yeah I guess those are my main two computing things, + iTunes but I already run that more or less full-screen so whatever. maybe it's good for photoshop etc.

Aperture, Screen Sharing (remote desktop).. not much of anything yet.

considering how good lion has turned out i can't wait for icloud

Lion's been great here!

i dunno if it's the five year old hardware or maybe i should have done a clean install but i can't say the same

Full screen is great until you want to drag in a file from Finder.

i would rather have really good window snapping than full screen ... i am using bettersnaptool right now.

http://ifredrik.com/applications/ <-- LION TWEAKS <-- FREE

http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/lion-tweaks.jpg

didn't do full install, but cleaned out a lot of crap first. installed Lion and actually "subscribed" to Adobe CS Standard 5.5. For the first time in decades of using computers, I don't have any software that I didn't pay for. (don't even ask me about fonts...)

But things are running really smooth. Maybe even faster. Just as likely due to the cleaning up I did before updating but still.

I think I love launchpad, soon as I put all the apps I hardly use into folders and get them off the main page.

I don't miss scrollbars.

Two kind of key things don't work, but it doesn't matter. My monitor calibrator required rosetta, however xrite claims it will have a paid (cheap) version of updated software next month. And for my ancient scanner I've been using an old version of Silverfast that doesn't run. So I may just shell out for Vuescan.

i sort of want to buy autocad

I had mixed feelings about subscribing. Obviously in the long run it would make sense to buy it instead of paying 60+ dollars a month to run it. But buying it complete is 1300 dollars. Then when it's time to upgrade, it's another 300 bucks. It actually seems more cost-effective to subscribe. Maybe they think it's more likely people will keep paying rather then upgrading, or I guess they don't have upgrades that often so it works out they'll get more out of me. But purely psychologically, I absolutely cannot afford to spend 1300 dollars on the software right now, but I can commit to 60 bucks a month. Smart move on Adobe's part. Too bad I HATE ADOBE as much as I sometimes hate APPLE.

Fuck Adobe, seriously. That company can burn.

Right, but I'm not about to make a living using Inkscape and Pixelmator and Pages...

q: I am assuming essentially all students and hobbyists pirate Adobe software; what proportion of independent designers are using pirated Adobe products?

like ones with clients and portfolios and shit not like hang-a-shingle randos

All the professionals I know have legitimate Adobe software.

good enough to satisfy my curiosity

In the US, Photoshop CS5 costs US$699. In Australia, THE SAME PRODUCT costs US$1,168. The price discrepancy is there in the online prices, and it's reflected throughout the CS5 range. No freight, no supply chain, therefore no excuse to inflate its prices fucking 67%. Adobe is greedy shit.

its sad, you're australian

Your government hates free trade and software tariffs are killing your creative industries.

I'd say that lack of problem-solving skills, poor overall literacy, and generalized inability to extrapolate a solution based on documentation are bigger issues in the Austraoian Mac community.

austraoia

im seeing an annoying bug in safari 5.1 where im looking for a thread, say "Retromania: Pop culture's..." and i hit cmd+f and type 'mania'

no results found /:

so happy i found this http://www.brunerd.com/blog/2011/08/10/make-safari-find-substring-matches-by-default/

i am convinced that mail, ical, address book etc have been jiggered and poked to work with icloud and now no longer know how to talk correctly with the mobileme pref pane

new developments in rectangle patent lawsuits:

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/samsung-cites-stanley-kubricks-2001.html

Euro ban for Samsung Galaxy phone

stanley kubrick!

one thing i don't get about iphones is that apple continue to sell the previous form factor even when they bring out a new one. isn't this kind of a unique situation? it's not like when they update e.g the imac they continue to sell the "older, crapper" imac, it gets phased out immediately. so apparently the iphone 5 is imminent and rumours state that the iphone 4 will be rehoused in a plastic case as a cheaper alternative. so what will happen to the iphone 3, will that go out of production? is it stupid to bring out a phone with a better interface, screen and (crucially) antenna and sell the repackaged old one with the faulty antennae or is that good business?

they continued to sell the white plastic macbook for a good while after they introduced snazzier models.. it makes sense to have a budget option imo

i agree but that no longer exists. strangely, it was only slightly cheaper than the metal one so it wasn't exactly a budget option. actually it seemed like something of an anomaly that it hung around for so long.

With the iPhones it makes a lot of sense because instead of having a lower tier (macbook vs macbook pro) they're able to just have last generation's technology, which still compares favorably against other phones at a lower price point, act as their lower tier. The iPhone 3gs is still pretty capable unless you're really stretching or using graphics-intensive apps. I whine a bit, but it's still what I use and works well.

If anything, the speculation about a change to the iPhone 4 for lower-tier use is more of an admission that it's still really good hardware, and might have used more expensive items in the case construction that aren't able to be sold at a lower price point. It's all still speculation, though.

I'd buy an iPhone if there were a way to get it without a two-year contract, & preferably with a monthly data plan but only a pay-as-you-go voice plan (& no texting). @ $70 USA a month for two years, that's a huge commitment, & I wish Apple'd figure a way out of this. (obv the telcos are evil)

move to not usa

was looking at android phones the other day & I guess it's no better there either; can you even get a 1 year contract on an android phone in the USA? from year to year I have no idea where I'm gonna be living, seems ridic to commit to more than a year at a time.

caek: might be in your neck of the woods soonish! for a stint at least.

i am in the same situation. been moving about once a year for the past five years. finally going to buy one this year.

ayo! let me know!

gotta get the funding first from the mighty Deutchy gov but if so then hellllo Bavarian creme (but not until next summer alas at the earliest)