New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Whut how can u not have had an appleid markers?

my syncing is a total clusterfuck. Google sync via exchange, imap, mobile me account, icloud. Total mess.

Whut how can u not have had an appleid markers?

― stet

don't currently use an ios device, and i use spotify for my music, so i've had no need for it for a while. i deleted it a while back and didn't have a reason to get a new one until now, when i want to test out icloud stuff

iphone all set up and I'm up to the icloud backup setup screen where it's failing but because the language is still in CHINESE i have no idea what the fuck is going on

so apparently i have an icloud problem that the other 250 million ios users haven't had

mac os x lion is worth the $30. gestures and mission control are key tho: swiping from desktop to full-screen iTunes to dashboard is fundamentally easier than Expose/Spaces. I spend less time on the computer now b/c of it.

Good to see Apple TV is even more packed with useless American shit that I will never ever use and cannot get rid of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI

xp even apple hates the apple tv. it hardly seems worth getting excited about.

I never used Spaces before, so I'm still struggling to figure how to get the most of multiple desktops, etc. - I assume you put iTunes on full-screen as a separate desktop?

I've never understood the point of full-screen apps either. Is it to appease Windows users who are addicted to maximizing every program?

that and people who find it difficult to be alone with their thoughts

I like fullscreen on a macbook air where vertical real estate is limited

What's the point of word processing if I can't be constantly dragging in clip-art of adorable kittens?

I bet some things still creep into full-screen mode though, i.e. Growl notifications

good to see growl is now (1) app store only (2) not free.

I think I sort of hate Growl

growl is the WORST and I don't know why it needs to occupy a pane in my system prefs

Well, uninstall it

I don't wanna

:|

good to see growl is now (1) app store only (2) not free.

― caek, Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:58 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark

why is it good that it's not free?

information WANTS to be free iirc!

especially bad information

iirc it's still open source so you can build it yourself for free if you want.

motherfucker

I have an old AOL account that I use as my Apple ID; apparently it is not recognized by iCloud.

You can upgrade it at appleid.apple.com iirc

... Where? Everywhere I've looked basically says "call Apple customer support and tell them you're canceling your AOL account"

The problem is that if your AOL account is named "bitterblackman", you can log into iTunes etc by selecting AOL and using "bitterblackman" as an ID. However, if you enter "bitterblack✧✧✧@a✧✧.c✧✧" as an Apple ID, it isn't recognized and the system will guide you into creating a new, separate Apple ID tied to that email address that is not connected to any of your apps/music. I know all of this because this is what happened to me about 3 years ago; I have been studiously avoiding my &qu✧✧✧@a✧✧.c✧✧" Apple ID in favor of my AOL account, which actually has record of all of my purchases, but now if I want to use iCloud it seems like I have little to no choice in the matter.

None of this is unsolvable, I'm just very annoyed.

In a similar situation to DJP with the difference being that as much as Apple keeps offering me the chance to fully combine email and AppleID it resolutely refuses to let me -- took forever to get the verification part done last night and now every time I do the next step it just locks up and sits there. I assume it's due to traffic overload but even so.

That said, so far everything else is going swimmingly; iOS5 runs perfectly well on my 3Gs as promised and I'll be interested to see what the Twitter integration might be best for, though I'm only poking around a bit at present. The AppleTV upgrade is nice enough, I suppose, though it seems mostly the only thing I could get out of it is hockey...yay?

good to see growl is now (1) app store only (2) not free.

― caek, Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:58 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark

why is it good that it's not free?

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 13 October 2011 13:56 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you're SO good at detecting sarcasm

my sarcasm is REALLY FUNNY and WORTHWHILE

You would say that.

I was annoyed that iCloud required an apple id that's an email address for use---I've had the same apple id for over a decade, but now I have to change it to an email address? ironically I used my gmail address! & then: it creates a @me.com email address for me! dumb

iirc it's still open source so you can build it yourself for free if you want.

― ( ) (mh), Thursday, 13 October 2011 14:03 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha lol i am sure someone is offering it as a regular download somewhere. maybe i should submit it to the apple store and undercut them by 10c.

I feel like I should've killed my mobile me account first to make all this easier, since I really wasn't using it for anything other than galleries, which I'll probably just do in dropbox anyway now. Now I've got all these different addresses and confusing issues with what is syncing to what using how?

Can't wait for @gruber's take:

After today's decision, I believe no company in the industry be able to launch any new Android-based touchscreen product in Australia anytime soon without incurring a high risk of another interim injunction. The two patents on which today's ruling is based aren't Galaxy Tab 10.1-specific at all. They will affect all Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, across all vendors.

you're SO good at detecting sarcasm

my sarcasm is REALLY FUNNY and WORTHWHILE

― caek, Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:28 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

why is it so funny and worthwhile if i couldn't detect it?

lol

Updated my iPhone, and now it will not sync any music to my phone, and it wants to update 39 apps that are not actually ON my phone. Awesome. Time for a full-on factory restore, I guess...

http://o.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/26/26241/KellyWaterSmartPhones_jpg_630x1200_upscale_q85.jpg

you're SO good at detecting sarcasm

my sarcasm is REALLY FUNNY and WORTHWHILE

― caek, Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:28 AM

why is it so funny and worthwhile if i couldn't detect it?

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:04 AM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Abbott_and_Costello.jpg

i use Spaces a lot now, and yeah: i keep a maximized iTunes in its own pre-assigned space, ditto Lightroom.

dunno what it's like in Lion, but right now having pre-assigned Spaces for most-used apps is a tidy way for me to keep things organized (even though there's really no NEED for it)

Ah Dan sorry didn't realise it was an AOL account you'd used. That's like their old "use your BT bill as an Apple ID" kludge.

i'm using my tesco loyalty card to tweet these days, it's pretty cool

Finally got icloud backup working but like 10 seconds in it goes "YOU HAVE RUN OUT OF STORAGE"

Yeah, make sure it's not syncing like 20gb worth of VLC films etc.

Should have my new iPhone in 24 hours!

it wants to back up every magazine and Chinese dictionary in my library, I mean

so obviously I turned those off

but still

...

how many Chinese dictionaries do you have...?

http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/

xp The audio files (word pronunciations) take up stacks of space.

Also apparently this is happening because apps are storing their replaceable files in the wrong directory or something. Marco Arment has had a big (and fair imo) whine about it.