New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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.

Josh from This is Our Next... is pissed because those are all things he posted to his blog yesterday or whatever.

that is, the tumblr

http://www.marco.org/2011/10/13/ios5-caches-cleaning <-- aforementioned rant

Looks like there's nowhere for developers to store files that isn't spontaneously destroyed by cache clean-outs.

Why can’t I put newsstand in a folder?” Actually, you can! I like every other Apple Device owner, was excited about iOS 5. After installing it and getting everything set up, I was annoyed at the fact that Newsstand is not allowed to go in a folder. Honestly, it’s an app I don’t think I will ever be using. I tweeted my frustration on Twitter. Luckily I found out via a few Twitter friends it it IS possible to put Newsstand in a folder, you just need to trick your device into letting you, and you need to be quick about it. Simply follow these steps:

Take two apps and go to create a folder
The second the apps are in the folder and it’s doing the folder creation animation, drag Newsstand into the folder
As long as you’re quick enough Newsstand will go into the folder!

I tweeted my frustration on Twitter.
I tweeted my frustration on Twitter.
I tweeted my frustration on Twitter.
I tweeted my frustration on Twitter.
I tweeted my frustration on Twitter.
I tweeted my frustration on Twitter.
I tweeted my frustration on Twitter.
I tweeted my frustration on Twitter.
I tweeted my frustration on Twitter.
I tweeted my frustration on Twitter.

btw that'd break Newsstand, wouldn't it? It opens like a folder so it'd open inside a folder, which wouldn't work, surely.

The idea is that if you don't want it cluttering up your precious home screen because you will never use it you can stick it into a folder along with the store apps and never look at it.

Yeah, just wondering what would happen if you opened it by accident.

lol it works! Newsstand is in a folder, and I can see it when I've got the folder open, but it doesn't display in the folder's icon when it's closed. Then you open the folder and open Newsstand and your phone resets itself (ha) BUT Newsstand stays in that folder.

Biggest hassle with new OS + new apps is (for me) having to learn a load of new words

http://i.imgur.com/YQ5p4.jpg

http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2011/10/11/asus-macbook-air-clones-arrive-october-12th-for-999/

Then you open the folder and open Newsstand and your phone resets itself (ha)

Heh, yeah, this was a scary moment but it doesn't seem to have any lasting negative effects. And it's nice not to have it sat there all empty, saying "buy some magazines you cheapskate" every time I look at my phone.

has anyone tried to order an iphone over the verizon website? it doesnt look like they give you an option for applecare, which, given that apparently you need to buy it at the same time as the phone, is weird

There are... a lot of fuck-ups related to that at the minute

siri is a dude in the UK. that's wrong.

yeah mh looking at the *many* message board threads created about this problem

gj all around

I have an iPhone 4S

I cannot use it because AT&T's activation server is nonresponsive

fuck

can't you tell siri to activate it for you

on the one hand that sucks

on the other hand, lol welcome to launch day, this happens every time and is why even if I was upgrading now I wouldn't have bought the phone today

i have decided not to upgrade to iOS5 because i'm concerned that my oystercard will stop tweeting my flickr account

I have an iPhone 4S and it is awesome fast.

It really is damn fast.

Nerd-fun Siri things: "Beam me up", "tell me a joke", "open the pod bay doors" (keep doing this one until s/he gives in), "sing a song"

"what is the meaning of life" iirc

"a movie"

Guys it works and siri is ~awesome~

My iHone sorted itself out after I synced with music syncing turned off, and then re-synced with it on. You know, it just works ;)

iPhone...

RT @slatest: Those in line for the iPhone have decided 4S = 'For Steve': slate.me/ruVQMF

oh ffs

for fucking steve

idg why I have to keep my iphone and ipad apps on my mac, and I can't find anything anywhere that says why I shouldn't delete them. Weird considering that's the second question I had about icloud. Running some tests now, seems to be okay.

work just bought me a 13" MBA. stoked for the tiny fonts/tiny hard drive.

In case anybody cares, I can't get Superduper to back up over a network using AFP to save my life. However, if I use NFS it happens without a hitch. Which seems bizarre to me, but there you go.

I know I shouldn't be but I'm amazed by the number of Newsstand apps that are just facsimiles of print magazines. Some are great though. All the Condé Nast titles I've looked at are superb, especially the New Yorker which gets the hell out of your way and just lets you read. Project is also pretty decent. The Guardian is a bit too appy and difficult to penetrate but the idea is nice.

Crap, maybe this should have been in the app thread, oh well.

all these magazine apps need to be way lighter and should dl in the background (which new yorker doesnt do yet)

The Guardian app is awesome once you figure out how to use Favorites and tags. Pretty much every story is tagged with like five different keywords. You can "favorite" any of those keywords, favorite a search, favorite a columnist..

Another great thing is how persistent all the stories are. Except for liveblogs, everything works offline and stays available.

Don't think any apps download in the background? Wish they did. I'd love to set a timer for the Guardian app to say "at 8pm download everything".

Guardian downloads in the background for me. I can't attest to the New Yorker because I'm not a subscriber.

...I did subscribe to GQ China (GQ中国 in the app store) (FREE ffs) but they've not done a new one since I signed up.

...that's relevant because it's also a Condé Nast and uses the same platform

guardian dls in the bg, like AA said, and they're all supposed to with newsstnd

is there any compelling reason for me NOT to get a refurbished iMac v. a new one? like, i know the graphics card and processor are better, and its got thunderbolt, but....anything else?

Most annoying thing is that the notification mechanism defaults to banners AND badges AND sounds AND lock screen messages, so if you only want a badge you have to go into settings and manually cut it down, EVERY time. On top of that there are some apps (Future Publishing I'm looking at you) that fail to clear the unread badge and ribbon even after you've read the whole issue.

xp none that I can think of. All recent Mac hardware has been pretty good and will run Lion so

i would be wary of buying a thunderboltless mac for futureproofing reasons tbh

that was kinda the main thing :-/

If you want thunderbolt you don't have a choice. Also it sounds like this won't be a danger to you but the Airs have cut-down thunderbolt ports that don't do as much.

you save like $100, I would wait until refurbished models of the current model show up in the refurb store