Buckled, ditched Firefuck for Chrome, installed ScriptNo + AdBlock Element Hiding Helper, closed Reeder, now reliably getting 5–7 hrs battery. Sliding between full-screen apps still hits the battery but it's better than the shit I was getting before.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 October 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
I am guessing that I am somewhere between three and six days away from the birth of a long-lasting anti-Mozilla tirade
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 October 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
I've installed Chrome for everyone in our office. It's the only browser worth using on OSX right now.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 21 October 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
There are minor niggles but the trade-off is 40% less battery time so
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 October 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
It's the only browser worth using on OSX right now.
as a recent convert to opera, might i suggest
― ∞th-wave ska (diamonddave85), Friday, 21 October 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
developing on a ipad http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-for-an-ipad
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 3 November 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds a lot like he's just using the ipad as a monitor - all the work is being done on the remote server.
― koogs, Friday, 4 November 2011 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
yup. "Look I replaced my MacBook with a VT220"
― stet, Friday, 4 November 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
guys sometimes he swipes using his fingers, baby steps, lets all be cool
― ice cr?m, Friday, 4 November 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
that article is actually about developing in the CLOUD, yall got misled by his shiny ipad
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 4 November 2011 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
i really do think theres a meaningful ipad aspect to the story, like its ipadness
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 5 November 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
artisanal ipad meaningfully connecting u to a heritage brooklyn cloud
― whoop, up the butt it goes (silby), Saturday, 5 November 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
©
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 5 November 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/us/david-gelernter-discusses-patent-claim-against-apple.html
lol
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Saturday, 5 November 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
Cloud fucking rules [/obvious]
― I just got back from a dream attack (sunny successor), Sunday, 6 November 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
Cloud will rule harder when iwork syncs to macs as well
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 6 November 2011 07:21 (twelve years ago) link
I would think that'll be another major Mac OS revision in the future, when they figure out how to finally stop exposing the filesystem to users or something.
― whoop, up the butt it goes (silby), Sunday, 6 November 2011 07:23 (twelve years ago) link
iWork already syncs to Macs, they just don't expose it in TW apps because the file formats arent compatible. You can find the files in yr Library folder, but they're useless.
― stet, Sunday, 6 November 2011 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
*the
Somebody's having a go at replacing iTunes: http://www.enqueueapp.com/
― stet, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
I bet they hate apple
― I just got back from a dream attack (sunny successor), Thursday, 10 November 2011 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
they must hate apple...they don't support playlist folders yet.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 10 November 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
quick first experience...it's not choking on my library like iTunes does. It's fast. Light on features so far but a good start.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 10 November 2011 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
I take it back. Quick to scroll through my entire library, but slowish to load selected songs.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 10 November 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
I have this conspiracy theory that apple encourages project/file bloat across the board, stuff like itunes, logic, pt, fcp etc so they can speed up people buying the next model w/greater hd capacity or attempt to sell that apple storage that only rich people can afford.
― owenf, Thursday, 10 November 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, I think that iTunes just does a lot of shit and it's become a multi-purpose tool that's a little overblown.
Still, it actually runs pretty fast in the current 64 bit incarnation on my computers.
― mh, Thursday, 10 November 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
i have a theory, people fill their itunes with hundreds of thousands of stolen songs and then complain when it's not as fast as it was when they had fewer
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 10 November 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
I have tons of legit files! I swear this.
― mh, Thursday, 10 November 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
very true.
― owenf, Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
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― stet, Friday, November 4, 2011 12:51 PM (6 days ago)
laugh, but I've been working in a similar fashion lately too, and it is kind of transformative (except I've been doing things like connecting back to a remote windows server and administering data loads on an oracle system). I just gave a couple of our sales reps ipads as a trial to see if they are suitable replacements for laptops. having a reliable, powerful, always-on mobile device that connects back to HQ to consume enterprise resources is a good thing.
there are still gaps and weaknesses on the ipad - the lack of a central file system gets frustrating when it comes to things like attaching multiple files to an email, not having file names or tags in the photo sorter makes it difficult to effectively use 100 or more product images, and the visible display of your password as you're typing it is beyond daft from a security standpoint - but I can see this increasingly becoming the way people work.
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
in the music app, when you're at the 'root' directory they replace the 'back' icon with the 'store' icon so you can really inadvertently click into the itunes store. fuck that
― dayo, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
i am the root
― markers, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
5.0.1 really murders battery life on the ipad
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 18 November 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
curious to see if .0.2 fixes all the battery life issues or if this is something that's going to persist
― markers, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't noticed any battery issues on my iPad 2 with 5.0.1 & I've been using the fuck out of it on the road the last buncha weeks.
― Euler, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
is yr ipad 3G or wifi?
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 18 November 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
was charging my ipad once every 2-3 days, now it's once a day or it's dead
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 18 November 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
3G w/ data plan enabled
― Euler, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
though tbf I mostly have been using it for reading pdfs & have only used 100 megs of 3G data (a fair of wifi too though)
will keep eye open for this though
has been fab to use on flights I gotta say, I've never been able to be productive on flights until I got this thing b/c it's such a hassle to crack out a laptop, esp. on regional jets, but with this thing I can type just fine & take care of little tasks that don't warrant real time but still need to be done.
― Euler, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
was 100% fully charged this morning when I left the house, it's been mostly sitting on my desk for a couple of hours (apart from 15 minutes of flipboard use) and already down to 88%
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 18 November 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
lol down to 87% while typing that
liveblogging my battery meter
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 18 November 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
I don't have mine with me right now but I'll check it tonight
― Euler, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
Mine's doing all right on 5.0.1, no perceptible change
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 19 November 2011 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
hating iTunes Match right now - took me most of my xmas holidays to upload/match and then proceeded to slow down my devices to a crawl (plus, not hiding compilation artists in the ipod menu is kind of a deal-breaker to me). Had to turn it off
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 10:09 (twelve years ago) link
argh. Updated itunes to 10.5.2 and now I can't access the store. What have we learned?NEVER UPDATE ITUNES
― owenf, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
You didn't learn that ages ago?
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
itunes 4 4 lyfe
― stet, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
feel like I'm returning to an abusive partner
― owenf, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
(plus, not hiding compilation artists in the ipod menu is kind of a deal-breaker to me)
idg why this still happens. Navigating music through the Apple TV is sort of horrendous because of this.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link