Numbers on iPad was fine for what I needed it to do in December, but mostly I was using it as a checklist that could read & export an Excel doc. I was *stunned* when it didn't sync with Numbers on my Mac, though.
― Euler, Thursday, 2 February 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
has anyone ever used a COBY tablet?
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 2 February 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
tylerfrombalantineHere is how i fixed my problem: Click the apple in the top right of the screen/go to system prefrences/display/color tab/calabrate/follow the steps and it will be fixed tylerfrombalantineBy the way the natural white for that display is warm pinkLike (0)
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
lol
People are kind of used to the default "white" that a lot of display use which is really more blue
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
Anybody else hating Safari? I've always preferred it to anything else but the changes they've made with the latest version and the latest version of Lion are making it useless. The whole "reload every window" every time thing is a nightmare and the whole program has slowed to a crawl. I'm using Chrome now. I'd rather use Safari but it's next to useless.
― dan selzer, Friday, 10 February 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i have gone chrome for the same reasons and have no complaints
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
upgraded to lion from 10.5 onl a couple of weeks ago. i've been a happy camino user for years but they've ditched java which i need for a work log-in programme. so i was ready to give safari another try, but found the same headaches dan mentioned. so i'm currently with firefox. not entirely happy - downloads don't stay in the downloads window - but better than it was.
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (whatever), Saturday, 18 February 2012 07:26 (twelve years ago) link
how do you deal with google's autosuggestion/autocomplete? it drove me nuts to see the search text jump to the top left of the screen, so i resorted to a google products page as homepage.
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (whatever), Saturday, 18 February 2012 07:29 (twelve years ago) link
and finally...
can anyone suggest a fix for this? i have an apple id and "apple support communities" (i.e. apple discussions) login name. tried to get in to discussions yesterday, was asked to enter my apple id twice, the second time asked to pick a login name. whether i entered my existing login name or a new one i got the error message: "An account utilizing this email address already exists. Only one account per email address is allowed on Apple Support Communities"
it quietly drove me mad for half an hour, so any suggestions welcomed.
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (whatever), Saturday, 18 February 2012 07:37 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds like its trying to register you when you've already registered with that apple ID (and created the existing asc login). Is there a login link on the front page?
― giant snake birthday cake large fries chocolate shake (sunny successor), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 07:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, tried the login. Enter apple ID once, it asks me to enter again to verify, then it asks me to select an ASC username. I already have one, attached to my email, but it won't recognise the username or allow me to pick a new one. Same error message as previous post.
Thanks anyway SS.
No thanks Apple.
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (whatever), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
feel like this by evgeny morozov is the best critique of jobs i've read since he died.
― joe, Thursday, 23 February 2012 10:01 (twelve years ago) link
tylerfrombalantineHere is how i fixed my problem: Click the apple in the top right of the screen/go to system prefrences/display/color tab/calabrate/follow the steps and it will be fixed
tylerfrombalantineBy the way the natural white for that display is warm pinkLike (0)
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, February 8, 2012 3:38 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i just calibrated my monitor with a spyder device and i'm still getting used to how warm it looks
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
Thank you, Apple, for taking ALMOST AN ENTIRE MONTH to figure out how to convert my AOL account into an Apple ID.
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
OMG. Were now down to 2 active AOL users - My ex-boyfriend and my current father-in-law.
― These little monkeys are fucking creepy. They are so monkey. (sunny successor), Sunday, 11 March 2012 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
did they just fix Safari finally? I've been using chrome for weeks now.
- Address an issue that could cause webpages to flash white when switching between Safari windows
― dan selzer, Monday, 12 March 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
what is the appeal of safari? chrome/firefox are faster programs ad infinitum
― NO NUTRITIONAL CONTENT (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
i use safari exclusively
― markers, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
By the way I've actived the swipe gesture to navigate forward and back in the Finer, but it requires THREE fingers, whereas Chrome requires TWO fingers
#firstworldproblems #still
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
FinDER
Not sure what is up with my typing today
I finally installed Lion and Safari seems way faster.
Also WHO thought autocorrect wa a good idea in a desktop OS? I almost sent out a completely unintelligible email today
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
(it read something like "should we get rolling on the nob cab arp?")
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
It's terrible but I imagine a lot of people like it. Probably my favorite new Lion feature is being able to hold down a key to choose an accented version of it.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't realize you could do that, how do you select the accent from the options displayed?
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
(I use that all time on iPhone, but there it's obvious. Also I'm on my phone now so I can't test.)
Each one has a little number above it; hit the number
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
(Years ago I used to know all of the windows keyboard "shortcuts" for accents—alt-0236 etc. terrible.)
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
I know! And Macs haven't been much better. What was it for an é, Option 3 and then E? Ridiculous.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
its just option-e and then e
― max, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Ya, not as bad as windows but not great. Still better than trying to type in English on a French keyboard tho
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
I don't knoz zhmt you qean
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I'm thinking of how to type a hash symbol with an English keyboard, option-3, which is fucking stupid
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Guy maybe we should start a blog where we write about how Apple can improve its products
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
option-3 on an english (american) keyboard is the pound sign, hash is shift-3
― max, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
safari doesn't crash all the time like firefox does, for me (ff is seriously completely fucked, if I leave it up for more than an hour it starts eating up all my CPU time). Chrome does too sometimes, I think it's all flash related though.
― akm, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
the "starts eating all CPU time" thing sounds like the Flash plugin
― mh, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
haha, i just tried to type "AYOOOOOOOOOOO" in a chat window and i got the accent-picker
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
ok i turned off spelling autocorrect but it is still autocorrecting some things? like "reso" turned into "redo"? maybe this is a setting in mail specifically i have to turn off?
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
(yes)
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
option-3 on an english (american) keyboard is the pound sign, hash is shift-3― max, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:44 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― max, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:44 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah this is reversed in England, which has a logic to it, but c'mon the hash symbol is too common a character these days to be hidden behind a control key like that #fml
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
the uk apple keyboard is the worst thing steve jobs ever did
― caek, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
OK, I just had to look that up and it's hilarious weird. Does the UK need all that Northern European stuff?
― mh, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
anglo-saxon keyboard
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
what northern european stuff?
the main problems are the 3#£ issue and skinny return key
― caek, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, never mind, I was looking at what purported to be the full-size UK layout and I think it was not.
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC184B/B?fnode=MTY1NDA1Mg
Is this the badness? That lolinverted enter key is hateful.
― mh, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
ja that's it. i do like the tilde key on them but otherwise they are pretty bad.
― caek, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
did everyone switch back from reverse-scrolling? i'm 'trying it out'
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
i just checked, and my "scroll direction" is set to "natural"
using a magic trackpad
― markers, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
what is natural
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
the heady rush of young love
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link