New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

latest iPhoto should support photostream, right?

mac version? yes. i'd assume the new ios version does too

This display, it is nice.

xpost eh not sure about the ios version tbh

but we have iphoto for the mac here and photo stream is built into it iirc

O damn. Flipboard kind of justifies the existence of the iPad.

Readability is a+, kind of see myself ditching Instapaper for now.

I am seriously going to have to slap Mark Daisey. He comes across so badly, as such a weasel on the TAL interviews. He keeps answering very direct "did this happen?" questions with answers like "I stand by truth of my story in the theatrical sense."

flipboard is so great

latest iPhoto should support photostream, right?

― dan selzer, Saturday, 17 March 2012 11:34 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Photostream is close but it's not what I'm after. I want old holiday albums on the iPad. Anyway, the PhotoSync app does the job.

xxpost we heard it in the car this morning and were loling; Daisey came off so badly. And YES all of his answers were longwinded bullshitty non-answers.
But the overall tone, and Glass's approach reminded me of being a kid:
'Why did you steal that?'
*silence*
'Well? Are you going to tell me?'
'I don't know...'
''I don't know' is not an answer. I'm going to sit here until you give me an answer'
*cries*

I get his theater thing, but he completely fucked this up in so many ways by interfacing with a journalism program. On stage, he can claim artistic license or say it's a pastiche or whatever, but he completely failed to say that! And presented things as facts on a factual show! He kind of makes me feel angry for every person I know in the dramatic arts because he's so utterly fucked what he does, and sank a valid journalistic angle at the same time.

I feel bad, but I kind of hope someone does pursue him because the journalism/"truth" line he has blurred is objectively no better than what Fox News does!

I agree. I find his cowardice/naivete kind of loathsome, tbqh.

so, i want to stream music from itunes wirelessly to my stereo

which airport express do i need?

do i need the g / draft-N version? is there any difference between a late 2008 model with g/N and a newer model from 2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012? do all versions have optical out? does the optical out break easily like the one on the old santa rosa macbook pro?

They all have optical out. I have the very first model and it's still functional, although occasionally glitchy and you have to install the older version of the utility to tweak it -- which isn't a big deal, because Apple basically is maintaining both pieces of software: the new one as a more user-friendly one based on the iOS GUI, and the old one as a more feature-rich one.

That said, pretty much any one you'd find will be newer. If I can get the oldest one to still work, they'd probably all be fine. I've never hooked mine up with optical out, but it uses the mini-jack version and should be functional.

On a random note: if you don't need the USB port for a printer or have a need to extend your wireless network (or set one up), I'd recommend getting an Apple TV instead! Pretty much exact same functionality -- streaming to it for airplay audio doesn't require a display -- and it's getting software updates. It's priced the same as an Airport Express, and you can probably get a used one now that the 1080p ones are out.

any reason i get an apple tv instead if i don't have a tv?

i mean i guess i could get a tv if i got an apple tv ... but then i'd want to wait and get an actual apple tv once those come out next year

late great i have used airport express for streaming for like 4-5 years now and it has been a half-decade of heartache and frustration :(

if you have any interference in your house or your router is far from your computer you may experience the same.

Meh, not really, I guess. It seems like more of an audio device to me than the airport express, but it's pretty much a wash if you'll never connect a screen.

hmm well i would be within 20 feet of the express at any given time and it would either be line-of-sight or through one wall

also the extreme would be like 10 feet away from the express, on the other side of a thin interior wall

does that sound okay?

i am picking up like ten different wireless networks right now though

its possible, i spent so much time figuring out solutions to this shit and sometimes it just seems random. is there a wireless phone or a microwave in your house or nearby? those seemed to be trouble. i used to hear my neighbour's phone ring through the wall and as soon as she picked up the sound would cut out.

I think the new ones are better than the old. If you're in the 2.4GHz spectrum, then microwaves and cordless phones will hound you! I think it you have all N equipment and use the 5GHz range it's better.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/03/18Apple-Conference-Call.html

cash call

the wireless network my dad set up inside his house involves an airport extreme and two airports express being used as 'extenders' -- if you pick up a signal from one of the extenders instead of from the airport extreme (which you will if you're closer to an express, even if there's still a strong signal from the extreme) there are really noticeable and annoying speed differences

extenders halve the available bandwidth by the way they work, iirc

yeah, that sounds about right. i dont know if its possible to turn off the "extending" capability of the express, but if it is, you should

Yeah, you can. The way I've always used it is as a client on the network.

tHe NeW iPaD is truly amazing but every old low-res app looks like arse. Reading text in newsstand and newsstand-alike apps is giving me the shits.

The ones that used high-res images look good! I have The Wire, NYTimes, and (lol) The Daily in Newsstand and they all look OK.

Readability is good, as is flipboard

i saw a new one today and it was sharp and had good contrast but it didn't really seem like a game changer

in fact i didn't really see a difference except when we were looking at enlarged 1080p photos

I use Zing in iPad bc I care a lot more about handy quote and formatting buttons than I do about looks. Good thing bc it looks like utter crap.

Biggest difference is in text, for me. I could never comfortably read a website or article on the old iPads, but the new one is fantastic.

Chinese text is where it goes stratospheric for me. No more strokes lost in low-res fuzz. Every single character is crisp, even at small text sizes.

Are you day 1 fanboys finding it takes ages to charge? I'm not, but there are loads of complaints about 10–12 hr charging times.

The iPhone 3G never looked too low-res at the time, it was just standard, and when the 4 came out it was properly "woah".

But iPad has always had a shit screen that is too low-res so when I saw the new one today I was expecting a massive leap. But it just looked ... normal, like it always should have. No "woah" to it. Maybe need to look at photos or something.

yeah I went to the apple store out of curiousity and couldn't even tell which ones were new

I thought iatee would recognize high density

lols

right between the eyes

If I pay attention I can tell that on the old one you can see the pixels and on the new one you can't, but it's not something I would ever pick up on if I weren't looking for the difference. Almost the same w/ iPhone 3 and 4 except b/c everything is smaller, the differences are more noticeable, but still if I had to go back to screen on 3 I wouldn't miss much.

xp ha!

stet otm. The iPhone 3G's pixel density was higher than that of the old iPad screens. The retina iPad's screen is whoa to me, but only because I've been staring at chicken wire for 12 months. When you break it down technically the whole 3m pixel thing is incredible on a 10hr tablet, but 99% of people won't break it down technically and will just be 'uh huh'.

xp I can see pixels on the new iPad but I have to look pretty hard. I can't see them at all on the current iPhones unless there's a very sharp line set at a weird angle.

like i said, you will notice a difference if you look at something that's really sharp to begin with, like a 1080p photo or video

I'm not going to be all typography-obsessive clown here, but you guys are crazy if you can't see a noticeable iPad screen diff between 2nd and 3rd gen.

Seriously. It's night and day.

I can see the difference when I compare them side by side, but as one who recently acquired an iPad 1st gen and played w/ the iPad, New, I don't feel like I'm missing much. I don't want to be aggressively "IDGI," but it's not a major difference to me.

How does the new iPad's screen compare w/ iPhone 4?

comparable in quality, but a lot bigger?

haha

it got biggggggger

I dunno, I mean sure when you compare them side-by-side you can tell the difference, but is the iPad actually THAT much bigger?