that's a good play imo
i gotta admit these home screens are pretty dope
http://blog.inner-active.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/windows_phone_7_107099550.jpg
― the late great, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
windows:rocka dnr oll
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
the managed home screens look nice and simple. but i've seen videos where they scroll to the next page and every app has its own square and its own colours and it looks like a carcrash.
― koogs, Thursday, 13 September 2012 11:16 (eleven years ago) link
I just got a new Win laptop and love 7
Ugh, part of the awesomeness of having an iPhone was being able to charge my phone almost ANYWHERE I went; like if I was at someone's house and my phone was dying and I asked them if they had an iPhone or iPod charger, 4 out of 5 times the answer was yes and the day was saved. Also Apple can gtfo with these grossly overpriced accessories. Does it come with an adapter bcz if it doesn't this will seriously make me reconsider upgrading in like 6mos
― gwenguthrie gwen ross (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
sounds like the adapter is an add-on you'd have to buy, $29 for the adapter and $39 for one with a cable. to boot, the phone comes out in september but the adapter won't be available until october.
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
rmde
― gwenguthrie gwen ross (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
I bet it's not even USB 3.0 capable.
― gwenguthrie gwen ross (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
It's not. So you're expected to just sit there for the hour or two it's going to take to back up a full 64gb phone I guess? Total trash.
― gwenguthrie gwen ross (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
monoprice will have their own adapters for $5 within a month, i'll bet
that said i almost never backup over USB anymore
― Nhex, Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
monoprice will have their own adapters for $5 within a month, i'll betthat said i almost never backup over USB anymore
Oh that's right I forgot you can do wifi sync!
― gwenguthrie gwen ross (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
the new ones will have 802.11n, oh yeah!
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
I mean I am sorta looking forward to not having to delete stuff every time I need to update iOS or large apps
― gwenguthrie gwen ross (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
:(
I think I came up with the theory that OS X runs a lot better if you have at least 20% of your hard disk space free, but this was several years ago and on a laptop with less memory.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
the standard recommendation for years has been to keep 10% of HD space free on a laptop/desktop computer as a bare minimum
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
It's a fair assumption, just because (regardless of OS) you're not spinning to edge of the disk as often, running out of hard cache, etc.
― Nhex, Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
xp that recommendation brought to you by the same people who repair permissions when they can't send email, ime
― caek, Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
thx koogs, good to know!
― the late great, Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
Unix depends on the free 10% so much that some versions of df don't even report it as free space, and say the disk is 100% used when it's only 90% full. (which means you can get a disk 105% full, with persistence)
― stet, Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
When I upped my iPad to iOS 6 last night, the iTunes window claimed that the iPad was over-full by 9GB for a minute before the iPad rebooted. Impressive.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
aw man I want ios 6 where do I sign up
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
t0rrents or ask a developer friend
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
caek when you've not got a lot of RAM the 10% free disk space thing is croosh ime
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
edward, it's getting released on the 19th of the month apparantly.
― jed_, Thursday, 13 September 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
eh, you're not missing anything. they just messed up the maps app, removed the system youtube one, and changed some colors here and there
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 13 September 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
will google maps be a purchasable app?
― jed_, Thursday, 13 September 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
i believe it's already available for free?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 September 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
there is no standalone google maps app yet afaik, but I would bet they will make one.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 13 September 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
the youtube standalone app points the way for that
wouldn't upgrade my iphone to ios6 for the maps reason but would upgrade my ipad since I don't use that for navigation at all
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 13 September 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
won't update iphone to iOS6 for fear of messing it up but tempted to upgrade my iPad 3 - altho the thing is I use G maps quite a lot on the iPad (esp street view) so would not like to lose that - what are the benefits of iOS6 again?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 14 September 2012 09:28 (eleven years ago) link
<crickets>
― stet, Friday, 14 September 2012 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
well there's the new disimproved maps, and there's also some other things that are indispensable
― * The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 14 September 2012 09:59 (eleven years ago) link
you won't know you loved without it
― * The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 14 September 2012 10:00 (eleven years ago) link
you loved how you lived
― * The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 14 September 2012 10:01 (eleven years ago) link
they've not improved the auto-correct, i notice 8)
― koogs, Friday, 14 September 2012 10:30 (eleven years ago) link
weird shit
woke up today and my SSD had basically filled up by creating 65 GB of swap files overnight
what could be the culprit?
i did two things out of the ordinary last night:
1) left grand theft auto vice city running all night
2) enabled a new set of junk mail filtering rules on mail.app
i am thinking maybe some memory hooey with GTA?
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
seems likely
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
btw restarting my computer solved the issue but still ... wondering where all that junk in private/var came from
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder what sort of exotic shit was happening in vice city last night
i shut it down as soon as i woke up, maybe the city had filled up with like 1,000,000 residents or something
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
and now they're all dead u genocidal maniac
― free-range chicken pox (Matt P), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
They don't just pause when you walk away, they continue interacting and building a world in there
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
nanites!
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
Yo, iOS 6 won't let me search contacts in the Messages app; what the fuck is this bullshit?!
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
I like complaints like this
http://gizmodo.com/5948045/the-iphone-5-may-be-the-best-phone-in-the-universe-but-its-calendar-icon-still-sucks
― Alba, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link
"Please examine the number 1 placement in the Calendar app's dock icon. It's optically centered and it looks great"
looks like it's on the wonk to me, isn't tilted as much as the page is.
also, the 1st was a monday...
― koogs, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
xp ha yes i miss that kind of grouching. kind of pointless now with the suede calendar and marker felt : (
― caek, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:39 (eleven years ago) link
1. podcasts app is kinda dumb and glitchy2. why do people get excited about panoramic photos when there is no good way to view them in their full size?
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
'cuz they're cool
― Nhex, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
any word on whether the "1" in battery percentages lines up with the other numbers now? i'd upgrade for that.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
why do people get excited about panoramic photos when there is no good way to view them in their full size?
they're dumb, yeah. where is my triptych app.
― hot slag (lukas), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link