New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

iCloud has been almost totally useless for me.

Dropbox is the centerpiece of my life, my bread and butter, how I do just about all my business and non-business. It is maybe the best thing that has ever happened to me.

when is google drive going to consume Dropbox I wonder

i don't think Google even wants to be in that business, their opinion is that local storage is dead and everything should live in the ... well, on their servers.

plus it's for-pay, has a tightly focused mission ... just not a cultural fit.

nah, Google is trying to compete w/ dropbox. They've got this whole thing where Google drive appears on your desktop and all your files are represented as physical files, but it's not that useful since all the google docs are of course just aliases to the website anyway. But it lets you drop other files into the folder and they upload like Dropbox.

but my logic was impeccable

yeah that post kind of confused me. google does think local storage is dead and wants your files on their servers, but google drive is their way of getting them there.

dropbox have a good chance of surviving because of their cross platform obsession, they reverse engineered the mac file system to get their shit to work there.

read somewhere that google fiber + google drive gives read/write speeds roughly equivalent to most HDDs, which makes their whole schtick a lot more reasonable. when ppl talk about the need for powerful local computing, they're really talking about drive speeds vs Internet speed I think.

but if yr on a regular stupid American connection, the dream is a ways off

Wow I just learned about google fiber and I now I want to move to Missouri/Kansas.

we were working with some contract developers in KC, but all the ones I talked to lived in areas that we're in the google fiber trial

can i haz gigabit download

when ppl talk about the need for powerful local computing, they're really talking about drive speeds vs Internet speed I think

reading from a hard drive is a bottleneck even in local computing, heavy duty processing operations rely more on memory/CPU. for example, the best way to improve performance on a machine is to load up on RAM and get rid of the swapfile (disk-based memory management).

the current issue with cloud computing is having complex software completely rewritten from the ground up to take advantage of a throughput technology that is still in a nascent stage.

SSDs

I love SSDs

love me some of that SATA III

i don't think Google even wants to be in that business, their opinion is that local storage is dead and everything should live in the ... well, on their servers.

tbh i think google's less concerned about changing consumers' behaviour than mining the shit out of everything they currently do

SSD in all things

IDE rules

SCSI rules

SCSI 4 lyfe

hail eSATA

BREAKING NEWS YOU GUYS: jonathan ive was interested in watches 11 years ago

My instinct is that this watch is totally fictional. It just seems like a hilarious false flag.

MY wife got a Pebble and it's pretty cool. I'd at least check out an Apple one since they should be able to pull some OS tricks an outside developer isn't allowed.

I've better make it look as cool as my Braun watch.

I've don't have to do anything. IVE BETTER you get the rest.

i have a braun watch too :D

They're hot.

the band broke tho :(

creative differences

i saw a blog post recently (possibly one of the nerdy iphone dev blogs i read, but i have a horrible feeling it might have been gruber or sth) where the guy was saying the one thing that keeps him awake at night as someone who has invested his career in apple, and should be keeping apple awake at night, is the fact that they clearly have no one who understands sync

― caek, Friday, February 8, 2013 12:10 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://barebones.com/support/yojimbo/icloud.html

lol

― caek, Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:13 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://storify.com/Jury/the-trials-of-icloud

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/4148628/why-doesnt-icloud-just-work

has anyone done this?

http://www.macstories.net/news/how-to-enable-two-step-verification-for-your-apple-id/

i did it it takes al ong time

i havent actuall done anything since that required me to login to apple so i cant tell u how good it is

please note: the code # they send u is only 4 numbers long.... doesn't seem as secure as google???????????????? just a warning!!!!!

okay i guess i'll take a closer look at it and maybe set it up

i just did it. it's kind of like online banking ca. 2003, rather than legit two-step authentication. if your phone doesn't have SMS access (e.g. not in home country) or your iphone doesn't have internet access then you can't log in (unlike google, which has an app that works offline to generate the key). also you can't add SMS numbers that aren't UK/US/Australia/NZ.

but it's an improvement! and everyone who can should absolutely do it!

whoa, where do you get the google offline app?

It's here: http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1066447

google app also works for dropbox two-step

Traded work for the last-gen 15" MBP Retina - 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD. Debating selling my iMac and using the MBP as my sole computer.

I need to get more storage, though, for my Lightroom archive and for movies/music - thinking about a Thunderbolt SSD for the former and a standard 2TB USB 3.0 for the latter? Or is Thunderbolt even necessary for photos?

i think usb3 is probably fine for an LR archive. start with usb3 and if you think it's the bottleneck for LR work then get a tb drive. tb definitely overkill for regular media.

is the google authenticator similar in concept to app-specific passwords?

how does it work? like once you've enabled it, google stores a set of random passwords that it knows ur app can generate... is that it?

it generates them based on some sort of salting algorithm that uses a unique ID number for your account and the current time as seeds i think. so the password changes once every 30 seconds or so. all my nasa employee friends had the keychain version of this back in the day.

sick

i downloaded it just so that i can finally have an excuse to use my phone as a qr reader

last-gen 15" MBP Retina - 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD

i went for 256gb too and i regret it, hoping they'll figure out an upgrade scheme someday

it's not that i mind thunderbolt speed for itunes and aperture, it's lugging around another piece of tech that kills me

i wasn't aware that there were multiple gens of the 15" retina

iirc the storage on a retina IS removeable, its just that its proprietary so the only 3rd party solutions that exist (e.g. owc) are really expensive