I HATE APPLE

I leave an hour early for any job interview and spend the time before it hyperventilating in my car

anybody have complaints about cinema displays?

― the late great, Monday, April 8, 2013 1:17 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the complaint would be that they are overpriced. Monoprice is entering the high-end display market, these are probably worth a look:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=113&cp_id=11307&cs_id=1130703

I have heard quite good things about those monoprice displays

I have a refurb cinema display, they cost a lot.

I leave an hour early for any job interview and spend the time before it hyperventilating in my car

^^^^^ u&k

Yah I left 30 mins earlier than normal just in case and was flown into a new big city that I had no knowledge of. Maps lead me like 12 miles away fro the destination where there was loads of road construction traffic and what not. I got in the night before the int at midnight and the int was at 830 am the next day so I didn't have time to scope out the scene. I relied on maps to, you know, at least get me in the vicinity. I feel completely comfortable blaming apple maps in this case.

Got the offer anyways, mind.

I've been waiting to hear about the monoprice monitors. I'm a bit of an IPS purist. As a graphic designer and whatnot I've always gone for IPS monitors. When I finally replaced my old trinitron good IPS monitors were all 600$ plus, but there was a new technology called eIPS that was considerably cheaper and I bought a Dell 2209wa for like 200 bucks and it's still my main monitor. A few years later I needed another monitor to connect to my macbook and researched the hell out of the cheaper IPS monitors and got an LG for less than 300 dollars, that still looked better than much more expensive non-IPS screens.

That 27" monoprice for 390$ is going to be hard to keep in stock, and is definitely what I'd use to replace either of these two.

At home, with that dell (which is 22" widescreen more or less), I have a second monitor, a 70 dollar Dell 19" that looks terrible, but I use it for iTunes, email, libraries I'm copying from etc. I've been pretty obsessive about using two monitors and love the separation, it feels like two computers when you use them for different purposes. However, at work now I'm using an old 27" Apple Cinema Display and it feels absolutely huge. Plenty of real estate. A second monitor would be nice to keep things separate, but I don't feel like I need it.

should I jailbreak? What exactly are the advantages? I mean it wd be very nice to have weather on my home screen but the things already bogged down enough and I don't want to make it even slower.

I jailbreak and think its worthwhile. Jailbreaking itself won't hurt performance, but some tweaks and apps can, you just have to watch.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-executives-are-suddenly-more-willing-to-quit-the-company-to-work-at-startups-2013-4

rip apple

a king has his reign

Anyone have any experience with replacing the digitizer on an ipad? Mine is cracked and it looks like I could save ~$200 by fixing this myself. looking at some videos, this looks difficult but doable.

unrelated to apple but I began my day by discovering a big crack in my iPad screen and spilling red bull into my mbp

at least now it has wings

in all seriousness, that's unchill

It's ok, it powered off for a sec, I took the bottom off and toweled off the fans and vacuumed out the keyboard and she's good as new.

I already had prior iPad damage from the cat knocking it off things and am going to attempt iPad screen surgery

good luck, hope the fatality level on that shit is low

The babality level is mid

accidentally deleted a 20 minute vid from my iphone. surprised there aren't more file recovery programs for these, considering they're only the most widely distributed smartphone in the world. only options seem to be 2 dodgy software programs that spam the internet and apple forums without any real human being saying I used it and it worked?

yeah not being able to undelete stuff is a huge pain in my ass tbh

icloud saved my photos which let me recover them when my phone got stolen a few months ago. can you use icloud for this?

actually, that's a good question. if you have it set up properly it should be backing up your camera roll, and i think that stuff could possibly maybe maybe be in there

that was the first thing I looked at, but apparently icloud only backs up over a wifi signal. I took the video while I was out, and accidentally deleted it shortly afterwards, so I doubt it would get backed up. I'm not even sure how to access photos uploaded to icloud. went to icloud.com and photos isn't even an option there...

they wouldn't be. give me a second

"iCloud backs up your" "Photos and video in the Camera Roll"

http://www.apple.com/iphone/icloud/#backup

at the very least, make sure you have that turned on for the future. might want to look at this too:

http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/photo-stream.html

doubt that helps w/ your current predicament though

it does not

thx tho

If you carry an LTE ipad mini around , is there any reason to also have an iPhone?

you can't take calls on an ipad mini - can you imessage?

You can. For calls you could have a cheapo phone

yeah, and also for non-iphone txts

I keep my mini at home and use what's basically an iPod out and about. The mini won't fit into my pocket. I use the iPod as digital pocket watch. It's easier for me to whip out my camera instead of rummaging through my knapsack. When I'm at the store using an app to figure out if 16 oz at $3.89 is a better deal than 12.5 oz at $3.05, I can comfortably hold it in one hand. (I feel goofy enough walking around the supermarket with my grocery list on my iPod. I'm not quite at the point of using even a mini in the Kroger frozen foods aisle.)

without the cover, the mini fits in either my front or back pocket as long as Im not wearing jeans.

I'm surprised the 3G chip adds so much heft to the iPhone (compared to the iPod). I assume it's all battery.

lol, after my posts on 77 about my successful iPad glass/bezel transplant, I noticed one corner was sticking up a little bit because the display ribbon cable was under the edge a little too far. In trying to fix it, I ended up shredding the digitizer connection cable.

back to the drawing board...

now that you can easily just DRAG AND DROP an mp4 movie onto your mounted android phone say godo bye to stupid itunes ! yay!

I successfully replaced the glass on my ipad just the other day. Only problem I've noticed so far is that there is a tiny speck of dust stuck between the glass and lcd screen which is noticeable when the screen is black. I'm tempted to open the ipad up to remove it, but considering how much I broke the (already cracked) previous glass when removing it, I think I'm just going to try to live with it.

anyway, in keeping with the spirit of this thread, it is really annoying that it is so complicated to open up an ipad and fix it. I really should make an effort to support companies that make hardware that is easy to open up and has components that can be replaced relatively easily.

lol

yeah I know

someone there was this thing about how steve didn't want the windows on the new apple building to open or whatever because that would let people "screw things up"

despite my experience, I really think the repair/replacement/warranty model they have is good. I was just dumb and didn't buy that nice applecare this time that covers accidental damage. there's really no good reason to do fiddly repairs like this in stores rather than regional or even a single refurb center -- there's no customization on an iPad, it's a lot easier to shell out $49 for a replacement and just swap them

then again, my friend works in the hardware support for a large company and that's pretty much his dream support model, so I've heard a lot about the pros/cons

if i were rich i'd get apple care w/ everything, but i'm not so i don't

btw the secret for non-iPad/iPhone applecare is to buy it from a discounted source, like an ebay seller

then again in that scenario maybe i'd just hurl my apple devices at the wall every time i got a little scratch on them and then go buy new ones

most of them don't cover accidental damage! just the iPhone/iPad thingy

although my shady coworker who worked at Best Buy in college claims BB's extended warranty can cover a lot, if you know the right technician there

I swear, everyone I know who's ever worked at BB is shady as hell

it's an amazing store

here's some broken shit that doesn't work so you can't try it out

here's a bunch of fucking compact discs

he was telling me about a tool one of the technicians had created that would instantly short out a motherboard. a lot of other things weren't covered under warranty, but a shorted motherboard would be, so they'd helpfully finish off a customer's laptop with it so they could replace it under warranty.

well, "a bunch" is stretching it