New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

xposts to GBX again

thx sunny!!

I used to have an iPad (first gen), which I used a lot till it became pretty slow and I gave it to my parents.

A year ago I bought a Nexus 7. I like it at first but after a month or two I found myself hardly ever using it. I'd rather use my iPhone at home even though it's smaller.

There. That's my tale of iOS v Android tablets.

brb trying to recruit sunny to work at my workplace

Also, my Nexus 7 seems to have slowed down much faster than the iPad did, something other people have reported

http://tabtimes.com/analysis/ittech-os-android/2013/08/22/how-google-nexus-7-exposes-big-myth-about-android-tablets

Mavericks freed up 15GB over here.

Heads up - iMovie 10 has a new file format. The migration will leave your earlier iMovie installation/projects intact, but if you have a lot of projects & are committing to v10 completely - don't forget to delete/archive the old data as it uses up a lot of space.

Mavericks has done something bad to font smoothing. I've said this in the past (10.4 and 10.6 were bad here iirc) but this time it seems actually broken. The entry field on iMessage is properly pixelated.

I wonder if it's only on non-Retina screens, maybe.

this is (for me) the single best thing about ios 7. not that it wasn't possible/occurring before, but having it be a fundamental part of the ui has changed how i feel about using my ios devices. when swipe-to-go-back isn't supported in an app, i forever find myself phantom-swiping like an idiot, waiting for something to happen.

OH MY GOD THANK YOU, I have spent two weeks infuriated that ios 7 made the back button impossible to find, not realizing they'd introduced swipe-back.

I'm on a non-ret mba stet, and my imessage text field seems ok? (I'm pretty mr magoo-like tho tbf)

what's the score with the different colours in imsgs now? Am I supposed to know why one friend's msgs are pink and another's green? I just keep thinking they're smses but obv that can't be it..

could be a design throwback to iChat

safari actually fast and nice in Mavericks, and it has the two finger swipe forward/back that is nice

Mavericks has done something bad to font smoothing. I've said this in the past (10.4 and 10.6 were bad here iirc) but this time it seems actually broken. The entry field on iMessage is properly pixelated.

i had this problem on upgrading to mavericks, fixed it by going to system preferences > displays > display and switching resolution from "scaled" to "best for display"

Mavericks severely fucked over my Gmail's ability to deal with Mail. But I switched over to Airmail (only $2) and it's been a great replacement thus far.

Airmail, what's that? Still using Sparrow but getting a bit bored with it.

And Sparrow never gets updated because it was sold to Google last year.

http://airmailapp.com/

It's way faster than Mail and much lighter weight in memory.

also: here's what Mavericks did to gmail/Mail relationship

oops it's here

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/10/23/how-mavericks-ruined-apple-mail-for-gmail-users/

christ almighty what did they do to the volume control

at least on android you can customise your keyboard

and install app killers

So updated to Mavericks and ios 7.0.3 or whatever and have apparently lost the ability to sync over wifi. Am I alone in this?

wifi sync breaks all the time - try connecting it via USB, it'll probably start working again after you disconnect

update iTunes also?

textmate guy is crowd-funding his email client. could be good!

http://freron.com/crowdfund2014/

lol the textmate guy is crazy

wow airmail is pretty dope

it looks a bit ios5

jumping from 10.6 to 10.9 I didn't know about the reverse scroll thing. immediately installed Scroll Reverser (naturally) to fix it, but ugh, it's stupid that you can't even change that in default settings without plugging in an apple mouse (i gave mine away years ago)

you shouldn't need a 3rd party app for that on 10.9, there should be a setting in the trackpad preference pane that says "use natural scrolling direction" or something. uncheck that

i have no trackpad or Apple brand mouse (on iMac) so the option doesn't even appear, it's stupid

What's going on w/ scrolling?

textmate guy should probably release textmate 2.0 or just point everyone to sublime text

after 10.6 they reversed the scrolling mechanism - i.e. wheel down pushes the page content up, wheel up pushes content down - to replicate iOS finger dragging. makes sense with the Trackpad but for mouse wheel it's bizarre

it's like those savages that use invert y-axis in FPS games

the option appears for me and i'm not using an apple mouse

what's your 'mouse' section of the pref pane say

Oh - that's how I like it. When I bought a Mac I changed that shit ASAP.

xp

I'm def pretty happy with AirMail, mainly because I'm so hitched to gmail. I think it's faster than Mail and for $2, I can forgive the UI. Not like a have a choice given that Apple fucking BROKE Mail w/gmail.

AirMail is the one that looks a lot like Sparrow but has multiple windows for some reason, right?

my gmail in apple mail in MAVERICKS seems fine, no idea what the problem is supposed to be, but maybe that's just because I'm a MAVERICK

no restarts since the third one thk fk

calling it. best OS yet

AirMail reminds me of Sparrow. Doesn't have multiple windows but has multiple panes. Maybe you can option-break them off into individual windows but I never would do that.

Other than Apple fucking BREAKING Mail on me, Mavericks seems solid as hell.

my gmail in apple mail in MAVERICKS seems fine, no idea what the problem is supposed to be, but maybe that's just because I'm a MAVERICK

yeah idk what everyone's talking about.. gmail with Mail is one of the few things that didn't break for me on maverix

everyone is just going for it and installing a .0 release, huh

life is for living, lukas

I'm kind of surprised people still use desktop applications for mail.

I suppose some people need offline access.

I've used mailplane since the beginning. It's basically a fancified SSB, so not a full app thought it has some offline abilities, it's not synching or downloading everything, it just give you your own gmail browser with a bunch of improved features, menubar alert, resizing attachments, random stuff like that. Mostly I like to just have email open in a window that's not dependent on my browser.

webmail sucks

gmail web interface is the epitome of "good enough"

I still prefer it to most other web email interfaces, though. God, there are some awful ones.

Yeah I just keep gmail open all day.