I HATE APPLE

You can by non-apple shuffle USB cables for about five bucks.

I've been using this little USB plug for mine and it's been great. It looks like it costs $7 these days.

i think i might just go to the store sometime this week and start yelling. does anyone know if this works?

Be sure to begin your rant with HEY GENIUS.

How abused is your mac book pro? I have this issue and I put this down to the dents and bangs mine has received.

not abused *that* badly. no visible dings, and it's only about a year old.

but the casing does *seem* to bend down there towards the CD slot, possibly because it's where i rest my wrist as i type?

i really want to try to pry it a little wider but i'm not sure what kind of tool could manage that without leaving marks. maybe a no.2 pencil?

No, I have no arrangement options set. I don't see the problem on single-display Macs, generally, but drag-to-desktop has pretty much always sucked on multiple-head configurations: Dragging from display 2 to display 1's desktop often results in an icon on desktop 2; dragging 2 -> 2 may result in an icon on display 1. Even if I can get it to land in the right desktop, it's usually placed there as if a new file were created w/o drag-&-drop.

Yeah, this looks like a bug that's been around for a bit. Check out:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=87866

Euler, thanks for tip. will order asap. i miss music while on the bus.

ne1 using safari 4 beta

moonship, try slipping a business card or metrocard (metrocard works really well) through the slot so it rests on top of the CD, then hit eject. The metrocard should guide the CD out. This may fuck up your drive, it doesn't appear to have fucked mine up yet.

Safari 4 beta employs just about the least user-friendly browser interface I've ever seen. Gave up working out how to use it after three minutes.

moonship, if it's only a year old they should repair it for you. i have had a CD stuck in my iMac for a week now. not only does it not eject but when i go into system profiler the computer no longer even recognises there's a disc drive in the computer even though i can hear it whirring on startup so it is powered.

"No burning device was found. If you are using an external device please make sure that it is connected and powered properly."

anyway i took it to the genius bar today and they are ordering me a new superdrive and installing it for free even though it is 2 months out of warranty. no complaints here. the genius guy was very resonable, informed and genuine.

xpost Feature creep, then? Will I like it more if I usually use Firefox?

nevermind, I'll just find out.

safari 4 seems just like safari 3 to me, but I'm no browser pro so maybe I dunno. It does put the tabs at the top which I guess makes some sense if you're thinking of your browser like a notebook.

Just a reminder to those who don't like tabs-on-top that you can fix it.

I've been using it since release day. The new tabs take getting used to, but overall it's great. Definitely very fast, and more stable than Safari 3 in my experience.

Customising the new Top Sites screen could be a little more intuitive — it took me a minute to figure out that the only way to add specific sites was to drag them in from another tab — but overall it's OK. I'm not a a fan of the new reload/stop widget though, and it would be nice to have the blue progress bar back in the address field. There will definitely be UI tweaks before it's out of beta.

i no longer own the fastest most bad-ass mac pro on the planet. I knew this new one was coming but couldn't wait and got the last one over the summer. I've been pretty productive since then and figure it'll be at least 2 or 3 years if not more before I outgrow this one. I'm just mad I lose the bragging rights.

safari 4 seems just like safari 3 to me, but I'm no browser pro so maybe I dunno

^ Yes, exactly. Like Safari 3 but a bit different. Seems cool enough. Like the built-in Inquisitor-style search thingy. Top Sites: will never use. Coverflow-style history thing is a nice enough gimmick.

and it would be nice to have the blue progress bar back in the address field

Apparently this can also be fixed with a simple enough hidden-preference edit ... can't remember where I read it, but I'd imagine Libcrypt's link would provide a good starting point. I thought I'd miss it a lot more than I do.

i really like the new tab placement. doesnt seem like anything else is different so if youre having trouble figuring out how to use it... i dont know what to tell you

I kind of love this browser. I don't know if it will pry me away from Firefox, but FF has so many problems on Mac (still!) that I'm always open to suggestion. This is a v good suggestion.

I think I will dl it over spring break, still hanging on from Mac Chrome as well.

I took to "tabs on top" like a duck to water. It seems to make as much sense, and maybe more.

Firefox on Mac still loads too slow and has that annoying creeping memory bloat (better than FF2, but still a bit annoying), but my dozen+ extensions mean I'm pretty married to it until Chrome/Safari/Webkit gets a real plug-in system. I actually like the tabs on top of Safari 4 beta, though it definitely runs a little chunkier than 3 did.

am i mistaken in thinking that everything in safari 4 is basically stolen from chrome?

also i don't get "tabs on top" vs "tabs on bottom"

if tabs are for fast switching between pages, and your mouse is generally somewhere in the lower half of the screen, it makes sense that the tabs would be on the bottom, right?

tabs on top gives you a little more real estate

why would your mouse be in the lower half? All the other must-mouse stuff like the window buttons, the menus, the toolbar fields and buttons etc are at the top, so it makes sense to put the tabs next to all that.

What pisses me off about it, is that it (understandably) has a difficulty in distinguishing between whether you want to click a tab, or whether you want to drag a window, so quite often it doesn't work, and then I click again and it registers a double click and minimises it. It's getting on my nerves. I really don't think it matters where they go.

I've closed a tab trying to bring a packed window to the front more than once, and there's no undo-close-tab, which is a pisser.

click-through is a mess

Arrrgh, why can I not put a reload button where it belongs to the left of the address bar, the fact that there is a non removable add bookmark where reload should be just adds insult to injury.

...and there's no undo-close-tab, which is a pisser.

Looks like the Glims kids have been pretty quick on getting it working for Safari 4.

why would your mouse be in the lower half? All the other must-mouse stuff like the window buttons, the menus, the toolbar fields and buttons etc are at the top, so it makes sense to put the tabs next to all that.

#1 - clicking around in the browser window?!? "submit post" or navigating web pages, etc. if your mouse is up by the toolbar field most of the time how do you even use the internet?!?

#2 - this is embarrassing, but i actually "read" with the mouse ... i drag it along past whatever i'm reading like a finger on a page.

i *love* the "top sites", btw, because 90% of my internet time is on six or so sites - the dashboard for my class blog, my web-based gradebook and attendance system, my webmail, my online banking and ILX.

I bought an iPhone today. Now how the hell do I use it?

#2 - this is embarrassing, but i actually "read" with the mouse ... i drag it along past whatever i'm reading like a finger on a page

Not embarrassing at all. I do that all the time when I'm editing stuff at work, certainly. It's become an automatic thing when I'm reading closely on a screen.

I'm trying to monitor where my mouse pointer spends most of its time. So far it's very much "in the bottom half of the screen". Still, I think the Safari 4 tabs rock bells, so hey.

Put yr finger in the hole with the first digit you need to dial, then turn it around like you were screwing on the top of a jar. Then do the same with the next digit, and so on until you ring up yr party. Put yr head next to the gadget and then talk!

Many a true word ...

yeah I like top sites because it confronts me with the reality of my time-wasting. Sometimes I actually look at all the little thumbnails and say "no, nothing valuable is going to happen here."

iphone OS 3.0 will have cut, copy & paste!

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I just destroyed my Mighty Mouse whilst trying to clean it. I do blame myself for this, because a) no one should make a mouse that you cannot properly clean without voiding the warranty, and b) no one should make a trackball that gets plugged up so badly that it's useless just from everyday handling. It's not like I've been using this mouse with sticky chocolate all over my hands. I wash my hands often. In fact, if there's one thing that the nd now that it's dead and I've Mighty Mouse is good for, it's making you wash your hands more often, for fear that you'll hamper its delicate and inaccessible inner workings. This is bullshit. And now that it's dead and replaced with my old reliable Microsoft IntelliMouse, I don't feel a bit sorry. I will not for a moment miss furiously fingering that tiny little trackball like the clit of a woman who's mad at me. Forget it.

I do NOT blame myself for this

Messy post. That I do blame myself for.

I think it was stet who recommended the cleaning method I use, and I've un-crapped my latest MM a half-dozen times: put a small puddle of clean water on a clean sheet of paper, turn the mouse upside down and scribble furiously through the water, like the mouseball is the tip of your pen. That water will get up there and dissolve whatever the problem is.

It's sad, because that scroll ball is totally awesome as long as it works, but it's very very annoying to clean. (And man that right click behavior was very annoying!) I had mine replaced under warranty, but switched to my old MS scroll wheel mouse.

That water will get up there and dissolve whatever the problem is.

For a time. Unless the problem turns out to be two years worth of the kind of cat hair that floats through the air and you can barely see. Apparently, that builds up nasty-like.

I've done the paper-water thing many, many times.

Being able to program it so that primary and secondary sides are switched is so great. 20 years of single-button mousing had me pretty ingrained in clicking on the right side with my middle finger.

I just want it to not break, that's all I'm saying. It is great, when it works.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/arlo0417.jpg

you must have that kind of cat

HAHA yes. Yes indeed.