New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

make it a goal to get google-caliber at services

not that that'd even be achievable

but try to get there -- set the bar high

not, "we can't even get our notes app to sync properly"

With the exception of pro- and semi-pro software, they've given up nearly completely on selling much software.

It's pretty much hardware >
operating systems for hardware >
media ecosystem (iTunes store, etc) that builds their media ecosystem >
base applications that make people buy other hardware (iTunes & such linking hardware to iPad/iPhone/iPod) >
pro applications they sell for a few bucks that drive hardware sales >
services that keep hardware afloat w/back-ups and keeping up to minimal expected standards for 2014

so, them operating the services out of a completely rag-tag bunch of servers that they can cut loose at any time makes some sense

btw I meant "media stores to feed their device ecosystem"

apple can't even get its podcasts app to work right

what's wrong?

i use it on my ipad mini

lol nice try

. . .

slocki, i'd like to hear from you about that if you see my post instead of hearing from this asshole

podcasts app works much better than it used to ime and I use it a lot (iPhone 5)

Podcast app just updated (along with 10.9.3 and iTunes 11.2) just now. Now it seems worse again.

it has improved in some ways but it still does insane stuff like: i listen to part of a podcast, then stop. come back later, and it's assumed i've finished with it deleted the file from my iphone so i have to re-dl it or waste cellular data.

sometimes it dls new eps, sometimes it doesn't. sometimes it syncs with itunes, sometimes it doesn't. its hysterically bad.

thanks. i use it but just put up with however it works

The podcast app has basically made listening to podcasts on my iphone 4 impossible.

markers i assumed you were joking. seems impossible to read as much apple stuff as you do and not be aware that podcasts is literally the worst software apple have produced since 9/11.

apologies. and hah. i literally *use* podcasts, and i guess i just don't notice it or work around its flaws? idk for sure what's going on there.

Try using Pocket Casts, Downcast or Instacast... they are all better than the Apple app. You'll see the difference.

Downcast has 30-second skip.

I believe in Pocket Casts you can set both the backward and forward skip rates. I also like that you can change the playback rate by 10ths. 1.3x is my sweet spot.

Downcast is flipping great. It lets you do the 30-second skip with a double click of your middle headphone button – makes its so easy to skip adverts/boring bits on podcasts when you're walking about.

that is an interesting feature.

i did a little gaming on an ipod classic at the apple store

the ipod nano also had ios 6ish elements to it, b/c they never updated the interface apparently

should 10.9.3 be applied urgently via lol security or can i wait?

well, there's the "It improves the stability, compatability, and security of your Mac." in the release notes

but besides that, it doesn't look like this one's *about* security

that being said, i already am running it, because that's what i do

here's the link: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/05/15/apple-releases-os-x-10-9-3/

can i ask about ibooks usage? anyone? just kindle?

i kindle. read some comics on the ipad using comic zeal.

I'm nearly all iBooks because the in-app search is miles better

oh fuck this noise apple http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/os-x-10.9.3-unhiding-your-users-directory

Is this the fastest-moving thread on ILX?

I don't know. We should put down markers.

jesus, he's pretty into apple products but that's going a bit far

He went to retire to an orchard among the apple trees

has iBooks stopped being a piece of shit? Deeply insulted when it hid all my pdfs, fucked the metadata etc. Kindle & PDFexpert now. Turn epubs into mobis with calibre.

But all feels a bit inbetweeny, like something open and better and coherent is just a year or two away.

if they're moving away from ePub, they're taking their sweet ass time about it

Using iBooks for reading. Calibre for organization, de-DRMing, etc.

Is it possible to de-DRM Amazon purchases and load them to iBooks? Haven't tried that direction.

There's a Calibre plug-in that does it automatically: a p p r e n t i c e a l f at w 0 r d p r 3 3 s dot c 0 m

Once you do that, convert the mobi to epub.

btw, comic flow on ipad is a better comics reader iirc

c&p from the product recs thread where it got no answers:

Ok so I have a mac and I have a bunch of high quality video of speakers talking. The video from the camera is MTS and MPG files, and it is chunked into 30 min segments becaue that is what the camera does. The audio has a crappy ground hum throughout.

imovie sucksssss and is terrible.

Here is want I want to do: join all the video, crop the very start and end junk out, _and_ extract the audio to a wav of whatever, so I can fix it in audacity and notch out the noise, then merge the new audio back in, then convert it so it can be uploaded.

What program should I use (not imovie!)

Have you tried QuickTime?
There might be AppleScript to even do this automatically

btw, comic flow on ipad is a better comics reader iirc

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better than zeal? why

i bought comic zeal last night and like it a lot.