New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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.

I honestly don't remember! I think that Comic Zeal might have had some weirdness with page flipping in the past.

do you guys use this in addition to comixology or in place of it?

FWIW, I use ComicBookLover: http://www.bitcartel.com/comicbooklover/

me too.

http://www.bitcartel.com/comicbooklover/ipad.html

great website, screenshot really sells it

Late but my podcast app of choice is called Castro and it's pretty slick and designy and works quite well.

craig and eddy: http://recode.net/events/code-conference/

silby thank you SO MUCH for the castro link. i've been using instacast and while it's better than the default podcast app it's fiddly. Castro feels much more natural. the big type helps too! #old

http://9to5mac.com/2014/05/19/angela-ahrendts-plan-for-the-future-of-apple-retail-china-emphasis-mobile-payments-revamped-experience/

if nothing else they'll benefit from having someone who knows how to dress on their board

hey markers

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/05/19/walter-isaacson-iovine-tv-content-role/

I spent a few bucks on Pocket Casts instead of continuing to struggle with Apple's Podcasts app. Very happy with it so far.

xpost i was just taking a peek at the lyons article. idk tho

do you guys use your iphone/ipad/other ios device as an alarm clock?

I do.

sure

i stopped about 2 months ago after the third time it went off silently making me super late for work. Each time I had turned the ringer level up before bed. Said fuck it, got a battery operated travel clock.

haha. see, i want to just trust it though. that that will never happen. but right now i'm using this dedicated thing

did you have it on mute?

ugh i'm gonna have to come up with a checklist so i never fuck it up

mine works fine

i have limited access to funds right now and would like this to save me $25

i've been using that sleep cycle app for years and it works like a charm

i should say this was just the alarm function within the ios Clock, not a dedicated app.

it's fine. i did oversleep (by eight minutes) a couple nights ago when i had the ringer too low. first time that's happened in like a year.

recommend using Ella Fitzgerald "Fascinating Rhythm" as your alarm sound. seriously.

On mine, it always seems to work, regardless if I'm on mute or whatever. I use the standard clock app.

IME the "silent alarm" actually means I was really fucking tired and chose the wrong alert tone before falling asleep

I think that was the explanation for one of my incidents, but the other times it really seemed to have chosen the "get fired from your job" alert tone on its own contra my instructions.