Actually, this is kind of a tiny tech question, but since we're on mail apps -- I get my work email (outlook) to my Apple mail app, and we use those calendar invitations a lot, and they are just buggy as FUCK for me. For example, every time I get an invite from a certain co-worker, it shows me an old invite instead of the new one so I can't see what the actual date/time is unless I "accept" and then look at my calendar.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 02:14 (eight years ago) link
ayo Mac nerds, if a Macbook Pro is declining to start up properly, just showing a NO / banned / Ghostbusters-style circle-slash, and an endlessly spinning progress flower wheel thingy, what can one do to encourage it to start starting up again like a goood little computer?
("Reset the System Management Controller Firmware" with shift+ctrl+option?)
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 09:52 (eight years ago) link
Mail app is totally incompetent at Exchange. It gets a lot better in El Capitan/iOS 9 though
if a Macbook Pro is declining to start up properly, just showing a NO / banned / Ghostbusters-style circle-slash
― stet, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 10:27 (eight years ago) link
boot from an external and try running disk warrior or disk utility. If those guys don't see it, you're out of luck. Then it's data rescue time or bring it to the pros. Or replace the drive, it's backed up right?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 12:11 (eight years ago) link
xx-post that happened to me two months ago. Apple genius (well, a trainee that was not too savvy I thought) tried stet's suggestions and a reboot through an external (usb) drive (x-post as per dan's suggestion) but nothing worked.Turned out to be a faulty HD cable. As I'd replaced the HD that came with the MBP (2010) with a Samsung SSD drive about a year ago I'm not sure if the issue was Apple or Samsung hardware. I'm guessing the latter. Was HUGELY relieved that it was just the (<$5) cable.
― willem, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
The hardware is still great, but they're really losing ground on the software side. Maybe trying to do too much. Maps, music, email, and the browser are all inferior. And maybe it doesn't even matter as long as they can keep putting out new devices.― calstars, Dienstag, 15. September 2015 02:30 (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― calstars, Dienstag, 15. September 2015 02:30 (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Speaking as a web developer it's quite remarkable what a clunky piece of garbage desktop Safari has become in the last 2-3 years. Even Firefox recovered well in comparison, not to speak of IE.
― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
I have no probs with current Safari, glad to be the outlier
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 14:00 (eight years ago) link
Yah, I've had the HD ribbon go on a MacBook Pro. Can't remember if I got the no-entry sign on boot up or a question mark.
Apparently it's quite common, and yes, a huge relief to find out it was a cheap fix and that the disk was OK.
― Alba, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
No problems here either.
Really don't like Apple's OS policy of "it was working, so we fixed it." Absolutely no reason to replace mDNS responder with half-baked DiscoveryD (10.10.4 switched it back). I'm fine with Mail and Safari, but can CoreData be made usable once and for all?
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
I am sure they had reasons but the new version was definitely half-baked and shipped too early
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
yeah 'absolutely no reason' seems unlikely.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
'hey we are rewriting this old software to be more robust and it'll handle some stuff we're going to introduce in the future''oh cool it's ready for next week right''uhhh sure'
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
I'm so far into Google's software now on my iphone that I think a move to android would almost make sense
― calstars, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
btw tried outlook for ios and it's not bad
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
haha my iphone 5 had the sleep/wake button go out for a few months, which is a common enough problem that they extended the warranty for this...and then the button started working again today, out of nowhere
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
I have a friend who works for google and he mentioned that a lots of google people who have apple devices tend to use outlook for email, even though they use gmail addresses. It's generally considered to be the best iOS mail client.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
little sketchy on iPad mini, can't figure out how to get the sidebar to disappear
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
Wonder how Google feels about their email going through Outlook's chinese servers.
― stet, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
I think the outlook client directly connects from phone to yr mail server?
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
They replaced that button on mine for free as a recall.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I tried that but the repair center (not an Apple Store) said my phone had been tampered with (it hadn't ) and so couldn't do it.
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link
Someone should ask Tim Cook if he feels safe enough to keep his documents in iCloud
― calstars, Sunday, 20 September 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
aaaaargrgggggghttps://discussions.apple.com/thread/7218207?start=0&tstart=0
― Spottie, Sunday, 27 September 2015 04:40 (eight years ago) link
Just got the 6S and I'm so angry about the size. It's less comfortable to hold. I have to use two hands to accomplish basic tasks. Why was this a good idea?
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 28 September 2015 16:34 (eight years ago) link
presumably a majority of people they spoke to when they were researching the new form factor :-(((((((
it is a tragedy
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 September 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
did they change it form the 6?
― Spottie, Monday, 28 September 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
no, i had the 5S which was perfect, is now and ever shall be, world without end, amen.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 28 September 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
agreed; they're gonna have to make the tech a lot better for me to want to trade up. Or just age me out with increasingly demanding software, which is much more likely.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 September 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
5s is great
― marcos, Monday, 28 September 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
I just got a 6s and love it and it's bigness and thinness. Also that it stays charged longer than the mere 8 hours or so my 5s was capable off at the end.
And 64gb too which is mind blowing.
― joygoat, Monday, 28 September 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
what are the odds on the 5s size being updated next year? 50/50? worse?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 September 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link
zero
― calstars, Monday, 28 September 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
6s plus all the way
― calstars, Monday, 28 September 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
ta for advice upthread btw folks - it was that internal connecting cable, and girlfriend's laptop has been given a temporary reprieve from the Mac graveyard.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Monday, 28 September 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
rumor was that they had an update to the 5 form factor in the pipeline for this cycle and killed it. I don't know if that makes me more or less hopeful.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 28 September 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
the ipad mini branding right now is a complete mess
― 龜, Monday, 28 September 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
the 5 was kinda the perfect size. but I'm also cool with my 6+
― Spottie, Monday, 28 September 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
not only was the 5 the perfect size, it was very light as well, noticably so from the 4 and the 6.
― calstars, Monday, 28 September 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link
I much prefer reading ilx and twitter on the 6, really good size
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 28 September 2015 20:10 (eight years ago) link
I think they will make a 6c, at 5 sizes, soon. Ther's too much demand for them to ignore it.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 04:26 (eight years ago) link
http://s30.postimg.org/vt39gv5v5/Untitled.jpg
― the late great, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 04:50 (eight years ago) link
^yeah that happened to my parents' charger as well. my mom is always so cautious with that stuff, winding the cord properly around the charger before storage - in this case I think that made it more likely to break (inside). anyway, design is rubbish.
― willem, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 08:09 (eight years ago) link
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), maandag 28 september 2015 20:10 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
good to hear.
Not very impressed with the camera on the 6/6s; it does a heavy noise reduction which makes skin look all blurred and smeared. I'd noticed it in my own pictures, but hadn't realised how very bad it was until I saw the close-up portrait comparisons on this site. The 4s is miles better, I think
http://snapsnapsnap.photos/iphone-6s-camera-comparison/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQB955IWwAAcksm.png
― stet, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 09:15 (eight years ago) link
man i just did an iphone update and now "music" is like attempt after attempt to get me to sign up for apple music
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
icons at bottom of "music" rearranged too, idgaf about "radio" or "playlists" i specifically put "artists" "albums" and "genre" there why did you move them apple fuck off
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
like you used to be able to customize how to sort your music, now this useless "@connect" icon is stuck there and i have to do an extra step to sort by genre
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
tbf sort by genre seems like a pretty niche thing to want to do
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
well it nice to be able to choose what tabs appear at the bottom, if i have no use for "radio" or "playlists" or "connect" itd be great to be able to choose something else
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
the "recently added" thing is pretty cool though