I go to this well a lot but I'm honestly impressed with all you folks still plugging your phones into your computers; I last did that years ago and I'm afraid to ever do it again
― softie (silby), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
now that Xcode has wireless support, I never will again! I could get that Macbook now.
I just figured out that if the exchange rate was still pre-Brexit, the iMac Pro would cost a possibly achieveable £3k rather than the miserable £5k it looks like it'll be. Argh
― stet, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
my iphone 7's lightning headphone adaptor just shit the bed, £9 for a new one wheeeeeee
― alcohol aficionado zane lamprey (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
Create a smart playlist that is "most recently added, limited to 80gb" or whatever, and include that in the list of playlists the phone syncs then you don't have to manually add new stuff.
I have "most played 80gb" and "added in the last 12 months"or something like that
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
You can get more complicated with caek's approach if you want - say you want the most recent 5GB of mixes, most recent 2GB of audiobooks, and most recent 23GB of everything else. It's fun!
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
^ this is the way forward
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
smart playlists useful in this regard
― Nhex, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
― softie (silby), Thursday, 8 June 2017 00:43 (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
for me it's (a) itunes backups are more comprehensive and (b) got sick of removing stuff from my icloud backup to get it under 5 gb
― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 8 June 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
How much the 50 GB option where you’re from? Over here, it’s $.99 a month, so I just pay it.
― the ghost of markers, Thursday, 8 June 2017 00:21 (six years ago) link
And I don’t connect my iPhone to my iMac.
itunes backups are free and limitless
― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 8 June 2017 00:27 (six years ago) link
only to iCloud, and they're not limitless in that you can run out of space!additional space is cheap, though
I linked my phone to work email, though, and part of doing so was installing a security profile that disabled iCloud backups, among other things. I'd imagine it's pretty standard, since it's an Office in the cloud mail setup
― mh, Thursday, 8 June 2017 01:02 (six years ago) link
Sometimes living in the Apple ecosystem makes things very easy. I’m an Apple Music subscriber; unless they changed something, all I have to do is add an .mp3 to iTunes on my iMac and it should be accessible from the Music app on my iPhone.
― the ghost of markers, Thursday, 8 June 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
apple's services seem to have become more robust in the past couple of years. when apple music launched it was a shitstorm of bugs and inconsistencies, e.g. you'd upload songs and icloud music library would force-match them to live versions.
not sure whether this is in reply to me, but itunes backups go via cable to my hard drive. additional space is definitely cheap (and just this week the 1 tb plan became 2 tb for the same price!), but i already have a onedrive/office365 subscription and unlimited google photos.
― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 8 June 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link
they had itunes match and apple music working off separate systems even if you had both and it'd be glitchy as fuck, I believe they finally integrated
― mh, Thursday, 8 June 2017 01:46 (six years ago) link
righto
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/06/08/1418203/im-not-sure-i-understand----how-apples-siri-lost-her-mojo
Some former executives, close observers and even devoted customers say Apple's innovative power appears to be waning, stymied by a lack of urgency and difficulty bringing ideas to fruition. In nearly six years under Chief Executive Tim Cook, Apple's stock has soared but the company has not delivered a breakthrough product on par with the string of hits under late founder Steve Jobs, which included the iPod, iPhone and iPad. "Siri is a textbook of leading on something in tech and then losing an edge despite having all the money and the talent and sitting in Silicon Valley," said Holger Mueller, a principal analyst Constellation Research, a technology research and advisory firm.
the homepod looks great, but apple has so little confidence in siri that it's marketing its echo competitor as a very good speaker first and an intelligent assistant fourth.
this week's announcement was pretty damn solid, but apple is clearly a long way behind behind in some areas. for all that its hardware and stance on privacy seem to be stronger than ever, innovation is basically a lost cause at this point.
― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 9 June 2017 01:56 (six years ago) link
innovation is dumb who cares
― softie (silby), Friday, 9 June 2017 02:33 (six years ago) link
https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-sneakers-shoes-auction-1990s-heritage-ebay/
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
are those dayo's
― mh, Friday, 9 June 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
deep diabetes-core
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 June 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
in your face jony ive, that's a real design classic right there
― alcohol aficionado zane lamprey (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 June 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
I still haven't found a way of getting OS Sierra to talk to an Android phone! I even got a new phone because I thought the problem was that my old one was too ancient but the problem is OS Sierra.
Literally all I want to do is sync a couple of iTunes playlists. Previously iSyncr worked perfectly for this. Now, I think the various apps that are meant to get Androids and Macs to talk to each other can recognise an Android is connected but can't actually access it: iSyncr doesn't open, Smartswitch doesn't allow any sort of iTunes transfer, Doubletwist just crashes.
I've even tried to completely change the way I listen by investigating Google Play and it's automatically trying to upload my entire iTunes library which looks like it might take weeks, is making my computer overload, can't actually be stopped and isn't even doing it by playlist so is useless.
Heelllllllllllp I just want to organise the music on my phone like I used to
― lex pretend, Thursday, 29 June 2017 08:10 (six years ago) link
iSyncr works fine for me on Sierra. what exactly is happening?
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Thursday, 29 June 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
Literally nothing. I mean, when I click on the iSyncr icon it does say "Galaxy" rather than "Where is my USB device?" so it can tell there's a phone there, but nothing happens when I click on that. Sometimes a message on the phone itself will pop up after I've connected it via USB to the Mac saying there's no software that recognises it and I should download Kies (which the Kies website won't let me do as apparently Smartswitch is what Mac users have to use now).
― lex pretend, Saturday, 1 July 2017 06:49 (six years ago) link
Hm, I've only done the wifi sync. Maybe try that?
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Saturday, 1 July 2017 07:25 (six years ago) link
I don't see the option for that in the desktop app...
― lex pretend, Saturday, 1 July 2017 07:48 (six years ago) link
I have iSyncr running on desktop but I never open it to sync, I just see the menu bar icon. I start syncing from the mobile app, and the app lets me choose between wifi and usb.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Saturday, 1 July 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
WHY IN THE FUCK DOES MY KID'S IPAD MINI EASILY CONNECT AND STREAM AUDIO TO OUR AIRPORT EXPRESS AND MY BIG DAD IPAD DOES NOTWHY DID I SPEND TWENTY WHOLE DOLLARS ON AN AMAZON BLUETOOTH AUDIO THINGY THAT NOTHING CAN ACTUALLY CONNECT AND STREAM TOI HATE APPLE
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 2 July 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
also, FUCK
Have you tried asking your kid for help
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Sunday, 2 July 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
low blow man
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 July 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
i have an admin account and a non-admin, daily use account. one day, for no apparent reason, i couldn't log into my daily use account until i logged into my admin account first.
i'm going to end up reinstalling OS X, aren't i?
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Thursday, 20 July 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
Create another account and test that?
― wtev, Thursday, 20 July 2017 05:50 (six years ago) link
new account logs in just fine
have a suspicion this involves FileVault, but Apple removed UI for adding/removing permission to unlock FileVault
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 21 July 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
Ah that's a bit beyond my pay grade. I suppose if you've exhausted apple discussions you may be faced with back up and reinstall.
― wtev, Friday, 21 July 2017 20:16 (six years ago) link
yeah
it's frustrating knowing that somewhere there are a just couple bits that need to be twiddled ...
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Monday, 24 July 2017 09:59 (six years ago) link
When I hook up my iPhone to a Mac or pc, in the finder window I can see/edit/copy the folder which contains my camera roll. But 'my photo stream' (ugh) isn't there. Is there a way to access that particular folder through finder? Or a (third party) app, to copy it?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
They want you to go through the Photos app.
On a related note, I've got a Cannon. Used to be I could hook it up through the port and it would appear as a drive on my desktop. But after one of the recent updates, Apple did away with that handy function, so now I have to import through Photos and then to my preferred Lightroom.
Pain. In. The. Ass.
I'm sure there's an app for being able to dig through your phone through a finder window, but I haven't tried something like that since the iPhone 4.
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
You should be able still to import it directly to Lightroom, it doesn't need to be a drive for that. Is it not showing up at all in LR?
― stet, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
You can also make the Lightroom import screen fire up automatically when the Canon is attached.
Follow the steps in the second method here ("Stop the Photos app from launching using Image Capture") and choose Lightroom via that little icon hidden away in the bottom left of the Image Capture screen.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/12/28/how-to-stop-photos-mac-auto-launch/
― Alba, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
:'-(
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
the "photo stream" is just a dump of images with a bunch of metadata that organizes it in different ways. depending on your settings, they may or may not even be on your phone. going through Photos makes sense -- it's not a folder, any view that made it folder-like in the finder would be embedding the Photos functionality into Finder!
― mh, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
Photo stream has screen shots, photos sent through whatsapp etc in it. It is a dump, but I want to be able to make a time-stamped copy of that photo stream. Guess I'll fire up Photos to see if I can deal with it.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
They want you to go through the Photos app.On a related note, I've got a Cannon. Used to be I could hook it up through the port and it would appear as a drive on my desktop. But after one of the recent updates, Apple did away with that handy function, so now I have to import through Photos and /then/ to my preferred Lightroom.Pain. In. The. Ass.I'm sure there's an app for being able to dig through your phone through a finder window, but I haven't tried something like that since the iPhone 4.
On a related note, I've got a Cannon. Used to be I could hook it up through the port and it would appear as a drive on my desktop. But after one of the recent updates, Apple did away with that handy function, so now I have to import through Photos and /then/ to my preferred Lightroom.
Iexplorer
― wtev, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
You can also pull photos off of the phone directly using Image Capture. (it's in your Applications folder already)
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
http://www.macworld.com/article/2867001/exploring-the-many-miracles-of-image-capture.html
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
Completely new to me, thanks so much!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
it also drives scanners and is the quickest way of deleting all the photos on an iphone
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
I used to use Image Capturw to delete all photos on my phone after I'd copied them to my Mac but was always annoyed I couldn't leave my favorites behind.
Then I found this app, Deleter, which allows you to do just that. Very handy.
https://appadvice.com/app/deleter/1180101544
― Alba, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link