I HATE APPLE

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You, the one who updated to iTunes 9 and has an iPod: had any issues with smart playlists under iTunes 9? I'm nervous about updating now. I've heard RUMORS.

Was fine for me. The only thing I heard about smart playlists under iTunes 9 is that they're even better now, since you can nest criteria.

The issue I've heard of is smart playlists not doing live updating on the iPod any more, or not appearing on the iPod at all. Thanks!

the first itunes 9 sync of my girlfriend's ipod resulted in the ipod freezing up, playlists disappearing, and no record of what she'd listened to. Dunno how much you can blame itunes 9 and how much you can blame possibly random, destructive freezing.

I'm in doubt who to blame this on: iphone, me or the phonecompany. My bill was MASSIVE. I am gonna haggle and try to lower it but I ph34r the worst. Was tempted to chuck the iphone in the bin for about a split second. Now I just put off the mobile internet capability. Yes, I am to blame.

is there no unlimited plan? i cant believe telcos still charge by the MB

our two-phone plan is cranking in at $300/month which is absolutely ridiculous; we did spring for unlimited SMS, which adds $20 per line, but still, it seems unreasonably high for two phones. need to call att.

But what I really came here to ask was: is there really no way to configure a shared drive hooked up to an airport extreme as your time machine drive? because it sure doesn't let me select it, and even though I found plenty of pages on the web claiming it was possible, they are kind of old, and I found one page stating that Apple took this feature away prior to releasing Time Capsule. This is kind of fucked up. Tell me there's some way to hack it.

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So I forgot (!?!) to extend my AppleCare on my iPhone and now the "home" button only works on like one out of twenty presses. I am only two months away from an upgrade to a 3GS but I can't believe how infuriating it is to try to deal with this.

And apparently there is no way to fix the home button short of replacing the whole unit?

talking to your network to get an early upgrade, maybe in return for a contract period extended by a couple of months, might be the best way forward. they shouldn't really care much whether you upgrade in 2 months or now as long as you're locked into their services for the same period of time in the end.

Does that ever really happen?

i dunno, don't ask, don't get, i suppose. plan b is threaten to leave at the end of your contract - then you get to speak to the retention department and all manner of options become open to you. i mean, an android phone/palm pre on a new contract on a new network and writing off two months' line rental is cheaper than buying a new iphone at full cost, right? your network provider should be able to make the same calculations.

ps i have never tried this and fold like a weak poker player in all customer service confrontations but do as i say not as i do.

I'm the same way, but my ex was a fervent Customer Service Warrior and I can tell you from her experience that if you use the rep's name constantly and sound serious about any threats you make without being beligerent, you can basically get any company to do anything you want. And this is a minor request, really, she could do stuff like get Bank of America to reverse ~$350 of overdraft fees on my account.

I had a stupid eligibility conflict that prevented me from getting an iphone at the subsidized price (meaning it would have cost me $200 more) based on a mistake from a AT&T store lackey. I talked my way up the phone support level to the point that I spoke to somebody who at least appeared to have authority and who gave me her actual office number to call, where I explained to her how much more money they would make off me if they let me do this, how I'm basically begging her to pay an extra $50 a month for TWO iphones, how I'd already fulfilled a 2 year contract, threatened to leave for an Android or Palm, and so on and so on. She just said sorry, nothing I can do, yeah it's stupid, it's Apple's policy, tough shit. Maybe you'll have better luck.

i am so frustrated with my phone right now that i am almost ready to drop the extra $200 to get a new one tomorrow rather than wait for december 12

So I forgot (!?!) to extend my AppleCare on my iPhone and now the "home" button only works on like one out of twenty presses.

mine's well on the way to the same thing, used to be every other press, now it's one out of four presses. it's under one year old.

well i have now seen the "unsupported architecture" icon for the first time, twice actually within the space of two days - first for google chrome, then for the lightroom 3 beta

i guess a computer that apple was selling brand-new 4 years ago is considered so old as to be not worth even releasing one's software for?? fuck you

not sure if that's directed at apple, adobe or google but fuck you all anyway

this is you having a ppc, right? you're not still running 10.2 or something are you?

no i got leopard, duke

but yes, ppc

pp caca more like it

you're not helping

if it's any consolation, the upgrades in LR 3 are not v compelling to me.

i guess a computer that apple was selling brand-new 4 years ago is considered so old as to be not worth even releasing one's software for?? fuck you

― Tracer Hand, Monday, October 26, 2009 7:29 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what is the deal with airplane food

you're not helping either

this is the i hate apple thread btw, perhaps you took a wrong turning

and these computers--you buy one, and then five minutes late its out of date

tracer i feel for you i really do but lets get real

no i'm grumpy now

i mean how the fuck i am going to survive with lightroom TWO (which is still the current official version) and, like, the most up to date version of safari god only knows

thank god twitter works on the old safari right?!

i want a new computer

indexing on snow leopard is ridiculous. every time it wants to index the drive, my 2.6 GHz 15" MBP - that i shelled out top-dollar for - turns into a laggy, buggy mess.

i hate you, indexing.

I used to have that problem on my old 2 GHz MB, but haven't noticed anything on my MBP with Snow Leopard.

Might be that it's just indexing the drives at a more convenient time.

caek i actually did mean "with" there

actual new stable mainstream products that do not run on PPC = only google chrome as far as i know

Christ, Apple. The exact-same Zing for iPhone app that they rejected a fortnight ago because they didn't like "henfap" as a keyword, has now been rejected because it might confuse you if you have no internet connection then try to log in to a server on the internet and it doesn't work. I have to make a big flashing "you have no internet" banner to make sure you are not confused. fuck apple.

I took my computer for repair the other day, a couple keys aren't working because of water damage from about six months ago and I wanted to know how much it would cost to get fixed. They quoted me $1280! "Well...other parts could be rusting and rotting inside...and you have a dent on one corner so that could've caused hardware damage...we'd have to send it in and list it as a Tier 4 repair, that's the most major kind, and the flat charge is $1280." "Really? I just have three keys that aren't working...." "You can get a refurbished macbook starting at $999!" Guess I'll just stick with my external keyboard then, THANKS APPLE.

haha, yeah they are terrible in that regard. when my internal HD died (2 months out of warranty, natch) they asked a crazy figure to repair it. i ended up buying a HD twice as big off newegg, took it to a local shop, the whole thing was way way less than what the Apple Store quoted me.

is time machine a horrible godawful slow mess for anyone else or just me? I can't even have it running on my mac mini (running snow leopard), it slows the entire thing down to an awful crawl.

finally figured out how to get rid of "Apple To Do" mailboxes from showing up in ALL of my IMAP accounts ON IPHONE

1. quit Mail
2. open terminal, paste

defaults write com.apple.mail NewNoteToDoAccount -string LocalAccountId

and hit enter.

3. you'l still need to delete the mailbox on the server, but now it won't be created again.

is it just me or does it seem weird that leopard has the permissions to create mailboxes on my own mail server??

hey, that's just IMAP (4) and your mail server at work

fuck now it's back.

WARNING. BUM TIP.

whatchoo talkin bout alang. it isn't my work mail server it's MINE OWN.

unless you have done skillz stuff to stop your mail server allowing it, IMAP clients have the ability to make folders when they like innit

I have a folder INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Trash or something. It's pretty buggy.

the whole point of using IMAP over POP3 is that IMAP can do stuff to yer mail server

would like to know how to get rid of To-do folder too though

I have this golden vision of opening my mail program ON IPHONE and seeing "Inbox" "Drafts" "Sent" and "Trash" for each of my email accounts, and nothing else. Or even a consolidated inbox so I don't have to check each account individually but let's not get carried away.

I am sorely tempted to set permissions on /~Home/Library/Mail/IMAP-account/INBOX to read-only so that Mail can't create anything there (but would still be able to alter lower folders) but I'm a big scaredy cat.

has anyone here lost their ability to send out gmail in OS X Mail? I didn't change anything but one day mails in my gmail outbox just stopped getting sent; instead it just spins indefinitely. I've tried removing gmail from Mail and putting it back in, but nothing. And google hasn't helped.