New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

new iPad screen seems to be the same features as iPad Air 1, so in practice, pretty much the same as all the other retina screens.

what makes the 2017 iPad a step down from the iPad Air 2?

so let me get this straight there is now iPad Regular and iPad Pro, easy peasy, no more air? but for a while they had Airs but no Regulars???

If was just a name. A confusing one. There's now iPad Pro, iPad (not air) and iPad mini. The iPad Pro comes in two sizes though, so I suppose there are 4 really.

There used to be iPad mini 2 and iPad mini 4 too

Yes there was no consistency, at least now it's fairly clear what each machine is for.

I like my iPad Air 2 a lot, although when I'm not actually using it I do tend to think about how I really preferred the form factor of my old iPad Mini and I think I could be happier with the iPad Pro that's the exact same size but has the better speakers and processor etc. I'm disloyal.

So basically just buy whichever but just know that you'll still die wondering

everyone wants to see that thing

I have similar agitata with the 6 plus / SE

so now there's no THIN IPAD in the lineup?

oh wait, the THIN IPAD is now the ipad pro

just buy one of each. sell your car, sell your other possessions, sell your family

there's an iPad size corresponding to each

upgrading to ios 10.3 (apfs) has given me back 7.5 gb of storage space

Praise be

omg

have you checked that it didn't do that by deleting 7.5gb of vitally important files

kind of wonder if the filesystem transfer process did some deduping -- if a bunch of apps used the same frameworks/versions, could have zapped the clones

yeah sorry that was itunes match deleting a random 7.5gb of your music

:)

beep boop blorp match detected, processing

*deletes 7.5GB*

abt to start updating to iOS 10.3, let's see how long it takes
if we include installing the latest version of iOS then I already started this process around 7:15

er the latest version of iTunes, DUH

holy shit

i turned on "reduce transparency" on my Mac
uninstalled Flash
uninstalled Perian (!)
uninstalled Flip4Mac (!!)
finally updated Hazel

and my 2011 mini is BLAZING FAST NOW.

nicely done

This is unusual: http://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives

actual news from daringfireball! truly, the world is upside down

i guess apple thinks daring fireball is the voice into the pro community?

*continues to research pc hardware*

heh https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/849278087199997952

that's funny.

I'm happy with this. The new pro is probably gonna be sooo expensive that I'll just get an updated iMac and get rid of one of my monitors, but we'll see I guess.

With regards to the Mac Pro, we are in the process of what we call "completely rethinking the Mac Pro." We’re working on it. We have a team working hard on it right now, and we want to architect it so that we can keep it fresh with regular improvements, and we’re committed to making it our highest-end, high-throughput desktop system, designed for our demanding pro customers.

https://i.imgur.com/lZQuY1b.jpg

i guess apple thinks daring fireball is the voice into the pro community?

― 龜, Tuesday, April 4, 2017 9:34 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck, we're doomed

As a professional software developer what I want most is a worse computer.

Switched recently from an iMac to a desktop PC at home - Windows still has its problems but it's awfully nice to not need an external HD, USB hub, etc. just to be able to hook up my peripherals.

The last regular desktop Mac Pro was great - easy to access for changing/adding HDs, it wasn't unsightly (if you give a shit about that), over two versions and six years I don't think I ran into a single hardware problem. It was huge but maybe just get your industrial designers to make one half as tall (don't need the SuperDrive bay, cut it down to two HD slots). Done.

i have a 2007 macbook pro that is still running like a dream. I do want one of those 4K ipad pros though but i dont have $1K to throw at it.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/10/student-reimagines-apple-music/

college student makes font smaller - everybody goes bananas

https://i.imgur.com/agXfrW0.jpg

"eliminated beats 1"

*applause*

i had completely forgotten about beats 1 until this thread bump

Does anyone have a good method for archiving a webpage? Say I read an article that’s only available in HTML, and I want a copy of it in my Dropbox. What would you do? I know you can create a PDF of a webpage in Safari, but is that usually of good quality? Is there another method? Anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks dudes.

you could use instapaper or pocket or a similar tool that allows for permanently saving web articles for offline reading probably

Most of my text reading goes to Pocket - everything else goes to .webarchive files generated out of Safari. I suppose there's some sort of IFFT recipe that could send anything to Dropbox.

instapaper/pocket just create a copy on your device iirc

i'll poke around a little later, but I think there are some options?

you can access your instapaper articles from anywhere you have an internet connection

pinboard. it's not free but it works well.

instapaper re-downloads the article to each device, though. they're not keeping a copy afaik

instapaper sucks, ever since it was bought or Marco left or whatever happened. Half the time it won't even save articles. I just switched to Pocket. It's a bit annoying but has many more features and actually seems to work.

I think what markers is talking about isn't bookmarking or a reader view but actual archiving -- instapaper and pocket grab the page on demand, typically when you load the app or a link's pushed to it, pinboard does bookmarking, but if the site dumps the content or goes out of business none of those are doing archiving (which, legally, is a grey area)

I think saving a pdf out of safari still sucks since it gives you a printer view. The best way to capture a page exactly as originally shown was a WebKit-based app that just made a really long image (this one, I believe: https://derailer.org/paparazzi/), but if you want text that's far from ideal.