I HATE APPLE

xp is a breath of fresh air after being stuck with vista i can tell you

yah ive never fucked w/vista everyone hates it lol

it somehow prevents me from reinstalling xp over it :(

v creepy

gah!

a friend of mine was just telling me abt how the non-profit where he works is abt to switch to vista so he sent them this really long email w/all these links saying like you know vistas gonna suck on our old ass pcs right and then once yr forced to buy new ones its still gonna kind of suck

and they wrote back a one line response being all you do your job we'll do ours

them = it dept

there's no helping some people

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/21/terminal-tip-safari-3-1-brings-true-one-window-mode/

thank god

So this new ipod software update i downloaded yesterday has apparently screwed up the fast scrolling, where it flashes up each letter of the alphabet. It now stops at all the "The... " artists so the letters go A T B T C T D T E T ...

in leopard when you have an mp3 with a photo attached it shows the icon for the file as a miniature of the sleeve (totally fucking unnecessary) similarly it shows a minaturized still for a movie file (totally fucking unnecessary) but i just want them to show up as .mp3 or .mpeg icons not as little photos so i don't get the files confused and instantly know what kind of data something is. can i make it do that?

Finder > View menu > Show View Options. If you do it on the desktop it won't stick, do it with a window open and then hit "Save as default"

cheers stet!

np! It was driving me daft as well -- why would I want all my text docs to look like black squiqqles on white, and no way to know what app will open them? Stupid.

It's all about QuickLook and jamming that spacebar!

whoa. I fired a machine this morning. Nothing but BSOD, no matter what else I tried or how wacky the google results seemed to get. I finally hooked it up to another machine and transferred all the most essential files, and am now reinstalling Leopard. What a pain. :(

not fired. FRIED.

i installed leopard and my old powerbook g4 feels like i just added more RAM to it, it's amazing

even if that hadn't happened though it's worth it for Quick Look ALONE, it seems to work with everything!! it is a fricking godsend for people with loads of files to deal with

hey, this is the hate thread, bud.

buggy leopard is ALMOST worth it for quick look alone, which is amazing

nothing but crash city tho! I'm so inured to it, working primarily on windows at work, but it was only the other day I thought "hey, why won't a single application close without returning error report dialogues these days?" ans: leopard

maybe it's your intel architecture lol

In one folder, I have over 400 jpg files. In another folder, I have subfolders for "family", "Friends", "Pets", "Interstates",etc.

I'm never going to be able to organize this shit, am I?

not if they're all pictures of that road trip you took with your parents, friends and dog

I like "fired" better.

is it just my computer or is iPhoto a total dog since Leopard?

iphoto has always been unusably slow for me.

The recent software update included iTunes 7.6.2.

I installed it but my purchased music folder must have corrupted in the process because it also listed non-purchased music and also missed large amounts of purchased music.

I re-created it using a smart playlist for 'protected' and 'purchased', but not very impressed with this.

Why the fuck is the antenna on the iPhone at the bottom, underneath your hand? I end up losing calls and getting no data in weak areas unless I hold it really stupidly so that the antenna is free. ffs.

I'm hoping the latest version of iTunes phones home to tell Apple how many mp3 I have that are from Amazon and eMusic and how many songs I have from their shitty store (ZERO, SUCKERS).

is it just my computer or is iPhoto a total dog since Leopard?

I'm using Leopard and iPhoto 7.1.3 and iPhoto is running fantastically (iPhoto library is 3GB, 4100 images)

hey iTunes: i don't wanting to fucking update you because then i have to restart my fucking computer every. single. time.

lol @ sad truth of worthless itunes/quicktime updates being the number one cause of OS X downtime

itunes update gave me safari for windows, which is pretty sweet

Hey, don't be so down on it. The new iTunes is really quite amazing. It seems they have found a way to utilize DAAP(tm) to prevent Macintosh users from eating too much salt, swearing in front of their parents, or waking up next to an ill-chosen partner. Incredible. What can't they prevent us from doing?

I would like to retract that last post because it is boring.

But I am wondering who else has had a story romance with the Mighty Mouse. It's really kind of a piece of crap, especially because of that "touch sensitive" button thing that works when I have my fingers in EXACTLY the right places on it, but who can put their fingers in the same place every time on a totally smooth, very gently curved bit of plastic? I guess it's cool if you never take your hand off the mouse, but that's a little vintage nowadays, isn't it? So instead I resort to forcing my fingers to the extreme edges of it to avoid the hundreds of undesirable things that happen when you accidentally push the wrong mouse button, and that's how to throw a splitter, not how to use a mouse. Would so many hearts really be broken if the mouse has TWO smooth pieces of plastic on top of it? They don't even have to be VERY distinguishable -- I don't want the moon. Just SOMEWHAT distinguishable.

And yet... that tiny 360-degree trackball. It's just perfect. I miss it when it's not there. This mouse is like an unstable girlfriend who's super hot.

stormy romance, should have said. :(

See, I don't have my nice new apple keyboard here, and life is harder without it.

that tiny 360-degree trackball. It's just perfect.
For the three months that it works, until it gums up and stops tracking down, and is impossible to clean with breaking the mouse into bits.

+out

you know, i've heard that, but mine went backwards somehow. It gummed up a lot when I first got it, and i nearly tossed the thing. But for months now it has worked perfectly. Shrug.

I'm on Mighty Mouse #2; love the customizability. My natural click-gesture is with the middle finger on the right side of the mouse, so it's nice to be able to make right side primary and left side CTRL-click side.

The scroll ball tendency to get gummed up pisses me off, and they'll really have a winner on their hands when they figure out how to make it user-cleanable or more dirtproof.

xposts

you know, i hadn't even thought about it, but i think i know why it hasn't gotten sticky on me lately: dry winter air, dry radiator heat. Now i predict that as soon as things get all sweaty again, the trackball will get all gummy again. :(

you know?

i'm going to start ever post with that from now on.

For the three months that it works, until it gums up and stops tracking down, and is impossible to clean with breaking the mouse into bits.

I've had a wireless Mighty Mouse since day one, and this method for cleaning it has been 100% effective every single time.

what exactly does the mighty mouse do?!?!?

I have a wired MM or two, and I have had no problems with gumming or clicking. One reason I use it rather than one of the approximately 30 mice and trackballs I have is that it accelerates correctly on the Mac. 3rd party mice often have huge problems with this issue.

At work, I use this:

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/3628/imageuploadimagehx1.jpg

because it's the most ergo pointing device I have ever tried.

It has like a right click and a left click but it's all invisible?

It also has middle click.

The clicks are triggered by body odor.

tom:

http://images.appleinsider.com/images/mightymouse4r.jpg

Apple will tell you that it is a 7 button mouse. I have found this claim to be somewhat tenuous.

The right click only works if you take your left finger entirely off the mouse, which is a pain. The side buttons are too hard to squeeze.

Elvis: I tried that method for cleaning mine, but it only seems to fix it for an hour or two, then I have to do it again and invariably end up killing the thing.