I HATE APPLE

so get a free new keyboard!

yes, you can do it in perpetuity if my experience is anything to go by. they have seen it 1,000,000 times. (although i haven't tried this year, which is four years since i bought it, i.e. out of the usual warranty.)

Apple doesn't replace individual keys out of warranty, though. They tried to sell me on a whole new keyboard for a couple of scuzzed letters, despite no guarantee that the same problem wouldn't happen again.

thanks, caek. I will look at those support threads and experiment.

This is starting to get ridiculous:

http://gizmodo.com/5562802/the-latest-examples-of-apples-stupid-editorial-censorship

wow, come on

£499 for an unlocked payg phone

any chance the locked-to-network payg phones will be about £50/£70 cheaper?

new mac minis too, nice

HDMI out, SD reader, the nvidia chipset, and it's tiny
http://www.apple.com/macmini/

$699, or £649 in the UK. FFS.

it does look nice but when i saw the price tag i balked

17.5% VAT is £113, so there's a £62 premium on that UK price.

bring back 2007 when $699 was the equivalent of 30p pls

The exchange rate is back to what it was in mid-2008, though.

went to america in oct 2007, it was glorious - October 2007 2.04529 USD : 1 GBP

Gruber, trolling hard:

You write on your site; I write on mine. That’s a response. I don’t use comments on Wilcox’s site to respond publicly to his pieces, but somehow it’s unfair that he can’t use comments on my site to respond to mine? What kind of sense is that even supposed to make? And if there aren’t any comments on DF, how are DF readers “adding to the noise”? (I realize, alas, that DF readers do sometimes leave noisy comments on sites to which I link. But how is that an argument for allowing comments on DF itself?)

yep, giving up on DF was the right decision

What makes DF an efficient and effective soapbox is exactly that it is not noisy. My goal is for not a single wasted word to appear anywhere on any page of the site.

i'd like to hear gruber's boring thoughts on the vuvuzela

honestly the piece he was responding to is just nuts.. a 1200 word rant about how unfair it is that he doesnt allow comments on his site.

yo is it true gruber got sonned by a blogger after a blog beef??????

Stephen Fry on the new iPhone

The iPhone 4 is an object of rare beauty. Noticeably slimmer but a trifle heavier than predecessors, its new heft only adds to the profound feeling of quality and precision that the device exudes. Sharper edged, it is girt by a stainless steel band which cleverly houses all the antennae required by a modern smartphone. Jobs himself made a comparison between iPhone 4 and a classic Leica. With this device in my hand, I feel that I am holding its designer Jonathan Ive's personal prototype, hand-machined as a proof-of-concept model. Ive is surely one of the most influential and gifted designers Britain has ever produced and the iPhone 4 may well be his masterpiece.

From the latest Private Eye:

“We have no commercial arrangement with apple other than as a registered app developer like many others”. So a spokesman for the Grauniad assured the Eye a fortnight ago, when we asked about the paper’s endless column inches and the prominent use of its website in Apple’s own billboard campaign for the new gadget.

Curious, then, that just days after we were told this, the Guardian’s director of consumer media Adam Freeman invited all editorial staff to “an informal update on recent marketing activity across the Guardian and Observer” at which he promised to fill them in on how “over recent months we have seen increased marketing activity during the election, in partnership with Apple and Nike, and of course our own campaign in preparation for the World Cup.”

please to stfu Stephen Fry

They deleted a slew of comments accusing them of being Apple shills from that page.

jesus that review

With this device in my hand, I feel that I am hand-machining its designer Jonathan Ive's personal cock.

I worked at MS ten years ago and it is so interesting how Apple has taken their place as the closed-system evil corporate scapegoat. Seriously can't justify getting another Mac and I have been an Apple user since 1992. All it would take to make me reconsider is to have iTunes support flac files, but no dice.

pretty weird thing to hold against an entire line of computers and OSes but

maybe I spoke too soon, I hear there are plugins for flac/iTuens but it is pretty frustrating

is there no other program u could use?

There's Songbird, but that doesn't work with an iPhone. Also flac doesn't play on iPods or iPhones, support for which is implied by iTunes support.

http://code.google.com/p/flukeformac/

yeah, that's the one (you may even have mentioned it on that other thread). dunno if it works with iPods but I have a different portable now anyway cuz of the flac issue.

Fluke didn't work well for me (files are imported into iTunes as 'Quicktime Movies' or something), but I downloaded another program that converts FLAC to Apple Lossless. Which I now seem to have lost.

I use Max to convert

http://sbooth.org/Max/

u r insane if u listen to flacs on your iphone or ipod imo

^haha, not a bad point actually

Second the recommendation for Max, though it can be a little buggy it usually gets the job done well. there's also XLD which is pretty good too

did anyone start having trouble with mail.app after upgrading to snow leopard? it hangs a lot--takes forever to check for mail, or takes forever to register something as read.

the internet tells me to re-enter my SMTP info, which seems dumb, but which i did, and it didnt do much. anyone else have this?

my internet has been absolutely terrible for the past 4 months and i've been on the fone with the cable company numerous times trying to get it fixed. someone on this board mentioned that it might be a problem with network settings on now leopard so i decided to look into it. lo and behold, deleting my network settings and recreating them has fixed the issue. while i'm glad my internet finally works smoothly again i just really have to say FUCK APPLE for these past 4 month of refreshing a webpage until it doesn't timeout EVERY SINGLE TIME i click a link.

I have a weird problem and I'm not sure if it's Firefox or what. On one of my machines, whenever I try to upload a photo somewhere (say, blogger), I'm given that option of choosing from 'photos' (I'm on snow leopard) and I also have a 'last import' selection....all annoying that I can't just navigate directly to the photo files anyway but whatever. Anyway, at some point Firefox just stopped showing the actual last import. It's showing stuff I imported weeks ago and I can't get to the newer files. It's all fine in chrome or safari. I know the answer to this is 'use chrome or safari' but it's actually my wife doing this and she won't actually listen to this reasoning, plus, I'd like to know why firefox is being so stubborn. Anyone else run across this problem? I've even upgraded Firefox to a newer version and it's still doing it.

LOLK how did u do that

Last year, Ruben Caballero, a senior engineer and antenna expert, informed Apple’s management the device’s design may cause reception problems, said the person, who is not authorized to speak on Apple’s behalf and asked not to be identified. A carrier partner also raised concerns about the antenna before the device’s June 24 release, according to another person familiar with the situation.

Apple are holding a press conference on Friday. wonder if they'll admit there's a problem or try to brazen it out.

this is reaching absurd proportions. a fucking press conference over a phone?

Well they were going to get LeBron James to talk about it but...

LOLK how did u do that

― young werther's originals (s1ocki), Sunday, July 11, 2010 11:49 PM (4 days ago)

go to the network settings prefpane, choose 'edit locations', remove the problematic location, and click the + to create a new location

having a press conference is "absurd proportions" for billions of dollars worth of underperforming hardware?

I would like to call a press conference to discuss that one pencil that wasn't sharpened properly.

press conferences are for cheating politicians, not inorganic pieces of steel and metal.

not to get all gruber, but it's not clear from the outside whether this is really underperforming hardware for more than a few. it's certainly got a lot of young single, male tech bloggers in the gizmodo comments section excited, but that happens every time there is a fault with an apple product: "omg apple has to fix this because i have no theory of mind and cannot believe this isn't their priority and they aren't issuing a global recall".

having said that: fuck apple and fuck john gruber.

cheating politicians, not inorganic pieces of steel and metal

Or they can be both (allegedly):

http://watersecretsblog.com/archives/Al%20Gore_1.jpg

loooooooool caek