I HATE APPLE

air discount prices

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you need a university IP.

― caek, Thursday, December 2, 2010 3:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

weird. here you just click the option that says "i'm a student" and it takes you into the educational store. and when i bought something at an actual apple store with my student discount they didn't even check an ID or ask for any confirmation, they just took me at my word.

uk discount is bigger and involves government tax law, so they're a bit stricter

it's pretty easy to get though. i must have bought ten macbooks for friends.

just select 'education store' then 'school or any other education establishment', they never check

ahhh, clever

so if I (or a friend) can order from a uni IP that's sufficient? ie no student matric card check on delivery?

depends on exchange rather, but an education discounted mac is sometimes cheaper in the uk than the us, and it comes with nearly free applecare.

cozen, no. there's never a check once the order is placed in my experience.

"rather" = "rate" (drunk)

uni discount is 15% DG, which is a lot bigger than the 'school etc' discount

cool, thanks. that should be easy enough to sort out.

i take what i can get!

lol not sure I know any students anymore now I come to think of it

http://www.screampubs.co.uk/

http://grab.by/7HIT

<will.i.am>whatcha gonna do with all that ipads</will.i.am>

tinygrab is not working out for me, h8 u tinygrab

did you pay for it?

you have to pay to unlock the "tinygrab" feature

no, do I need to wait for ice cram to buy it for me :(

"I'm going to get mugged and file sinurance papaer"

sry tinygrab didnt work, heres a free box of ipads

tinygrab is amazing

although they added ads without warning to even people who'd paid :(

i actually found out abt tinygrab by clicking thought on a pic u posted!

do you have an apple store nearby? they should be able to replace it on the spot. just back it up before you go.
― joe, Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:48 (5 days ago)

I took it to the nearby apple store. They replaced it on the spot. I backed it up before I went. Happy days are here again.

Next question:
I've got Windows Calendar on my PC, which doesn't sync with the iphone. Is it possible to download some software that will sync with the phone (i.e. some kind of appple calendar thing, or will their stuff only work on macs)? Preferably something free, obviously.

I use google calendar.

having said that, i'm on a mac and I think gcal syncs with the apple calendar, which then syncs with my iphone, so maybe thats not a solution.

im sure there some middle ware thingy thatll do the job

You can make Google Calendar sync directly w/iPhone. They have an Exchange server mode, and you'll even get your calendar items pushed to the phone. Pretty smooth.

there's something called nuevasync that I used to use to sync google calendar with ical via exchange mode. I can't remember why that was needed but it was. Now the service costs money and I never look at my calendar mobil-y anyway. Thing was I have an iPod touch, no iphone, and the idea was to sync so I could pull out the ipod and see if I was busy on a certain day.

http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252

Google didn't used to have Exchange support. They do now.

Guys microsoft outlook syncs with iPhone, no?

It does when there is an exchange server. Not sure if you use Outlook to access something else (but then you would just use your iPhone to access that something else - POP, IMAP server, etc.).

iphones exchange sever support is better than fucking entourage, frankly.

im really loving this new Reeder app for osx

anything special about it? I use NetNewsWire on my iPod Touch but just use Google Reader when I'm at a computer. Didn't take to NNW's OSX app.

Really liking Reeder OS X too. Still have a lot of bookmarks I need to get out of NNW.

what's wrong with nnw?

reeder feels like an ipad app made by a windows user imo.

nnw is great. the pc equivalent is a bit horrid tho (surprise!)

I'm liking reeder except for the switches that are obviously meant for swiping and not clicking.

jailbroke my phone last night only to have it fucking stick on apple logo. RESTORE TO FACTORY SETTINGS. BLOW ME APPLE

anything special about it? I use NetNewsWire on my iPod Touch but just use Google Reader when I'm at a computer. Didn't take to NNW's OSX app.

― dan selzer, Monday, December 6, 2010 9:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

you live in opposite world imo

The Reeder iPad app has a screwy opening screen, but the rest is very iPad-ish, not sure what caek means. The swipe left/right to star or mark unread is a little less obvious, but useful.

IMO, Reeder for iPhone > OS X Reeder > iPad Reeder, as far as polish goes.

NNW was great on the desktop but I ditched it years ago when I started using Google Reader full-time, and I haven't really ever gone back even though I've tried newer versions. Reeder is good at viewing articles, but also smooth at doing with those what I need (send link to friend, send to Instapaper, etc.)

I only use(d) NNW on iPod because it downloaded the articles, which Google Reader did not. I could download my blogs while in WIFI, then read them later while not online.

i still use nnw on teh desktop, it's fine, but nnw for iphone, even tho it was one of the launch apps, has been a shit show since day 1 ime.

just got reeder and LOVE it tho (ON IPHONE)

yeah, I'll probably just use Reeder on my iPod now.

i use byline

Byline is pretty OK. As far as iPhone usage goes, I started with Byline, went back to just using Google Reader's mobile page, and then went to Reeder.

Reeder (iPhone) definitely wins. NNW was the shit for about two months, then Gatorade got lazy and stopped working on it and everyone else caught up. The new NNW is orrite but nowhere near as good as Reeder.

"but the rest is very iPad-ish, not sure what caek means."

that's exactly what i mean. only someone who had never used a mac could design a desktop app like the desktop reeder.

Ahh, I was refering to the iPad app. The desktop one is a little too iPaddy (name of my iPad btw) but I can take it.