I HATE APPLE

nice to use keyboard shortcuts, which I never use in the web version, even though you can. maybe i should give this a proper chance..

back button on the bottom? WHY? on ipad - perfect. on desktop, stupid.

Latest version of Reeder for Mac is seriously making me want to dump NNW. I AM OLD AND ITS EASIER TO READ FFS

Today's the first time I've ever used iWork to do actual work and it's driving me up the wall.

New version of Reeder fixes some of the contrast issues. nice.

Would love to switch to Reeder but that beige background looks like ass. Please tell me there's a hack to change it.

Still not happy w/ contrast, but can't tell if the slider up top changed, but it's now acting more like a button. Click where you want and it slides there. Still think it should physically look more like a button.

Just emailed the company about the bg color. Under "help" there's a "feature request" option.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua-kors/why-im-returning-my-imac_b_796104.html

I don't think I can read two sentences in a row in that article without grinding my teeth!

jeez what a dork

loool, huffpost obviously trolling for hits so they can up their ad fees

so the writer didn't realize that learning a brand new platform and moving all his shit was going to be somewhat inconvenient?

My frustration beginning to boil, I figured I'd cool down with some swing dancing videos stored on my hard drive.

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaah

since when did the huffpo become the onion

quite some time ago, after they ran a couple "are vaccinations bad for you? (*cough* autism)" articles.

huffpost is a cesspool

hey guys, any of you apple product nerds that could help me? on my new (non apple, i'm not rich) i tried to download itunes only to be told not to get the 64bit one as it wouldnt install. so i got the 32bit one it recommended only to say i needed to install the 64bit version first. all i wanna do is update my ipod. DAMN YOU STEVE JOBS FOR THIS PERSONAL HELL. ;_; Anyway, any suggestions?

maybe install the 64 bit vers

but it wont let me

http://www.pbs.org/now/news/images/jonathan-kors.jpg
My iMac and I got off on the wrong foot. Turns out there's a video camera embedded in the screen, and before I could boot her up for the very first time, she wanted to take my picture.

o i c sry i dont know xp

maybe download an ipad instead

"I'm working with a video editor right now," I told KGO's news director, "to compact the hearing into a brief clip that can go viral on YouTube."

I think my grandfather was more computer literate than that guy.

Today's the first time I've ever used iWork to do actual work and it's driving me up the wall.

― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac)

curious why? i love pages and keynote and would way rather work in those than in word or keynote, though it's hard to quantify exactly why ... i do think numbers really sucks compared to excel.

whoops meant word or powerpoint

can you not detach dashboard widgets now in 10.5.6?

ah you can. had to enable dashboard devmode

baja: Numbers. It's fiddly. There's no official keyboard shortcut to edit a cell (although in the end I found one by accident), and the keyboard shortcut to move the cursor left one word is exactly the same as the keyboard shortcut to insert a column. There's other stuff but I've already blissfully forgotten it.

hoy: I don't know Windows 7 (which I assume you're using) stuff but is there a chance you're running some crucial part of W7 in a 32bit mode for compatibility reasons?

btw this huffpost bloke is clueless. I'm up the font size thing and every whine so far is about stuff he's just incapable of doing.

I had battled the QuickTime player, which proved unable to make playlists

Wow, I don't even know where to start with this.

did you get to the bit about checkboxes yet

OH ZING

I'm returning my iMac, then headed to Best Buy to snag a PC, one four-times faster than my current computer and $400 cheaper than that iMac.

I'll spend the difference on a video editing program, a new haircut and a first-rate pair of swing dancing shoes.

Will he return the shoes when they don't do the dancing for him? http://www.neowin.net/forum/style_emoticons/default/emot-iiam.gif

(in my head I have this image of that bloke walking into the shoe shop with the shoes on his hands going 'waaah I am not dancing and they don't even fit my hands properly')

Also I love how he's using a mouse on a bare mahogany desk then blaming Apple when it gets scratched.

Because I can't help but kick someone when they're down, there's some more howlers on that guy's web page: http://www.joshuakors.com/ starting with "In November I spoke with two of the great minds of our time: Dr. Drew Pinsky and comedian Adam Carolla."

loool, huffpost obviously trolling for hits so they can up their ad fees

Truth bomb.

i hear you on numbers. there is a lot of serious bullshit going on in that program. i tore my hair out trying to make a scatter plot one day before i realized you just can't. i think this feature has been fixed for the newest version, but still ... sort of ridiculous!

numbers is very good-looking though and has very nice templates, and if you want to do something real fast and integrate it with other iwork apps (pages and keynote) it's great at that.

Hmm ... what's the best way to get videos I've taken on my iPhone transferred to my Mac? I don't want to use iPhoto unless there's a way to tell it to ignore all the still photos. I use Lightroom to import photos but that doesn't handle video.

I feel like this should have an obvious answer.

imovie

dropbox is the easiest way to get one-off stuff out of yr iPhone. Open the app, hit the camera icon, upload file to yr dropbox.

huh

Dropbox is for putting it in the cloud, isn't it? I just want it on my hard drive.

I created a project in iMovie and then went to Import, but my iPhone wasn't available as a drive.

I'll try Dropbox.

Oh, I just remembered Image Capture. That seems to do what I want. Thanks though.

Wow. This is a big problem with macs - if you want to do something The Normal Way you're fine, but if you step an inch outside that boundary you're hosed.

I have tried accessing the iPhone's camera roll in OS X. iirc I had to go through 'Volumes' from the file system root and basically guess my way from there. That's the sort of thing you have to do with a Linux system ffs.

did the normal way not work?

By 'the normal way' I mean iPhoto import. This is all iirc, mind.