I HATE APPLE

I can't find a reference to charges anywhere. Weird.

Weird problem with my iPhone: it all of a sudden will only play albums on shuffle, not in sequence. I can't find that there's a shuffle-only option anywhere, since you do it from the individual playlists. WTF is wrong wiht this thing? Anyone else have a problem like this? I feel sure there's some simple answer that's going to make me look like an idiot.

I spent a few hours this weekend making all of my language instruction CDs into "Audiobooks", so that I can use the iPod's snazzy audiobook-only features, like 1.5x playback, and bookmarking.

I finally finished the conversion process (convert to AAC, change from .m4a to .m4b), synced, and then, with great anticipation, clicked on the Audiobooks menu. What I saw: a long, flat list of every track from some 20-odd language instruction CDs, alphabetized. i.e. "Lesson 1, Lesson 01, Lesson 01, Lesson 01" etc. Unreal.

Of course, in iTunes, they're nicely segregated. WTF.

so i've had my new iMac up and running since last thursday and i have to say ...

... it absolutely rocks fucking bells. wow. it's quite blindingly good.

er, that's all.

Weird problem with my iPhone: it all of a sudden will only play albums on shuffle, not in sequence. I can't find that there's a shuffle-only option anywhere, since you do it from the individual playlists. WTF is wrong wiht this thing? Anyone else have a problem like this? I feel sure there's some simple answer that's going to make me look like an idiot.

-- antexit, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 19:33 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Probably a dumb question, but is it playing albums in alphabetical order?

Fuck Mobile Me. I have all sorts of sync problems with my iPhone now. Fuck me for EVER thinking that I could get a reliable mobile platform.

Look all of my contact just disappeared from my iphone. i wasnt syncing. i have nothing to do with mobile me NOTHING. what the hell?

excellent. 10.5.5 has completely destroyed my fucking mobile me syncing. well done, crapple.

Within 2 years, Google will have rendered MobileMe obsolete.

The most annoying bit about MobileMe is that it offers a subset of .Mac services for the same cost.

Within 2 years, Google will have rendered MobileMe obsolete.

...and SkyNet will be truly complete.

There's also an I HATE GOOGLE thread you know.

I suspect that google will do this, actually. Ical/gcal syncing in Leopard already works very well. I guess that apple might lock them out of getting everything to sync wirelessly on the iphone, though.

It doesn't work that well, I can only get my main calendar, not others I can see. Even the balckberry gcal sync can do that.

I only have one calendar, so it hasn't been a problem. Sounds annoying if you have multiple ones.

Opening a folder makes that folder's modified date change.

But rename a file? Its modified date stays the same.

????????

Opening a folder in the Finder updates .DS_Store inside it, which causes the folder (directory) to be updated. You see, a directory is really a file containing info about the files inside, including times and dates of modification. Renaming a file, on the other hand, just changes its metadata, so there's no content change timestamp to record.

Open a folder with a tool that's NOT the Finder or a similar app that touches files inside, and you'll see that the mod time isn't changed.

the DS_Store thing REALLY annoys me

about two weeks ago I fumbled my iphone out of my pocket - no signs of damage then, except for a scratch on one corner (I keep it in a padded case that covers the back and sides).

Last night I pulled it out of my pocket and it had shut itself off, and when I went to turn it back on it gets into a cycle of trying to turn on over and over but never making it - unless I have it plugged into a charger or computer.

Anyone want to place odds on me getting a replacement without a massive hassle?

Opening a folder in the Finder updates .DS_Store inside it, which causes the folder (directory) to be updated. You see, a directory is really a file containing info about the files inside, including times and dates of modification.

I can sort of buy the idea that a filename change should be treated differently than, say a couple of new paragraphs added to a Word document.

But if a directory is "really a file containing info about the files inside, including times and dates of modification", then in what respect is simply opening a folder going to change any of that info?? And isn't that just "metadata" about the files inside anyway - no actual bytes of file content have changed, i.e. they remain unmodified, so why would their container be modified?

I thought I had this one figured out, but I guess I don't. I've opened several folders today to test this, and the mod time hasn't changed. Of course, that's after applying the latest update, so it's possible that Apple saw this as a bug and fixed it.

Perhaps the metainformation hadn't changed so it didn't need to write a new copy of the DS_Store.

what's the difference between the ds store and the app store?

.DS_Store is simply a Finder "cookie" used to remember folder view settings so that the OS doesn't have to maintain an unwieldy and prone-to-bugs universal view settings database. Close a folder, delete. DS_Store, and reopen it if you want to see .DS_Store remembers.

The app store is where you buy apps.

What is it with .DS_Store!?!? I understand what it does (see above) but why does Apple think it's okay to alter the contents of my drives (in my case flash cards) without asking me just to _look_ at them?!?!?

I had a virus which does almost exactly the same thing!

Weird it doesn't do it for me either, any more!

libcrypt the problem with your last post is that the Finder doesn't remember per-folder view settings as of Leopard.

So - what the hell is .DS_Store for anymore

why does Apple think it's okay to alter the contents of my drives (in my case flash cards) without asking me just to _look_ at them?!?!?

Almost every file system ever has been doing this since the 1980s.

Sure it still remembers per-folder view preferences. Apple-J, muck around with settings, come back, and it's all as it was. (xp)

oh shiii-- good tip, libcrypt

libcrypt ah yes true but you have to explicitly tell the Finder to remember those preferences, otherwise it's won't even attempt to. blech!

(and you have to set these prefs in EVERY FOLDER!!!!!!!)

All it takes is one button

http://www.latenightpc.com/img/windows-explorer-folder-options-dialog-view.png

srsly

If you want to use a set of prefs for all folders that don't have their own prefs manually set, click the "use as default" button at the bottom of the control-J window.

OOOOOOOH

that's nice.

what i would like, though, is that when i awitch to list view, IT REMEMBERS. WITHOUT ME DOING CMD-J FAFF.

You have a point, TH.

Myself, I've just gotten handy with cmd-1, cmd-2, and cmd-3 (and now cmd-4) for quick switching between views (icon, list, NeXT, and cover flo).

The new Macbook Pros only come in glossy?

FUCK YOU APPLE.

Removin' Firewire from the standard Macbook is a bad sign...

I have a MacBook, which has bluetooth. I have AirPort. I would like to be able to have my MacBook in my office and be able to play songs on a set of portable speakers that I could have in my kitchen, bedroom, wherever. Do these exist? I looked online and could only find one or two things labeled as "wi-fi speakers" and they were a little pricey and I was worried because there weren't many options. Then I found Bluetooth speakers but there seem to be some reports that the Bluetooth signals don't go through walls very well. Any thoughts?

n/a i use my airport express to stream music wirelessly... it has a speaker jack, you can use itunes to stream it.

any thoughts

https://www.krcs.co.uk/images/library/products/300/apple_m9470.jpg

right but then i have to move the express around to whatever room i want to have music in or buy another express for each room

+ move the dsl modem around too

it would just be nice if portable wi-fi speakers existed but they don't really seem to

but if you're planning on moving the speakers around then going through walls shouldn't be an issue...

ps airport express doesn't need to be attached to a modem if you're just using it for musics - just set it up as a device on your existing wireless network

oh that makes sense i guess. i just couldn't be online and playing music at the same time