I HATE APPLE

yeah i have gone chrome for the same reasons and have no complaints

upgraded to lion from 10.5 onl a couple of weeks ago. i've been a happy camino user for years but they've ditched java which i need for a work log-in programme. so i was ready to give safari another try, but found the same headaches dan mentioned. so i'm currently with firefox. not entirely happy - downloads don't stay in the downloads window - but better than it was.

how do you deal with google's autosuggestion/autocomplete? it drove me nuts to see the search text jump to the top left of the screen, so i resorted to a google products page as homepage.

and finally...

can anyone suggest a fix for this? i have an apple id and "apple support communities" (i.e. apple discussions) login name. tried to get in to discussions yesterday, was asked to enter my apple id twice, the second time asked to pick a login name. whether i entered my existing login name or a new one i got the error message: "An account utilizing this email address already exists. Only one account per email address is allowed on Apple Support Communities"

it quietly drove me mad for half an hour, so any suggestions welcomed.

Sounds like its trying to register you when you've already registered with that apple ID (and created the existing asc login). Is there a login link on the front page?

Yes, tried the login. Enter apple ID once, it asks me to enter again to verify, then it asks me to select an ASC username. I already have one, attached to my email, but it won't recognise the username or allow me to pick a new one. Same error message as previous post.

Thanks anyway SS.

No thanks Apple.

feel like this by evgeny morozov is the best critique of jobs i've read since he died.

tylerfrombalantine
Here is how i fixed my problem: Click the apple in the top right of the screen/go to system prefrences/display/color tab/calabrate/follow the steps and it will be fixed

tylerfrombalantine
By the way the natural white for that display is warm pink
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― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, February 8, 2012 3:38 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i just calibrated my monitor with a spyder device and i'm still getting used to how warm it looks

Thank you, Apple, for taking ALMOST AN ENTIRE MONTH to figure out how to convert my AOL account into an Apple ID.

OMG. Were now down to 2 active AOL users - My ex-boyfriend and my current father-in-law.

did they just fix Safari finally? I've been using chrome for weeks now.

- Address an issue that could cause webpages to flash white when switching between Safari windows

what is the appeal of safari? chrome/firefox are faster programs ad infinitum

i use safari exclusively

By the way I've actived the swipe gesture to navigate forward and back in the Finer, but it requires THREE fingers, whereas Chrome requires TWO fingers

#firstworldproblems #still

FinDER

Not sure what is up with my typing today

I finally installed Lion and Safari seems way faster.

Also WHO thought autocorrect wa a good idea in a desktop OS? I almost sent out a completely unintelligible email today

(it read something like "should we get rolling on the nob cab arp?")

It's terrible but I imagine a lot of people like it. Probably my favorite new Lion feature is being able to hold down a key to choose an accented version of it.

Didn't realize you could do that, how do you select the accent from the options displayed?

(I use that all time on iPhone, but there it's obvious. Also I'm on my phone now so I can't test.)

Each one has a little number above it; hit the number

(Years ago I used to know all of the windows keyboard "shortcuts" for accents—alt-0236 etc. terrible.)

I know! And Macs haven't been much better. What was it for an é, Option 3 and then E? Ridiculous.

its just option-e and then e

Ya, not as bad as windows but not great. Still better than trying to type in English on a French keyboard tho

I don't knoz zhmt you qean

Oh I'm thinking of how to type a hash symbol with an English keyboard, option-3, which is fucking stupid

Guy maybe we should start a blog where we write about how Apple can improve its products

option-3 on an english (american) keyboard is the pound sign, hash is shift-3

safari doesn't crash all the time like firefox does, for me (ff is seriously completely fucked, if I leave it up for more than an hour it starts eating up all my CPU time). Chrome does too sometimes, I think it's all flash related though.

the "starts eating all CPU time" thing sounds like the Flash plugin

haha, i just tried to type "AYOOOOOOOOOOO" in a chat window and i got the accent-picker

ok i turned off spelling autocorrect but it is still autocorrecting some things? like "reso" turned into "redo"? maybe this is a setting in mail specifically i have to turn off?

(yes)

option-3 on an english (american) keyboard is the pound sign, hash is shift-3

― max, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:44 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah this is reversed in England, which has a logic to it, but c'mon the hash symbol is too common a character these days to be hidden behind a control key like that #fml

the uk apple keyboard is the worst thing steve jobs ever did

OK, I just had to look that up and it's hilarious weird. Does the UK need all that Northern European stuff?

anglo-saxon keyboard

what northern european stuff?

the main problems are the 3#£ issue and skinny return key

Oh, never mind, I was looking at what purported to be the full-size UK layout and I think it was not.

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC184B/B?fnode=MTY1NDA1Mg

Is this the badness? That lolinverted enter key is hateful.

ja that's it. i do like the tilde key on them but otherwise they are pretty bad.

did everyone switch back from reverse-scrolling? i'm 'trying it out'

i just checked, and my "scroll direction" is set to "natural"

using a magic trackpad

what is natural

the heady rush of young love

what is unnatural

Hate natural scrolling. Maybe it would feel natural if I hadn't been using computers for 20+ years, but I have so it's frustrating as hell

xp: Ugg boots

natural is win

don't have a strong preference, but i got used to natural very quickly