I HATE APPLE

i just noticed this in the itunes preferences and i really can't believe i've been listening to my music with this shit on for so long:

http://i.imgur.com/wczt4.png

do yourself a favor and turn it off if you use itunes

OK, I turned it off, nothing sounds different, what was it doing?

I think it's just like a dynamic equalizing thing but I obviously could be wrong about that.

apple says: "If you select the "Sound Enhancer" checkbox, iTunes "enhances" the sound of your audio files by increasing the treble and bass response, depending on how you set the slider. Think of it kind of like the "Loudness" button found on an old home stereo system, but adjustable. If you move the slider toward the "high" end, iTunes boosts more of the equalization, meaning things will generally sound punchier and crisper. If you move it towards the "low" end, iTunes will decrease the same frequencies."

Christ, music's boring. never noticed before.

Ah good, iPod headphone jack's going out in one channel. THROW IT OUT AND BUY A NEW ONE.

SO

a week after i get my RMBP my old santa rosa gives up the ghost

basically just a nasty clicking sound over and over again

so i want to keep it around and use it for:

1) guest internet / computer access

2) print server

3) file server (attached to external drives)

4) movie projection

5) ???

how big of one of these do i need?

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandforce/Solid_State_Pro/

5) weather station, seismograph, green house management

6) CO2 regulation for the, uh, greenhouse

Macbook battery iz dead. time for wall tether sorrow

made all this with garageband though even with wallteather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u-ShK8ItJ4

I would go for 60GB

what other cool shit can i do with it? wireless printing / scanning and permanent wireless disk full of comic books, rpgs and dos games is gonna be sweet too, and serve as a temporary time capsule until i get one of those.

t0rr3nts?

i can do that with any computer

i mean like a hardware thing

i want it to use it to control a bunch of different types of hardware around the house

ah, I meant leaving them up on sites where you need to seed

private sites, obviously

man fuck a piracy ;-)

would consider free server for ILX djs

so for a while now iTunes tells me my ipad - besides audio, video, apps, etc - allocates a lot of space to "other" (4GB as of today). Apparently this is a common phenomenon but I can't find a solution to this online. I've tried rebooting, resetting, etc., but it keeps doing this. Pretty annoying and it seems the share of "other" just keeps growing.
Can somebody help?

it's app caches. EG: Spotify stores downloaded music on the device, and that goes in Other. You can see it on the device: Settings > General > Usage under "Storage"

aha! I always thought that stuff was integrated in the "apps" allocations (as is the case for videos with VLC or stuff in Cloud Reader)

yeah, it distinguishes between stuff the app says it needs to keep around (videos etc) and stuff the app says is cache that can be removed if required.

(The system will empty those caches in extremis, it changes the icon and marks it "Cleaning..." when it's doing it. Have only seen it happen a few times)

Does anyone know if there is a way to have wifi automatically turn off when plugged into a thunderbolt monitor (or even to a network hard line)

http://www.controlplaneapp.com/

fwiw though, even if wifi is "on", it shouldn't actually use it for data if it has a real network connection

While I'm hatin on Apple, I've now got a Nexus 7 and tho I don't think it's better than the iPad, it shows up the how bad it is that iOS doesn't have proper background running for apps.

It's pretty nice how I can get on the Tube with no reception, take my nexus out of my bag where it's been left all day, and Pocket, Google Reader, GMail, Kindle, Spotify and Twitter having automatically updated themselves via the office wifi. No manual intervention required. The iPad in the same situation would be so out of date as to be useless.

Would make the iPod Touch and the non-3G iPads way better if they had this too.

agreed

otm

apple is in serious danger of falling massively behind, especially in phones (yes I know it's coming, no I don't think it'll hold a candle to the galaxy iii)

I saw someone looking at their Windows phone last night and God the UI looked beautiful compared with tired old iOS.

(I am not saying Windows phones are better than iPhones, just that some the design is gorgeous)

It's pretty nice how I can get on the Tube with no reception, take my nexus out of my bag where it's been left all day, and Pocket, Google Reader, GMail, Kindle, Spotify and Twitter having automatically updated themselves via the office wifi. No manual intervention required. The iPad in the same situation would be so out of date as to be useless.

Would make the iPod Touch and the non-3G iPads way better if they had this too.

― stet, Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:44 AM

That functionality is built into some newer apps and some services, like the recently upgraded BBC iPlayer, but yeah it would be nice if it were OS- or system-wide.

Yeh, that's cool about iPlayer, but it's not quite what I mean: even with apps that do support using them offline like Reeder or Instapaper, you have to open the app so it can grab new content. I end up doing this stupid dance before I leave work of opening Reeder, waiting, closing it, opening Pocket, waiting, closing it, opening Sparrow, waiting, closing it, and so on and on.

With Android, you don't even need to open the apps -- they just do their thing in the background.

sparrow doesnt support push?

I'd consider an Android tablet if only there were a decent selection of apps for it (designed for the larger screen of a tablet, not a phone). Android phone apps are plentiful, but because of the slow adoption rate of OS upgrades of Android users compared to iOS users, and because of the wide number of disparate Android devices that need to be supported (both by Google and the devs), it seems Android developers tend to write for the lowest common denominator to make sure their apps will run on most Android devices, rather than iOS developers which generally assume you have iOS 5 by now. And even then, the iPhone app usually arrives first.

i'm gonna have to look at some of these new windows phones... at least with Android I still haven't really seen anything that's at the level of iOS in terms of elegance smoothness, snappiness, ease of use, etc.

oh wait, this is the hate thread... my bad

Again, i'll pass on Windows phones until or unless the apps arrive. Most stuff right now is Apple and Android only, maybe Blackberry.

I'm thinking the iPhont 5 will have some kind of PowerNap type functionality.

Nah, Sparrow tried to support Push, but Apple rejected it for misusing the multitasking API. They were trying to come up with some other method, but then Google bought them.

Apple should really sort something out, though -- it's unfair and lame that Apple apps like Mail/Reminders/Notes can do this and others can't.

WEill Ipad survive 80$ android tablets influx - Ghost of Jobs says yes

http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/apple-kegerator.jpg

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670760/will-apples-tacky-software-design-philosophy-cause-a-revolt

YES

how acre!

so pretty much a non-event today, huh

5 ROWS OF ICONS

fuckle

iphone 6: SIX ROWS OF ICONS!!!!

iPhone 7 : We Are Dicks Now

Lightning-to-30-pin dock connector adapter £25 or US $29.

Holy shit.

sounds like it'd have to have a dac in it