New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

icloud as a backup/restore strategy works well for me, and the photo accessibility similarly so

icloud as storage for application data is, as one ilxor put it, booty

im still annoyed that i get bugged about my icloud storage being almost full every time i plu gin my ipad

delete some old backups, man

why should i have to

it should really delete those for you :/

would like icloud to offer full iPhoto backup storage

yeah. for now dropbox does some interesting things.

they have that new carousel thing which i'd be a little hesitant to use until i was sure they wouldn't axe it a few months from now.

gonna put this here too to give it a little more chance of getting clicked on than it might get in the jobs thread itself: http://donmelton.com/2014/04/10/memories-of-steve/

i know slocki likes links.

there's a good story about a keynote practice in there.

mmm nice link.

heh

can i ask you guys what you do for contacts? icloud? gmail? something else?

icloud iirc

iCloud for contacts/calendar/tasks.

thanks. i should just pick one.

jeff, are you afraid of apple losing all your calendar data? ppl r right here, icloud isn't perfect

i feel like there's less chance google will do something stupid

I think the only thing I'd worry about with anything is an errant application/device screwing with your appointments. Other than that, everyone has reasonable servers and it's all the same calendar protocol.

Maybe a little, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. Worst case I suppose I could unplug and open iCal on my iMac to export the data that is cached there.

alright maybe i just need to be less paranoid.

worst case scenario you could just export your calendar to a file every once in a while

yeah that's not a terrible idea.

google's also much better about data portability. see: takeout. and then there was that steve jobs email that came out recently written in the exact oppositie spirit of the that kind of thing.

google had a really great program that'd two-way sync between google calendar and outlook. I used to run it on my work machine, since I didn't want to explicitly link my phone or home computer to my work calendar.

google killed it. program gone, support gone. people are really pissed, and I think a version of it is available if you pay for google apps for business.

I guess when I say "outlook" I mean "other outlook calendars" like my work exchange server.

sure but calendar, gmail, and contacts (as a necessary part of gmail) are more like core services. they're not knol or wave

or reader or

hah. buzz

you are right though that apple tends to kill less shit, at least on the services side. there was ping and, fuck, whatever their old school dropbox thing was. idrive? wikipedia tells me it was called idisk.

apple doesn't kill shit as much as birth stillborn projects

like passbook and the iphone 5c

no, those are relative successes!

what about:
- that iOS application that would make greeting cards
- Ping
- iWeb
- Front Row

probably a dozen others, but so ephemeral that they made an appearance on the web/OS X/iOS and disappeared less than six months later

i think some of that got folded into iphoto or iphoto had similar functionality. yeah, i never really used the last two.

they do that on purpose though when shit fails

well, yeah!

ping was a piece of shit though. it ran in itunes, for one, and the whole thing was around music you had to purchase. there's a reason why spotify's social stuff is way better

for one, you can actually fucking share music

I loved Front Row! It was one of those "whoooa this is a MAC?" programs when I first switched

Anyone have the external DVD burner?

Sherlock

omg sherlock

you can search.... everything!

it was pretty awesome for movies, at least in NYC

Wish there were lust objects in the sub- $2000 area

I'm moving from an iMac at home and at work to one MBP that will travel between the two.

Two questions:
1) is a Thunderbolt dock the way to go for docking/peripherals - in both places I'll have a trackball, keyboard, speakers, external HD, Dymo label printer and either a scanner or barcode scanner.

2) For anyone who uses Adobe Lightroom - have you run into any issues with having a library where the files are stored on a HD that will be left in one place and another library for a HD left at another (ie I have to have my personal library on a HD at home, then I'll keep any work related photos on another at the office)?

There might be a key you can press while starting up Lightroom that lets you choose the library? That's how it works for Aperture

is a Thunderbolt dock the way to go for docking/peripherals - in both places I'll have a trackball, keyboard, speakers, external HD, Dymo label printer and either a scanner or barcode scanner.

Are you planning on using an external monitor at some point? I know that Apple's thunderbolt monitor has a couple extra t-bolt and USB ports on the back - might save you going with a dock. That Belkin dock looks cool, but admittedly I'm old fashioned in my belief to not mix interfaces: keep USB's on USBs, etc.

Anyone have the external DVD burner?

*raises hand* I broke down and bought one when my old MacBook Pro (which I was keeping around because it has a DVD-R) became too unreliable. I still have an unsettling number of DVD-Rs that I need to archive and dehoard.

Thunderbolt has so much bandwidth, a few usbs aren't going to trouble it. (USB3 possibly excepted)

Lightroom is supposed to be handle a single library with files stored on different external volumes. It shows you previews of pix that aren't currently available, and even allows you to make some modifications to them. I've only tried it a bit, but it seems pretty good.