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I have a $15 hub

No mention of the nice new little aluminum remote. Quietly excited about improving the way I play/pause movies from across the room.

can you use remote.app to control front row yet?

it was totally bogus that they stopped include the remote for free sometime last year, though. that said i would probably pony up for it if i was buying anew, now i realize how useful it is for the few times i do need to use it

I think I will buy this mouse as I have almost given up using my current mouse because multi touch on the laptop is so useful.

yeah, multi touch makes me not really care about mice

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/nokia-sues-apple-over-iphone-20091023-hbop.html

tried the new mouse today, is niiiiiiiiiiiiice. great weight to it

I'm interested in upgrading to Snow Leopard, but I have VMWare Fusion presently installed (on a Boot Camp installation of XP) and I don't want to screw that up. Have any of you tried doing this?

isn't the whole point of vmware fusion that you don't have to use boot camp?

i have vmware fusion installed in OS X and the snow leopard upgrade didn't affect a thing

ok cool

I have Boot Camp configured just so that if I want to run a resource-intensive app in XP, then I can run it w/o emulation.

got it

Had a play with a Magic Mouse in the store over the weekend (3 on display but none to sell yet), and it's very, very nice.

Yeah I checked one out too and it seemed alright but I still can't get with only one button.

It has two buttons. Right side and left side.

But still no middle, right? Or did I miss that?

wtf do you need a middle button for

open link in new tab

^^^^

exactly

start using Opera and you can program yr own mouse keys!

can you use the middle button for open link in new tab w/out using the apple button?

scratch that; forgot I use unmodified middle button for exposé's reveal all windows

why not just set it to always open link in new tab?

I have a logitech mouse with buttons mapped to expose and spaces. I would hate to lose that.

Hot Corners for Exepose and Spaces. Right-click set-up in system settings for open-in-new-tab. Easy.

why not just set it to always open link in new tab?

― cutty, Monday, October 26, 2009 5:14 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

because sometimes you want to open a link in a new tab but a lot of the time you don't.

p.s. no reason why the magic mouse can't support as many buttons as our crude phalanges can manage. i assume "button 3" will be configurable in software, if not now then with a later release.

open in new tab is not actually the only thing i use the middle button for (lol X11), but i appreciate it's the only one used by a fraction of users large enough to consider when designing software. it doesn't need a special hardware button (especially one that never fucking works, e.g. mighty mouse), so i am totally fine with the direction apple have gone, provided middle click is eventually supported in software.

i hope they don't go back to tilting at windmills with this 1 button fetish, but i worry now that the big guy has his new liver they may be energised to do this.

mice should have five buttons and keyboards should be gotten rid of as soon as possible. if louis armstrong can play all those notes with just three keys we should be able to write "lol, the quick fox haz cheezburger" with five surely.

http://www.gottabemobile.com/blogimages/GBMFrogPadUserReview_B05A/frogpad112.jpg

upgrading to snow leopard did mess up vmware fusion for me, but all I had to do was update vmware fusion from their site, they released a patch. if you are worrieda bout the 'authenticity' of your copy of vmware fusion or something, don't be, it did not seem to be an issue.

co-sign

Right-click set-up in system settings for open-in-new-tab. Easy.
can you actually do this? Cos in the magic mouse pref pane it looks like you can't. and how would you do the other right-click stuff, like web inspector?

I love this mouse.

Apple announced today that it has developed a breast implant that can store and play music. The iTit will cost from $499 to $699, depending on cup and speaker size. This is considered a major social breakthrough, because women are always complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

thanks for forwarding that dad

I can't be bothered to find the thread of dafari or apple hate but is safari crashing lots for anyone else? It's locking up for minutes when I open new tabs, although a little better when I removed some flash heavy sites from the grid and flash or the whole app is crashing out fairly frequently.

I had the locking up thing something rotten, but I switched to the WebKit nightlies and they're way better. (The new web inspector is brilliant, too)

you are not wrong there, its night and day.

Safari's been rock-solid for me ever since I installed ClickToFlash.

yup

Safari's been rock-solid for me ever since I installed ClickToFlash.

Truth there.

ClickToFlash = best thing ever.

though, ClickToFlash is such a good thing because Adobe's implementation of Flash on OS X is crap, right?

it's not crap, per se, but it's definitely a bit weak compared to the windows version

I think it might actually be crap, tho. In the jump to v10 they crowed about making it faster when what they'd done was take some breathtakingly stupid code.

I mean if you can't play a video 320px wide on a dual core system without taking 40% of CPU and sending the fans nuts, something's wrong.

(apparently the Flash plugin they built for iPhone resulted in 30 min battery life. Wtg, adobe)

Take stupid code *out* that should have been

I think it is actually crap per se.

I have a four-year-old Dell X1 Latitude - i.e. a tiny underpowered netbook - that plays live streaming Flash with NexDef (an HD plugin) flawlessly. Whereas my Powerbook G4 struggles even to play the low-def version of the exact same stream.

Yes yes, "time to get a new computer", fuck you.

It is the worst, and the sooner this becomes practical and we can all uninstall it the better

Been talking a lot recently about how much Adobe sucks. I installed CS4 so I could play with the more advanced preflight features of IDCS4 and it's just a mess. I knew a few years ago when Adobe introduced their own open and save dialogue boxes (use OSX instead!) that they were going down a wrong path. Maybe they care more about the PC market right now, but they have this idea of inventing their own interface and combining the entire suite into 1 unified window which just adds even more menu bars and more confusion.