New Apple Lust Objects

I can see the class action suit now. "They said Time Machine would back it up, but my disk died and I lost it all, my novel and all my photographs. Coming after the iPod battery I think this is just too much from Apple." TUAW will also become v. angry at this growing Partition Scandal.

It's hard to get too excited about a back-up solution, really. Spaces could be useful, I suppose. Better previewing with skimming? What else is there ..?.. transparent menu bars! I may be a while upgrading to Leopard.

I felt that about Tiger, and was right then too. It's hard to tell how it's better than Panther, and it's much slower on the mini.

I'll be waiting till at least .1 for this.

I may be wrong, but I think if you have a recentish machine then Tiger starts up faster than Panther. Certainly my MacBook feels like it's faster booting than my old eMac was when it was new. Not that I'm often doing it.

I wonder if there's any chance they'll fix memory management in any way, or if that's something that has to be done at the app level. Browsers (Safari esp) seem to just grab ridiculous amounts of RAM if it's left running for a while. Actually I think Safari is just particularly crap because it also seems to sometimes go nuts and start using 90% of the CPU as well.

I hope that you can downgrade to safari 2.0 as well... 3.0 is worse than IE 5.0

I'll probably get it soon, if only for the updates in Mail and iCal and other synching type stuff.

I thought you used Opera, N? I switched to it from Safari 3 which is a dog like czn says

I used Opera for a long time. But the thing that got me to switch was it not working with Scrabulous instant messages! I would consider going back if that resolved itself (maybe it has, with new Scrabulous update, I'll check later) though I spent so long modding Safari to get it to do things I want (like mouse gestures) that I'm kind of reluctant. Safari is OK for me as long as I quit and restart it every so often (am sometimes forced to do so - grr beach ball). The lack of any download management options does my head in a bit - haven't properly checked if this can be fixed with a mod. OK, so I do hate Safari. It's much faster than Opera at starting up though. Opera bounces several times in the dock even with my brand newish MacBook. Time to try Firefox again, maybe.

I remember you finding out I used Opera before and you raised your eyebrows and said: "Far be it from me to criticise a man's choice of browser".

Did I? What a tit.

Anyway, this is not lust.

I dunno, I really like that speed dial page.

Oh, that was wank. It suddenly started appearing and it took me ages to work out how to get rid of it.

too much wanking on this thread

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html

.Mac sync for Dock items! That's £69 + £129 well spent.

I wasn't going to upgrade because my computer is slow enough with Tiger as is (I have the first g5 tower) but I can't resist and I can really use better synching btw mac mail/address book and yahoo.

OK, Scrabulous instant messages do work if you hit the submit button and not the return key. Perhaps I can live with this and will revert to Opera. It doesn't seem to bounce in the dock lots of times before launching anymore. OS X is a mystery to me.

legitimate 3rd party iphone & itouch apps coming next year, i think this will become a big deal and makes both of them a lot more attractive
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/

yr quicker than digg!!

"my computer is slow enough with Tiger as is (I have the first g5 tower)"

this does not work. do you have like 48k of ram or something ?!

legitimate 3rd party iphone & itouch apps coming next year,
sweet. I'm well making an ILX one.

what, that killfiles everyone, then points the browser at something more worthwhile?

According to TUAW, the French iPhones are going to be sold either on Orange or unlocked (locking is illegal there). That might be worth a trip over for.

That almost makes up for them being the ones to cause ALL euro iPods to be volume limited.

app i'd like to see : an Ounden/Elite Beat Agent ripoff game that syncs to the bpm of any mp3 you play.

<i>"my computer is slow enough with Tiger as is (I have the first g5 tower)"

this does not work. do you have like 48k of ram or something ?!</i>

What do you mean? I have 3 gigs of ram.

replace < with [ of course.

Some of the first G5s were weirdly slow. We got one to replace a top-end G4 and it definitely felt a lot slower at some things.

Mine was fast until Tiger. Recently I had to rebuild everything and loaded 10.3.9 and it was blazing, relatively, then loaded 10.4 and it wasn't as hot, then actually started putting applications on and using them and...eh. When I work on site I'm on like quad core intels with 50 gigawats of ram.

Hmm - on my old 600MHz G4 (with only 512MB RAM at the time) moving to Tiger didn't really affect the speed much at all. It's weird how much people's experiences vary.

700MHz, rather.

The startup speed is hard to judge too, since the animation doesn't really reflect anything, other than a value stored the *last* time it booted. You can see it by running
/usr/libexec/WaitingForLoginWindow
in terminal.

To quit it type killall WaitingForLoginWindow

I would like a flickr upload application and a beatport/amazon mp3 application, please.

there is a flickr app

fuck .mac -- that shit should be free

Apple's making a ton of investment in dynamically typed languages -- esp. Python and Ruby

Podcast Producer on OS X Server = Ruby
Wiki Server = (Twisted) Python

Wide Area Bonjour
Access your Macs, at home or on the road, with a single consistent host name. Use this host name whether you’re behind a NAT gateway or hopping across DHCP servers.

OK THIS IS AWESOME

there are like 10 flickr upload apps!

I'll probably get Leopard around .1 at the office and as soon as I read the first reactions to preloaded machines at home.

quicksilver is way faster and better than Spotlight

-- Dandy Don Weiner, Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:48 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

This is untrue now.

You mean "now" as in with Leopard?

apologies, I meant I want a flickr upload app/beatport/amazon mp3 app for my ipod touch

Spotlight is a dog on Tiger whereas Quicksilver is zoomy.

Actually I've noticed spotlight improved a lot in the point releases of Tiger!

czn, go to some god damn gay howbrew development forum

Amazon doesn't even sell mp3s in this country yet, cozen.

how the hell is wide area bonjour going to work? That's awesome, tho

Maybe something to do with back to my mac?