New Apple Lust Objects

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?

I imagine they've done some thinking to get this stuff to all work through firewalls

When do you think they'll revise the iMacs -- when they start bundling them?

I meant when the SDK is eventually released, jeez. I expect the flickr app will be a formality really, tho beatport/amazon is maybe a pipe-dream. Not that I'm going to pay for an mp3 anyway.

Anyway in other news, I think the touch's battery sux.

this isn't apple related excitement per se, but google apps for my personal and work domains + my iphone + http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/sync-your-inbox-across-devices-with.html = total nerd hog heaven. i keep checking my settings obsessively to see if imap has come yet.

(woa - that was weird.)

radical!

new gmail lust objects

we should srsly start a gmail thread, i think i am even more of a google fanboy than an apple one

Does anyone still use Classic? Cos it's dead in Leopard:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303137

even on ppc? :/ that sucks how will i play sc2k?

daaamn

Hmmm. The Leopard installer is rubbish. Refused to see my internal drive until lots of pissing about in Disk Utility, then took an age to install, and wiped all my network settings.

The new interface is pretty ugly as well. The toolbar buttons on the Finder and in Safari look like some Linux crap.

It's also driving the fans nuts, but I think that's because Spotlight is re-indexing everything. So far :\

Spotlight's way better. It launches apps as fast as Quicksilver, and the calculator/dictionary is a nice touch.

The Finder is fixed! It doesn't hang on server disconnects, the networking is miles better, as is the sharing. It remembers what windows are supposed to look like, and a shit-ton of little bugs are gone. Coverflow mode is great, too.

Spaces is much better than I thought it'd be.

two thumbs up for leopard so far

Hmmm. The Leopard installer is rubbish. Refused to see my internal drive until lots of pissing about in Disk Utility, then took an age to install, and wiped all my network settings

whit? that's baws.

what's with the shiny screens all of a sudden? what are the supposed benefits?

they are supposed ot look better.

They give punchier colours but yeah, you're a but fucked if there's a reflection you can't escape.

freudian slip?

anyone using safari's webclips?

suppose you could webclip the first five threads on the top of new answers of ilx, but I don't really use dashboard at all other than for the BBC radio widget

I use them for some server monitoring things, but that's about it.

is there a way to make the iPhone/iPod touch display the full titles of mp3s, the way older iPods continually scroll through them?

if I upgrade to macbook pro now, will they just release a new laptop in a few months?

Yes. This is always true

the regular macbook just was updated, but not the pro

http://mactactic.com/

i think i want an iphone. definitely want a PDA of some kind so I can get work emails 24/7. yeah, control freak. anyway, anyone have any opinions on why iphone is a smarter buy than say, a blackberry curve or summat? For some reason the only thing I cannot get sold on is typing on the screen. I want BUTTONS!

is there a way to make iphones come to canada and break my contract and everything will be awesome?

I think they're coming to canada, see tuaw.com for up-to-date details

you could always pick one up from america and unlock it, which I plan on doing... don't know how the canadian $ fares wrt the us $ but coming from britain you'll save £70/80 buying from the us, tho obv hacking voids the warranty innit

ya... little worried about that. cdn dollar is killing us right now so that's pretty sweet tho.

i mean killing u.s.

I was sure I'd hate it, but I like typing on the screen. The auto-correct is spooky. It turns "tgpugp" into "though", and rarely gets me wrong. The only things I don't like about the iPhone so far are to do with Safari -- it doesn't save passwords, and has a tiny cache.

Oh, and there's no to-dos, which seems a bit of an omission.

anyone else with an iphone know how to improve battery life? am i running programs and not knowing it? it feels like i am constantly charging this little dude.

My buddy here in Canada has an iphone which he unlocked and runs on the regular service provider here. One problem was that they wouldn't deliver one to him here, so he had to actually drive to the States to pick it up. It's awesome by the way.

i mean i had mine charging all night, unplugged it at 5:30 this morning, made ONE 2 minute phone call... and its already dead at 1pm!

that seems a little weird