New Apple Lust Objects

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

maybe i got a dud.

is it constantly searching for wi-fi or anything?

I get at least two days out of mine without charging, as long as I just use it as a phone.

dunno bout the wi-fi thing but its worth checking into. maybe i'll noodle with it later. anyway made appt with genius on saturday... guh.

I love that you can now trackpad scroll in non-active windows.

Help me!!!!!!!

I'm sending an email to someone who is so clueless about computers even thought they're a senior web-person at a rather big company that I'm pretty sure she has a Mac. Probably bought it because it was shiney.

For some reason she can't save an animated gif I've sent her in the body of an email.

On a PC this is EASY, just right click and 'save' as. Surely there's some way to do it on a Mac?

AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!

ctrl-click and 'save'

or drag the image to the desktop.

Mandee, you will get used to the screen keyboard really quick and you'll like it better than buttons. I didnt think I would but I sure do now.

The things i dont like about my iphone: no picture messaging, there seems to be no way to get pictures off emails and/or websites, no instant messaging clients and java (?) stuff like scrabulous doesnt work. Also, its real slippery. I've dropped mine on concrete 5 times now (first time it bounced three times then skidded a ways). That said, its still working perfectly. Just some dented sides and you can get a side protector cover thing to avoid that. Overall I'd recommend it.

i <3 my itouch.

can you turn off the ugly-ass leopard reflective dock styleee?

Just follow instructions on this image to get the dock somewhat back to normal. It's much easier on the eyes.

http://lime.quickshareit.com/share/picture1d2a37.png

that's cool. i don't actually have leopard yet and i'm wondering whether it's worth it.

this 12" powerbook g4 is starting to show its age a bit but i am very very very hesitatnt to upgrade either to leopard or to the new macbooks

ha, you and i are in the same position, MJtB. thing is: i love this wee PB, and although i'm aware it could be faster and do some cooler shit, it's works pretty much exactly the way i want it to and i can't think of anything that i could add to it that wouldn't be, at best, window-dressing.

i'll do what i always do with upgrades: wait until i need something that can only work in leopard, then shell out. that said ... would it even be worth putting leopard on a G4 with 768MB and <12 gigs of disk space left?

my income is likely to take a staggering, drastic hit within the next six months so i guess if i'm gonna upgrade i should do it soon. heheheh, there's motivation for ya :)

"it's works" ... fuxxake.

The Apple store is down... are they launching the mini Macbook today?

Err, no actually. It's this: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/01/08macpro.html

“The new Mac Pro is the fastest Mac we’ve ever made,” said Philip Schiller.

It would be a brave move to launch a Mac Pro that wasn't, really.

that leaves me even more perplexed about what they will announce at macworld

fuckit, we're going with EIGHT processors

<i>that leaves me even more perplexed about what they will announce at macworld</i>

probably an ipod touch with a useable amount of HD space

naw the ipod touch just came out. mostly like an ultra portable. but i was expecting new mac pro to be a macworld announcement--weird

ipod touch juse came out and is basically useless etc.

At least the iPod touch allows manual management of songs and playlists, which is essential when your PMP has a lower capacity than your iTunes library. The iPhone doesn't have this which is an egregious omission really.

Some of the Photoshop mock-ups of the "MacBook Nano"/portable MacBook which were flying around on AppleInsider and the like recently were amazing. The picture that won MacRumors' contest looked better (here) than a lot of Apple designs.

In other news, I accidentally deleted 50GB of my 70GB iTunes library. Don't know, don't ask.

Same old case. It's over three years old now! Nice, though.

czn :/

Totally. Wouldn't be so bad if we weren't post-OiNK : (

i have no idea what that means

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oink's_Pink_Palace

i completely missed this!

It means I may have been able to replace the deleted 50GB quite easily and quickly were OiNK still around. That not being the case, it's back to re-importing my CD collection and filling gaps with (the sub-par) ssX. Anyone have any strategies/programs for quickly digitising a CD collection, besides diligence?

get someone else to do it

The iPhone doesn't have this which is an egregious omission really

wait WHAT? that renders it totally fucking useless for me, then -- and surely for, er, pretty much everyone else in the universe. you sure?

also: staggering commiserations on yr musical loss. that sucks.

I've backed my iTunes library up on DVD-Rs. I am smug. Also, I could make you copies if you're interested!

I'm 90% sure it doesn't allow you to manually manage music (as in dragging and dropping playlists and songs to the phone). It allows you to manually choose which playlists to synce of course but that's none too little useless and fiddly.

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Oooh, what an offer! Thank you. Can you burn to DVD?

Oh, apols, speed-reading, you've backed up to DVD-Rs and not CD-Rs. I'll hit you up on e-mail, ta.

I'm 90% sure it doesn't allow you to manually manage music (as in dragging and dropping playlists and songs to the phone). It allows you to manually choose which playlists to synce of course but that's none too little useless and fiddly

yup. that wanks all manner of cheesy dicks.

yes it does. so annoying

it wanks like 14 different kinds of cheesy dicks.

more like 24, i'd say.

It is pretty annoying - but in some ways I kinda like it; I manage my ipod manually but then just have some smart playlists syncing to the phone, so I get stuff I've recorded off the radio this week etc.

^^ this. Smart playlists cover pretty much everything I'd like on what's ultimately a phone -- "Music added in last week", "Highest rated" etc plus new podcasts.

Czn: Gah! Nightmare situation.