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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.

take that, early adopters!

I am hoping that they bite the bullet and finally make an ultralight macbook pro/duo replacement.

next week that is.

I am hoping that they bite the bullet and finally make an ultralight macbook pro/duo replacement.

MacBook Air, anyone?

I'm thinking about it.

13 hours to go.

http://www.solepedia.com/images/thumb/0/0d/Jumpman_logo.jpg/300px-Jumpman_logo.jpg

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i'd just like them to fix safari :(

my dream of an imac/macbook air docking situation is looking less and less likely by the hour.

if the "air" hook really does have to do with wimax, i wouldn't be surprised if it's bundled with a carrier and will only be available to start in the us, kinda like the iphone was. that said, my roommate's gf works at the apple store and they've all been told to anticipate new hardware in the stores on thursday, so maybe they'll roll out the thin laptop regardless...

what's broken with safari, DG?

it gobbles all my RAM, it wanted 800MBs the other day for looking at ILX, the grauniad and teh imdb

it quits when i go in yootoob at the moment, the swine

what version of safari are you running?

btw why is there no iphone thread? google just added push gmail to iphone...

3.0.4

My only gripe with safari is that it bombs out when it gets redirected by WIFI routers to a payment or Ts&Cs page. Was a problem with version 2 and still there in 3. Is not that much of an issue if you have firefox lying around.

mac firefox sucks

otherwise i'd use it all the time

indeed, but it can be used to pay for hotel wifi.

being unable to find the perfect browser is one of the few things that pisses me off about macs

safari is mostly perfect for me. i used to use firefox but that became bloated and glitcy.

safari is fine with me except for the occasional times when it just can't load a site right or work right, in which case I use firefox. It's usually a problem with forms and stuff like that.

oh yeah, download Tiger or Leopard Cache Cleaner and run it's Safari Optimization option. It fixed my Safari which used to be really slow and now it's really fast again.

Well, the apple store online is now closed.

DG did you ignore my post about Safari yesterday

no i replied, it was R and not V

in fact if i inspect the process it says safari is using 16,777,216TB of shared memory which i doubt very much

its current rsize is 300MB and i've only got a couple of tabs open with nothing remarkable in any of them

come on guys this is bizarre