New Apple Lust Objects

There's a buddy list, with icons on the left, blue arrow icon on the right. They had never done any Mac development before, came with no code, and they had the live buddy list UI running in five days. Now they're showing chatting, and it's a series of boxes with text, buddy icons, and the like. Then swipe your finger to switch among active chats. (The audience oohs and aahs.)

sweet.

SuperMonkeyBall!

Ugh, I'd rather have an apple-made aim client

I bet there's some clause in the carrier deal that prevents that

june :-(

ffs

can't they just do it in two weeks?

and "late june", so 4 months, basically. otoh i guess with the SDK out today there's hope of (better) free jailbroken apps before long?

You can join the developer program to test your app on the iPhone and iPod touch and distribute your app -- to join the dev program costs just $99.

I bet there's some clause in the carrier deal that prevents that

-- stet, Thursday, March 6, 2008 2:10 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I don't really see what the point of that would be

They make money from SMS messages.

Right, but the cat's out of the bag anyway now. So who cares who makes the aim client

I think this way lets them honour the agreement while breaking it. They're also going to only let VoIP clients work over wifi, not cell.

1 app developed with the official iPhone SDK >>>>>>>>>>> all apps on Installer.app combined to date

Seriously, as much as the jailbreaking/unlocking cat and mouse is fun and all ("fun"), the apps available to date are buggy useless bullshit with on-the-whole bad UIs. I have installed 0xInstaller.app applications so far. Navizon was the only one worth a shit until GoogleMaps.app introduced LocateMe.

really ass old Apple lust object:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/mac_se_1987.jpg

Brand-spanking new model for 1987. Still boots, still has all the original documentation and software. It's pretty neat for about five minutes.

looks good for scarab of ra

We were still using those to create my high-school newspaper.

In 1999.

Or maybe the version after this, it handled an early version of Pagemaker. Kind of.

'oh wow'

excellent for lazy stalking

For the music search application alone, Bandai Networks has over 150,000 music CD covers already indexed in their database.

seems a bit low - about 2 or 3 million is what they need.

will it push back details about people?

Social networking + visual recognition software + mobile devices = end of world

No way man!! That world is in diapers!!

Presume you've read Mike Arrington's techcrunch post 'I have seen the future of social networking', Alba?

No.

Wow, cool. I thought this was initially only going to extract text out of images.

Basically describes one part of your end times scenario.

Fuck BBcode, here's the url:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/09/i-saw-the-future-of-social-networking-the-other-day/

Anyway.

Can anyone get Mail.app to actually work? I am using it with Gmail and it won't even pull messages off the server or sync up properly without me quitting and restarting. I just want to hit the 'Get Mail' button and have on my desktop what I have at gmail.google.com

There's not even any UI feedback that the 'Get Mail' button actually does anything, ffs.

It shows you everyone around you who has it installed on an iPhone (default privacy is set to off, but can be changed). Users can scroll through nearby users, and set filters for men, women or age ranges. If you find someone interesting you can pull up their profile and ping them. If they respond you can start a chat, on the phone or in person. Of course, they can also choose to block you... after they've gotten to know you a bit and realise you are a bit crepey.

Oh wow! This'd be great for people: photography Luna and get an instant reply who/where she is with Google Earth.

Can anyone get Mail.app to actually work? I am using it with Gmail and it won't even pull messages off the server or sync up properly without me quitting and restarting. I just want to hit the 'Get Mail' button and have on my desktop what I have at gmail.google.com

yes, though -- caveat alert! -- i'm using tiger :)

but, umm, it does pretty much exactly what you're describing, and does it well. having to quit and restart sounds v odd: have you tried deleting the account info from mail.app and starting all over again?

google's official guide to setting up gmail with mail.app
some more settings info, although do not enable the save drafts on server option because it sucks 18 different types of dick

czn: you want Activity Monitor in the Window menu. Leopard Mail seems to keep getting hung up "synchronising" things -- hit the red stop sign, and it'll be back in business fairly quickly.

It happens often enough that I switched to Entourage, however.

jesus christ, things must be bad.

no idea if this will help either of you, but it's more interesting than revising the arts page, which is what i'm meant to be doing right now.

i've had mail get my gmail for ages, it's easy

are you on leopard or tiger, DG? i have a feeling 10.5 will be the first upgrade i just don't bother with.

(bit late now anyway, innit.)

leopard

sod it. i shall live in the steam-powered past on my own, then.

b-b-but mail worked fine under tiger too! i fear my lack of minor annoyances on my mac just means i'm going to have some major system failure soon

In Leopard (10.5.2) I'm using Mail.app with Gmail, and with another IMAP account. I added Gmail (as IMAP) a couple of weeks ago and had no problems doing so.

It happens often enough that I switched to Entourage, however.

Masochist?

b-b-but mail worked fine under tiger too! i fear my lack of minor annoyances on my mac just means i'm going to have some major system failure soon

heh, i've been feeling like that since about 1997. when the disaster comes, it's gonna be HUGE.

(that said, i did accidentally destroy my first iPod. i have suffered. oh yes.)

the ball on my mighty mouse has just stopped working :(

completely or just gummed?

no gum it just seems to lose traction

oh and now it scrolls down but not up

OH FUCK WE HAVE TEMPTED FATE :(

nah this has happened before, i quite like these mighty mice apart from the bloody silly scroll ball