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Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives
FST777 writes "The British Mail on Sunday published its latest DVD giveaway on the EcoDisc, a thin and bendable DVD format that is supposed to be more environmentally-friendly than regular DVDs. Despite the clear warning against using them in Apple slot drives, some Mac users decided to give it a go. The result? A brisk trade for repair shops in the UK. 'The EcoDisc's manufacturer, ODS, insists the disc won't break drives. "We've produced over ten million of these discs — we've had less than a dozen phone calls," says managing director, Ray Wheeler. "There are ways to get the discs out." Wheeler says the problem stems from Apple's slot-loading drives. "It uses an ejection system that doesn't get approval from the DVD Forum." He claims the EcoDisc should work in other types of slot-loading drive, although admits that it hasn't been tested in the PlayStation 3.'"
It wrecks your drive, but it's good for the earth. Sounds normal for environmentalism. Sure it makes your life worse, but think of how much it helps the earth!
sorry I thought you were looking for an answer, but you just want to bitch. one hand? wtf. guess I got caught by a classic "one mouse button" troll. you haven't even seen a mac have you?
Yes, we can debate all day about whether that "different" functionality should or should not have been obvious or easy after X time. I'm going to focus on the things that are *inexcusably* bad here.
-email:
Why is not possible to find out how remove the (ridiculous) darkening on the subject lines? I did every search term to no avail.
*Within* an options window in the email, why is the options window so huge that it covers the default bottom launch bar AND I can't resize that window or scroll up and down within the window, FORCING me to figure out how to REMOVE THE WHOLE BOTTOM LAUNCH BAR just to alter one option in email?
-iMovie
Why is Apple going out of its way to hide the existence of options for unwanted one-handed people? Why do they think ctrl-click is easier for two-handed people, than right-clicking?
Why go through the trouble of allowing me to "glide" through the movie by moving my cursor over the panels, yet not let me export a frame when I *do* right click on the right one?
Why can't I choose where to save the file that makes up one of the still frames?
-iPhoto
I don't want to drag the file to the desktop. I want it in a logical place where I can easily get to it and upload it. Why does it make that so hard?
And, as I told you before, right-clicking (SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! SHUT UP!!!!!!! THAT DOESN'T EXIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) *did not* bring up any option to "show in finder".
-iChat
Ah, okay, so Apple wants me to store every file I'd ever want to make as a buddy icon, right on the desktop somewhere? And why do I have to drag it to the desktop as an intermediate step? Why not straight from iPhoto?
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You're right, I am, in a way, new to Mac (once you ignore the youngest 15 years of my life). That still doesn't explain why I can't find *in the help options* how to do these things.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
Oh, btw, good job there on your act of pretending to be "above the fray", and acting like you have helpful remarks.
Nevermind of course, that you just told me that, at best, I have to go through a convoluted process just to send a damn picture to someone from an iPhoto album. Let's see, shrink iPhoto down on my tiny screen, shrink down the email message, "drag" one over to the inside of the email so it's at the appropriate place among the text, send the email, hear back the the photos weren't interspersed like I asked...
As for expecting iPhoto to have an "Export to iChat" function? Well, first that's the wrong use of the word "Export" which has a formal meaning in most programs. Second of all, iChat isn't really a common target for images. It has an interface to change your buddy icon, but how often is that needed? Should iPhoto also have "Send to TextEdit" just because you can paste images into documents?
huh huh, yeah man, good point, that would be as ridiculously stupid as PhotoBooth having an option that opens the displayed image in iPhoto.
Or, if all you want is what you see on the screen, just switch to fullscreen, pause at the frame you want and press Command-Shift-3 to take a screenshot. Why are you digging through the Finder? Because you don't realize there's a simple way, and you didn't bother to find out. Some clever Googling can help you - don't be so quick to assume.
We still haven't established an easy way to frame capture, remember? The best it has to offer is to *add* a clip, that I *don't wan't*, which deceives iPhoto into believing my project has been edited, and then show it in finder, and then move it and rename it, and then delete the clip. Fun, fun, fun!!!!! Of *course* that's why there shouldn't be an "export frame" option!
So go ahead, keep it up, keep your head firmly buried in the sand, and just keep wishing wishing wishing *REALLY* hard that Stevie will come back and return all those h/js.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.