Even w/o an iPod or an interest in iTMS, iTunes can make a great music program. Like many other things Apple, iTunes doesn't necessarily have unique features, but (nearly) all its features are easier to use than in (nearly) all other software (there are always exceptions).
Things that you can do anywhere but are particularly easy, pleasant, or automatic in iTunes:
o Searching for songs
o Manipulating playlists
o Consistent sound quality/volume
o Smart playlists
Other nice things that some people use:
o AppleScriptable (OK, only applies to Macs but extremely useful nonetheless)
o Album art
o Rate your songs
I still wish there was a reliable, preferrably included, defrag program. I do a lot of video work, and I not only want defragmented files, I want large contiguous sections of free space on my hard drive. I've not had much luck with 3rd party degrag programs (though I've yet to try SpeedDisk).
A recent Seattle Times article gives eMachines kudos for good tech support, and no, the argument that crappy products need to have good tech support to back them up is a poor slander: no business could stay in business that way.
Quote from article: " If you're thinking about giving a new PC, eMachines has top-notch backup. It makes its computers easier to service over an Internet connection, and the CPU unit itself is a snap to open and self-service."
I suspect you'll find as many good EW officers who would sware by the squawk boxes sinces the pitch, tone, repetition, etc told them a lot about their surroundings without having to look down in the cockpit. As they say, "There's nothing _in_ the cockpit that's trying to kill you!"
I couldn't pass it up: type in your last name, and see if any other Soundex-equivalent names (from the 1990 US Census) show up in a Google News search.
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If there's no dark matter, what's that stuff coming out of Nibbler?
I'll take my keyboard's finger-borne bacteria any day over a toilet's butt-borne variety.
A Second Amendment complaint? Now they want to take my unix AND my guns!
There's no V8 that far out.
It turns out the DRM was stimied by putting electrical tape on the disc.
Does it hurt your pride that you haven't slashdotted Apple by rushing to see the trailer? (It doesn't even appear to be an Akamai mirror)
Why don't people post freecache.org links to these large files?
I don't want to hear any more complaints about how late Longhorn is.
In other words, "We didn't learn from the backlash against the recording industry, so we'll do it again. Only harder."
Duh.
Yep, I bought everything I was supposed to buy, but I'm definitely not going to enroll in that Clown College.
I don't have moderator power today, so I'll just say, "Hear! Hear!"
Finally? Goodness, you guys sure do ask a lot. G5's haven't been out all that long. =)
Even w/o an iPod or an interest in iTMS, iTunes can make a great music program. Like many other things Apple, iTunes doesn't necessarily have unique features, but (nearly) all its features are easier to use than in (nearly) all other software (there are always exceptions).
Things that you can do anywhere but are particularly easy, pleasant, or automatic in iTunes:
o Searching for songs
o Manipulating playlists
o Consistent sound quality/volume
o Smart playlists
Other nice things that some people use:
o AppleScriptable (OK, only applies to Macs but extremely useful nonetheless)
o Album art
o Rate your songs
Just a few thoughts...
-Rob
[[ Insert obligatory joke about Windows and planes crashing here. ]]
Sorry, prior art. Apple already has dogcow, a computer-cow hybrid. I'm sure the USPTO will grant a post facto patent for all bovine-bit business.
"No ma'am. This is Area 51A."
I still wish there was a reliable, preferrably included, defrag program. I do a lot of video work, and I not only want defragmented files, I want large contiguous sections of free space on my hard drive. I've not had much luck with 3rd party degrag programs (though I've yet to try SpeedDisk).
If Suzuki made a sort of eastern Samarai-styled laptop, it would have to run Windows to get that consistent always-crashing feel.
A recent Seattle Times article gives eMachines kudos for good tech support, and no, the argument that crappy products need to have good tech support to back them up is a poor slander: no business could stay in business that way.
Quote from article: " If you're thinking about giving a new PC, eMachines has top-notch backup. It makes its computers easier to service over an Internet connection, and the CPU unit itself is a snap to open and self-service."
I suspect you'll find as many good EW officers who would sware by the squawk boxes sinces the pitch, tone, repetition, etc told them a lot about their surroundings without having to look down in the cockpit. As they say, "There's nothing _in_ the cockpit that's trying to kill you!"
I couldn't pass it up: type in your last name, and see if any other Soundex-equivalent names (from the 1990 US Census) show up in a Google News search.