i definitely prefer the pop-up window, just not iCals implementation of it. As a method for data entry into a calander database, I think a good pop-up window can be quick and easy for data entry. Now-Up-To-Date use to have great data entry windows--double click on a date and a single window popped up. You could resize it to make it smaller or larger; quickly add all basic event info--such as name, categories, date, time, alarms, etc. You could type in miles of notes, add contacts, etc. Better yet, you could change an event to a to-do temm, or a phone call, or a banner, without deleting and re-entering, and if your entering multiple appointments, you could go from one to the next without having to interact with the main calendar.
I use iCal now, primarily because of subscriptions, and its faster than it use to be. But all the above are still major issues for me, as well as not having alarms work when iCal is closed (they work on my iPod) how hard could it be; and the fact that the OS X implementation of Now just kind of sucks and is at a standstill. At least with iCal I feel Apple is making changes, and adding things I like
Strange what passes for trust these days. Trust is about belief in a persons character, a reliance on personal or public integrity. If you've hired someone to check-up on your lover, partner, parents, kids, whoever, then you DON'T trust them. This isn't all bad, we often trust people in some arenas and not others. I trust my friends will be there when I need them emotionally. I don't trust that they will ever show up on time for a movie or concert, so I buy the tickets. Parents often trust that their kids are good, but they also trust that they will be kids, and this includes rebellion, some fabrication, and some outright lies.
Trust is initially extended like faith. It's given or should be given freely, but its fortified by time and action. Overtime, lovers, friends, family, and colleagues should strengthen the trust you have in them, by displaying their character, establishing boundaries based on intent, hope, and care. Ultimately, you can have faith in someone even if they've let you down time and time again, but you won't have trust in them.
You can't implicitly trust and still require proof. Implicit means without question, without reservation. Its sad to me that so many people have adopted the I trust you, so long as we can establish the facts approach; and that technology has so enabled them. Because their trust is in proof, not the person. But, I guess that's why its so easy for people to give up their privacy--because they want that knowledge of others-- now, immediately.
My bad then, I never noticed it 4.1. Possibly because I already knew the command keys for creating a new playlist and or create a new smart playlist.
Grouping I think opens up a lot of possibilities. It could be used as either a super- or sub-category, so that really large categories like Rock or Alternative in my lists could be broken down more; or it could be used (which is what I'm leaning towards) to affiliate songs with collections--say celebrity playlists, or the iTunes Essentials, etc. It will be interesting to see what others are thinking about using it for.
Apple's Read Me's are always notably lacking information on specific changes, possible because parts of the read me display in the software update and installers. Anyway, Apple often releases specific details as part of its knowledge base.
My quick review of changes in iTunes 4.2 on Mac OS X (sorry won't have access to a Win2k machine until next week), these are the immediate changes I notice:
Hot Tips http://www.apple.com/itunes/hottips/ Apple introduced hot tips on creating Smart Playlist, keyboard shortcuts, copy song, artist, and album urls from the iTunes Music Store, etc.
Grouping Under song details, there is now a new ID3 tag called grouping. I'm not certain if this will allow for subcategories, or can be used for things such as Celebrity Playlist so songs from multiple albums can be grouped. I'll have to play with it. Also added to Smart Playlist queries.
Artwork Added scaler to artwork, so images can be scaled up or down to fit album space area.
Playlist from Selection For those who complained about queue-ing songs, I imagine this feature will come in handy, as well as for other purposes as well. Allows you to Command-Select (Click) on random songs in your library then create a playlist from them, immediately.
Music Store in New Window Double-clicking will launch the music store in a new window (yeah).
iTMS: Music Essentials Like Celebrity playlist, but collections of "iTunes Essential" music in categories I wouldn't have imagined, including Disco Ball Essentials and Coctail Party Kitsch--yet more ways to spend even more money.
iTMS: AOL Sessions Added more music "exclusives" basically various performances by artist for AOL can now be purchased.
iTMS: AOL Users Tons of direct access stuff for AOL users. Which, if they can do this for AOL, maybe they could do it for other venues, like artist who do live concert releases.
iTMS: Artist Self-Released Albums (Return of the EP) This was there before, but some artist like Pearl Jam who are self published are and can now release stuff directly to the iTMS. I also noticed John Mayer's "As Is" is not attributed to Sony or any music label (which may indicate that it was also self-published). Ben Folds have also been doing a number of quick EPs, but they are all still published attributed to EPIC. It will be interesting to see if more artist start releasing EPs with 4-5 songs exclusively for iTMS or other music stores, and then have regular albums published every 1-2yrs.
These were the things I noticed immediately. Now I need to go and play and see what else comes up.
LOL! That was my first thought, they could get it cheaper in India? What about all those f*cking grad students looking for work experience? Isn't MIT a technology school?
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In future, there will only be two operating systems left. Unix will be dead," he claimed.
I got to say, his words lack credibility, especially if he can't even count the current number of major operating system.
I personally enjoyed the fact that between Comcast & Quest they expect to spend around $450 million to upgrade existing infrastructure to a capacity that will only sustain current users for another year or so, then complain that the government is spending $470 million to create an infrastructure that may very well sustain the same community for the next 10-20 years with little modification.
Probably because the disabling of the software is ONLY part of the story. When Apple released the iPod for Windows, they had no Windows version of iTunes available. They then purchased/selected, whatever you want to call it, MusicMatch software to act is the Window's software, but it was a known fact this was ONLY a temporary gig. MusicMatch new it, as well as almost every iPod owner new it. This was in part due to so many Windows users complaining to Apple that the MusicMatch software sucked.
Apple gave fair notice that it would be developing its own windows version of iTunes, not just to bring the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) to windows but so windows iPod users could have a better software/hardware experience. MusicMatch knew they were being replaced, and had to know that the new iTunes software would take over as the default iPod manger. I expect what they didn't know or had assumed was that the two applications would and could mange the iPod interchangeably.
I hear MusicMatch mostly whining because they've been replaced as the default iPod manager, but this was a forgone fact from the beginning. MusicMatch was basically a temp employee, who's now complaining that they didn't get the fulltime job, though they were never even interviewed for it.
Apple offered Indies the same contract as the Big-5. It was a take it or leave deal. Meaning the indies get the same return from Apple as the Big-5, and they now have the opportunity to return those percentages directly to the artist or become greedy corporations. I know CD-Baby mentioned that they would take a flat fee/percentage from all artist they distribute and the remainder would go to the artist in monthly checks (since Apple cuts the labels check frequently). Whether other Indie labels are doing the same I'm not certain.
The problem is that your artist friend has a sucky contract with a greedy record label. This is true of most artists, especially if they never make it big. Even large artist make more money on concerts, promotionals, etc., than they do on album sales, unless they had a shark lawyer looking out for their best interest at the get-go.
Artist on major labels still receive whatever percentage cut they would normaly received based on their contract with the label. This has absolutely nothing to do with Apple, since Apple doesn't deal with artist directly (well at least not in this arena). Artist on indie labels get a larger percentage of the sale, but that's typically because the independent contracts offer a larger percentage for the artist (not all, but a lot).
So for indie artist, iTMS ends up being a good deal, they get slightly more exposure than they normally would, and people who wouldn't normally purchase an entire album by some random no-name artist, aren't quite as hesitant to by a song here and there, meaning they get an increase in income. Whether or not that income is large is another issue--let's face it some artist will never see more than $10 a year in income from iTMS, but typically speaking these are the same artist who may have never sold 1000 albums/singles without iTMS.
If Apple dealt directly with the artists, I'd expect better. But I also understand why Apple doesn't want to become a record label. They're a technology company, and digital music distribution is basically about technology, signing artists is not.
Funny, I just record sessions from a coference last week with my iPod and the Belkin recorder adapter. Worked like a charm, sound was clear even from a distance way. Saves each recording under a new Voice Recordings menu, where I can rename tem or leave them as date/time stamp.
I was pretty darn excited by having access to Audible.com material as well. For me the bigger issue was not wanting to subscribe to Audible, but still wanting access to their catalog, which I think iTMS does well.
I just don't like subscriptions in general, at least not immediately. I like to be able to buy for a while (6 mo to 1yr) and then decide if I purchase enough to make a subscription worthwhile. If my purchasing is consistent (a couple items per month without fail), then a get a subscription, if not, I stick to buying when I feel like.
Also, my biggest goal was access to back catalogs of radio shows like Fresh Air with Terry Gross, news shows, and a few books here and there. I may get more excited about actual books in the long run, but for now, I admit to still enjoying taking the time, space to actually sit and read. So almost any book in my must read list, I want in print. But WOW! 767 back episodes of Fresh Air. Each for $2.95, that's pretty amazing, and even more so, because I figure a percentage goes to supporting the show, and or NPR.
Methinks, your lying or don't read too well. When you go to download QuickTime you get 4 options, one for Mac OS X, one for Mac OS 8/9, one for Windows 98 to XP, and then one for Win2000/XP with iTunes Music Store. Now its possible you didn't pause long enough to read the option print, but thats your bad. But you can read it now if you like, here.
LOL. Because NO other Windows software does this. I love installing RealPlayer because it just installs a single application, doesn't add links to my start-up application, doesn't place itself in my system tray, doesn't place icons (multiple) on my desktop, doesn't take over all music and movie related tasks, and lordknows for some strange reason, it doesn't take over my internet downloads.
God, almost every windows third-party media application (that isn't open-source) does this. I find it hilarious that Windows user are complaining that Apple is doing it. Now personally, I'd be all for Apple to not add another useless items to the start-up menu, because lord knows qttask.exe is not necessary there. I'm just amazed that people who use RealPlayer, WinAmp, Windows Media Player, and or MusicMatch would complain because iTunes gave them icons and start-up applications that they don't want.
do you have administrator permissions at work? I had it stall on me when doing a Win2k installation, but I was running as joe blow user. When I logged backed in as admin, and ran smoothly.
Adsubtract mucks with HTML code, iTunes back in is pretty much HTML--well XML, but anyway its pretty much a specialized web browser. I'd report the issue to AdSubtract as well as Apple. But it's most likely AdSubtract will need to release an update.
I have to say, "What did you expect it to do, when you selected 'Organize My Files for Me'? Maybe I'm a non-typical music lover, but if I've spent 20+ hours organizing my music, exactly the way I want it, then I'd be hesitant to tell an application, ANY APPLICATION, to take over managing it. That said, in the preference pane for auto-manage Apple provides fairly comprehensive options--copy files to iTunes Music Folder, create file names with track numbers, etc. Each of these options would have allowed you to somewhat limit the 'damage' done, or provide enough insight for you to decide not to do so.
But in all honesty, if you spent a lot of time creating a specific interface that meets your needs, why in the world did you even select the auto-manage function. You could have just selected import found.mp3, or just dragged your music folder ontop of the app to add your music.
It does give you a warning that your iPod will be overwritten by songs from your Music Library, when you choose the option to automatically sync. In fact, it even gives you the warning, if you choose ONLY to sync a single playlist, such as Purchased Music (which is what I do, so all new purchases always end up on my iPod, but playlist and the like, I manually transfer and manage.
Not that I disagree, I think the warning should be provided again, before the sync, especially if the user library is empty.
Yes! But it would get flamed by Mac users, because not too many Mac users want a Mac app that looks and works like a PC app.:) On the otherhand, many PC users pay absolutely no attention to how an application works. That's not said to flame, and obviously not true of high-end users, but I've seen Win users go for months using an app that has a terrible interface inconsistencies, and they pretty much just blame themselves.
Now that said, one of the first things I notice on the Mac vs PC version was the issue with the Maximize Windows. I'm just very use to Windows Maximizing the Window, and then I'll go back and adjust so I can see part of the screen beneath. It was very Mac-like and a noticeable distraction for me to be on a Win2k machine and have the application Zoom instead of Maximize. But I'm not certain how much it will bother your average PC user--I know most of the clients I plan to install iTunes on, pretty much use min and max, and if I resize the zoom to take up most of the screen, they'll NEVER notice the difference.
45 min. I'd say that's more the beauty of using anetwork image, than anything particular to WinXP. Set-up through pre-configured images is supposed to have fast deployment, regardless if your a Mac or PC. But a typical setup, without an image takes far longer than 45min--just walking through the guided assistants under XP takes 10-15 minutes. Then you have to download and install all the necessary patches. Reset administrators, set security, set policies, turn off ports that shouldn't have been active anyway, turn off services, that shouldn't have been active anyway, set-up network resources like printers and fileshares, install applications, then clean-up the registry since its always in shambles on a new machine 200-800 entries that require repair (is typically what we find), etc.
It's all quick, if someone took the time to prepare and deploy network images. Otherwise its not:)
Of course your comments are from someone with technical expertise. I read his comments and thought, " Wow, Joe Blow actually made that work without any help from IT."
The truth is from an IT perpective it isn't that hard to integrate a Mac, especially one running OS X, into a PC network. I do so a couple times a week at different client sites, with bare minimum problems. But thats because: 1) I know what I'm doing, and 2) I know most of the pitfalls of corporate IT, Win-dependent networks.
That said, I would expect your average joe, trying to connect to custom PC apps, dongles, and the lot to experience hardships. The fact that the guy was able to overcome them without even leaarning what was wrong in the first place, is more a testiment to Apple than any great skill or struggle on his part. Of course the fact that his IT-department didn't even attempt to help him is just as telling.
We created a customized web system called SMarT Tech. It's pretty much like Remedy, or other Request Tracker software, but allows for the customized flairs we wanted--handles multiple clients, allows client view, user view, administrator view, and a consultant/technician view. This allowed us to keep the interface pretty simple, any staff member of a client, logs in as themselves. They can see prior requests they made, what technology is associated with them (desktops, laptops, etc.), they can make new requests. If they're nosy or curious, they can see what's going on at the organizational level--how many current requests are there, tech projects, software licensing, etc.
The admin view is for selected staff of the client, they can adjust priorities of requests, add new users, add new sites, create reports such as service logs, assest sheets, project outlines.
The consultant/technician view allows support handlers to view requests and tasks by client or by time period. All the functionaility of the admin view is their plus more, we can organize requests into task lists, assign requests to to other staff, open, close, re-open, and or schedule follow-up on requests; send email to all staff at a client by client, or by client site, or selectively. Send email to to other technicians, by project, client, or selectively. Schedule tasks, like routine upgrades, system overhauls, etc., so the user knows when their system will be adapted.
We're still adding more reports and features as more users start using it, but currently we use it to manage support and purchase requests for 20 different nonprofits, and hundreds of users, and everyone likes it. It was well worth the effort to build it ourselves, since it just fits our client interactions, allowing both users and client admins to feel very much in control, but still allows us to ultimately manage them and their projects.
The design process went fairly quick 2 months to a beta system, while handling client support, other design projects, and more. We used PHP & MySQL, and spent the most time (about a month) making sure the database design would be suitable, and creating global functions--such as changing what data displays on a page based on user status (user, admin, staff--with staff being consultants & technicians).
After we introduced the beta, we put two of our more tech savvy clients on the system, to let them help us bang out bugs, usability, and missing features--this was very helpful, because clients/users always come up with things you didn't think of.
Let's say a disk holds 200,000,000,000 bytes. According to a hard drive manufacturer, that's a 200 gigabyte disk. According to the rest of the industry, that's a 186 gigabyte disk. That's a significant difference. They should use the same conventions as everyone else.
OK. I agree that the same standards should be used, but why are they suing Apple, Dell, HP, etc.? I would expect them to sue Maxtor, Quantum, Western Digital, Seagate, etc.
Sure it's possible that computer manufacturers are in collusion with hard drive manufacturers to dupe the public on size; but its just as likely that Apple, Dell, et. al. enter contract to purchase a certain number of hard drives at the manufacturer specified size; and that's the size reported on general advertisement.
That said, almost every computer I've purchased from Apple has listed the amount of available space for general use, written in its detailed specification somewhere. I admit to never looking for it at Dell, and never purchasing from the other vendors.
It seems to me, if they were going to sue over misleading claims, the the MHz, GHz myth would be more apt. Since 1GHz != !Ghz depending on which chip and a host of other issues. Least the drive information is consistently wrong.
The government needs to flag people whose name is Mohammad bin Mohammad, people who have spent modest to extended amounts of time in the Middle East, people who act suspiciously and so on. And all the Slashdot liberals can take your liberal bullshit and shove it, I fucking *WANT* some racial profiling.
Wow! Talk like this always amazes me; and of course ignores the fact that within the last 5-10 years America has suffered more attacks from "American terrorist"--militant militia and cultist groups and individuals--than from non-native terrorist. It also ignores the fact that Mohammad bin Mohammad is probably not stupid enough to purchase a ticket using that name, while your average American traveler of Middle Eastern descent will.
Of course, this still doesn't change the fact, that I'm more worried about some disgruntled worker with an automatic shooting up a Buger Kind, flea market, or downtown shopping area, than I am about a potential terrorist being on my plane (but except flying home (San Francisco), I rarely fly places terrorist would deem all that important.
No, why would it be a violation of a buyer's right to sell property? If you purchased a book, in ink, from Barnes and Noble and wanted to sell it to a blind person in a format they could read, you wouldn't expect Barnes & Noble or the original publisher of the book to assist you in making this possible. You would deal with the limitations of the right of first sale.
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i definitely prefer the pop-up window, just not iCals implementation of it. As a method for data entry into a calander database, I think a good pop-up window can be quick and easy for data entry. Now-Up-To-Date use to have great data entry windows--double click on a date and a single window popped up. You could resize it to make it smaller or larger; quickly add all basic event info--such as name, categories, date, time, alarms, etc. You could type in miles of notes, add contacts, etc. Better yet, you could change an event to a to-do temm, or a phone call, or a banner, without deleting and re-entering, and if your entering multiple appointments, you could go from one to the next without having to interact with the main calendar.
I use iCal now, primarily because of subscriptions, and its faster than it use to be. But all the above are still major issues for me, as well as not having alarms work when iCal is closed (they work on my iPod) how hard could it be; and the fact that the OS X implementation of Now just kind of sucks and is at a standstill. At least with iCal I feel Apple is making changes, and adding things I like
>Without that knowledge, you can't HAVE trust.
Strange what passes for trust these days. Trust is about belief in a persons character, a reliance on personal or public integrity. If you've hired someone to check-up on your lover, partner, parents, kids, whoever, then you DON'T trust them. This isn't all bad, we often trust people in some arenas and not others. I trust my friends will be there when I need them emotionally. I don't trust that they will ever show up on time for a movie or concert, so I buy the tickets. Parents often trust that their kids are good, but they also trust that they will be kids, and this includes rebellion, some fabrication, and some outright lies.
Trust is initially extended like faith. It's given or should be given freely, but its fortified by time and action. Overtime, lovers, friends, family, and colleagues should strengthen the trust you have in them, by displaying their character, establishing boundaries based on intent, hope, and care. Ultimately, you can have faith in someone even if they've let you down time and time again, but you won't have trust in them.
You can't implicitly trust and still require proof. Implicit means without question, without reservation. Its sad to me that so many people have adopted the I trust you, so long as we can establish the facts approach; and that technology has so enabled them. Because their trust is in proof, not the person. But, I guess that's why its so easy for people to give up their privacy--because they want that knowledge of others-- now, immediately.
> playlist from selection was in 4.1
My bad then, I never noticed it 4.1. Possibly because I already knew the command keys for creating a new playlist and or create a new smart playlist.
Grouping I think opens up a lot of possibilities. It could be used as either a super- or sub-category, so that really large categories like Rock or Alternative in my lists could be broken down more; or it could be used (which is what I'm leaning towards) to affiliate songs with collections--say celebrity playlists, or the iTunes Essentials, etc. It will be interesting to see what others are thinking about using it for.
Apple's Read Me's are always notably lacking information on specific changes, possible because parts of the read me display in the software update and installers. Anyway, Apple often releases specific details as part of its knowledge base.
My quick review of changes in iTunes 4.2 on Mac OS X (sorry won't have access to a Win2k machine until next week), these are the immediate changes I notice:
Hot Tips
http://www.apple.com/itunes/hottips/
Apple introduced hot tips on creating Smart Playlist, keyboard shortcuts, copy song, artist, and album urls from the iTunes Music Store, etc.
Grouping
Under song details, there is now a new ID3 tag called grouping. I'm not certain if this will allow for subcategories, or can be used for things such as Celebrity Playlist so songs from multiple albums can be grouped. I'll have to play with it. Also added to Smart Playlist queries.
Artwork
Added scaler to artwork, so images can be scaled up or down to fit album space area.
Playlist from Selection
For those who complained about queue-ing songs, I imagine this feature will come in handy, as well as for other purposes as well. Allows you to Command-Select (Click) on random songs in your library then create a playlist from them, immediately.
Music Store in New Window
Double-clicking will launch the music store in a new window (yeah).
iTMS: Music Essentials
Like Celebrity playlist, but collections of "iTunes Essential" music in categories I wouldn't have imagined, including Disco Ball Essentials and Coctail Party Kitsch--yet more ways to spend even more money.
iTMS: AOL Sessions
Added more music "exclusives" basically various performances by artist for AOL can now be purchased.
iTMS: AOL Users
Tons of direct access stuff for AOL users. Which, if they can do this for AOL, maybe they could do it for other venues, like artist who do live concert releases.
iTMS: Artist Self-Released Albums (Return of the EP)
This was there before, but some artist like Pearl Jam who are self published are and can now release stuff directly to the iTMS. I also noticed John Mayer's "As Is" is not attributed to Sony or any music label (which may indicate that it was also self-published). Ben Folds have also been doing a number of quick EPs, but they are all still published attributed to EPIC. It will be interesting to see if more artist start releasing EPs with 4-5 songs exclusively for iTMS or other music stores, and then have regular albums published every 1-2yrs.
These were the things I noticed immediately. Now I need to go and play and see what else comes up.
LOL! That was my first thought, they could get it cheaper in India? What about all those f*cking grad students looking for work experience? Isn't MIT a technology school?
I got to say, his words lack credibility, especially if he can't even count the current number of major operating system.
I personally enjoyed the fact that between Comcast & Quest they expect to spend around $450 million to upgrade existing infrastructure to a capacity that will only sustain current users for another year or so, then complain that the government is spending $470 million to create an infrastructure that may very well sustain the same community for the next 10-20 years with little modification.
Probably because the disabling of the software is ONLY part of the story. When Apple released the iPod for Windows, they had no Windows version of iTunes available. They then purchased/selected, whatever you want to call it, MusicMatch software to act is the Window's software, but it was a known fact this was ONLY a temporary gig. MusicMatch new it, as well as almost every iPod owner new it. This was in part due to so many Windows users complaining to Apple that the MusicMatch software sucked.
Apple gave fair notice that it would be developing its own windows version of iTunes, not just to bring the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) to windows but so windows iPod users could have a better software/hardware experience. MusicMatch knew they were being replaced, and had to know that the new iTunes software would take over as the default iPod manger. I expect what they didn't know or had assumed was that the two applications would and could mange the iPod interchangeably.
I hear MusicMatch mostly whining because they've been replaced as the default iPod manager, but this was a forgone fact from the beginning. MusicMatch was basically a temp employee, who's now complaining that they didn't get the fulltime job, though they were never even interviewed for it.
Apple offered Indies the same contract as the Big-5. It was a take it or leave deal. Meaning the indies get the same return from Apple as the Big-5, and they now have the opportunity to return those percentages directly to the artist or become greedy corporations. I know CD-Baby mentioned that they would take a flat fee/percentage from all artist they distribute and the remainder would go to the artist in monthly checks (since Apple cuts the labels check frequently). Whether other Indie labels are doing the same I'm not certain.
The problem is that your artist friend has a sucky contract with a greedy record label. This is true of most artists, especially if they never make it big. Even large artist make more money on concerts, promotionals, etc., than they do on album sales, unless they had a shark lawyer looking out for their best interest at the get-go.
Artist on major labels still receive whatever percentage cut they would normaly received based on their contract with the label. This has absolutely nothing to do with Apple, since Apple doesn't deal with artist directly (well at least not in this arena). Artist on indie labels get a larger percentage of the sale, but that's typically because the independent contracts offer a larger percentage for the artist (not all, but a lot).
So for indie artist, iTMS ends up being a good deal, they get slightly more exposure than they normally would, and people who wouldn't normally purchase an entire album by some random no-name artist, aren't quite as hesitant to by a song here and there, meaning they get an increase in income. Whether or not that income is large is another issue--let's face it some artist will never see more than $10 a year in income from iTMS, but typically speaking these are the same artist who may have never sold 1000 albums/singles without iTMS.
If Apple dealt directly with the artists, I'd expect better. But I also understand why Apple doesn't want to become a record label. They're a technology company, and digital music distribution is basically about technology, signing artists is not.
Funny, I just record sessions from a coference last week with my iPod and the Belkin recorder adapter. Worked like a charm, sound was clear even from a distance way. Saves each recording under a new Voice Recordings menu, where I can rename tem or leave them as date/time stamp.
I was pretty darn excited by having access to Audible.com material as well. For me the bigger issue was not wanting to subscribe to Audible, but still wanting access to their catalog, which I think iTMS does well.
I just don't like subscriptions in general, at least not immediately. I like to be able to buy for a while (6 mo to 1yr) and then decide if I purchase enough to make a subscription worthwhile. If my purchasing is consistent (a couple items per month without fail), then a get a subscription, if not, I stick to buying when I feel like.
Also, my biggest goal was access to back catalogs of radio shows like Fresh Air with Terry Gross, news shows, and a few books here and there. I may get more excited about actual books in the long run, but for now, I admit to still enjoying taking the time, space to actually sit and read. So almost any book in my must read list, I want in print. But WOW! 767 back episodes of Fresh Air. Each for $2.95, that's pretty amazing, and even more so, because I figure a percentage goes to supporting the show, and or NPR.
Methinks, your lying or don't read too well. When you go to download QuickTime you get 4 options, one for Mac OS X, one for Mac OS 8/9, one for Windows 98 to XP, and then one for Win2000/XP with iTunes Music Store. Now its possible you didn't pause long enough to read the option print, but thats your bad. But you can read it now if you like, here.
LOL. Because NO other Windows software does this. I love installing RealPlayer because it just installs a single application, doesn't add links to my start-up application, doesn't place itself in my system tray, doesn't place icons (multiple) on my desktop, doesn't take over all music and movie related tasks, and lordknows for some strange reason, it doesn't take over my internet downloads.
God, almost every windows third-party media application (that isn't open-source) does this. I find it hilarious that Windows user are complaining that Apple is doing it. Now personally, I'd be all for Apple to not add another useless items to the start-up menu, because lord knows qttask.exe is not necessary there. I'm just amazed that people who use RealPlayer, WinAmp, Windows Media Player, and or MusicMatch would complain because iTunes gave them icons and start-up applications that they don't want.
do you have administrator permissions at work? I had it stall on me when doing a Win2k installation, but I was running as joe blow user. When I logged backed in as admin, and ran smoothly.
Adsubtract mucks with HTML code, iTunes back in is pretty much HTML--well XML, but anyway its pretty much a specialized web browser. I'd report the issue to AdSubtract as well as Apple. But it's most likely AdSubtract will need to release an update.
I have to say, "What did you expect it to do, when you selected 'Organize My Files for Me'? Maybe I'm a non-typical music lover, but if I've spent 20+ hours organizing my music, exactly the way I want it, then I'd be hesitant to tell an application, ANY APPLICATION, to take over managing it. That said, in the preference pane for auto-manage Apple provides fairly comprehensive options--copy files to iTunes Music Folder, create file names with track numbers, etc. Each of these options would have allowed you to somewhat limit the 'damage' done, or provide enough insight for you to decide not to do so.
.mp3, or just dragged your music folder ontop of the app to add your music.
But in all honesty, if you spent a lot of time creating a specific interface that meets your needs, why in the world did you even select the auto-manage function. You could have just selected import found
It does give you a warning that your iPod will be overwritten by songs from your Music Library, when you choose the option to automatically sync. In fact, it even gives you the warning, if you choose ONLY to sync a single playlist, such as Purchased Music (which is what I do, so all new purchases always end up on my iPod, but playlist and the like, I manually transfer and manage.
Not that I disagree, I think the warning should be provided again, before the sync, especially if the user library is empty.
Yes! But it would get flamed by Mac users, because not too many Mac users want a Mac app that looks and works like a PC app. :) On the otherhand, many PC users pay absolutely no attention to how an application works. That's not said to flame, and obviously not true of high-end users, but I've seen Win users go for months using an app that has a terrible interface inconsistencies, and they pretty much just blame themselves.
Now that said, one of the first things I notice on the Mac vs PC version was the issue with the Maximize Windows. I'm just very use to Windows Maximizing the Window, and then I'll go back and adjust so I can see part of the screen beneath. It was very Mac-like and a noticeable distraction for me to be on a Win2k machine and have the application Zoom instead of Maximize. But I'm not certain how much it will bother your average PC user--I know most of the clients I plan to install iTunes on, pretty much use min and max, and if I resize the zoom to take up most of the screen, they'll NEVER notice the difference.
45 min. I'd say that's more the beauty of using anetwork image, than anything particular to WinXP. Set-up through pre-configured images is supposed to have fast deployment, regardless if your a Mac or PC. But a typical setup, without an image takes far longer than 45min--just walking through the guided assistants under XP takes 10-15 minutes. Then you have to download and install all the necessary patches. Reset administrators, set security, set policies, turn off ports that shouldn't have been active anyway, turn off services, that shouldn't have been active anyway, set-up network resources like printers and fileshares, install applications, then clean-up the registry since its always in shambles on a new machine 200-800 entries that require repair (is typically what we find), etc.
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It's all quick, if someone took the time to prepare and deploy network images. Otherwise its not
Of course your comments are from someone with technical expertise. I read his comments and thought, " Wow, Joe Blow actually made that work without any help from IT."
The truth is from an IT perpective it isn't that hard to integrate a Mac, especially one running OS X, into a PC network. I do so a couple times a week at different client sites, with bare minimum problems. But thats because: 1) I know what I'm doing, and 2) I know most of the pitfalls of corporate IT, Win-dependent networks.
That said, I would expect your average joe, trying to connect to custom PC apps, dongles, and the lot to experience hardships. The fact that the guy was able to overcome them without even leaarning what was wrong in the first place, is more a testiment to Apple than any great skill or struggle on his part. Of course the fact that his IT-department didn't even attempt to help him is just as telling.
We created a customized web system called SMarT Tech. It's pretty much like Remedy, or other Request Tracker software, but allows for the customized flairs we wanted--handles multiple clients, allows client view, user view, administrator view, and a consultant/technician view. This allowed us to keep the interface pretty simple, any staff member of a client, logs in as themselves. They can see prior requests they made, what technology is associated with them (desktops, laptops, etc.), they can make new requests. If they're nosy or curious, they can see what's going on at the organizational level--how many current requests are there, tech projects, software licensing, etc.
The admin view is for selected staff of the client, they can adjust priorities of requests, add new users, add new sites, create reports such as service logs, assest sheets, project outlines.
The consultant/technician view allows support handlers to view requests and tasks by client or by time period. All the functionaility of the admin view is their plus more, we can organize requests into task lists, assign requests to to other staff, open, close, re-open, and or schedule follow-up on requests; send email to all staff at a client by client, or by client site, or selectively. Send email to to other technicians, by project, client, or selectively. Schedule tasks, like routine upgrades, system overhauls, etc., so the user knows when their system will be adapted.
We're still adding more reports and features as more users start using it, but currently we use it to manage support and purchase requests for 20 different nonprofits, and hundreds of users, and everyone likes it. It was well worth the effort to build it ourselves, since it just fits our client interactions, allowing both users and client admins to feel very much in control, but still allows us to ultimately manage them and their projects.
The design process went fairly quick 2 months to a beta system, while handling client support, other design projects, and more. We used PHP & MySQL, and spent the most time (about a month) making sure the database design would be suitable, and creating global functions--such as changing what data displays on a page based on user status (user, admin, staff--with staff being consultants & technicians).
After we introduced the beta, we put two of our more tech savvy clients on the system, to let them help us bang out bugs, usability, and missing features--this was very helpful, because clients/users always come up with things you didn't think of.
OK. I agree that the same standards should be used, but why are they suing Apple, Dell, HP, etc.? I would expect them to sue Maxtor, Quantum, Western Digital, Seagate, etc.
Sure it's possible that computer manufacturers are in collusion with hard drive manufacturers to dupe the public on size; but its just as likely that Apple, Dell, et. al. enter contract to purchase a certain number of hard drives at the manufacturer specified size; and that's the size reported on general advertisement.
That said, almost every computer I've purchased from Apple has listed the amount of available space for general use, written in its detailed specification somewhere. I admit to never looking for it at Dell, and never purchasing from the other vendors.
It seems to me, if they were going to sue over misleading claims, the the MHz, GHz myth would be more apt. Since 1GHz != !Ghz depending on which chip and a host of other issues. Least the drive information is consistently wrong.
Wow! Talk like this always amazes me; and of course ignores the fact that within the last 5-10 years America has suffered more attacks from "American terrorist"--militant militia and cultist groups and individuals--than from non-native terrorist. It also ignores the fact that Mohammad bin Mohammad is probably not stupid enough to purchase a ticket using that name, while your average American traveler of Middle Eastern descent will.
Of course, this still doesn't change the fact, that I'm more worried about some disgruntled worker with an automatic shooting up a Buger Kind, flea market, or downtown shopping area, than I am about a potential terrorist being on my plane (but except flying home (San Francisco), I rarely fly places terrorist would deem all that important.
No, why would it be a violation of a buyer's right to sell property? If you purchased a book, in ink, from Barnes and Noble and wanted to sell it to a blind person in a format they could read, you wouldn't expect Barnes & Noble or the original publisher of the book to assist you in making this possible. You would deal with the limitations of the right of first sale.