iPhone is now the number 1 smart phone in the US in just over a year. Revolutionizing the cell phone market is fait accompli.
I do agree with Woz's coments about the platform being locked down, but I don't think this is going to be a permanent condition going forward. The platform is still in it's first year. I expect that Apple is going to loosen up quite a bit after they feel the OS/platform becomes mature enough. It's actually a smart way of doing things because they keep a tight leash on the overall platform development direction in the formative years.
But let's all watch how Android unfolds. It might quickly turn into a trailer park for crappy code, or it may quickly emerge as a highly stable and popular platform.
It's good to know that developers will have a choice between the two platform development strategies. They can choose the highly managed Apple iPhone environment with it's tight ties between the code and device or they can choose the much more open Android solution. Let's all judge this by who delivers the most functional and reliable smart phones.
He might have a 17" MacBookPro with maxed out specs and a 30" display (5K+). A multimedia designer, audio engineer or video producer's laptop can easily hold well over 10K in pro software titles.
Programmers don't really need that kind of horse power or range of software. Most development work is text based and they're not pushing nearly as many bits around until they compile something like a major app or an OS.
I'm more interested in seeing what Apple does with ZFS formating for regular drives, but also having a flash drive would solve the problem of booting from the ZFS drive? It wouldn't have to be 32MB for just that.
Yeah, but they can core sample the ice and from its density, oxygen content and who-knows-what-else, determine a lot about temperature/melt cycles going back a lot further than 150 years.
I was ok visualizing the first 10,008 football fields, but then I got distracted, lost count, and the entire image vanished.
Guess now's a good time to buy that Arizona ocean view property.
A few weeks ago Microsoft called a meeting for bloggers at their Redmond Campus. Bill walks into the meeting room and sees that every blogger that showed up was using a Mac laptop. Well I guess he didn't like that, so now he decides to send out free laptops to fix things. Trouble is, it's probably going to take more than a free laptop to make them switch back.
The only thing worse than roving gangs of US Navy mind controlled sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads is a land shark from Mother Russia with a beowulf cluster!
The XML file is located in the iTunes folder at the same level as the iTunes music folder.
Good idea because its the only way you're going to save your playcount and lastplayed info, but it's going to be tough to rematch the xml song keys to the new library data. I assume each track is assigned a unique key at the time its added. A script could be written to load the new xml into a comparitive array against the old?? Compare tracks by name and time and add the missing play count/date/date UTC info. Maybe php can do it.
I'm not a big coder, but I might give this a try. Post back to me if you find a solution.
a software controlled power switch on a Powerbook?
Try holding the power switch down for a few seconds and the machine will shut down. Otherwise, time to get some hardware repairs.
Windows can't touch spring-loaded folders. Try it, in the Finder, pick up a file and hold it over a folder, it springs open; drag the file to the window's bottom (or edge, depending on view) and scroll to another folder within that folder, hold over that and deeper and deeper you can go. Possition out of the window and everything returns to where you started. Sometimes I do this just to hunt around for stuff.
A big mistake that Windows makes with its UI is the way its always wanting to maximizing its windows to take up the whole screen. To me this shows a basic misunderstanding of the original Mac GUI windowing principle, which was if you can see any part of a window you can click on it to bring that window into focus, or you can drag from one screen to any other you can see. Watch experienced Mac users and you'll see them managing dozens of stacked up windows at a time without losing their bearings. The OS X dock makes switching between apps and docs a snap (click and hold on dock items to get more command and doc navigation options) so you can shuffle between tons of tasks. People in this thread have talked about how cool Exposé is. I agree with them, but there's just so many other great navigation and file/app management options--make sure you try them all. Have fun.
Moving the iTunes Library shouldn't be too tough at all. Just move all your music files to your Mac. You can put them in your iTunes music folder or anywhere else (first, in the Preferences/Advanced panel, uncheck "Keep iTunes folder organized" and, if you wish to store your files outside your iTunes music folder, uncheck "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library"), then use the File/Add to Library command and your Library gets re-built using all your mp3/mp4 tags. You will lose your Star ratings though because they're not stored in the MP3 tags, but you can fix this with some creative use of Smart Playlists: Gather all your 1,2,3,4,5 star ratings in separate smart playlists. Open each playlist, select all the songs and add something like 3Star to the comment field of all those tracks. You can do this to multiple tracks at one time using the File/Get Information command. Later when you are rebuilding your library on the Mac, you can do the same in reverse by using the smart playlists to gather up all tracks whose comment field include your 3Star string.
Word is an overbloated set of old word processing ideas that holds the computing world back in the stone age. Word's word processing ideas are one step removed from the old electric typewriter.
With so many great pro publishing packages around, you'd think that some developers would borrow some of their general page creation advancements and apply them to the common word processor. For instance, when using Quark Xpress or Adobe's InDesign, all you need to do is draw a box on the page and it sets your text boundaries. Draw another box and it provides an absolute position and size for your picture. Postscript and pdf are known and available. The simple creation of a letter could be so much simpler than Word allows!
And why do I need both an email client and a word processor?
Things could be so much better, but an over dependance on one outdated app is holding back a lot of innovation.
Use the File: Add to Library command to add to iTunes if you don't want duplicates. If this command works the same as it does on a Mac, then you can select an entire directory filled with mp3s and it will add everything to the library without duplicating songs that are already there.
A cool trick in this vein is to list your library by date added, then you can add and subtract huge amounts of songs accurately and at will -- very handy if you keep certain parts of your collection on DVDs, or pocket drive or want to move all or part of your collection between computers.
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iPhone is now the number 1 smart phone in the US in just over a year. Revolutionizing the cell phone market is fait accompli. I do agree with Woz's coments about the platform being locked down, but I don't think this is going to be a permanent condition going forward. The platform is still in it's first year. I expect that Apple is going to loosen up quite a bit after they feel the OS/platform becomes mature enough. It's actually a smart way of doing things because they keep a tight leash on the overall platform development direction in the formative years. But let's all watch how Android unfolds. It might quickly turn into a trailer park for crappy code, or it may quickly emerge as a highly stable and popular platform. It's good to know that developers will have a choice between the two platform development strategies. They can choose the highly managed Apple iPhone environment with it's tight ties between the code and device or they can choose the much more open Android solution. Let's all judge this by who delivers the most functional and reliable smart phones.
But I'm poor and I'm living in a van down by the river, you insensitive clod!
Besides, all you talk too faggy. I can't understand ya.
I hear they put a together a crack IT team. Then they all went to the local Starbucks and asked them how to set up a wireless router.
Thank you. Come again :D
He might have a 17" MacBookPro with maxed out specs and a 30" display (5K+). A multimedia designer, audio engineer or video producer's laptop can easily hold well over 10K in pro software titles. Programmers don't really need that kind of horse power or range of software. Most development work is text based and they're not pushing nearly as many bits around until they compile something like a major app or an OS.
I'm more interested in seeing what Apple does with ZFS formating for regular drives, but also having a flash drive would solve the problem of booting from the ZFS drive? It wouldn't have to be 32MB for just that.
Yeah, but they can core sample the ice and from its density, oxygen content and who-knows-what-else, determine a lot about temperature/melt cycles going back a lot further than 150 years.
I was ok visualizing the first 10,008 football fields, but then I got distracted, lost count, and the entire image vanished. Guess now's a good time to buy that Arizona ocean view property.
A few weeks ago Microsoft called a meeting for bloggers at their Redmond Campus. Bill walks into the meeting room and sees that every blogger that showed up was using a Mac laptop. Well I guess he didn't like that, so now he decides to send out free laptops to fix things. Trouble is, it's probably going to take more than a free laptop to make them switch back.
The only thing worse than roving gangs of US Navy mind controlled sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads is a land shark from Mother Russia with a beowulf cluster!
Slips in, slips out
We love Zune because it so big an powerful. It will crush girly iPod!
Lego Starwars. It's not so much a twich-monkey game, it's colorful, cute and has some shooting, jumping, flying and co-operative problem solving.
An engineer in search of the truth, what's he doing at a University?
The XML file is located in the iTunes folder at the same level as the iTunes music folder.
Good idea because its the only way you're going to save your playcount and lastplayed info, but it's going to be tough to rematch the xml song keys to the new library data. I assume each track is assigned a unique key at the time its added. A script could be written to load the new xml into a comparitive array against the old?? Compare tracks by name and time and add the missing play count/date/date UTC info. Maybe php can do it.
I'm not a big coder, but I might give this a try. Post back to me if you find a solution.
a software controlled power switch on a Powerbook? Try holding the power switch down for a few seconds and the machine will shut down. Otherwise, time to get some hardware repairs.
Windows can't touch spring-loaded folders. Try it, in the Finder, pick up a file and hold it over a folder, it springs open; drag the file to the window's bottom (or edge, depending on view) and scroll to another folder within that folder, hold over that and deeper and deeper you can go. Possition out of the window and everything returns to where you started. Sometimes I do this just to hunt around for stuff. A big mistake that Windows makes with its UI is the way its always wanting to maximizing its windows to take up the whole screen. To me this shows a basic misunderstanding of the original Mac GUI windowing principle, which was if you can see any part of a window you can click on it to bring that window into focus, or you can drag from one screen to any other you can see. Watch experienced Mac users and you'll see them managing dozens of stacked up windows at a time without losing their bearings. The OS X dock makes switching between apps and docs a snap (click and hold on dock items to get more command and doc navigation options) so you can shuffle between tons of tasks. People in this thread have talked about how cool Exposé is. I agree with them, but there's just so many other great navigation and file/app management options--make sure you try them all. Have fun.
You can take this even further if you wish and drag your harddrive icon to the dock -- get to anything you want.
Moving the iTunes Library shouldn't be too tough at all. Just move all your music files to your Mac. You can put them in your iTunes music folder or anywhere else (first, in the Preferences/Advanced panel, uncheck "Keep iTunes folder organized" and, if you wish to store your files outside your iTunes music folder, uncheck "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library"), then use the File/Add to Library command and your Library gets re-built using all your mp3/mp4 tags. You will lose your Star ratings though because they're not stored in the MP3 tags, but you can fix this with some creative use of Smart Playlists: Gather all your 1,2,3,4,5 star ratings in separate smart playlists. Open each playlist, select all the songs and add something like 3Star to the comment field of all those tracks. You can do this to multiple tracks at one time using the File/Get Information command. Later when you are rebuilding your library on the Mac, you can do the same in reverse by using the smart playlists to gather up all tracks whose comment field include your 3Star string.
Word is an overbloated set of old word processing ideas that holds the computing world back in the stone age. Word's word processing ideas are one step removed from the old electric typewriter. With so many great pro publishing packages around, you'd think that some developers would borrow some of their general page creation advancements and apply them to the common word processor. For instance, when using Quark Xpress or Adobe's InDesign, all you need to do is draw a box on the page and it sets your text boundaries. Draw another box and it provides an absolute position and size for your picture. Postscript and pdf are known and available. The simple creation of a letter could be so much simpler than Word allows! And why do I need both an email client and a word processor? Things could be so much better, but an over dependance on one outdated app is holding back a lot of innovation.
Use the File: Add to Library command to add to iTunes if you don't want duplicates. If this command works the same as it does on a Mac, then you can select an entire directory filled with mp3s and it will add everything to the library without duplicating songs that are already there. A cool trick in this vein is to list your library by date added, then you can add and subtract huge amounts of songs accurately and at will -- very handy if you keep certain parts of your collection on DVDs, or pocket drive or want to move all or part of your collection between computers.