I'm just using the Google founder's definition of evil. They used that insight to make their search engine by far the most popular.
I would disagree and say that their search engine became the most popular because of its clean interface, which it retains to this day. (along with better-than-average results) It had nothing to do with their slogan.
Actually, all tags are written to the files directly, except for 'play count', 'start and stop time', 'remember playback position' (useful for podcasts and recorded net radio), 'skip when shuffling', 'part of a gapless album', 'equalizer preset' and 'my rating', which are stored in the iTunes database file. All other tags are stored directly inside the music files themselves.
I know with my iPhone I can easily click the volume up/down button on the side in my pocket and I can stop/start/skip ahead songs using the button/microphone on the headphones. (which can also answer calls, send to vm, place on hold, etc). iPod touch probably has a similar feature.
It doesn't. The iPhone headphones don't control the iPod Touch.
As well, there's no external volume control on the iPod Touch.
A double-tap of the Home button brings up track-changing and volume controls, even when you have the screen locked, which is a nice feature, but it's still impossible to use without looking at it.
You can double-click the Home button to bring up on-screen playback controls, even when the screen is locked. Nifty. But, unlike the iPhone, the Touch has no hardware volume buttons, and it doesn't have a play/pause/next-track clicker on the headphone cable. That clicker is my very favorite thing about the iPhone's music player; I think it'll be a pain to use an iPod Touch that's in your pocket. (AppleInsider notes that you can't just plug iPhone headphones into an iPod Touch, either -- the Touch doesn't support the clicker.)
In my general browsing and reading, I can easily end up with that many tabs open, usually in a total of about 10-15 windows. It's mostly responses to comments I haven't read yet, blog posts or links to sites I want to check out, or full discussion threads that I want to bookmark for later perusal.
Safari 3 handles it fine, crashes once every month or two.
Firefox 2 gets much too slow after the first 20 tabs and 5 windows and has to be closed before the whole system starts to feel sluggish.
Opera 9 performs pretty more or less as well as Safari.
Camino does a pretty good job, but also gets slow after opening about 50 tabs.
In my case, I don't buy a CD without hearing it first. This way I'm always happy with my choices. If this means accessing shared media 'against the creators will' then so be it. I've been burned by 'filler' material on high-priced albums one too many times.
The RIAA protected artists have chosen a different release model. That's THEIR RIGHT.
That may be so, but it looks like things are changing, simply due to the vast number of people who refuse to blindly purchase media without getting to hear/see it first. In my opinion, that should be the right of the consumer, to view or see what they are purchasing beforehand. It seems many people agree with this viewpoint, perhaps enough to help change the relevant laws. (As far as I remember, it used to be like this in the old record stores, the person working there would be more than happy to play you the record you were planning on buying. It certainly wasn't law, it was directly contributing to a good customer experience. Perhaps we should simply go back to that model. 30-second previews are a good start, but are also occasionally misleading.)
Perhaps limiting copyright to 5 years would be a better incentive than the current exorbitant length is proving to be.
I'm a classically-trained musician who is more than happy to have his music shared, as it means more exposure. I don't need laws to 'protect' my music from that.
I write/arrange, record/engineer, and perform the music myself. Here's a sample track. Sick To Death - Tonmeister (For those who need to pigeonhole music into genres, it could be considered industrial punk metal)
I don't care if people share my stuff, since if it's enjoyable most people will seek out a means to compensate the artist. Those who don't make the effort wouldn't have in the first place, and will still be providing a form of advertising for my songs.
Sharing is free exposure, not lost sales. I get paid for the CDs I sell, the movies and video games my music (hopefully) will appear in, and the gigs I play.
I don't make music for money, however. I do it simply for the love of making music. In that respect, I will keep making music even if I never see another penny for my efforts. I don't really think that's comparable to having to do data entry for some corporation to earn my daily bread.
Megazoomer makes windows full-screen on OS X. Just press Command-Enter, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire monitor. Press the same keys, and it shrinks again.
Interestingly enough, Dreamhost doesn't use Fantastico. They have their own custom panel, with many fewer features than CPanel with Fantastico.
This means Dreamhost customers have to update their Wordpress installations manually.
A trivial matter to most of us here, but for those that have become accustomed to using Fantastico's 'Your Wordpress Installation is out of date! Click here to upgrade' it's a good deal more time-consuming.
I use FireFox because of AdBlocker and because as bad as it is, it's still the best there is on the Mac right now. This will likely change in October when the new Safari comes out so this summer's FireFox 3.0 release will have to be extremely, extremely good just to keep the same market share
First of all, PithHelmet provides excellent ad blocking within Safari. CamiTools does the same for Camino.
Second, Mac users don't make up a large part of the Firefox user base. The FF devs are not concerned with Mac users' threats to stop using FF. Even if all the Mac users browsing with FF were to switch to Safari, Camino, Opera, OmniWeb, Shiira, iCab, Flock, or any of the other browsers available for OS X it wouldn't make much of a dent in the Firefox market share.
Yeah, the dialog box doesn't appear on Safari either, even with Javascript turned on.
Also, her 'can't print' script must only work on IE, since I just PDF'd a whole bunch of her pages with no problem.
Could this woman be any less informed?
She claims to have been on the web since 1996, calls us IGeeks (she really should know to spell it iGeek;)) and yet has no concept of how search engines and spiders work. I'm betting most of the emails she's received are trying to be helpful, and she most likely just dismisses them as hatemail.
Should I email her the printed version of her site?
All my CDs are ripped to 320kbps AAC, ends up being just over 200 GB.
Haven't had a problem yet with using them on any of my devices and machines (and friend's devices and machines), but more articles like this, with the number of strong points brought up could potentially convince me to re-rip everything to Vorbis.
KDX Client 5 windows Finder 2 Safari 6 with about 15 tabs open in each window iTunes 2 (main and EQ) TextEdit 6 Jomic 1 Smultron 1 Mail.app 2 (main and Activity Viewer)
It seems any app that is multi-document aware should be able to handle a tabbed or list interface to minimize the number of windows it uses.
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I would disagree and say that their search engine became the most popular because of its clean interface, which it retains to this day. (along with better-than-average results) It had nothing to do with their slogan.
I had Rogers high speed internet without cable TV for about 3 years while living in Toronto.
It's not a problem, you just have to ignore the letters they send you every few months offering to sell you TV service for cheap.
Actually, all tags are written to the files directly, except for 'play count', 'start and stop time', 'remember playback position' (useful for podcasts and recorded net radio), 'skip when shuffling', 'part of a gapless album', 'equalizer preset' and 'my rating', which are stored in the iTunes database file. All other tags are stored directly inside the music files themselves.
Why try to spread lies?
It doesn't. The iPhone headphones don't control the iPod Touch.
As well, there's no external volume control on the iPod Touch.
A double-tap of the Home button brings up track-changing and volume controls, even when you have the screen locked, which is a nice feature, but it's still impossible to use without looking at it.
Info gleaned from http://daringfireball.net/2007/09/ipod_touch_features
Mods, it was funny, not a troll.
In my general browsing and reading, I can easily end up with that many tabs open, usually in a total of about 10-15 windows. It's mostly responses to comments I haven't read yet, blog posts or links to sites I want to check out, or full discussion threads that I want to bookmark for later perusal.
Safari 3 handles it fine, crashes once every month or two.
Firefox 2 gets much too slow after the first 20 tabs and 5 windows and has to be closed before the whole system starts to feel sluggish.
Opera 9 performs pretty more or less as well as Safari.
Camino does a pretty good job, but also gets slow after opening about 50 tabs.
That may be so, but it looks like things are changing, simply due to the vast number of people who refuse to blindly purchase media without getting to hear/see it first. In my opinion, that should be the right of the consumer, to view or see what they are purchasing beforehand. It seems many people agree with this viewpoint, perhaps enough to help change the relevant laws. (As far as I remember, it used to be like this in the old record stores, the person working there would be more than happy to play you the record you were planning on buying. It certainly wasn't law, it was directly contributing to a good customer experience. Perhaps we should simply go back to that model. 30-second previews are a good start, but are also occasionally misleading.)
Perhaps limiting copyright to 5 years would be a better incentive than the current exorbitant length is proving to be.
I'm a classically-trained musician who is more than happy to have his music shared, as it means more exposure. I don't need laws to 'protect' my music from that.
I write/arrange, record/engineer, and perform the music myself. Here's a sample track. Sick To Death - Tonmeister (For those who need to pigeonhole music into genres, it could be considered industrial punk metal)
I don't care if people share my stuff, since if it's enjoyable most people will seek out a means to compensate the artist. Those who don't make the effort wouldn't have in the first place, and will still be providing a form of advertising for my songs.
Sharing is free exposure, not lost sales. I get paid for the CDs I sell, the movies and video games my music (hopefully) will appear in, and the gigs I play.
I don't make music for money, however. I do it simply for the love of making music. In that respect, I will keep making music even if I never see another penny for my efforts. I don't really think that's comparable to having to do data entry for some corporation to earn my daily bread.
Megazoomer makes windows full-screen on OS X. Just press Command-Enter, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire monitor. Press the same keys, and it shrinks again.
http://www.ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html
Not sure where they're getting their information from, but I use sites like
i esi fty-os-x-apps-list/a ge=macintosh
http://www.freemacware.com/
http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/
http://www.opensourcemac.org/
and have never had any problem finding the right OSS or freeware tool to do a job.
I also enjoy perusing individual people's lists such as
http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/OS_X_Inventor
http://generaldisarray.wordpress.com/2006/02/11/n
http://www.digitaldarknet.net/thelist/index.php?p
http://macskill.com/softwareupdate
and getting some great recommendations for apps to try out.
It seems like the author simply didn't do enough research before making his report.
Hope these links can help others find stuff they might otherwise not have known about.
You most likely meant http://www.emacswiki.org/.
Interestingly enough, Dreamhost doesn't use Fantastico. They have their own custom panel, with many fewer features than CPanel with Fantastico.
This means Dreamhost customers have to update their Wordpress installations manually.
A trivial matter to most of us here, but for those that have become accustomed to using Fantastico's 'Your Wordpress Installation is out of date! Click here to upgrade' it's a good deal more time-consuming.
Also didn't see any dithering artifacts on my MacBook Core Duo (first-gen), nor on the Xerox ProView LCD it's occasionally attached to.
First of all, PithHelmet provides excellent ad blocking within Safari. CamiTools does the same for Camino.
Second, Mac users don't make up a large part of the Firefox user base. The FF devs are not concerned with Mac users' threats to stop using FF. Even if all the Mac users browsing with FF were to switch to Safari, Camino, Opera, OmniWeb, Shiira, iCab, Flock, or any of the other browsers available for OS X it wouldn't make much of a dent in the Firefox market share.
Yeah, the dialog box doesn't appear on Safari either, even with Javascript turned on.
;)) and yet has no concept of how search engines and spiders work. I'm betting most of the emails she's received are trying to be helpful, and she most likely just dismisses them as hatemail.
Also, her 'can't print' script must only work on IE, since I just PDF'd a whole bunch of her pages with no problem.
Could this woman be any less informed?
She claims to have been on the web since 1996, calls us IGeeks (she really should know to spell it iGeek
Should I email her the printed version of her site?
The lack of recognition of intelligent humour amazes me. (mods, it's funny)
All my CDs are ripped to 320kbps AAC, ends up being just over 200 GB.
Haven't had a problem yet with using them on any of my devices and machines (and friend's devices and machines), but more articles like this, with the number of strong points brought up could potentially convince me to re-rip everything to Vorbis.
Just for Wii news, but there are better sites for that as well.
http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/ rocks.
KDX Client 5 windows
Finder 2
Safari 6 with about 15 tabs open in each window
iTunes 2 (main and EQ)
TextEdit 6
Jomic 1
Smultron 1
Mail.app 2 (main and Activity Viewer)
It seems any app that is multi-document aware should be able to handle a tabbed or list interface to minimize the number of windows it uses.
You can still charge over firewire, but not sync.
You can sync via USB 1.1, although it will be very slow.
The rest of the civilised world doesn't live in fear of that happening every day.