I HATE APPLE

Wow. This is a big problem with macs - if you want to do something The Normal Way you're fine, but if you step an inch outside that boundary you're hosed.

I have tried accessing the iPhone's camera roll in OS X. iirc I had to go through 'Volumes' from the file system root and basically guess my way from there. That's the sort of thing you have to do with a Linux system ffs.

did the normal way not work?

By 'the normal way' I mean iPhoto import. This is all iirc, mind.

image capture? (not sure)

so i just plugged in my iphone and, weirdly, it looks like the way to get videos off the iphone is to sync, ~in iTunes~, videos w/iphoto

dumb

itunes has become a ridiculous application, but if, like me, you only ever use it as a jukebox it does a pretty good job of concealing that from you.

(aa here) ITunes is indeed a ridiculous mess now. I think we all hoped that version 10 of iTunes (iTunes X, perhaps) would be a major reboot, but I think the fact that it's not means it will soon be replaced by something with a new name and purpose that actually works and isn't packed with legacy bugs. So iTunes for the web shop, some new name for the content and syncing client.

Mac app store being a separate app bodes really well.

Nick: dropbox is cloud, but also local. If you don't use it you should, esp ON IPAD. 10.6 doesn't have Image Capture any more, which is a big pity.

I have Image Capture on 10.6. I suppose they don't take it away if you don't already have it.

If you *do* already have it, I mean.

This is JUST like my experience­. I rode a bike for nearly 10 years. I switched to a car and it didn't work the same, so I returned it two weeks later. I didn't try to learn how to operate the car, or find out how it was different, I just returned it because it wasn't the same.

Love this comment in that HuffPo article.

I have Image Capture on 10.6. I suppose they don't take it away if you don't already have it.

Honestly surprised at the number of folks who don't use/forget about Image Capture. Also, IC is not something Apple quietly forgot about... it was updated in 10.6, has a SDK, and some nice Automator actions. Image Capture also works with scanners too and you can use it share a scanner (or a camera) across a Bonjour network.

Check out: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031028064213303 It's describing Image Capture in OS 10.3, but the features are still there.

yah, IC is there on a fresh install/new mac on 10.6. solid app.

I'd never heard of Image Capture before today in this thread.

hey guys, I just got off the phone with steve jobs....he told me that in 10.7, the whole OS is just iTunes...everything is gonna be done through iTunes...just a heads up

dayo: 'Will 10.7 be just iTunes?'
Jobs: 'Yes. Sent from my iPhone'

Image Capture nowhere to be found here. Am sure I wouldn't have deleted it, so wtf. Does it still have that nifty gallery creator? That was very handy. Need to dig out install disks now.

itunes has become a ridiculous application, but if, like me, you only ever use it as a jukebox it does a pretty good job of concealing that from you.

Might have mentioned this elsewhere here, but I'm all in favor of something like "iTunes Pro" - a paid app that can handle tens of thousands of media (books, music, movies, whatever) in an intelligent way. Heck, I have faith that Apple software engineers can come up with something terrific as long as they don't assume that the typical user only owns 40 albums and reads only two books a year.

I'll pay for it too!

it maybe true but my enjoyment of this thread seriously compromised by flashing 'genius bar people are useless' messg.

can we just talk about huffpost guy for a second again

90% of his problems were "i bought a computer and didn't buy any software for it"

Love the bit where he sledged TextEdit for not having fonts.

he shouldve used the program image capture which i have

The final straw came when Mac's Firefox took me to my website. To my horror, all the spacing was askew, the graphics tossed left and right like the wreckage of a hurricane. I asked myself: As a web designer, how can I design web pages when I can't see what 90 percent of my viewers are seeing?

so if he returns his imac and doesnt have to see his shitty website layout, it will cease to exist i guess

the best line is def

The idea started in San Francisco. I was at KGO, ABC News' Bay Area affiliate, appearing on "The Ronn Owens Program" to talk about my recent military reporting, which sparked a Congressional hearing.

a congressional hearing on... shitty writing!!

granted this guy is actually writer not a web designer but its pretty lol that he used this question rhetorically

As a web designer, how can I design web pages when I can't see what 90 percent of my viewers are seeing?

when you know it has an actual answer that he wouldve found helpful

I don't understand, do the only people who visit his website run IE5 or something

how is this dude a reporter, is this real

I can't remember the last time a non-ActiveX website didn't work in Firefox on either Linux or OS X, so maybe he had installed noscript or something.

well that's the thing that confused me---how would firefox on osx somehow render differently on windows? isn't the whole point of firefox that it's the same across platforms?

There are definitely differences. In testing at work we've identified OS X-specific issues that occur in all Mac browsers and no Windows browsers.

also maybe he was using ie on his old pc

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Can anyone suggest a way of automatically turning off time machine when I launch parallels? Sick of my computer grinding to a halt as parallels unpacking its virtual HD initiates a 30GB backup.

Is there a way of turning off 'voice control' on the iphone, and the way the ipod moves into shuffle mode if you're walking up or down stairs?

The best you can do is turn the code lock on to stop voice control. YOu can turn off shake to shuffle in Settings->Ipod.

Delay masturbation until you reach desired floor.

I use a program called Time Machine Editor to switch my Time Machine to only run once a day instead of every hour.

Every two minutes the Apple TV is asking me if I want to upgrade to the latest firmware. EVERY TWO MINUTES. Hopefully one of the things the upgrade fixes is this shit.

THIS IS DRIVING ME INSANE

Chose 'upgrade now' instead of 'upgrade later' by accident and it's stopped my music. SO FUCKING ANGRY RIGHT NOW

Maybe you should upgrade

This upgrade had better come with maggots.

i think it wants u to upgrade

FUCK U IPOD. "No Music" WTF. I can see the fucking files you bastard.

Is there an Apple utility that can rebuild your iTunesDB file?

I was writing a Python script that would do it until I ran into that fucking encryption thing Apple put in to force everyone to use iTunes because they are such incredible cunts.

You could drag the files from the drive into the iPod in iTunes.

I've heard that dragging just one song the iPod can repair the database. Worth a try as well? Do backups first though.