Still More New Apple Lust Objects

I knew it was WAY too early for the fall apple love fest. Hey Elvis, why today? You didn't pay over five hundred bucks did you?

So sad that I am stuck with crackberry from work and no point to get iPhone that was planned days prior to new job.

I was kinda waiting for speed bump, I guess. Has that happened yet?

macrumors says new motherboards in june?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI

everything is apparently in june

shall I lock the old one?

Please.

As muttered here and there I went for an iPhone myself two weekends back, 8 GB but anyway. Great stuff, of course.

Wake me up when we all get Virtual Light style sunglasses, that's all I care about.

Do I want to get an iPhone or am I going to waste my life checking my e-mail all the time when I could be thinking, reading a book, etc.?

Hey Elvis, why today? You didn't pay over five hundred bucks did you?

It's somewhat of a tax write-off business expense thing, so it doesn't hurt that much. Well, maybe sort of.

I ended up pulling the trigger on it because between the v2.0 announcement and a once over of WWDC iPhone seminar track I concluded that's it's kinda important for me to get up to speed on it. Not because it's a phone or an iPod Touch or whatever the hell Apple comes up with, but mainly because it's the first new Apple OS since OS X and most of the interesting new development stuff is going to happen over there rather than on OS X despite Lion or whatever cat it ends up being.

Do I want to get an iPhone or am I going to waste my life checking my e-mail all the time when I could be thinking, reading a book, etc.?

Battery life is much longer if you have Mail set to check manually. The guys who were writing Twitter clients set to check constantly figured that out quickly.

Mail with IDLE is probably a lot more efficient because the program can essentially not be woken until it sees data on the socket as opposed to twitter which needs to poll

Do I want to get an iPhone or am I going to waste my life checking my e-mail all the time when I could be thinking, reading a book, etc.?

Probably if and only if you already waste your life checking email all the time, at a guess.

I actually find that I read more articles from the LRB etc these days, because when I find myself waiting somewhere without a book I just flick through articles there, or from the NYRB etc. That column style of webpage works really well on the iPhone.

Battery life is much longer if you have Mail set to check manually.

^ this. I've barely used mine for mail at all.

Also, is it still the case that you can transfer another AT&T account to the iPhone? If so it's definitely best starting another account with a free phone, and eBaying that phone. We saved a few hundred $s that way. With refurbs down to $250 you can get the phone form under $100 now, I expect (ignoring the contract, of course, which may or may not be a lot more than other contracts you consider).

Out of the box, iphones only work with iphone contract sims (at least here in the UK). There are two types of unlock though - one which will work with any sim from any network, and one less major one, which will work with any O2 sim. So I think you'd still need to have at least that second type of unlock if you wanted to pull the switcheroo toby describes.

no, in the US any AT&T account will work on any iphone

O2 even more twatty than AT&T then, I guess.

Wow that is really lame! I think there *might* be a limitation to the SIM, but not the account - the SIM in my iPhone was the one that was in it when I bought it. We just started an AT&T account one day, activated the iPhones a few hours later, and they simply reset the finish date to 18 months later, rather than adding 18 months to the total contract. No unlocking required, 2 free phones sold for $150 each on eBay, and we got $150 from Best Buy, too. Oh, and we got a contract that was $10/month cheaper than any of the iPhone contracts, too. Pretty stupid - you'd think they'd want to extend the contracts by 18 months, rather than reset them, but I guess they didn't want to piss off their existing customers.

air and as thin as air?

just wanted to say I upgraded my G5, the very oldest first ever G5, to Leopard, and everything is noticeably faster then it was in Tiger, which was way more sluggish than previous versions. I'm happy. Everything works except for one little obscure bit of music software that a few dozen are rabidly complaining about at that companies forum.

Have just spent two hours repairing utterly borked user permissions on Leopard Server -- it's a real dog. And have found out why iPlayer keeps stalling: Leopard Client dns crashes speedtouch routers, forcing them to reboot.

God I hate Leopard. Looked at the box again -- on the back it has pictures of new features. Seems they could only think of five, and two of them are HTML Emails and iChat video effects.

Hey, don't knock the HTML email thing -- inline, complex, styled, accepted even by web mail programs, that's something. Those things are usually a bitch and a half.

Can't wait for the new version of Outlook with the worse CSS implementation

I hate HTML email. plaintext ftw

HTML email is nice because linebreaking urls won't fuck up

This is where multipart MIME type comes in for the win.

I hate HTML email. plaintext ftw

Yeah, but you know who loooooves html email with lots of graphics? Employers.

I don't particularly like graphics in mail, but it's sometimes useful to have color, italics, indentation, and non-breaking lines.

I should just make all my mails one big graphic that nobody can edit but looks perfect.

In a rush, I have been known to resort to that. Worse yet, nobody complains.

Everything works except for one little obscure bit of music software that a few dozen are rabidly complaining about at that companies forum.

oh so curious!!!??

Everything works except for one little obscure bit of music software that a few dozen are rabidly complaining about at that companies forum.

Yeah no kidding, these guys are total jokers. One of the rabid complaints is mine.

some people afraid to spill beans!

has anyone here tried an air? i used one in the apple shop in glasgow and it vibrates noticeably. if you hover your fingers over the areas at the side of the scrollpad you can detect it and, worse, if you are typing you can feel a horrible vibration on the fleshy part at the base of your hand as it rests on that area. if you try and raise that part of your hand you can still feel it - you don't even have to be touching it to feel the vibration. i tried 3 or 4 and they were all the same. very unpleasant.

lol safari 3 on leopard just got the shit pwnt out of it at CanSecWest.

hahahah. Any links?

The iPhone does the same thing Jed, if you touch the metal part of it while it's in the charger. Very odd.

http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9905095-37.html?tag=nefd.top
Vista still unhacked.

http://www.lexiconpro.com/ProductIndex.aspx?ProductID=11

where does it say "oh yeah, does not work with Leopard, and the AU plug-in may not work on any Mac"?

and here's their very own forum:

http://www.lexiconpro.com/Community/viewforum.php?f=16&sid=052bbe5ab9417a9d74cd7ac1792de5a5

I emailed tech support...they said "we're working on it".

actually, the AU plug-in works only with PPC, no intel, while the edit software only works on Tiger. I installed it and it was fine, then upgraded to Leopard 2 days later and had to say goodbye.

Do I want to get the 32 GB iPod touch or do I want to get the 160GB ipod classic or do I want to wait (!?!?!?!?!) until June or July when new shit happens?

wait until new shit happens

:\ that's what I was afraid of. ipod just gave up the ghost, I think.

music sucks anyway

I only listen to free-range music these days anyway.

This is an OK guide as to when to buy immediately and/or hold off: http://mactactic.com/

i bought a 16GB iphone the other week and it's a thing of joy and beauty; i did umm and aah about holding off in case there was a pre-july hardware update but i figured, fuck it, i've been holding off since the things launched, just in case something new and exciting happened, and the bullet had to be bitten at some point.

my concession to future-proofing was buying 16GB so i can fit a shitload of apps on it come july :)

stet has mocked me for this but i also bought a kind of grippy rubber slipcase thing for it, because FUCK ME they're thin and potentially droppable.

like toby says: it's actually improved my productivity and reading time because it does mean i can keep an eye on news/forums/mail when i've got a few dead minutes somewhere ... then when i get home i've got time to actually read a book, rather than feel i should catch up on what i missed during the day.

the other thing i want to do with it is catch up on TV shows -- namely mad men and the wire. iSquint is gonna be my friend here. only fucker is not having enough spare disk space on my actual macs to torrent stuff in the first place :/

stet has mocked me for this but i also bought a kind of grippy rubber slipcase thing for it, because FUCK ME they're thin and potentially droppable.

I picked up something similar because I drop phones ALL THE TIME

my last phone -- the unlamented motorola L6 -- got dropped on a hard pub floor not six hours after i bought it. my first iPod bit the dust in a similar fashion (i was drunk in my own kitchen). i'm not risking this.

also: yesterday i managed to go arse over tit walking through my own front door with a box of groceries. somehow i failed to land on my pocket. thank fuck.

I wish I could just use skype with my office number from home. i hate phones

http://www.macessity.com/index.php?target=products&product_id=29799

drool

I'd like to say again...a few days after upgrading to Leopard...my G5, that very first G5, is running faster then it has in 2 years, everything, Photoshop opens much faster, iTunes scrolls through my 33,000 songs effortlessly when it used to pause a lot. And I got going with Time Machine last night. It ran for like 10 hours for the first back-up and now seems to work seamlessly. I'm loving my mac right now. I should probably do some real work with it now.

he said moments before Mail crashed for absolutely no reason!

that LowKey Stand looks great.

didn't realise ILx had an iPhone mode

can we get a web/home screen icon based on the favicon too?

where is the iphone mode?

go into prefs -> I want change how ILx looks -> iPhone.css

The iPod Touch really makes me wish ILX had persistent login.

iphone.css is nice and all but probably only feasible if you plan on using your iphone more than a CPU to access ILX

the stylesheet preference is set per-browser by a cookie -- if you set it on yr iPhone, none of the other places you use ilx will change.

If someone makes a big icon, I'll put it up ...

oh nice. no way to have persistent login via cookie?

not without writing our own security system, so not imminently. Is v annoying, but so is mobile safari not remembring any damn passwords at all.

can't you get 1password for iPhone now?

yeh, iPhone.CSS is fuckin' A. top stuff, stet.