shazam

1/11/2009 5:38:47 PM

i found a different one


"midomi"

1/11/2009 5:42:36 PM

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"without going through all 66 pages of this thread what are some cool things i can do with this thing? the labyrinth game is pretty much awesome"

Buy Fieldrunners.

1/11/2009 6:05:38 PM

Is Itunes selling regular mp3s yet?

1/12/2009 7:49:53 AM

If you have to ask, don't bother

1/12/2009 7:51:33 AM

I read they're removing drm but I wasn't sure if they have done it yet or not. I guess I'll wait till I get home and use amazon.com

1/12/2009 2:09:06 PM

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"If you have to ask, don't bother"

Seems like an extremely valid question to me. I'm not sure what the timeline for the changeover looks like either. Of course, I personally don't care, but I can imagine tons of people do.

1/12/2009 5:29:18 PM

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"Is Itunes selling regular mp3s yet?"

you mean MP4s

They expect the entire catalog to be DRM free by April IIRC, with a large chunk now already DRM free.

However, they have accepted a variable pricing structure with older songs dropped to 69 cents and more popular songs being .99 or 1.29

[Edited on January 12, 2009 at 5:35 PM. Reason : ]

1/12/2009 5:35:40 PM

so i still can't play them on a normal mp3 player... whooptie friggen do

1/12/2009 6:51:53 PM

95% of music players play AAC, but you don't care about that. You only asked that question to get the opportunity to whine like a little bitch.

1/12/2009 7:09:13 PM

^no, they don't. Very few non-Apple mobile devices support DRM'ed AAC. And still a very small amount (percentage of different mp3 players, not percentage of popular players/market share) support AAC at all.

1/12/2009 7:30:18 PM

^ I don't think a single other player supports DRMed AAC.

Several, but not a majority, support MP4.

1/12/2009 7:33:24 PM

Apple just allowed 4 competing web browsers onto the App Store. Could be interesting if this is the beginning of a change for Apple, and other music player and podcasting apps will be allowed on
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/14/four_third_party_web_browsers_appear_on_apples_app_store.html

1/14/2009 12:03:32 PM

^

they only allow browsers that are safari based. not competitive if you ask me. safari sucks.

Quote :

"I read they're removing drm"

i guess it's ok if they add your email address to the files that you purchased. seems legit to me.

1/14/2009 12:42:18 PM

.... any basis for your "safari sucks" statement?
They're WebKit-based, not "safari based." WebKit is a fast and standards-compliant rendering engine. It was deemed good enough by Google to base Chrome on, so what's your problem with it and what would you prefer instead?
(i'm not saying I agree that they aren't allowing Gecko or other engines on, but that's not my point)

1/14/2009 1:00:49 PM

^^you obviously have never used Safari.

Safari is by far the best browser I've ever used AND easiest browser to develop on. The only thing that Safari lacks that FireFox has is the autocompleter on the address bar using your history.

1/14/2009 3:15:18 PM

^does Safari have adblock plus?

1/14/2009 3:20:55 PM

^^safari doesn't come close to Firefox for development. It's an okay browser that does a LOT of shit in a completely proprietary way. Text rendering FTL.

1/14/2009 5:41:26 PM

^are you serious? Safari requires the least amount of testing because it works the way its supposed to. Text rendering looks good, images etc. Like I said, the only downside to safari is that it doesnt have the same autocompleter on the address bar as FF.

Also with FF you have to download a bunch of add-ons for development purposes while Safari has them all built in. A lot of Web Developer and Firebug features for example.

1/14/2009 5:51:06 PM

^Dude, Safari renders text differently than EVERY other browser on the market. And it's completely different.

It's javascript and dom debug model is damn near impossible to use compared to firefox.

It's all still ass-slow rendering pages, and the UI is not anywhere close to the responsiveness of Firefox 3. On my Mac, I actually removed it entirely because Firefox is SO much easier to use, faster, and more extensible.

1/14/2009 7:32:05 PM

^ok now i know you're just trolling because for a minute I thought that maybe you were comparing Safari for windows vs. Firefox for windows...not saying that Safari on windows does or doesn't suck (haven't used it enough to tell). BUT there is no way in hell you can be serious about Safari being slower and less responsive then FireFox on a Mac.

I use Mac's 24/7 and not only does FireFox take a heck of a long time to load the first time, but its far less responsive then Safari. No question about that. I do use FireFox more because of the use of its history and the autocompleter (not to mention I have to test in FireFox) but when i'm in a hurry I always use Safari because I know I can get to what I need faster and with less headache.

Also its obvious that Safari renders things differently otherwise it wouldn't look better

if you want to continue this pointless debate, bring it up in the Mac OS X software thread.


[Edited on January 14, 2009 at 7:50 PM. Reason : .]

1/14/2009 7:50:17 PM

Maybe I need to go get the system updates for the latest Safari then.

My firefox always stays running, and I have never, not once, had to wait for it to do anything. Granted I do very very very little web dev anymore, so things may well have changed over the last year and half or so.

But to be clear, text does not look better in Safari, whether windows or mac. It looks blurry and thick as hell, and totally destroys the intent and cleanliness of pretty much every digital reading font.

1/14/2009 8:02:26 PM

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"text does not look better in Safari, whether windows or mac. It looks blurry and thick as hell, and totally destroys the intent and cleanliness of pretty much every digital reading font."

qft

1/14/2009 8:10:23 PM

what version of Safari were you running Noen? the browser runs very well on my laptop... even does on my older tower at work... FF3 on the other hand... not quite so much, and I'm a die hard FF guy on the Windows side of things. I did see a nice trick though earlier today... setting a manual proxy to 127.0.0.1 with port 0 (yes, localhost) actually seems to speed things up for FF3 in OS X

FWIW, the web developer add-on for FF is clearly leaps and bounds better than Safari's Inspector, though supposedly they're improving it for future versions (Safari 4 is still a bit buggy and incomplete); other than that, Safari is where it's at on my machines

[Edited on January 14, 2009 at 8:53 PM. Reason : ]

1/14/2009 8:52:36 PM

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"But to be clear, text does not look better in Safari, whether windows or mac. It looks blurry and thick as hell, and totally destroys the intent and cleanliness of pretty much every digital reading font."

I am reading this in Safari and even the smaller fonts are crisp as hell.

1/14/2009 8:57:10 PM

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"I use Mac's 24/7 and not only does FireFox take a heck of a long time to load the first time, but its far less responsive then Safari."

i'm not going to argue that FireFox (3) is faster than Safari on a Mac (it's not), but just today, I had to create a new FireFox profile on my Mac because there was some wonky PDF behavior, and it made a world of difference in my FireFox responsiveness. I guess my old profile had all sorts of crap and cruft built up in it, and startup took 10, 15, 20 seconds sometimes, and sometimes there was noticable interface lag. I just created a new profile, and even after importing my bookmarks and reinstalling my add-ons, the FireFox startup time is almost instantaneous.

1/14/2009 9:00:33 PM

^well good because I was arguing FOR Safari saying its faster

1/14/2009 9:04:24 PM

here's some discussion from a year ago on the Safari anti-aliasing that is used in Windows and Mac Safari, isntead of using Microsoft's ClearType
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000884.html

1/14/2009 9:05:02 PM

not iphone, but i laffed

1/15/2009 9:00:25 AM

this has probably been brought up before, but i would like to reiterate how ridiculous it is that this phone that does about everything but your taxes CANNOT receive simple motherfuckin pics and other mms messages. and to try to fix this att set up even more ridiculous website that does not load half the time, and when it does load, it makes you MANUALLY type login and password that was generated using the apache code it seems

1/15/2009 8:16:12 PM

I, too, have reiterated that many times.

I still don't fucking get why they don't send you a link that is like http://www.viewmymessages.com/username:password where username and password are of course the codes they want you to fucking type in.

It makes No. Fucking. Sense.

and blocking the MMS messaging app available on jailbroken iphones again? jesus

1/15/2009 8:31:32 PM

gotta love corporate logic

1/15/2009 9:47:47 PM

anyone found any good durable cases yet? my two peice incipio held up ok for a couple months, but its about time to replace it

1/16/2009 10:23:10 AM

meh, cases are for pussies

1/16/2009 10:23:55 AM

Joel, you got to check out the Contour plastic ones. Less than 1 mm thick, plastic doesnt make it stuck in your pocket like rubberized cases, you can get one with a flap on the bottom that allows you to dock it without taking the case off.

And dont forget the precut film for the screen area. works as well as that clear bra on your truck. you can get them glossy or flat

ill stop by and show ya this weekend. make sure there's cold beer in the fridge



^ as much as i drop mine a case is amost a neccessity. my 1st gen held up ok functionally even after getting a few serious dents in the aluminum backing since i never used a case. plastic back on the 3G does not inspire confidence as far as durability goes

[Edited on January 16, 2009 at 12:18 PM. Reason : .]

1/16/2009 12:14:01 PM

My phone is now possessed. Every time it rings, it starts vibrating (no ring tone) and just keeps vibrating. I can't pick up the phone call at all. The first time, the screen was completely black, this time it showed me who was calling, gave me the option to slide to answer, yet didn't respond to anything I did. It vibrated for almost 2 minutes before shutting itself off and restarting.

Anyone else heard of this problem? Or should I just hope it goes away?

1/22/2009 9:21:40 PM

i'd reset w/home+power (hold for a while) and see if it helps. not sure if it will but worth a shot

1/22/2009 9:24:20 PM

you should take it to the Apple store and get it fixed.

1/22/2009 9:26:02 PM

true.

1/22/2009 9:32:29 PM

this is be the second iphone i've killed if it's replaced.....

damn!

1/22/2009 9:36:18 PM

here's a silly question

when you have a phone number in your recent calls list (where incoming or dialed) how do you add that to your contacts? When you tap the number it starts to dial it.

1/23/2009 3:35:56 PM

touch the blue arrow on the right hand side

1/23/2009 3:41:27 PM

are you shitting me?

1/23/2009 3:44:31 PM

i made a couple accidental calls trying to do that too before i figured it out

1/23/2009 4:04:32 PM

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"are you shitting me?"

lol..i wish i was. i almost posted the carl face but decided to be nice

1/23/2009 4:09:22 PM

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"plastic back on the 3G does not inspire confidence as far as durability goes"

yea mine has a small crack starting at the dock connector. not really even sure how it happened, i'm generally extra special careful with phones, no drops or anything. not major enough to warrant a replacement or anything, but i've been keeping my eye on it.

1/23/2009 5:53:31 PM

okay, now it's been doing it for about 30 minutes straight. none of the buttons will respond and it won't stop vibrating. i'm sick with the flu, and i just want to go to bed


any other ideas to get me through this til i can take it to the store?


(k i got it to stop.... i'm taking it in tomorrow )

[Edited on January 23, 2009 at 10:27 PM. Reason : .]

1/23/2009 10:18:37 PM

this question has been answered probably, but i'm not reading through 67 pages so...

how is the reception on the iphone 3G? my house is iffy even though i can look out the front door and see a cell tower. everyone with at&t has trouble with calls from my house. verizon and alltel customers seem to get good reception. i really don't want to switch providers and i'd like to get an iphone, but if i can't make calls then it's of no use to me. is it any better/worse than other phones you guys have had in the past?

1/24/2009 12:20:42 AM

about average to me for the most part.. def not bad by any standard but nothing way beyond normal either. i'd find a friend w/an iphone to come over and try theirs before you commit to the 2 years

1/24/2009 3:41:58 PM

has anyone been able to get a bluetooth headset [sold outside the apple store] to work with their iphone? it constantly says "searching" as I repeatedly click the bluetooth headset button

1/24/2009 5:35:38 PM