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Nothing 'misleading' about it all. That's what I thought when I first saw a screengrab of the dock and that's what I thought after using it. Sure, it can be turned off - like most graphic bits on most operating systems - but seeing as it's there in all its toytown glory by default, I feel I'm entitled to express an opinion about it.tarannau said:
Errr....but you can turn off the animation and transparency off in Vista, just like with the Apple dock!tarannau said:
editor said:Nothing 'misleading' about it all. That's what I thought when I first saw a screengrab of the dock and that's what I thought after using it. Sure, it can be turned off - like most graphic bits on most operating systems - but seeing as it's there in all its toytown glory by default, I feel I'm entitled to express an opinion about it.Errr....but you can turn off the animation and transparency off in Vista, just like with the Apple dock!
Mwahahahah. But I can't turn them off really; well not if I want to keep on tutting loudly everytime Vista works its animation tweeness.
Throw us a bone here...
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^ doesn't like the Dock by the way, and apparently it's worse in Leopard
Crispy, you can change the buttons in Mail.app with freeware apps, which is good because they are utterly fucking horrible.
Crispy, you can change the buttons in Mail.app with freeware apps, which is good because they are utterly fucking horrible.
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And now JP Morgan deny previous reports
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=3362584
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=3362584
Another thing some people wanted the iPhone to be able to do is support Exchange email, good for corporate users. Allegedly, now it does.
http://www.synchronica.com/news/070711-synchronica-syncs-apple-iphone-to-microsoft-exchange.shtml
http://www.synchronica.com/news/070711-synchronica-syncs-apple-iphone-to-microsoft-exchange.shtml
Kid_Eternity
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rocketman said:
In a sense all the naysayers are just providing free market research for Apple. When they should and scream about what the iPhone can't do you can bet somewhere inside Apple someone is taking notes....
Kid_Eternity said:
I reckon some in Apple r&d may even have a smattering of knowledge about Linux, Unix, open source solutions they could perhaps get involved with
http://www.apple.com/opensource/
Crispy
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I'm even more willing to bet that such a list already exists, and they arbitrarily cut it off at one point, polished what was left and released it as v1.0 - I bet there's plenty of features for the iphone that already work, but haven't been sent through for final approval and update yet.
Crispy said:
Yeah. I suspect that some development projects hit some snags - hence the delay of Leopard - and they simply set a schedule to keep to deliver as much as they could to a deadline they had announced.
I think they'll stagger new (or in some cases, missing features that should really have been implemented at launch) feature releases on some kind of ubiquely regular update cycle in order to maintain interest in the product.
Quite exciting really - I'm anticipating some strong .Mac integration, and some strong improvements to .Mac (online hosted iLife applications, potentially).
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Not being inclined to plug into the whole iLife, iTunes, iRuddy-Everything love-in, I'm more excited by what the industry might come up with in response to the real innovation seen in the iPhone.
Who, knows, it might even wake Palm up from their deep slumbers and maybe even Microsoft will realise that their Windows mobile interface is as friendly as an angry walrus in a fish-free warehouse*.
(*I'm not quite sure what picture I'm trying to paint here, but I trust you'll get my drift)
Who, knows, it might even wake Palm up from their deep slumbers and maybe even Microsoft will realise that their Windows mobile interface is as friendly as an angry walrus in a fish-free warehouse*.
(*I'm not quite sure what picture I'm trying to paint here, but I trust you'll get my drift)
Crispy said:
Totally does - you can get just as much free online storage from loads of places. Really isn't worth the cash at present.
But iLife, like OS X and the rest, all of these are messages to the wider industry to get their act together.
Trouble with most firms in the smartphone sector is they are product manufacturers, rather than software developers - they must be, or they would have got it right by now, they have had a decade or two to get it right.
(Excepts Palm from list)
However, many smartphone developers are hampered by the demands of the mobile networks, who demand the devices they carry work within certain limits they set.
Apple's deal with AT&T allowed a rare thing - Apple got to innovate withoug (much) interference.
if innovation is going to happen, then freeing smartphone developers from interference by the networks is critical.
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Crispy said:
Makes sense. The marketing department would love that. It means that they have a batches of updates for Jobbo to do his 'one more thing' at Apple shows etc for the next couple of years...
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I couldn't believe how much Apple wants for .mac - 99$ for a year and that's single user.
Piss off - I get twice as much storage on my free gmail.com and 4 times as much storage for a quarter of the price on my domain.
Now I own a Mac iCan hate Apple now.
Piss off - I get twice as much storage on my free gmail.com and 4 times as much storage for a quarter of the price on my domain.
Now I own a Mac iCan hate Apple now.
Oh I wrote something about this one time - there is some stuff that does this...(it's around a year old this, so there may be better solutions now)....
digs stuff out....
Have you looked at SyncTogether - http://www.mildmanneredindustries.com/
This will let you sync data between multiple macs and more, I believe
Firefox users could consider the Google Browser Sync plug-in (http://tinyurl.com/g9lb5). This syncs bookmarks, cookies, open tabs, history, passwords, and more.
For storage I like Box.net, iBackUp (fee-based) and MediaMax (25GB of free storage space).
You can use Box.net to sync iCal calendars with other users, as it's servers are WebDAV-enabled:
1. Publish your calendar from within iCal. (Calendar>Publish) to https://www.box.net/dav, and using your box.net account name and password.
2. Subscribe to the calendar in iCal (Calendar -> Subscribe) at http://www.box.net/dav/Your_Calendar.ics.
For free back-up try iBackup
www.grapefruit.ch, free
Oh there's more.
Off-topic so I'll stop now.
digs stuff out....
Have you looked at SyncTogether - http://www.mildmanneredindustries.com/
This will let you sync data between multiple macs and more, I believe
Firefox users could consider the Google Browser Sync plug-in (http://tinyurl.com/g9lb5). This syncs bookmarks, cookies, open tabs, history, passwords, and more.
For storage I like Box.net, iBackUp (fee-based) and MediaMax (25GB of free storage space).
You can use Box.net to sync iCal calendars with other users, as it's servers are WebDAV-enabled:
1. Publish your calendar from within iCal. (Calendar>Publish) to https://www.box.net/dav, and using your box.net account name and password.
2. Subscribe to the calendar in iCal (Calendar -> Subscribe) at http://www.box.net/dav/Your_Calendar.ics.
For free back-up try iBackup
www.grapefruit.ch, free
Oh there's more.
Off-topic so I'll stop now.
Structaural
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rocketman said:
Cheers for that.
Crispy said:No 2-way calendar sync though- I have to have seperate google and home calendars, and they can only be edited in their respective sources.
Yeah, but I have this feeling I came across something on this one time, take a look at that SyncTogether thing as I have a feeling it 'may' (meaning it also may not) do this....
I know it's annoying, but hopefully of some help.
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