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topic: recommended [or non-recommended] ipod touch / iphone apps  in the forum: technical discussion › software
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Simon 2009-12-30, 12:18 #1
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Whatever. I don't come here so often anymore, but when I do it strikes me that usually all I see is somebody complaining about something. Just doesn't seem especially interesting to me. Maybe it's time for me to move on.
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topic: recommended [or non-recommended] ipod touch / iphone apps  in the forum: technical discussion › software
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Simon 2009-12-30, 12:05 #2
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In reply to post ID 16284
Bottom line is it's free. You're free to take it or leave it. Just like you're free to buy into marketing speak or not. Tough look if you do. :P

I know being cheap and complaining is a pan-European sport, but seriously people.
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topic: recommended [or non-recommended] ipod touch / iphone apps  in the forum: technical discussion › software
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Simon 2009-12-30, 11:46 #3
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Complaining about free shit is so lame. :P

:laugh:
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topic: recommended [or non-recommended] ipod touch / iphone apps  in the forum: technical discussion › software
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Simon 2009-12-20, 07:07 #4
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It's my understanding that it's the developers that get to decide in which county an app is sold. Apple doesn't really care. They just want sales because that means revenue from their 30% cut.

I wonder how this works in the EU though. In principle an EU citizen should be able to buy an app sold anywhere within the EU, no?
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topic: how do you organise your ipod/iphone apps?  in the forum: technical discussion › hardware
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Simon 2009-12-14, 06:36 #5
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Same here. I have many pages but hardly any of them are full. Most frequently used apps are on the first page. After that I group by type/function.

Stuff that doesn't really convince me or I notice I don't end up using is deleted from my iPhone. I still have it in iTunes if I ever need it. For example the 1.4 GB Navigon app. I only load it onto my iPhone when I'm actually in the US.

But lately I've noticed it's just so much easier to use Spotlight to reach something that's not on the first or second page. Hit home, type 'yo' and select YouTube is about twice as fast as swiping to page four and selecting it there.
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topic: how do you organise your ipod/iphone apps?  in the forum: technical discussion › hardware
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Simon 2009-12-13, 20:12 #6
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Spotlight.

And not loading that many apps in the first place. :P
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topic: MacBook and MBP Nvidia GPU issues  in the forum: technical discussion › hardware
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Simon 2009-12-04, 18:06 #7
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Well it's back. Good as new. Had almost forgotten how fast it is. ;)

It took the AASP ten days. But only after I called and they realized that it had been sitting in a shelf unattended for a week. :rolleyes: :brick:
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topic: Apple Christmas presents (Anyone thinking about giving themselves one?)  in the forum: community › appletalker lounge
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Simon 2009-12-04, 07:21 #8
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I'll be getting a new Core i7 MBP when they launch after Xmas. :)
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topic: (Almost) Frustrated Beyond Belief  in the forum: community › appletalker lounge
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Simon 2009-12-03, 06:25 #9
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Ouch. I think I would have probably also reacted like that. There's nothing like that crappy feeling you get when it appears your new gadget is a lemon. :laugh:

I recently went through some iPod annoyance myself with my iPhone. I notice that it was shuffling through some of my classical albums. Even though I was in the album listing, had selected a single album, and chosen the first track, it seemed to randomly continue through the album in no special order. Well with my classical music if there is one thing I cannot stand at all it's shuffling. I want the damn prelude at the beginning and not just somwhere. I checked my iPod settings and indeed global shuffling was off. I had no idea what else to do. I restarted the iPhone, checked and double-checked all my settings, etc. I was so frustrated that this POS iPod app wasn't able to play a damn concerto the way it was intended to be played. :brick: Anyway, I was thinking about one hell of a rant I as going to write here about how the iPod sucks and Apple has become a big nasty shitty company, blabla, when pretty much by chance I discovered that when you play a track with the iPod app you can tap the album and a menu bar will appear with a scrubber, a repeat button, the useless genius icon, and low and behold a shuffle button which for some strange reason was set to on. I couldn't believe what I was seeing (or the fact that Apple had hid that away so darn well) and frantically hit the shuffle button. And all of a sudden my iPod starts playing my symphonies like I want it to. Only God knows how embarrassing it would have been had I written that rant after which one of guys would have pointed out my incapacity to control the simple iPod app. ;)

This idea to tap on an album pic to get extra controls might seem like intuitive GUI, but it fails miserably when you don't have album art (which I don't for some of my old CDs I ripped). Why would I want to tap on a placeholder image? Why doesn't Apple make sure that control bar always shows when you don't have album art? :stick:
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topic: why is itunes such a POS?  in the forum: technical discussion › software
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Simon 2009-12-01, 07:52 #10
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I'm not so sure I agree with that. You don't really need the iTS. I ripped most of music from my own CDs and when you buy music online you can just as well buy from a place like Amazon that offers MP3s w/o DRM. Personally, the ITS isn't what's tying me to iTunes.
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topic: why is itunes such a POS?  in the forum: technical discussion › software
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Simon 2009-12-01, 06:41 #11
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I have started hating iTunes too. It's become laggy and confusing bloatware. And it's a royal pain in the ass to use iTunes/iPod/iPhone to organize and listen to classical music. I have all kinds of music. The iTunes/iPod/iPhone paradigm works well for pop/rock, not quite so well for jazz, and not at all for classical music. I have started a thread about how to deal with classical music at the other place but I never got any useful advice.

AFAIC iTunes is a piece of crap. MS Office levels of crapiness I might add. I wonder if there is some kind of fundamental law that every app that becomes the market leader must somehow start to suck. ;)

I'm petty sure you're not really forced to use it with your iPod. I know there's Linux for the iPod and I bet along with that there's also an alternative player/sync app. But I'm pretty certain that will suck even more than iTunes. IOW if the FOSS delivers something worth consideration I'm game, but as long as Apple is better, I guess I'll have to suck up to iTunes.

[Edit: I just realized that I started sounding like Windows users back in the 90s. Only, those guys could have gone Mac and enjoyed a high-quality platform had they not been cheap stingy bastards. With the iPod/iTunes problem I'm afraid throwing money at the problem won't solve it. :( ]
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This post was edited on 2009-12-01, 06:56 by Simon.
topic: recommended [or non-recommended] ipod touch / iphone apps  in the forum: technical discussion › software
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Simon 2009-12-01, 06:37 #12
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In-N-Out has an excellent location finder on their webpage. Unfortunately it requires Flash though.

Like Carl's Jr., In-N-Out is one of those great places you only find out west. :)
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topic: Just for laughs  in the forum: community › appletalker lounge
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Simon 2009-11-30, 19:24 #13
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:laugh: :thumbsup:
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topic: recommended [or non-recommended] ipod touch / iphone apps  in the forum: technical discussion › software
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Simon 2009-11-30, 11:20 #14
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Now that would be an interesting app! So far I have been spending my time mainly in Stanza. That has primarily to due with the fact that I finally (after years of planning to do so) started to read Crime and Punishment. I've been reading for ages already and I still haven't finished Crime yet. :laugh:
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topic: black friday?  in the forum: community › appletalker lounge
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Simon 2009-11-28, 15:44 #15
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Same problem, same solution. madra, may I introduce you to Wikipedia? ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Monday
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