The Apple thread

[Deckard]

This is pretty good - http://www.alloysoft.com/

Been sat on my bed and downstairs Sonos style flicking thru my iTunes - havent tried the remote speaker thru the Apple TV yet but really really like this program.

[Cloudane]

Same old keyboard... bummer

[GeeZa]

Ok ok I was wrong. Time Machine is a killer app. I thought it was flim-flam but it isn't, it's fab. I now don't have to piss around with rsync and my life is relaxing and enjoyable once more.

[WiteWulf]

Yay...finally just ordered a 2.5GHz 15" MacBook Pro for work, I'll be able to banish the nasty little Mac Mini from my desk shortly

[offyoutoddle]

Just got my macbook pro today. Wow it is lovely! Its replacing our 12" G4 powerbook after 4 years. I hope this lasts as well, as it is truly beautiful, and so unbelievably fast. I remember everyone crying out for g5 powerbooks years ago, and always complaining about the g4 ones. This is so fast its incredible. It's actually faster than my current desktop I love it.

I took a load of pics, I'll have to upload them. I am so glad I got this, and so glad this update kept the keyboard I like, not that horrid tacky thing on the macbook air.

[Cloudane]

Using the newer keyboard design right now (alu iMac) I vastly prefer it, and hope it's an option some day. I guess even the black one does detract from the excellent metallic design a bit though.

Once I replace my 12" PB, I'm half hoping for design tweaks Doesn't seem right using the same design as 4 years ago hehe!

Starting to get a little annoyed with Apple's quality these days, mind. This (20") iMac is plagued with display issues... first there's the infamous top-down gradient/fading which makes it very difficult to work with photos, then there's the weird fuzzy effects when booted into Windows (I reckon some sort of colour interpolation issue with the Windows drivers but nobody else on the internet seems to notice it) and now to top it all some darkened blobs - a bit like screen burn but kind of random - have started appearing in the corners of the screen. Not impressed at all, for £950 I expected better than this, it's just a pity the competing OS'es are no good (XP is a dinosaur, we all know about Vista, and Linux is a pain in the arse) else I'd be half tempted to flog the thing and go back to something I can control the quality of. Or if I was feeling rich and a little more forgiving, a Mac Pro. /rant off

Guess with the 'blob' issue I'll invoke this Applecare thing and see if they can sort it out, all these display issues really don't give me a great impression of their quality control though.

[GeeZa]

Ten things I'm liking about Leopard:

1. The Look (esp. Folders).
2. Time Machine.
3. Finder Grid Spacing.
4. Smart Folders much more useful.
5. Calender date in the Dock.
6. Screen Sharing.
7. Movie Icons.
8. Help Menu Highlighting.
9. Quick Look (multiple files).
10. Terminal Tabs.

Oh, one more

11. Wikipedia Searching In Dictionary

[Deckard]

Time capsule is out, see the pics - http://gizmodo.com/362286/time-capsule-arrives

[Deckard]

Sorry about the double post but like the tilt mechanics of this iphone game - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy0ptZisr70

[piku]

Can't say I'm a fan of the way my Mac handles crashes.

One second I'm working. Next second it goes "BONG!" and reboots.

I really would like a bit of warning, or a message box or some kernel vomit on the screen...

[piku]

I'm trying to get inside the Lightbox demo file, it's a .dmg.bin file. Whenever I double-click it, the Archive utility whirrs away for a few seconds before saying

Unable to unarchive "lightbox102demo.dmg.bin" into "Desktop". (Error 45 - Operation not supported.)

What's this mean? 'file' reports this as being a "MacBinary III data with surprising version number" type file... is this the OSX way of saying "This doesn't work on Intel Macs"?

[Cloudane]

The only time I've ever had a Mac crash is when I had bad RAM. And then yeah, it came up with the highly undescriptive thing saying "you need to restart your computer". But I've never had a healthy one crash, ever, so it doesn't matter

[pogo]

I'm trying to get inside the Lightbox demo file, it's a .dmg.bin file. Whenever I double-click it, the Archive utility whirrs away for a few seconds before saying

Unable to unarchive "lightbox102demo.dmg.bin" into "Desktop". (Error 45 - Operation not supported.)

What's this mean? 'file' reports this as being a "MacBinary III data with surprising version number" type file... is this the OSX way of saying "This doesn't work on Intel Macs"?

I would try using Stuffit Expander - it may be pre-installed on your machine already, or you can download it. It won't help if the archive is damaged, in which case redownloading may be the only option.

[RiK]

"The Unarchiver" is the most useful unpacker I've found for the Mac so far.

[Mat T]

Friend of mine just landed a job at Apple down in California. She'll be working on iTunes and the iPhone.

Sounds like an ace place to work!