And also File:/// still rocks. No one cares. Hate this.
Interesting to mention that I don't have this problem. Chrome displays a listing of the root folder on my hard drive and Safari opens Finder.
Everything just doesn't work and nobody cares
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Made up? Dude, I don't have any other computers at home except made by Apple, and I am web-developer, not an office manager. I know my stuff.
I must have missed the part where you tried another browser... (EDIT: I did genuinely miss it! Still, there are at least 2 other browsers that, as a web developer, you should have installed.) I must ask, why are you still using the platform if it's so bad? Use something else, problem solved! No, it is that simple.
Everything else is even worse.
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I was thinking about getting a Kindle, but then every book review on Amazon includes a complaint about book being unreadable on Kindle. And I was interested mainly in books about programming that include listings which get garbled. So I thought why bother... At least I can read PDF on iPad.
You can read PDFs on a Kindle, too. That's how I read all of my programming books.
But it has a smaller screen, so I am not bothering.
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I am a web-developer and I guess it is different with Xcode, but I would like to have my colors in HEX, like I had them before Lion came out. Amazed with your iPhone 4 experience, but where I live almost everybody I see has a "accessibility controls" on the screen because home button doesn't work. Regarding iTunes, my library might be too big, but each morning I see it used 5Gb of ram and after force-quitting it I ha…
Sorry, thought you meant "Color meter"
Yes I mean Digital Color Meter. You're right, I was unable to find this option. But since then I moved to a better solution anyway.
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BTW. Why didn't you exchange your iPhone 4 if you home-button was faulty??? I had mine for 2 years (before I switched to iPhone 5), I didn't have any problems with it.
I apply a few drops of alcohol and it works again for a while. I was about to go to change it a few times, when it is really pissing me off, but then I would have to put sim card somewhere else, and this Android phone I have is kinda horrid, plus I will loose my contacts. I have an old iPhone 3G, but you can't sync iCloud contacts to it either. And then I have to pay for what I believe is a manufacturer's defect. So…
I think that if the button is faulty it falls under warranty and you should be able to exchange it for a working iPhone 4 for no extra charge. If you have put alcohol in it, you have probably blown whatever warranty you had left.
I had a nasty experience with a 2007 Macbook Pro 3 years ago. One morning the screen didn't come on. Fortunately I was in the US at that time. I went to the nearest Apple store and discussed with them. Turned out the issue with the screen was a known issue. They fixed it the same day. No charge because it was a known hardware-problem.
They are generally quite friendly when you talk with them.
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https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa It requires an Apple ID, but otherwise you are free to submit bugs... It isn't brilliant.
I know about the Radar, yes you can submit, but then what do you see? http://d.pr/i/8bto 0 problems! Great. I am talking about an Open bug tracker, not this.
You can still "track" the bugs you report, but "yes" they can stay open for years. However, if you don't report these bugs Apple will not see them. The forums are not really a convenient place to report software problems. I don't think their developers go there ofter. If you report a bug in Radar, it will be in Apple's bug-report system and some (poor) developer will have to deal with it eventually.
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I use Chrome every day on Linux, OSX, and Windows, and know for a fact that it doesn't get error 324 on every other page. I've had iTunes running for weeks without gobbling all of my memory. At some point he needs to face the facts that if he's the only person experiencing all these problems then the problem isn't the software, it's him.
I have ~40000 songs in iTunes, what about you? And Chrome was working fine until I moved to a new house. Regarding me being the only person with this – maybe you can tip the other guys in the right direction too? http://google.com/search?q=chrome+error+324
No offense, but you probably should have thought this through a little more before ranting on the internet about it.
If Chrome works for almost everybody else, and worked for you until moving, then the problem probably isn't that Chrome mysteriously broke, but that your new network connection is flaky.
In fact, almost all of the things you were ranting about could be explained by a bad network connection.
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I apply a few drops of alcohol and it works again for a while. I was about to go to change it a few times, when it is really pissing me off, but then I would have to put sim card somewhere else, and this Android phone I have is kinda horrid, plus I will loose my contacts. I have an old iPhone 3G, but you can't sync iCloud contacts to it either. And then I have to pay for what I believe is a manufacturer's defect. So…
I think that if the button is faulty it falls under warranty and you should be able to exchange it for a working iPhone 4 for no extra charge. If you have put alcohol in it, you have probably blown whatever warranty you had left. I had a nasty experience with a 2007 Macbook Pro 3 years ago. One morning the screen didn't come on. Fortunately I was in the US at that time. I went to the nearest Apple store and discussed…
I don't live in US, and here the service provider told me I would have pay.
Re: Everything just doesn't work and nobody cares
#79We have a lot of the same problems in my home too. My wife's computer, iPhone, and iPad refuse to behave with her email. I'm using an old iMac as a media server, but every time I connect remotely using Team Viewer, it complains that I don't have a mouse attached. My new iPod touch still won't sync remotely. We were Apple fans "back in the day" (1990s) because it all "just works." The funny thing is my new Desktop/Gam…
I think they need to stop adding new stuff and fix what's already released. Snow Leopard was the best version of OS X because they did exactly that. Bug fixing. No new stuff.
I agree completely. But also, they are not "adding new stuff" anymore. There's practically no new functionality in 10.7 or 10.8.
Instead, they are rewriting existing functionality, often in a way that breaks because it fails to take into account all accumulated knowledge. Joel Spolsky wrote about that here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html. Restarting from scratch is the worst idea you can have.
Here are things that were broken in OSX 10.7 or 10.8: Dual monitor support, resolution change, keyboard input, auto-correction, Save As, Suspend/Resume, Backups/Time Machine, Preview, Window manager (backing store), OpenGL (stereoscopy = kernel panic, very annoying for http://www.taodyne.com), Mail, Safari, RSS feeds, Windows networking. That's just off the top of my head, sure there are many others.
But things are only marginally better in Linux or Windows land. On Linux, the user interface in Ubuntu is a mixed bag. At least, I get a sense of purpose and direction. And Windows 8 is like "What were they thinking" (although I met a few users who think it's a good ideas, so YMMV).
And what about C++11, which added the kitchen sink but forgot introspection/reflection? What about Facebook which still has not found a business model, but keeps rewriting privacy rules? What about washing machines that break after 5.0001 years?
BTW, stuff that is not the way it should be is the primary topic of my own blog, Grenouille Bouillie, https://grenouillebouillie.wordpress.com. Sorry for the shameless plug, but it's really a topic close to my heart.
Re: Everything just doesn't work and nobody cares
#80Hey, this isn't just Apple. It's everywhere . Thinking of a doing a Kindle book? You poor frikkin naif. You just have no idea. http://www.selfpublishingreview.com/blog/2013/02/why-amazon-... And you can multiply that by just about every eBook app out there too.
I was thinking about getting a Kindle, but then every book review on Amazon includes a complaint about book being unreadable on Kindle. And I was interested mainly in books about programming that include listings which get garbled. So I thought why bother... At least I can read PDF on iPad.
Formatting problems are due to many things, most of which are the fault of Amazon itself. The Previewer sucks and all of their products render books differently.