daveb: apple

Tiger - for better or worse? · May 10, 09:23 am

definately better.

i installed tiger a few days ago, and so far i love it. it’s $129 to ‘upgrade’ but i’ve never bought an upgrade i enjoyed more.

a few favorites:

the search. best implementation i’ve ever experienced. fast, powerful – gives me all the information i’m looking for. took a while to index on first install, but i do have 100,000 items on my computer for it to look through and categorize. if i type “paul bellows” it brings up my brother’s contact info, any emails sent to him, any word docs that include his name, and the URL to his website.
dictionary – fully integrated dictionary based on The New Oxford American Dictionary (great if you speak English). if you ctrl+click on anything with dictionary enabled (Mail, Safari, TextEdit) you can look up a word in the dictionary. if you select a word and hold down ctrl+apple+D you get a contextual dictionary menu popping up. if you keep ctrl+apple pressed you can move your mouse around to other words for a definition.
widgets – they seem alright at first, i don’t think i’d use any of the prebuilt ones, but custom widgets! that’s where the money is. as soon as ebay creates one to track and monitor your sales, and FedEx creates one to monitor your packages they’ll become a whole lot more productive.
mail – i read and send a lot of email during my day. right now i’m using outlook 2003 for the peecee at work, and mail at home. the integration and feel of this app far surpasses outlook 2003, and the speed is quite considerably better.

a few bugs:

i think tiger eats my battery. paul mentioned i said “it makes my battery slower” which i’m not sure i quite understand. but i know my battery management is not as good as it was.
external displays – whenever i plug in an external display my Bluetooth Mouse Connection Wizard pops up. a quick thing to close, but uh … weird.
hungry. an upgrade install of tiger ate my friend gregg’s imac. he had to send his data to his lifeboat/ipod until he could get hardware rectified. but i’m hoping that’s not common.

see all 200 new features

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ipod diagnostics · Apr 5, 12:00 pm

battery sad pod

if you love your iPod you only want what’s best for it.

and if your iPod ever gets sick or tired, you want to fix it right?

but how do you know if your iPod is unwell, has the sniffles, or needs a disk defrag? well here’s a link to apple explaining what all the icons, known as iPod iconology mean.

here are some other helpful iPod links:

learn about your battery, how it works, what’s best for it.

how to restore your iPod

as always, i’d recommend going to apple.com to get any advice about what to do with your iPod. many people have found things that work for them, but apple knows best.

if you want to trick out your iPod check out the iPod Lounge.

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what my ipod said to me today · Mar 8, 10:13 pm

here’s what i heard from my iPod during my walk to work.

most item links are to the iTunes music store (where available)

Cosmic Girl – Jamiroquai
La Baie De Anges – Sebastian Schuller
Human Behaviour – Björk
Work – RJD2
Nightswimming – REM
Everything in its right place – radiohead
East St. Louis – Ry Cooder
Can’t get there from here – REM
Mojo Pin – Jeff Buckley
City Life (DJ Spooky Remix) – Steve Reich
Message in a Bottle – The Police
Feel for you – Ron Sexsmith
don’t sweat the technics – kid 606
15 Petals – Elvis Costello
My baby just cares for me – nina simone

inspired by brock’s post

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Canadian Copyright stole my $$ · Dec 17, 09:15 am

when i bought my iPod a year ago i had to pay an extra $25. the Copyright Board of Canada did some math, figured out how many tracks i was going to steal, and decided $25 was a fair recompense to artists for stolen music.

a nice, trusting introduction into the world of online music: you’re going to steal – we know it – so we’re yanking back from you first.

Canada’s Copyright Act gives the federal board the authority to apply levies on blank media such as compact discs and audio cassettes. But the wording of the act has not kept up with the new technology of MP3 players, represented by the wildly popular iPod, which use an embedded memory rather than discs or cassettes, to store digital copies of songs.

“As desirable as bringing such devices within the ambit of [the Act] might seem, the authority for doing so still has to be found in the Act,” Judge Noël said in his decision.

i’m certainly aware that mp3 players are often used by the forces of evil rather than good, but a blanket tax that’s never been distributed to artists is not a good solution.

good riddance.

now how do i get my $25 back?

read the Globe and Mail article

read the article on the reg

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apple store coming to canada · Nov 20, 04:51 pm

toronto, ontario is to see the first one, with more planned for malls in the surrounding suburbs. yes, in my continued obsession for more mac products in Canada, i’m hailing this as news.

london apple store

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