[QUOTE=woolio1;44077918]Honestly, I have no complaints about the iPad music app. It works well enough.[/QUOTE]
You seem to be forgetting about the whole "Apple-premium" thing. It isn't supposed to just work, it's should look great, and when Apple is laughing at Android apps that are stretched to fit the screen, it just makes them look like a hypocrite
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;44078002]You seem to be forgetting about the whole "Apple-premium" thing. It isn't supposed to just work, it's should look great, and when Apple is laughing at Android apps that are stretched to fit the screen, it just makes them look like a hypocrite[/QUOTE]
Are we just talking about the portrait mode, or are we talking landscape too? Because the landscape mode is drastically different between the two.
I guess that's really the difference. I normally use the iPad in landscape mode, so I always see the landscape version of the app. Which, admittedly, is what I'd expect from a tablet music app. The portrait mode is pretty similar, though.
[QUOTE=garychencool;44073677]The difference is that I get a dedicated graphics card (for free?) for the same price.[/QUOTE]
Which I found was pretty funny.
[QUOTE=woolio1;44078638]Are we just talking about the portrait mode, or are we talking landscape too? Because the landscape mode is drastically different between the two.
I guess that's really the difference. I normally use the iPad in landscape mode, so I always see the landscape version of the app. Which, admittedly, is what I'd expect from a tablet music app. The portrait mode is pretty similar, though.[/QUOTE]
Huh? The layout of the iPad music app doesn't change between portrait and landscape. You just lose vertical space due to obvious physical constraints and the spacing between the buttons at the top and text boxes becomes larger. The app hardly takes advantage of the space on iPad in either case.
For example, the album view. It's just a horizontal list with the artist and track counts in the middle and right columns. Compare that to the iOS 6 app where you got four albums per row and infinitely long columns. Thats taking advantage of the large screen. The iOS 7 app retains the same list views designed for a 4" phone and just puts a ton of spacing between the album covers and the names. Sure, you have an ever present set of playback controls but it can hardly be said to be an app designed with iPad in mind. The iOS 6 app took advantage of addition columns of information, segmented scrollable views, and other ways to make a big display useful. The app now is pretty much on the same level as all the Android apps Tim Cook himself called crappy.
Is it worth upgrading my iPad Mini to iOS7? When it was first released I heard that there were problems with battery life. Are those claims true, or are there any other problems with it (idles the interface lag etc)?
[QUOTE=Antdawg;44109486]Is it worth upgrading my iPad Mini to iOS7? When it was first released I heard that there were problems with battery life. Are those claims true, or are there any other problems with it (idles the interface lag etc)?[/QUOTE]
The day the iPad Mini iOS 7 update came out I updated and then I proceeded to sell it off immediately because of the performance compared to iOS 6. It's very RAM bottlenecked, being a hardware platform from early 2011 and all. I'd really advise playing with one already on iOS 7 somehow because there's no going back to iOS 6 if you don't think it's optimal.
...or just wait till iOS 7.1 comes out which should be very soon, it should fix any issues (hopefully)
Can I get a list of recommended apps and games
Someone I know who goes to a college program for photography bought a MacBook because everyone else in the room had one..
If it matters, he got a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display, 512GB SSD, 8GB RAM, Intel i5 dual-core 2.8GHz. It's actually the first time I've seen the retina display in my face and I was able to compare it with a non-retina 15-inch MacBook Pro (1600x900px? display). The screen looks like the retina iPad which has a pretty crisp screen but I still don't really see how it's worth getting the retina display. Well at least when I scroll webpages, the text doesn't look weird. It's pretty light weight and thinner.
He uses Lightroom and Photoshop CS6/CC. Apparently CS6 doesn't have an update for the retina displays so everything is blocky...
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;44116374]...or just wait till iOS 7.1 comes out which should be very soon, it should fix any issues (hopefully)[/QUOTE]
It doesn't really fix the RAM limit issues on A5 devices, I've used the betas on them. The A5 is just too old, there's nothing more to it. If Apple didn't insist on keeping the A5 devices around because of the high margins they wouldn't even get updates anymore.
So why the hell does Macs suck at connecting to school networks.
On one ethernet cable, Network Accounts are available. Now switch that same ethernet cable to another and the Network Accounts does not work for the second Mac. Rebooting does nothing.
pretty sure that isn't 'macs' sucking, just that individual one for whatever reason. i can connect to our school network on both the imacs and my macbooks
[QUOTE=garychencool;44124482]So why the hell does Macs suck at connecting to school networks.
On one ethernet cable, Network Accounts are available. Now switch that same ethernet cable to another and the Network Accounts does not work for the second Mac. Rebooting does nothing.[/QUOTE]
They either need to fix their network or replace the Mac. I've never heard of this issue at the university I work at and it's ALL Apple computers.
[QUOTE=Kaabii;44125358]They either need to fix their network or replace the Mac. I've never heard of this issue at the university I work at and it's ALL Apple computers.[/QUOTE]
It might be caused by the network. I tried swapping 5 cables that had ethernet working on other macs on the 3 that wouldn't connect. Nope. It's rage inducing...
[QUOTE=garychencool;44125744]It might be caused by the network. I tried swapping 5 cables that had ethernet working on other macs on the 3 that wouldn't connect. Nope. It's rage inducing...[/QUOTE]
I have the opposite effect, but then again I laugh at people without 5ghz :P
[QUOTE=Killervalon;44128240]I have the opposite effect, but then again I laugh at people without 5ghz :P[/QUOTE]
We just got an N capable router 2 months ago. And it can do 5 Ghz. Though usually it ends up being a Wireless-A channel.
[QUOTE=Killervalon;44128240]I have the opposite effect, but then again I laugh at people without 5ghz :P[/QUOTE]
Network accounts only work via ethernet cable if the iMac is booting up/rebooted. It doesn't auto connect to the schools enterprise WiFi but when you log in via ethernet cable, it autoconnects to that WiFi and uses that. Logging off takes forever unless you turn off WiFi, I guess it was syncing your crap onto the school server or something. If the ethernet cable is unplugged and you log off it takes forever and the network accounts stays green if you didn't turn off wifi.
Some of the new iMacs we got has wifi disabled. Whyyyy. If the imac is connected to wifi properly, it will have network accounts working. The older ones (by like 2 years) won't auto connect to the wifi if the ethernet cable is unplugged.
My head.....
[QUOTE=Sharker;44077586]Does anyone know of an application like Steermouse that is free, or at least is on the Mac App Store?[/QUOTE]
I didn't get a response so let me reword, does anyone know of a good application that will let me have better control of the mouse sensitivity that is preferably free?
What's the quickest way to get an older iMac to "factory" settings without an installation disk? Is there a program that I can use to reformat the drives while keeping the os?
[QUOTE=Lilyo;44155801]What's the quickest way to get an older iMac to "factory" settings without an installation disk? Is there a program that I can use to reformat the drives while keeping the os?[/QUOTE]
How much older? I'm thinking 2010 and up has a recovery partition.
2005 iMac G5... Running Tiger 10.4
Got a free MacBook that was "ruined" by water damage. Late 2008 unibody. The logic board was fine, most of the keys didn't work and the track pad didn't work. Some dings in the case as well. They spilled soda on it too at some point since the keys were all sticky
Bought a new battery, keyboard assembly, and SSD. Spent about 10 hours yesterday cleaning the thing from top to bottom. Had to pull every single part out, including the old keyboard assembly. Word to the wise: if any of you have the idea to replace the keyboard assembly, don't. I had to remove 51 screws the size of the head of a pin to get it out, not counting all the other tiny case screws, and then put them back in again. I stripped a couple screws, one on the way in (which I had to drill out) and another on the way out (which I will have to drill out if I ever open it again).
It's all fixed though. Everything works, and I even managed to download Mavericks with the old OSX install. So I've got a fully functional (if a bit old) MacBook for ~250$ in parts. I wonder if the new models can even be repaired to that point?
not a chance
[editline]9th March 2014[/editline]
apple very much sacrificed repair-ability for light/thinness, which i'm definitely on the fence about. i like apple's customer support enough to not care about self repairs and i love the lightness of the new macbooks, but for when the warranty does run out and something goes wrong, it's done.
7.1 is out. First thing I noticed is the weird new shine on the slide to unlock and quicker animations
I think I'll stick with 7.0.1, if only because I'm trying to get through Pokemon Emerald on that GBAforiOS emualtor.
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;44194202]7.1 is out. First thing I noticed is the weird new shine on the slide to unlock and quicker animations[/QUOTE]
No more rotation jank when the keyboard is up. Installing it on my ipad 3 to see some of the improvements on the ipad side. Can't install on my mini retina until my vacation is over but I hope they re-added keyboard transparency to iPads.
Is there any way to get Haptic feedback on 7.1 without a jailbreak?
So I have a second-gen iPod Touch (iOS 4.2.1, jailbroken). I'm not sure yet if it's my jack or my headphones or what, but the second it goes back in my pocket, it auto pauses as if the headphones came unplugged.
I'm broke, so I can't do "repair" or "replace", so my only option is "disable". How?
Christ my iPhone 5 has had awful battery life lately. 7.0.2 jailbroken, anyone else suffer from this?
[QUOTE=FullStreak12;44219206]Christ my iPhone 5 has had awful battery life lately. 7.0.2 jailbroken, anyone else suffer from this?[/QUOTE]
You're jailbroken, so you're probably running some tweak or app that's killing your battery life.
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