Archive for the ‘apple’ Category
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
My boss at work is moving to another state, and will be working remotely from monday on. So, we are setting up facetime betwixt my ipad and her mac, in preparation for the big day. And ever since, my ipad is now making little notification sounds, even though it’s completely muted, and everything I can find about facetime in settings is set to off.
Most annoying is that I can’t see any reason for it to be making the sounds; I’m not getting call requests every five seconds, but it’s making the noise that often.
At least killing the app seems to have stopped them.
UPDATE: Killing the app didn’t make any difference. I finally tracked down that somehow, making a facetime call, turned on email notifications for gmail. WTF?
Tags: annoying, apple, notifications, unmuteable
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Get it while it lasts, iMAME is a free port of the generic arcade emulator. I suspect it only got approved because there’s a big rush of apps being submitted before the Apple approvers go on Christmas break.
Tags: d'oh, ios, mame, videogames, wontlast
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
There’s a multimedia remix of the Yellow Submarine movie, as an ebook, in the iTunes store currently, and it’s free even. Looks pretty cool so far, but I always loved that movie.
Tags: apple, beatles, free, ibook, yellowsubmarine
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
I’ve hated Apple’s Ping ever since they added it. I loved the idea the said it was going to be, but despised what was actually delivered. You couldn’t ping music that they couldn’t get a cut off of, amongst it’s many lame-ities. And most annoying, even if you’d turned Ping off for your account, you still saw a ‘Ping’ button on any selected track.
Until today, when I discovered that disabling Ping under Parental Controls removes the button. Well, it shrinks from the word ‘ping’ to a small arrow, and if you click the arrow, you get a drop-down menu that lets you go to the itunes store for the artist, album, or genre. I can live with that.
UPDATE: I notice that the jump-to-itunes-store button doesn’t work all that well. If I click on a Eurythmics track’s link to the artist page, it says nothing is available in the US store, but if you click on the album link for the same track, it works and you can see that they have plenty of other albums by them as well.
Tags: itunes, pingsucks, resolved
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
One of the “identify this song” apps, soundhound, added a new feature to the latest release that displays the lyrics to songs it identifies…IN TIME to the song, a sort of personal karaoke machine. As someone with a long standing history of loudly singing the completely wrong lyrics, or worse, completely inappropriate but accurate lyrics without realizing the actual words, I look forward to integrating this into my daily life.
Tags: app, identifcation, ipad, music, soundhound
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Usually, when I find a bug in windows iTunes, it’s a screaming at the PC frustrating bug that makes me want to conduct a long term campaign of harassment of the offending developer (ok, not seriously). Today’s bug is much less annoying, more just puzzling over how it could have occurred. If you click-drag on the bare metal of the iTunes app, when maximized, the application switches into non-maximized mode.
I can’t find any other windows application that reacts the same way, and now I’m curious what maximized iTunes does on my iMac at home. Is it an intentionally inherited ‘feature’, or a true-bug like the focus-stealing during import?
Tags: bug, itunes, quirk, windows
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
This mis-spelt but otherwise awesome Dubble Bubble Shooter HD is on sale for $0.99 finally. I have been wanting to buy the game every since I first discovered the lite version, but just wasn’t willing to pay them 4 times what everyone else asks, no matter how good the game. So I was very glad to see their price reduction this morning.
Tags: apple, game, ios, onsale
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
I understand that there are legions of people who never type in web addresses, going to google first even for sites like espn.com, that they visit every day. It’s still annoying as frack that starting with iOS 4, on iDevices like the iPad, when you open a new browsing ‘tab’, it puts focus in the search box instead of the address bar, and requires *2* presses of the address bar before you can actually type in it. I think it’s that second press that really bugs me. You want to put the focus elsewhere, grumble but ok, but why suddenly the double click requirement? If only Steve Jobs believed in letting users adjust the experience, it could be a setting instead of an unchangeable default.
Tags: annoying, apple, ios, ipad, safari
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Somewhen since I last paid attention to it, they made a change to the iPad OS, so that I can have more apps installed than are visible on the ~9 pages they give you. It is a little disconcerting during downloads/updates, since you can’t see any indication of progress, only the spinning network activity indicator lets you know things are happening, somewhere, deep where you can’t see. But once the spinner stops, assuming you remember the name of the app, you can search your iPad for it, and launch it from the search results page.
Now I just need an app to remind me what the name of that app I just downloaded is. I think I’ll call it “Dave’s not here, man!” =p
Tags: apple, ipad, update
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Monday, October 25th, 2010
Doesn’t seem to be much other reason for him to deliberately remove the screen-orientation lock button’s functionality. There’d better be a way to lock the screen orientation in software still, or I won’t be upgrading.
Tags: anticustomer, apple, ipad, stevejobssucks
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