apple: you suck ass!

Apple technology

iPhone: check
Apple MacBook pro: check
Over time I ended up with lots and lots of addresses.
Apple’s AddressBook is the Application that all the other iWhatever applications want to use.

Well. Now they are all gone.
The upside is that I have them in my phone. So I connected it,
and, of course, this stupid piece of shit device ‘syncs’ and now the address book of the iPhone
is empty as well.

Apple made their own framework / format for the address book. All in their fucking stupid
fancy Objective C. I hope that ALL of those morons at Apple pushing this crap technology
will loose their address books as well. Completely and without chance to get it back.

Stupid Apple. I hate them.
If hardware dies: fine. But a stupid software glitch that can wipe out 2(!) addresssbooks
is just horrible. It’s really bad.

What makes me furious is that the software just decided to delete data that was ok.
If the number of your contacts goes from 500 to 0 it should have the wits to ask:
“Is this what you want”.
But, no, the software just goes ahead and smug as all the Apple junk is takes away
all my data. Next time some Apploid tells me all cheery how great all those Appleisk
things are I will curse him so that the same will happen to him.

Fuckers.

Life is hard enough. So is coding. No need for Apple to add problems with their
Objective C arrogance and their inability to write software that gives the user
some feedback about what is going on. Look it’s shiny on the outside. But rotten
on the side.

voice to text applications

communication media technology

Since a while I am using Callwave. And I must say that I am very very happy with it. It’s really great to get your voicemails transcribed as an email. I am amazed how far voice to text technology has gotten so far. It’s sometimes humorous. But more importantly, it’s usually possible to ‘get’ the general direction of the voice mail. I know who called, what it was about, and the phone numbers people leave have been without any errors so far. Which is really really helpful.

I also like to have one list of incoming messages. It makes staying on top of things much easier and less stressful. Which is allowing me to spend time with actually doing things instead of reacting to it and managing my message stack and todo lists.

I am with Gisele

economy

I should start writing invoices in &Euro;
Seriously. From 0.90 US cents to 1.448 in five years. Thanks Mr Bush. Asshole!

about abortion

daily life history politics

Garry Willis writes about Abortion in the LA Times.
He says:


Evangelicals may argue that most people in Germany thought it was all right to kill Jews. But the parallel is not valid. Killing Jews was killing persons.

There has been allot of hollow talk like “we didn’t know anything about it” after WW2 in Germany. And that is wrong. It also is wrong to try to escape the responsibility of the Holocaust. It is a part of German history. But this sentence suggests that Germans in general agreed to kill Jews. Which is bullshit. Some did. And some built an industry around killing people. Yes, as horrible as that. But to suggest that there was a poll and that just happen to go against one part of the people is simply senseless.

It is pretty strange to open such a piece by invoking Godwin’s Law

Abortition is a tricky issue. Such is Holocaust. Mixing them up in one piece is not really what makes a good start. The article itself rambles around some valid points, and then falls into total pointlessness.

color – owning one

communication history marketing technology

Yes, the T people think they own Magenta

They actually picked when they started the T-stuff so that they could have color in News Paper ads but only pay for one. Since Magenta is part of CMYK they saved millions in the production of newspaper ads.

“Newswhat?” you might ask. Well, it’s that stuff from the last century

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history internet marketing media

the strike has it’s upside

Somebody should sponsor 1 z-year. It’s probably less than car makers spend on crafts services of their commercial shoots in any given week.
No joke.

LA Times’ grid of how TV shows are impacted by the strike

ten point five looses data

Apple technology

If you copy a folder in OS X 10.5 from one drive to another and the target goes away during the copy, the folder will be removed from the source regardless. documented here.

The Finder is lame. It’s a horrible hack. It really needs to be replaced with something that manages data. I almost never use it. I can work faster and more predictable with a terminal. Pretty lame Apple.

flash apps

internet technology

Gracenote Music Maps displays the top 10 artists and albums for countries around the world.

Faxto launches as splashup. Web based Photoshop like app.

I have some computer with that

Apple internet M$ technology

Learning Javascript. Different story all together. Internet Explorer does things differently than the rest. Bascially you have to branch in your code all the time. That’s why people use frameworks. I am OK with frameworks, after I understood the underlying methods. And I only understand things that I did. So I need Internet Explorer. I could find some hard drive space (tricky, it’s 99% full) and install VMware as well as Windows XP or Vista on my MacBook Pro. Or I could buy a laptop with some Microsoft OS on it. Which is probably what I will end up doing. Not that I have use for a windows laptop. Or would ever use it in public. I rather publish my browsing history – if you know what I mean.

When I looked around Windows was 300 US$. VMware is not free either. I have a real problem giving Microsoft 300US$ for their operating system, just because they tried to reinvent standards during those browser wars. At Walmart they sell an Acer Laptop for 348. Details are sketchy, I just assume it runs some Redmond OS, and I take a wild guess in that 1GB of ram should be enough – for a web browser.

It’s kind of crazy that it’s cost effective to get a whole computer instead of just some software.

ten point five

Apple

Apple launched Leopard, and sells two million copies of it so far. Not that they need the money right now. Their strategy of releasing frequent OS upgrades seems to work out. While there are issues in some areas (like the dock!!) there are other features and functionalities that sound really really good. I like those items that show that Apple is able to think about the entire system. At least in some points. Time Machine is a good example. Backups are a part of computer use. It is a good thing when the software that comes with your computer takes care of this. And if it’s easy and great to use then even better. Every Apple user that looses a hard drive but walks away unharmed will love OS X 10.5. Every Vista, XP user that looses data now might want to start over with an operating system where you can avoid it in the future. These simple truths take some time to trickle through to people. But they will. Same with remote support via iChat. I always told everybody in my family to get a Mac, so that I don’t have to support their Windows machines. Now I can help them even better. I am sure that this structure is very common. Whenever Apple understand such structures and builds solutions for then success will be immanent.