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1 year ago
in Leopard’s Mail.app Makes Me Sad on I Bought a Mac
Funny, I actually prefer smaller, better, discrete PIM apps over monolithic ones. If Entourage is anything like Outlook, then it stores all of your PIM data in a single, monolithic, fairly proprietary file that, if corrupted, means that you corrupt everything.
The address book and iCal are pretty well integrated with Mail and that works well enough for me, and I can ignore HTML mail, just as I did when I used to use Outlook.
Of course, I have no need for Exchange integration, so perhaps that explains some.
The address book and iCal are pretty well integrated with Mail and that works well enough for me, and I can ignore HTML mail, just as I did when I used to use Outlook.
Of course, I have no need for Exchange integration, so perhaps that explains some.
1 year ago
in Is Apple Rotten to the Core? on I Bought a Mac
Apple did not cut off third party apps - they cut off *unsupported* third party apps. That's a big difference. When the iPhone started going on sale Apple insisted that third party apps would be supported initially only as web apps running in Safari. So far nothing has changed.
At the Demo Conference this year Steve Jobs hinted that there would be third party apps on the iPhone later this year. I do not think that he was talking about web apps, either. If this is true, these apps may need to be approved by Apple and provided via iTunes, a la iPod games, but I think that supported apps are coming within a few months.
Patience is a virtue. Let's wait and see what happens. Let's let Apple get this platform ready for third party apps so that they can support it when they are running for everybody, not just the minority of power users willing to hack their phones.
As for the price reduction issue looking bad, I simply do not see how a price cut can possibly look bad. I really doubt that anybody would have said with any sincerity last month, "Thank goodness that they kept the price at $600! I heard rumors that they might cut the price, but that would be a mistake." Goodness, people, lighten up! Brighten up! This was a *good thing*!
At the Demo Conference this year Steve Jobs hinted that there would be third party apps on the iPhone later this year. I do not think that he was talking about web apps, either. If this is true, these apps may need to be approved by Apple and provided via iTunes, a la iPod games, but I think that supported apps are coming within a few months.
Patience is a virtue. Let's wait and see what happens. Let's let Apple get this platform ready for third party apps so that they can support it when they are running for everybody, not just the minority of power users willing to hack their phones.
As for the price reduction issue looking bad, I simply do not see how a price cut can possibly look bad. I really doubt that anybody would have said with any sincerity last month, "Thank goodness that they kept the price at $600! I heard rumors that they might cut the price, but that would be a mistake." Goodness, people, lighten up! Brighten up! This was a *good thing*!
1 year ago
in iPod Tip from Jon Deal on I Bought a Mac
You can do that with a music file, too, if you go to "Get Info", "Options" page, and select "remember playback position". Because that, of course, is the setting in podcasts and audiobooks that allows this feature.