I just uninstalled AppStore since it doesn't let me download the free applications available if I don't give my credit card details.
I remember this being an issue for iTunes accounts previously but I found that you can create accounts without a credit card by signing up through other means (google it?). Has this worked for you or are you using an existing account which doesn't have a CC?
I personally don't have a CC in my account now but I have iTunes Gift Card money. No issues with downloading freebies.
It lags terribly for me.. I have a core 2 duo 2.4ghz 7200 rpm hard drive and 4 gb of ram so it shouldn't be this slow..
Are you talking about the App Store itself?
Similar specs here, and runs perfectly.
Notice How the Spotlight under Applications in the dock have dissapeared
Yeah, a great deal. I don't have the words to describe how SCREWED I feel again. I've paid 300 bucks for Aperture and bought every update on the way.
Now they sell Aperture 3 for LESS than I have paid for the 3.0 upgrade, and according to their advertisements, I can install the AppStore version on as many devices as I own, while the license for the boxed version only allowed for the installation on ONE desktop machine and ONE notebook.
Or do I now magically get the same license for my version of Aperture? Or can I register it and get it turned into an AppStore version?
This also wonderfully completely destroys the resell value of my retail copy of Aperture 3, should I have decided to switch to Lightroom or Bibble.
Being an Apple customer is an idiot proof way to quickly lose a lot of money.
Care to elaborate on SL being Crap? So you are running to versions of OS X, I just don't get some people..... ???
Has anyone else experienced random powerdowns since installing 10.6.6? 3 times over last 3 days my macbookpro1,1 has just simply turned off. no warning. All 3 times i was running on charger and had been for a few hours.
but they changed the icon to blue! nooo :O i thought the black icon was nice as there are too many blue icons on mac apps. look at my dock now too much blue
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You want me to tell you why snow leopard is crap? First of all, 64 bit VLC player gives me the beach ball. Older versions of vlc player don't do that. I can't stand that when you press the play/pause button on the keyboard or the apple remote iTunes opens automatically (this ruins apple remote funcionality on 3rd party apps that use the apple remote). The only workaround for this is that I made a disk image with disk utility, I moved iTunes into the disk image, then deleted the original iTunes app from the applications folder. iTunes still works normally after doing this. Also, External hard drives and optical discs do not mount at times, even after trying to mount them through disk utility. My computer wakes up after a split second of putting it to sleep ONLY when I'm in the snow leopard partition. Regular leopard is not buggy and glitchy like how I mentioned snow leopard is. A lot of people are disappointed at snow leopard. You can read this: http://amplicate.com/hate/snow-leopard Also, in general, snow leopard uses more memory and more resources than regular leopard. You see, I actually KNOW about hardware and computers.
Snow leoapard is to apple as windows vista is to microsoft. Just super buggy. Those of you who use your computers for IMPORTANT things will know what I'm talking about. By IMPORTANT I mean things other than listening to music, surfing the internet, and watching a movie.
So THAT is why I have 2 seperate partitions. I rarely use the snow leopard partition. I use it mostly as a scratch drive for movie files I'm editing and will soon delete.
Regular leopard doesn't give me ANY problems at all and that is why I'm keeping it. When Lion comes out, I will install that on my smaller partition to test it out (considering apple has been making crap software ever since snow leopard came out). If it's good and not glitchy I will probably delete and install lion on my main partition.
Before you go on saying "I don't understand some people" why don't you get an explanation from that person first. I mean for me, honestly, I don't understand people who actually like snow leopard. I don't understand why more people don't jailbreak their iPhones and use tmobile. I don't understand why anyone spends money on apple dowadays. With what they've done to the iPhone and the app store, I can see they have lost focus on making smooth running software and now focus only on control of their ios crap.
Twitter for Mac 2.0.1 was just released in the App Store with a few bug fixes and removed the secret menu. my first update experience, too easy!
but they changed the icon to blue! nooo :O i thought the black icon was nice as there are too many blue icons on mac apps. look at my dock now too much blue
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Is it posible the the people that have problems are "playing" with the mac for exsample : replacing 3rd party hardware.
or 3rd party software not aprove by Apple,
bottom line if you buy Apple computer but want to use it like PC just do like me PC user for the last 30 years new Apple MBP for half a year but keep both no problems at all
Calm down!
I'm sure with 5 minutes effort I could assassinate Leopard in a similar fashion.
My personal experience was that I had more problems with the Tiger to Leopard update. Snow Leopard had a few wrinkles when it was new, but the problems that affected my kit were all sorted in 10.6.1
Feel free to continue your irrational ranting about Snow Leopard. If you want a proper OS to whinge about can I suggest Windows Vista. Now that sucked big time.
As with 'upgrading' I always do a reformat by booting up from the disc, holding C, and going into disk utility to reformat. I NEVER do 'upgrades.' Always fresh installs.
OS X keeps getting worse...
http://www.osnews.com/story/24218/Consistency_in_UI_Design_Is_Now_Boring_Old-fashioned_Stodgy_
You can change the icon to whatever you want. That's what I did for the iTunes 10 icon. Follow these directions, you can do it for more apps than just the iTunes app: http://osxdaily.com/2010/09/02/replace-the-itunes-10-icon-with-the-older-itunes-9-icon/
You will need to have the old version of the app backed up in order to retrieve the icon for it.…