You can make it work the way you want: Launch an applescript that first launches iChat and then closes it. It's just one level of indirection.
I'm almost certain your Linux distro must be doing the same thing
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You can make it work the way you want: Launch an applescript that first launches iChat and then closes it. It's just one level of indirection.
I'm almost certain your Linux distro must be doing the same thing
for what its worth (and i know this discussion is more focusoned on the size of a blu-ray or hd-dvd video file)...
an h264 encoded 1080p movie trailer (the new transformers trailer) is just over 2 minutes, and is just over 154.7MB. if the mb/s scales linearly, a 2 hour movie would be 9GB. while this is a much smaller data rate than what you're listing in the blu-ray spec, the quality is still very good, and far, far, far superior in quality when compared to the current itunes offerings.
and for a 2 hour 720p file (again based on the transformer trailer) your looking a 5.5GB. it's still alot, but not that huge of a deal for someone with a fast cable connection (though apples storage and bandwidth requirements would skyrocket).
I played with the new build last night and I'm in the "meh" camp. It's got nice little upgrades in features, but nothing that I see, for me at least, improves my workflow much. It's a beta, and one that is most likely being kept at half mast to not give away the farm to M$, so I'll wait.
Well, right, but short of resizing and re-encoding these, there'd be no way to get them to your iPod, unless you bought them again in iPod size. That seems... inelegant. Very un-Apple. I dunno, maybe if you buy it you're allowed to download whichever sizes for whichever devices you want.
Hope these are't real, either
Some look OS X like, others don't BUT, there is a grammatical error in the File Recovery shot:
"select the type of documents you want recover" I don't think so!!!
Non English speaker??? or just too hasty to get the Photoshop queue tidied up and completed?
Some look OS X like, others don't BUT, there is a grammatical error in the File Recovery shot:
"select the type of documents you want recover" I don't think so!!!
Non English speaker??? or just too hasty to get the Photoshop queue tidied up and completed?
true, and i'm not proposing that it happen (though i wouldn't complain personally if it did, and i might actually buy something from the itunes...). i was just referring to the original complaint of not offering high quality hd video on itunes, and pointing out that it is (tenuously) within technical reach.
personally i don't have a video ipod, and the 10 or so people that i know that do have them don't watch video on them because the screen is too small. however, a potential solution for that might be to have the video file download in some sort of package that contains both the hd version and a smaller file for the ipod; in this case your computer would play the hd version, while if you transferred it to the ipod, only the smaller version would transfer. the file size of the smaller file would just have to fit the ipod, so they could drop the res back to 320x240 or whatever it used to be, and the files would be, i dunno, about 700mb? and what's another 3/4GB when your already downloading 10?
Thanks for the info.
10GB for 1080p or 5.5GB for 720p aren't too bad actually. Just a matter of high bandwidth becoming mainstream.
Wait just a minute... if I was Apple, I wouldn't distribute Alpha builds to my developers - those, by their very nature, are feature-incomplete and unstable. Beta builds, on the other hand, are generally feature-complete, or at the very least, core feature-complete, and stable enough to use for application testing purposes.It's Alpha btw
Uh... I've just been trying that. I don't see that behavior at all. Right now, I'm typing in a text field in Safari. If I switch to a different window in Safari, the cursor in this text field disappears. Same thing if I switch to a different application. And I see the same behavior in TextEdit, Mail, Pages, etc. So what application are you seeing the cursor still blinking in?
Well, impossible is overstating it. I've seen people who have the Codetek Virtual Desktop software installed, and use the Focus Follows the Mouse feature of it. It just means that the methodology of it has to be slightly different. For example, perhaps you need to let your mouse rest on a window for half a second (or a user configurable time period from 0 to 2 seconds, or whatever) before the focus switches. So, it can be done.
Yes, here I agree with you. I've never understood why the menu bar isn't present on all monitors. Ideally, this should also give you the preference of having it be duplications of the existing menu bar, or one long menu bar (as if the multiple monitors are really just parts of one big monitor).
There have certainly been times when this has been a major irritation to me.
Now, here I don't agree. Why I don't agree is because this is going against the reason for the methodology for having a universal menu bar, or at least one of them. The core idea is that the menu is always in the same place. No need to go looking for where on the screen it is. If you just shove your mouse in an upward direction, it'll stop at the menu bar.
I think that to some extent, we're struggling with an evolution problem. People who are not very computer savvy (and, yes, there are still a lot of them out there) like things simple and visual. The issue with the RISC OS that I saw immediately is that the menus aren't visually there. This might work for power and intermediate users, but the technophobes would have some significant problems with this. I suspect that the overall interface isn't going to change significantly until it is totally transformed, making use of new an innovative ways of interacting with the OS (i.e. voice recognition, gesture recognition, eye focus, etc.).
Why not set it to launch iChat, but hide it? That's what the check box is for. Ever since I started using Front Row, I set iTunes to launch, hidden, on start-up, to avoid the delay when I want to watch a video. (If I watched slideshows of my photos a lot, I'd do the same with iPhoto...)
Either one of two things:
1 - it's a fake;
2 - spell checking still in its beta stages...
Heh. The Wiki is wrong essentially wrong...
BD-Video has a max rate of 40Mbps (which is in actuality 39.7Mbps if you read the fine print). This is for the video standard, but data transfers can actually reach 54.4Mbps. I'm guessing that the Wiki entry is just outdated.
Yep, but in reality the aperture makes little difference... Think of it as if you're trying to read a newspaper. However, you have to read it through a 1" wide, 1 line high slit in another piece of paper you have sitting on top, which you can move only in forward, linear fashion. Pretend that's HD-DVD. Now, make that slit another 1/4" wider... That's BluRay. You're still only reading a max of 39.7Mbps for video in a standard player (or 54Mbps for data). You can get a 25% jump on the first data read, but after that the sustained rate still governs the transfer. ...BluRay is still faster than HD-DVD... HD-DVD has a base rate of 36.2Mbps (18Mbps slower) and the HD-DVD video spec is limited to 35Mbps. BluRay's higher transfer rate mostly comes from the higher data density (25GB vs. 15GB per layer).
I can't comment on power use... I haven't seen the data for power used to burn a BD disc. But it seems logical that BD media would require less power since the track point size is smaller.
However, you will probably find, even with 50GB BD discs, that most HD-DVD and BD releases of the same feature will use the same video transfer. No reason for the studios to re-encode and rebuild a title more than once (other than the different menu systems) when they use the same codecs and in most situations, the max rates of either can't be approached and still keep enough room for a 2+ hour film. In some ways, the convenience for studios in this regard as more adopt both formats (and they are), may cause BD quality to suffer a bit.. Or at least we won't see too much in the way of that extra 20GB being used.
??? Not sure what that's all about. BD media record speeds are still limited by both hardware and media, and contrary to Sony Fanboy beliefs, the laws of physics too. For example, current BD blank media available from Sony is 2X rated. From Philips and other makers, they're selling both 1X (a bit cheaper) and 2X media. Current writers are all 1X capable except for the 2X|DL model from Sony. Sony is hoping to have a 4X writer and 8X readers (with support for 4 layers on those readers) by the end of next year.
Yeah I generally chuckle at all of the comments about 10.4 or 10.5 not looking like it has many worth while features... Apple has added and is adding a lot of great features that allow developers to make compelling, good looking, and functional applications. In fact I would say a majority of what 10.5 is bringing to the table is targeted at developers and will allow development of some great applications and ones that well be better prepared to the multi-core world we have been in for a few years now.
Apple in the last few years has been working hard to make it easier to develop applications by providing rich frameworks of Apple's own making as well as including 3rd party "frameworks" so that application developers have a good foundation to build their applications on. ...WebKit, QTKit, PDFKit, ImageKit, Core Image, Core Data, Core Video, Core Animation, Accelerate Framework, 64 bit, Objective-C 2.0, DTrace, Resolution Independence (Core Graphic, etc.), Calendar Store, Address Store, IM framework, Spotlight framework, Multi-thread OpenGL, KPIs, etc. (and several items that I cannot yet talk about)
It is a developer preview... doesn't have to be feature complete (early previews seldom are)... it is available to developers so they can begin playing with features that are being developed so developers can provide feedback before things are locked down.
Totally off-topic, but...has anyone seen the new iPhone leaks published at MacNN? If that's real, it's got to be coolest phone ever...simply awesome...
Totally off-topic, but...has anyone seen the new iPhone leaks published at MacNN? If that's real, it's got to be coolest phone ever...simply awesome...
Looks pretty cool, not so sure about the square bad concept, guess i would have to try it out in person before i make a decision, providing its real, lol.
Totally off-topic, but...has anyone seen the new iPhone leaks published at MacNN? If that's real, it's got to be coolest phone ever...simply awesome...
I can't find any pics, you got a link?
Edit: Found it, http://www.electronista.com/articles/06/12/20/convincing.apple.phone/
Want one!
You can.
Sys prefs > Accounts > Login Items > Select the programs you want to open at login by clicking the + button at the bottom of the window. > Select which programs you want open, but hidden, by checking the box next to each application.
Your programs will now be open, but their respective windows will not be visible, unless you click on their icons on the dock.
Problemo solved.
EDIT: Note to self: Read comments to see if anyone has already answered this question. My apolgies. Ill leave it up just in case nobody saw the previous answer.
You guys are nuts. You want to dial a number on an input device that has NO indication of where you're clicking? What are you supposed to do, gesture between buttons? WAY inefficient. I can't see Apple ever releasing something this absurd. Plus, on-screen keyboard and no predictive spelling for texting? This prototype screams "I want no one to buy me."
No way it's real. I call fake right now.
At first glance I thought it might be difficult tally up the position of the button and the position of your hand, but I use a wacom and this is exactly the same idea, I think this could be another stroke of interface genius if its real.
Admittedly the keyboard buttons look a bit small for fat fingers, but how do you know there's no predictive
Admittedly the keyboard buttons look a bit small for fat fingers, but how do you know there's no predictive
And the fact that "iPhone" appears next to the product image... That was enough for me to label it as a fake before I even studed the lame-o gesture pad idea. Oh, and if this thing were real, it would be kinda big... Like iPod size, maybe a bit slimmer, but taller than the 5G iPod. Not ideal for an all purpose phone unless it's a fairly robust PDA / smartphone.
And the phone is nearly useless in situations where you need to dial without watching what you're doing. How does 1-button speed dial work? Or do I have to tap the pad in one corner to bring up my contacts and then stroke it to scroll down the list to entry #9 and then tap twice or something like that? No that sucks.
Can we please stay on topic here and move the phone discussion to the appropriate thread please? Thank you
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/262407/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/262407/
For all those complaining that there aren't any major UI changes: who cares? It might be "under the hood" kind of stuff. Remember 10.2 introduced rendevouz (now bon jour) as a major feature, even though it didn't have any graphical changes to the OS.