Digital Lifestyle
Cloudscout
– December 16, 2007 02:54PM
"Digital hubs." iPod and its successors. (iPhone?) Convergence. How ridiculous will DRM get? Yep, put it all together and it just might make for a successful thread.
El Jeffe
– August 30, 2011 11:39AM
What a journey.
My phone is a PalmOS thingy some strange person overseas sent me. :)
ddt
– August 30, 2011 11:42AM
Okay, since you bit, I'll start ranting here... .
One thing that gets me particularly (and UX people, please correct me if I'm off base) is the "Rename" button in the ribbon. Now, exposing what might be to some a hidden functionality (1) is all well and good, but the interaction with that button is what, click on file or folder, move mouse to new target, click on Rename button, see that file or folder's name is highlighted, move hands to keyboard, type in new name, check it, click either Rename button or click away? How is this more efficient than click on file or folder name, see that file or folder's name is highlighted, move hands to keyboard, type in new name, check it, click away?
(1) I had to look, but there doesn't seem to be any "rename" button, contextual menu, or menu item for Rename in Snow Leopard. Was there ever in OS X? Searching for "rename" in the OS X Help returns nothing. Huh.
ddt
John Willoughby
– August 30, 2011 11:48AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Well, I can only applaud MS for not slavishly copying Apple here but, if this is Windows 8, I may hold at 7 for a while.
tliet
– August 30, 2011 12:30PM
Indeed Daniel, if someone new to OS X is going to want to rename a file, they're stuffed. Just like ejecting a floppy...
johnny k
– August 30, 2011 02:10PM
True, I doubt my mother knows how to change a file's name. But then, I don't think she cares what her documents are named. She's blissfully stuck in a world where metadata doesn't exist, only the contents.
Cloudscout
– August 30, 2011 02:22PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
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ddt
(1) I had to look, but there doesn't seem to be any "rename" button, contextual menu, or menu item for Rename in Snow Leopard. Was there ever in OS X? Searching for "rename" in the OS X Help returns nothing. Huh.
I know it didn't exist in Jaguar. Not sure about before that.
ddt
– August 30, 2011 07:18PM
Wow, Techcrunch readers are trolls, and knee-jerk ones at that. Guess they all aspire to be Arrington (wow, has mental illness spread that far into American culture?).
Thanks for the link... .
ddt
dharlow
– August 30, 2011 08:23PM
The Techcrunch comments can be a mixed bag, at least the FB comments have cut out a lot of the really bad ones but they are still pretty poor.
Daniel
El Jeffe
– August 31, 2011 04:31PM
What a journey.
windows explorer is one feature of the OS that I like.
James DeBenedetti
– August 31, 2011 05:30PM
Moar is better!
The Windows approach to UI design...
Cloudscout
– September 01, 2011 04:24PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Here is one of the most misleading stories I've seen in the New York Times in quite a while.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/technology/t-mobile-may-suffer-if-att-deal-fails.html
It couldn't be more wrong.
The best possible thing that could happen to T-Mobile right now would be for this deal to fall through. If that happens, they get $3 billion in cash from AT&T as well as a favorable roaming agreement and a bunch of additional spectrum licenses. The roaming agreement and spectrum licenses are valued at about $4 billion for a total of $7 billion in immediate benefits.
They don't even hint at that in this piece.
The only suffering should this deal fail to go through is AT&T. They will lose $7 billion plus whatever they paid the New York Times to run this story.
bahamut
– September 06, 2011 01:17PM
Whoa… Liking Mog.
El Jeffe
– September 06, 2011 04:26PM
What a journey.
Just got a NetGear NeoTV 550 and love it. It scans and plays all my network media - most all formats. Has many internet features such as podcasts, music, videos, etc.
So far, so wow.
Cloudscout
– September 06, 2011 06:02PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Did you look at the Western Digital TV Live Hub as well?
Same price but has a built-in 1TB hard drive. It can play media from the local drive, from a networked file share or from a DLNA server. It will also act as a networked file share and DLNA server for other media players. It can also mimic an iTunes shared library so its music files can be played by other computers running iTunes.
El Jeffe
– September 07, 2011 12:35AM
What a journey.
Yeah, I had the drive-less WD offering. And half-a-dozen other ones from others.
Cloudscout
– September 07, 2011 04:39AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
The one with the drive is a huge improvement over the drive-less versions.
The only thing that it's missing that I wish it had is support for Amazon streaming.
John Willoughby
– September 15, 2011 02:00PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
ddt
– September 17, 2011 05:02PM
Anybody have any experience with USBConnect modems from AT&T (for Macs)? I have a contract already with that damn company... but I guess I'd entertain the idea of some other mobile internet connection for the laptop if it's cheap and reliable.
ddt
