On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:43:15 -0500, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote:
"Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:op.v8melay5eav7ka@localhost.localdomain...
I read that post. I don't think you used it enough. The swiping *is
not*
the only interface to the photos. You can scroll rapidly through a list
of "albums" (using swiping, but it has a "throw and catch" feel to it,
unlike swiping individual photos),
Yea, I didn't like the "throw and catch" feel. Too timing-sensitive.
It's an acquired skill.
or the thumbnails of an album (or all photos), and while in the
single-photo view, tapping once on the screen brings up left and right
buttons so you can quickly advance or go back through photos (including
holding down the button to have it go through extremely fast).
Shit, now that you mention it, I do seem to have a vague memory of
breifly
noticing that and then completely forgetting...My official excuse is
"It's
been awhile" ;)
hehe :)
The only issue I have with it is that iTunes' interface is completely
useless when it comes to selecting photos to load. On my PC, I have all
my photos organized into folders named after the date they were taken.
So
in iTunes, in order to let's say, load photos from the last 2 years on
my
iPad, I have to go through and check every *single* folder that I want
to
copy. And better yet, there's no way to select a *range* of folders. I
don't know how it is on mac, maybe it has better integration with
iPhoto.
But it's utterly useless on the PC unless your entire photo catalog fits
on your device (not the case for me).
That bring up one of the things I hate about Apple's (and everyone's
really)
mobile devices: There's no reason the data shouldn't be accessible like
any
other USB drive. But everyone would rather try to force lock-in.
I can plug in my iPhone to my linux laptop, and see all the photos as a
USB drive. However, I don't think it's writable.
I think even Linux has the ability to play music from it.
FWIW, I have not always been an apple fan. My first real apple product
was my iPhone, purchased in 2010. Now I have a macbook, and I have to
say
I'm very impressed with it (it does have a quad-core i7, so that may be
a
good reason). So maybe it's just post-iPhone apple I'm more impressed
with :)
Heh, I haven't always been an Apple hater. My very first computer was an
Apple IIc, and I still think the world of it. I guess I'm just more a Woz
fan than a Jobs one. Then I got a 486 and forgot about Apple (just like
most
of the world did) until OSX came along.
I was very intrigued by OSX at the time and got an eMac (10.1) to play
around with. It was fully my intention to switch to it as my primary
system,
and that's how I used it for about a year or so. Aside from the Dock
being a
sub-par version of the Taskbar, I was genuinely impressed with it at
first.
But then I slowly started having problems with it: Technical problems,
irritating restrictions, some things that I just couldn't get used to
even
though I had been convinced I would get used to, etc. But Windows has
never
been perfect either, so I was still more or less happy with it and
intended
to stick with it.
Then 10.2 came out and everyone I talked to raved that it "fixes all of
10.1's problems!" So I got it. And learned that people are filthy liars
;)
It barely fixed a damn thing. A small handful of partial-fixes here and
there, but that was it. The problems kept up and somewhere in the second
year I found myself using it less and less (just to get things done), and
using my "secondary" XP system more and more. And then OSX's issues and
Apple's arrogance just started to annoy me more and more, and my eMac
basically died (and would have been quickly abandoned by Apple even if it
hadn't died), and that was the end of me and Apple. By the time 10.3 came
out, and people made the same claims about it that they had made about
10.2...Well, "fool me twice"...
I hope I *don't* have that same experience...
I do like the idea that any time I can pop up a terminal and use my
favorite unix commands :) I know you can do that on Windows with cygwin
or something similar, but the fact that it's built-in and expected is much
nicer. I haven't yet come across things that I miss. The way apps stay
"active" even when you close takes some getting used to. But the thing
fires up and shuts down in less than a minute.
I must rave about the trackpad on the macbook pro. The interface is so
damned good, I hate going back to my linux laptop (which I must do for
work).
-Steve
