Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-08-17 Thread Maarten Koopmans
I have a cloud backed storage piece of software that has a WebDAV front end and multiple back ends. The idea was to make a PAYG service of that, but we thought there wouldn't be interest. It works with win/lin/osx/ios/androud clients. Are you telling me I should revisit this business decision?

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-08-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Tom, checked out Printopia, and it only saves Keynote presentations as PDF's, not native format. But, I did stumble across a pretty cool iPad app called iSMEStorage CloudDav which enables users to create WebDav aliases for all sorts of cloud services, including DropBox, Amazon, Google and a ton of

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-30 Thread Andy Henshaw
Yes, its sound great!!! I think it would take me slightly more than an hour Andy On 30 Jul 2011, at 01:47, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 7/29/11 7:25 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Friday, July 29, 2011, 1:58:48 PM, you wrote: It works with any server and with Dropbox, and you don't

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-29 Thread David C.
I've been trying to refrain from some of these posts with the thought that maybe I've been to negative sounding recently... However, in light of this: snip...from iTunes (the single most frustrating and annoying app interface-wise on the whole planet on any OS) /snip Absolutely on the mark! To

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
David C. wrote: snip...from iTunes (the single most frustrating and annoying app interface-wise on the whole planet on any OS) /snip Absolutely on the mark! To be tied at the hip with that one piece of software is absolutely awful and I'm doing just about all that I can to remedy that. I am

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-29 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, July 29, 2011 11:44:11 AM David C. wrote: snip...from iTunes (the single most frustrating and annoying app interface-wise on the whole planet on any OS) /snip Absolutely on the mark! To be tied at the hip with that one piece of software is absolutely awful and I'm doing just about

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-29 Thread David C.
I almost never used iTunes when I ran OS X. It wasn't my preferred application for anything and I was never interested in the store. Since the vast majority of the requent updates to iTunes focused on the store, I eventually tried to get software update to ignore those updates. To no avail.

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-29 Thread François Chaplais
If I understand well, you will not need iTunes (or even a computer) on your iOS devices when IOS 5 will be (soon) released. After that, your mac (I am not sure about other platforms) will be at the same level as the IOS devices as far as data storage, synchronization is concerned. It was

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/29/11 3:24 PM, François Chaplais wrote: If I understand well, you will not need iTunes (or even a computer) on your iOS devices when IOS 5 will be (soon) released. After that, your mac (I am not sure about other platforms) will be at the same level as the IOS devices as far as data

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Friday, July 29, 2011, 1:58:48 PM, you wrote: It works with any server and with Dropbox, and you don't even need to leave LiveCode to use it. Sweet! Want. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/29/11 7:25 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Friday, July 29, 2011, 1:58:48 PM, you wrote: It works with any server and with Dropbox, and you don't even need to leave LiveCode to use it. Sweet! Want. No sweat. Give me the weekend to fix it up. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-28 Thread Geoff Canyon Rev
I used to do this. Then I realized that it was quicker (if more complex and less intuitive) to: 1. Drag something off the shelf at the bottom of the screen if necessary to make room 2. Drag the item I want to move onto the shelf 3. Go to the home screen, either by swiping (easier than dragging)

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-28 Thread Colin Holgate
I hardly ever use iTunes for getting things onto my devices, but if you are an iTunes user you can move app icons from any of the screens to any other of the screes. Needs a bit of scrolling if you have 11 screen's worth like I do, but at least you can get everything in the order you want it,

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-28 Thread Andre Garzia
Ever since the little license fiasco that Apple hit developers a while ago, I the urge to leave the platform. I trust Steve Jobs to do what he thinks is best for Apple and Apple-only customers. I don't trust cross-platform software has a place in his plan. I have six macintosh computers, one iPad

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/28/11 4:01 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: I hardly ever use iTunes for getting things onto my devices, What do you use? I'm tired of hooking up to iTunes for everything. In particular, I want to move test standalones to the device. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-28 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Jacqueline, Am 28.07.2011 um 18:21 schrieb J. Landman Gay: On 7/28/11 4:01 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: I hardly ever use iTunes for getting things onto my devices, What do you use? I'm tired of hooking up to iTunes for everything. In particular, I want to move test standalones to the

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-28 Thread Colin Holgate
Me too, and I tend to update App Store apps straight to my iPad or iPhone. I also bought this Mac App Store product: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/betabuilder-for-ios-apps/id415348946?mt=12 It's the same trick that TestFlight uses, except you can post your app to your own server. I sometimes

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/28/11 11:56 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: Me too, and I tend to update App Store apps straight to my iPad or iPhone. I also bought this Mac App Store product: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/betabuilder-for-ios-apps/id415348946?mt=12 It's the same trick that TestFlight uses, except you can

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/28/11 11:56 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: Me too, and I tend to update App Store apps straight to my iPad or iPhone. I also bought this Mac App Store product: I just found this: http://just2us.com/2010/12/wireless-ad-hoc-distribution-for-iphone-apps/ Looks like it might work, and it's a free

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-28 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I use Printopia which then allows me to 'print' any file on the iPad or iPhone to Dropbox. Works great with Keynote presentations. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:01 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: I hardly ever use iTunes for getting things

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-28 Thread Chipp Walters
Thanks Tom, I'll check it out. As I mentioned the DropDav is fairly expensive for doing just one thing-- and I hate subscription auto-billed software. On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Thomas McGrath III mcgra...@mac.comwrote: I use Printopia which then allows me to 'print' any file on the iPad

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-28 Thread Chipp Walters
Thanks Andre for the advice. One of the reasons I don't use Android is the lack of software. On the iPad, I depend heavily on Keynote and Notify, two must have apps and neither are on Android. FlipBoard is nice too. On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote:

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-27 Thread Chipp Walters
Yep, and that's the rub. Google has too much money and not enough discipline to put together any decent offering. And then there's Microsoft-- so sad. As long as Balmer's at the helm, they are doomed to mediocrity. And once Apple was the high priest of UIX, and now how the mighty have fallen. I

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-27 Thread Chipp Walters
Well, turns out with a little digital sleuthing, we can find out exactly what Tog thinks, and he's pretty much thinking the same thing: In Part 1, I discussed the ill-effects to the Macintosh of Apple's Flatland aesthetic, a visual simplicity that threatens to bury Apple's users with unnecessary

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/27/11 7:51 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Warning: Those for which Apple can do no wrong should press delete and move on to the next thread. You've been warned! Well, that's pretty much me. For the desktop OS anyway. I'm getting more broadminded in my old age though. Fact is, there are so

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-27 Thread Bill Vlahos
Actually you can have folders. 1. Hold your finger on an icon until they all quiver 2. Drag an icon(s) on top of another one and it will make a folder of them. Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you,

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-27 Thread Chipp Walters
Yep, Bill. I know. In fact, I mentioned in my first post that trying to find an app in one of those folders is like playing a kids game. That quote you reference was from Bruce, and said the bit about folders BEFORE iPad came out with folders, though it really hasn't changed much as far as

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-27 Thread Chipp Walters
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:25 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: I have read more Apple documentation in the last 2 months than I have in the last ten years. Maybe I'm just too entrenched in old habits, maybe it's intuitive to new users. Yep, agreed. You should see the

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-27 Thread Howard Bornstein
There are a couple of apps that deal with these deficiencies very intuitively: Multi-icon mover, where you put the apps in wiggle mode and then tap which ever apps you want to move, even if they are on different home screens. Then just go to the page or folder where you want them moved to and hit

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-27 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Chipp, When I started to use Macintosh, back in the nineties, consistency in User interface conventions was a real godsend. But, after a while, Apple started looking in the mirror and started to comparing themselves with Windows: Magazines, Promotional Brochures, Ads... Wherever you see