Unrelated Mountain Lion question: What is the advantage of the Launchpad over the previous Applications folder metaphor?
I assume to annoy me so much that I don't use it.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
'Serenity'
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Cass - Sep 22, 2012 11:41:32 am PDT #21021 of 25501
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Liese S. - Sep 22, 2012 1:23:27 pm PDT #21022 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, I love that part of Evernote. I use it all the damn time. Seriously, all day long. I do need to organize a little better, but it's not bad.
What I did was create an Archival notebook stack, and I push off completed stuff to that. So there's a notebook there that holds old errand lists, and there's one that has previous bands' tech riders. That one in particular is handy, because I don't need the info except when I'm throwing the show, but it's nice to be able to go back and say, hey is your rider the same as last year?
Jessica - Sep 22, 2012 2:36:14 pm PDT #21023 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So if I have an iPhone 4 (not a 4s) is there any reason to upgrade to iOS 6? From everything I've heard, the new maps are a disaster and most if not all of the new features require the 4s in order to work (Siri, obviously, but also the flyover thing in Maps, most of the new camera stuff, Facetime over cellular, etc).
Pix - Sep 22, 2012 3:15:27 pm PDT #21024 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
I upgraded my 4 to iOS, and it's working just fine and has some neat new features. Of course I'll be glad to get the new Google ap when it appears, but the Apple maps is fine for now. I would wait, though, Jessica, since it's not a massive change and you rely on the walking directions from Google.
Tom Scola - Sep 23, 2012 2:57:17 pm PDT #21025 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I downloaded Hopstop, and so far, it looks like a more than adequate replacement for transit directions on Google Maps. If all goes well, I'll upgrade to iOS 6 in a few days.
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2012 3:17:18 pm PDT #21026 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, I love that part of Evernote. I use it all the damn time. Seriously, all day long.
It took me way too long to realise that Evernote was finally a document management tool that made sense for my own personal use--I've been working in the industry for 20 years now, and every adaptation of the things we installed in offices seemed fine for archival, but not that handy for stuff you wanted to use often. Scanning to PDF improved things, but Evernote's a way richer front end, and finally I feel like I can bridge the gap between paper and documents of electronic origin in a practical and portable way.
I hate Launchpad
I'm not in love either. I've found that some of my rotating wallpapers make those two dots that separate super special Apple applications from the hoi polloi invisible, and I just get exasperated at trying to start a program the "big" way and end up in Finder. Never mind uninstalling--it's not like the instructions I could find on the web were even consistent about that. Jeez.
Jon B. - Sep 24, 2012 5:12:52 am PDT #21027 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Thanks for the Hopstop rec. Looks pretty good!
Gris - Sep 24, 2012 9:35:46 am PDT #21028 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I used HopStop before Google ever added transit directions. It worked great.
Jessica - Sep 24, 2012 9:37:17 am PDT #21029 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The problems with Apple Maps aren't just that they lack walking & transit directions, it's that several small cities are either missing or in the wrong place.
At best, their maps seem to be 5-10 years out of date.
le nubian - Sep 24, 2012 10:25:47 am PDT #21030 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I read from a comment on TUAW that the problem isn't the data, but that the app is reading the map data wrong and that what is needed is a software update.
This maps thing is something I can work around as long as I have access to the internet and can go to the google maps site. It makes things inconvenient though.