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Post by Rock on Jun 6, 2011 20:40:51 GMT
Well, it came and went without a new iPhone, but iOS 5 and Lion are still pretty cool.
iOS 5:
iCloud, new Notifications, iMessage, Twitter, Newsstand and much more. You can now wirelessly stream music, photos & videos over iCloud to other iOS devices, texting is now free over wifi or 3G, Twitter is integrated into the software, and you can now buy newspaper and magazine subscriptions form your iDevice. Safari now has tabs on the iPad, and you can edit photos right from your phone. And the notifications system. Finally, it has been updated. Now you just pull down from the top of the screen to see all of your missed messages, emails, stocks, and the weather. And now you can use your iPod/Phone/Pad right out of the box and wirelessly sync it to your computer if its on the same network.
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion:
Autosaving is finally here, the save button is now obsolete. The application will now let you browse through all of your past versions of the document, which is pretty cool. This was all announced last October, so I won't go into terrible detail with it, but I really like the new multi-touch gestures and native fullscreen. The only thing I'm, not thrilled about is that you can only buy it from the app store, for some reason I just don't like this concept. Anyway, it comes out in July, so if it's before the 22nd, maybe I'll get it for my birthday.
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Post by Fringe Pioneer on Jun 6, 2011 22:18:46 GMT
When you say that autosaving is here, do you mean to say that there never was autosaving on Apple devices, or that it wasn't very prominent on Apple devices until now? Also, as a bigger concern: do you [still] have the abilty to Save As, and thereby be able to name files instead of letting autosave put in whatever file naming scheme it might have up its sleeve?
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Post by Rock on Jun 6, 2011 22:36:11 GMT
Yeah, I don't think there was auto saving. And yeah, I'm pretty sure you can still save as.
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Post by Qwerty on Jun 6, 2011 22:57:54 GMT
Autosaving? FINALLY. Took it long enough. Seems pretty useful.
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Post by Rock on Jun 6, 2011 23:52:21 GMT
Yep. 1-2 months can't go by fast enough. What I'm still surprised about is how Apple is screwing over the service providers by making texting free. I'm sure Verizon and AT&T are a bit mad at Apple at this point.
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Post by Qwerty on Jun 9, 2011 4:04:19 GMT
There were apps that could be used for free texting within wifi range already.
For the record, what is WWDC 2011?
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Post by Rock on Jun 10, 2011 1:35:40 GMT
Yeah, I know. But now, upon closer revision, I have now realized that the free texting can only be between other iPad/Pod/Phones. And WWDC is the World Wide Developers Conference.
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Post by monokr0me on Jun 14, 2011 21:57:58 GMT
I had to laugh reading the iOS 5 updates, because many of those features are taken directly from Android.
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Post by ganondorfchampin on Jun 14, 2011 22:27:30 GMT
Can auto-saving be disabled?
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Post by Rock on Jun 15, 2011 0:44:05 GMT
I had to laugh reading the iOS 5 updates, because many of those features are taken directly from Android. No shit. Now you're just looking for ways to hate on Apple because they're patching their major flaws. And why would you want to disable auto-saving? |
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Post by priok on Jun 15, 2011 1:57:15 GMT
Well, you might mess up a drawing or something, I guess you could also do the same with a text document, but it's not really the same idea. I don't know, I am very confused right now.
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Post by Rock on Jun 15, 2011 2:30:33 GMT
Well, Apple is also introducing Versions, which let's you see every version of the document you're working on, as the OS autosaves every few seconds, I guess.
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Post by Qwerty on Jun 19, 2011 22:40:30 GMT
That sounds like it would fill up the hard drive very, very quickly.
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Post by Rock on Jun 19, 2011 23:39:47 GMT
I don't know how it works, but Apple wouldn't do it if it did fill up the hard drive.
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Post by D_M-01 on Jun 20, 2011 1:54:44 GMT
You might want to try a Microsoft computer. I heard that there are many people using them these days.
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Post by Rock on Jun 20, 2011 1:58:59 GMT
I love how you people are still trying to get me to use windows after 10 months. I hate it. I used it for 7 years, and I hate it. I just cannot use it anymore.
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Post by D_M-01 on Jun 20, 2011 2:03:18 GMT
My Macintosh can definitely run Crysis 2 on full graphical quality, without any lagg.  |
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Post by Rock on Jun 20, 2011 2:11:23 GMT
Yes, well my quad core i7 MacBook pro can do just as much. You don't have that much to complain about with 10.7, get over it.
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Post by dhoom on Jun 21, 2011 1:28:19 GMT
I'd rather spend $800 on a PC than $2400 on a Macintosh that does the same thing, if not less. Also, iOS 5 is only going to be worthwhile if you jailbreak it to mod SBsettings into the new Notification application. As for 10.7, seems unnecessary because even Leopard which is nearly 4 years old exactly is still capable of doing things that Lion will do. You know Apple is going to be putting censors into your the iPhones as well so you don't take videos of concerts or other things like that? Seems like blatant censorship. Oh, and not to mention that Android is the superior OS, offering unrivaled power and hardware compared to Apple's overpriced shiny things which are always capable of doing less. Shoulda gone with Microsoft and Android, bro. Apple is just over-priced dumbed down shit.
Oh, and my new PC will have 6 cores.
Enjoy your $2000+ Paperweights while you can. And since I haven't done this before here..
>my quad core i7 MacBook pro can do just as much
Yeah, as if an i7 mac can game, create games, run companies, host servers, stream blu-ray, and run on a Windows natively. Get a PC you idiot.
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Post by Rock on Jun 21, 2011 2:03:44 GMT
As my dear friend Nmagane once said
Save your breath, I'm using Mac OS X until Apple shuts down or Windows becomes more user friendly to me.
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Post by dhoom on Jun 21, 2011 2:23:03 GMT
Windows 7 is already user friendly. I suggest pirating it and installing a partition onto your hard drive to test it. Hell, get Windows 8 when it comes out. It'll be more Friendly than Any mac OS.
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Post by Rock on Jun 21, 2011 2:26:25 GMT
Oh I bet it will! [/sarcasm]
I hate Windows. I used it for 7 years, it was slow as hell, and Mac works for me.
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Post by Qwerty on Jun 29, 2011 20:31:42 GMT
Windows on the same system? Otherwise, it was probably just slow thanks to being on an inferior piece of hardware. Or because you were using it the wrong way. Windows allows you to make your computer as slow and bogged down as you want if you don't clear stuff out, and if it was a school computer it's slow by default.
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Post by Rock on Jul 1, 2011 21:15:20 GMT
Please stay on topic.
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