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iTunesIsEvil

Rothgarr wrote: »

You guys can't be serious about running everything in native resolution on a retina display so that everything is half the size? I can't even imagine how tiny all my Adobe CS tool palettes would all be and completely illegible at half size...

Well... no, not really. I really want to though. VMware Fusion likes to set itself to using the native retina resolution when you initially install VMware Tools, and oh my lord I can't read a damned thing. (It's easily turned off in the VM's settings)

I hope the handoff stuff starts working (or gets implemented) in other non-Apple apps. I don't really want to switch to Safari from Chrome, or to Mail from ... my browser actually, so that's not a good comparison.

Additionally, damnit, Safari don't hide the damn URL's, please. In general, browsers, don't hide the damn URL's.

minor incident

I run my rMBP display maxed out to the most real estate I can, but even that is equivilant to a 1680x1050 display at 13". It's really not bad at all.

minor incident

Oh, unrelated question that is proving impossible to google for answers...

Is there ANY way I can get the finder to ignore articles like "the", "a", etc at the start of file names? I've been organizing my movies and TV shows and it's finally getting to me how it's mostly nice and organized except for like 40% of the files showing up in the "T" or "A" sections because of that.

ronzo

iTunesIsEvil wrote: »

Additionally, damnit, Safari don't hide the damn URL's, please. In general, browsers, don't hide the damn URL's.

There should be a setting to turn that off and display the full URL.

At least there was in the publix beta, it better still be there in the full release

minor incident

Yep, that feature is still in there somewhere.

syndalis

Its the first option.

iTunesIsEvil

I still don't even understand the rationale behind hiding the URL's in the first place. I admittedly didn't even look for the setting; that's how often I use Safari. Thanks though.

syndalis

iTunesIsEvil wrote: »

I still don't even understand the rationale behind hiding the URL's in the first place. I admittedly didn't even look for the setting; that's how often I use Safari. Thanks though.

it looks cleaner and it unhides when you click on it?

I dunno - I'm totally indifferent to the change, could take or leave it.

nexuscrawler

is there a way to turn off the giant spotlight thing telling you all the new shit spotlight now searches for

yes it's great it searches the web now Apple but I don't need spotlight to be in a giant window telling me so every time I use it.

Frem

I really want to hit the upgrade button on my dev machine. It will probably break something and I'll have to spend the weekend fixing it.

But it's so pretty.

syndalis

nexuscrawler wrote: »

is there a way to turn off the giant spotlight thing telling you all the new shit spotlight now searches for

yes it's great it searches the web now Apple but I don't need spotlight to be in a giant window telling me so every time I use it.

After using it a few times it stops doing that.



This is what mine looks like now.

FF

Weird, I wonder if the Spotlight thing is time based. Showed the whole big explanation thing all day yesterday. Today, not at all.

Or it's just coincidence.

nexuscrawler

Still doing it for me but I haven't used it much yet

Mostly Harmless

iTunesIsEvil wrote: »

I still don't even understand the rationale behind hiding the URL's in the first place.

Anti-phishing, by all accounts. It makes it obvious when people are using URLs like http://www.google.com.somewhere.else.really.nasty.com.

iTunesIsEvil

Mostly Harmless wrote: »

iTunesIsEvil wrote: »

I still don't even understand the rationale behind hiding the URL's in the first place.

Anti-phishing, by all accounts. It makes it obvious when people are using URLs like http://www.google.com.somewhere.else.really.nasty.com.

I'm not sure how hiding everything after the ".com" there makes it better though.

Anyway, not really hung up on that; it's just a personal dislike. I'm not running off to file a radar:// against it. ... ... Yet

Yes, I am a Grumpy Gus.

minor incident

iTunesIsEvil wrote: »

Mostly Harmless wrote: »

iTunesIsEvil wrote: »

I still don't even understand the rationale behind hiding the URL's in the first place.

Anti-phishing, by all accounts. It makes it obvious when people are using URLs like http://www.google.com.somewhere.else.really.nasty.com.

I'm not sure how hiding everything after the ".com" there makes it better though.

Anyway, not really hung up on that; it's just a personal dislike. I'm not running off to file a radar:// against it. ... ... Yet

Yes, I am a Grumpy Gus.

Because then you would just see "nasty.com" instead of all that other junk, which makes phishing scams way more obvious.

iTunesIsEvil

[ed] Nevermind.

nexuscrawler

has anyone been getting tihs? Resetting or shutdowns down since the Yosemite update takes like 5 minutes

syndalis

nexuscrawler wrote: »

has anyone been getting tihs? Resetting or shutdowns down since the Yosemite update takes like 5 minutes

not at all.

Stuff comes right back up immediately because of the SSD/Fusion Drive.

nexuscrawler

Guess I'll wipe my caches probably something there

nexuscrawler

erasing old parallels pref files fixed it

Ziggymon

My God! I got to try out the 5K iMacs today, my eyes!! So crisp.

syndalis

Ziggymon wrote: »

My God! I got to try out the 5K iMacs today, my eyes!! So crisp.

It's unreasonable.

I am kind of miffed I had to upgrade earlier this year. I would have gotten this in a heartbeat.

That said, I can wait a few years. It's not like my current mac sucks. It's just not "the best" any more.

Mr_Rose

I too saw one in person yesterday and the display is amazing, as is the spec for the price considering 4k TVs run to more, on average, IIRC.
It's just that it made the neat HTML5 animation stuff for the Mac Pro page on the Apple site look sort of muddy because of the upscaling. I don't know whether to be disappointed that safari/Yosemite isn't doing better upscaling or to be disappointed in Apple's web guys for not doing the Mac Pro stuff in UHD in the first place…

Ziggymon

Mr_Rose wrote: »

I too saw one in person yesterday and the display is amazing, as is the spec for the price considering 4k TVs run to more, on average, IIRC.
It's just that it made the neat HTML5 animation stuff for the Mac Pro page on the Apple site look sort of muddy because of the upscaling. I don't know whether to be disappointed that safari/Yosemite isn't doing better upscaling or to be disappointed in Apple's web guys for not doing the Mac Pro stuff in UHD in the first place…

I know what you mean, It's why im going to wait until next summer and see if there is more UHD native stuff. However if you are into any sort of photo editing, this thing is incredible and well worth the upgrade especially since I will be coming from a Macbook Air.

nexuscrawler

Even running a 2 k iMac you simply don't runwebsites full screen ever anyway. There's no point it's like 60 percent white space if you do

syndalis

nexuscrawler wrote: »

Even running a 2 k iMac you simply don't runwebsites full screen ever anyway. There's no point it's like 60 percent white space if you do

Well, on retina it's not about having a 1:1 pixel mapping.

In CSS with media queries you can determine if there is a HiDPI display on the other side, and if so load higher resolution art assets to use the same space on screen.

In much the same way that one pixel on a font now gets four which allows for smoother text, getting 4x more pixels for images is stunning.

Lots of websites have already done HiDPI though because of iPads and Retina Macbooks and whatnot - I am surprised that anything on Apple's website lacks the HiDPI stuff

syndalis

Here's a fun one.

Safari, and only Safari, cannot load google.

google ads, google itself, anything to do with google.

The very presence of google stuff screws up the entire page load.

It works swimmingly in chrome and firefox.

I have rebooted, did the PRAM thing, moved the entire library folder for safari and built a fresh one... nada.

What the hell is this all about?

edit: Was running 10.10 and having the problem, and saw I had a seed for 10.10.1 which I installed, which did not seem to correct the problem.

nexuscrawler

Deos other javascript stuff run?

syndalis

nexuscrawler wrote: »

Deos other javascript stuff run?

yes. It really is just google and their associated services.

The forum's AJAX, my other website stuff, bing. It all works.

So I am forced to do my google stuff on Chrome and everything else in Safari and its just weird.

Echo

Can't connect to MSN with Adium any longer. Is it something with Adium, or did they finally pull the plug on MSN?

Cameron_Talley

I'm guessing they finally pulled the plug, considering they were supposed to do so in 2013--it looks like support in China was supposed to last until 10/31/14. But everything else I can find says that it was shut down ages ago.

Incindium

My wife managed to get our iMac infected with a variant of Genieo Malware... Luckily it was there less than a day before she mentioned her browser switching to Bing search which tipped me off and I was able to get rid of it... Even went back into the timemachine backups and removed all traces from in there as well.

Mike Danger

If I want to put Windows on a VM/Boot Camp on my Mac (haven't decided which I'm going to do yet), is there a special version of Windows that I need? I just went to the MS online store and looked up Windows 8.1 but there's a thing that says "for Windows 7 users only", so I'm guessing that's an upgrade disc of some kind?

admanb

Mike Danger wrote: »

If I want to put Windows on a VM/Boot Camp on my Mac (haven't decided which I'm going to do yet), is there a special version of Windows that I need? I just went to the MS online store and looked up Windows 8.1 but there's a thing that says "for Windows 7 users only", so I'm guessing that's an upgrade disc of some kind?

I'm assuming you're looking at this? The note about Windows 7 is because if you're already using 8 you don't need a boxed copy to update. It's poor copy but they're basically just saying, "Only buy this if you're installing Windows 8 for the first time."

Mike Danger

admanb wrote: »

Mike Danger wrote: »

If I want to put Windows on a VM/Boot Camp on my Mac (haven't decided which I'm going to do yet), is there a special version of Windows that I need? I just went to the MS online store and looked up Windows 8.1 but there's a thing that says "for Windows 7 users only", so I'm guessing that's an upgrade disc of some kind?

I'm assuming you're looking at this? The note about Windows 7 is because if you're already using 8 you don't need a boxed copy to update. It's poor copy but they're basically just saying, "Only buy this if you're installing Windows 8 for the first time."

Perfect, thank you!

emp123

I want to run a real quick upgrade by you guys; I have a mid 2009 MacBook Pro (5,3) and since upgrading to Mavericks its been a little slow and I'm pretty sure thats because Mavericks is more ram dependent than Snow Leopard (which was what I was running before). Anyway, heres what I'm thinking about getting:

RAM
SSD

That'll work right?

Mostly Harmless

The lazy option with RAM is to order from Crucial directly. They have a wizard which makes it trivial.

physi_marc

I think it looks okay, but don't take my word for it.

I can say that after upgrading the RAM and installing an SSD in my 2010 MacBook Pro, it felt like I got a brand new laptop. The SSD in particular makes a world of a difference.

emp123

How did you go about getting OSX onto it? Will I have to locate my Snow Leopard disc and then upgrade to I guess Yosemite?