Apple. A company with a lot of really, really great ideas and a few truly horrible ones.
I doubt that was Apple's idea.
My guess was that it was AT&T's. First because if Apple wanted to make you go to a site they wouldn't have implemented it in flash and secondly because my RAZR (my phone before my iPhone) stopped showing me picture messages and made me start going to that damn site instead of letting me view them on the phone as it had always done.
[edit] This is weird. Both of my brothers have RAZR's. One says he's now got to go to the site to view any picture message sent to him, the other says that he can still view said messages on his phone without visiting the site.
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WulfDisciple of TzeentchThe Void... (New Jersey)Registered Userregular
edited June 2008
I honestly love the google map feature built into my iPhone the most. I use that fucker all the time when I am out at tradeshows all over the country. I just have to search for something in the city I'm in and I end up looking like a damn pro to customers. Oh you want to meet over dinner? Hey this restaurant looks good, has a good rating, and I just placed reservations for a party of 7 for 7:45pm. Oh, of course I know how to get there, its only two blocks from the hotel!
Apple. A company with a lot of really, really great ideas and a few truly horrible ones.
I doubt that was Apple's idea.
My guess was that it was AT&T's. First because if Apple wanted to make you go to a site they wouldn't have implemented it in flash and secondly because my RAZR (my phone before my iPhone) stopped showing me picture messages and made me start going to that damn site instead of letting me view them on the phone as it had always done.
[edit] This is weird. Both of my brothers have RAZR's. One says he's now got to go to the site to view any picture message sent to him, the other says that he can still view said messages on his phone without visiting the site.
Actually, Apple pretty much dictated the details of EVERYTHING involving the iPhone to AT&T. So it was Apple that made the choice to have the phone not receive images via messaging, which makes no goddamn sense outside of thinking different-land.
That said, it's most likely just a coincidence that the site AT&T directs you to is in Flash, which doesn't work with the iPhone (AT&T made that site for all phones, so that's outside of Apple's reach.) That's another, separate issue. A second issue which makes the first issue worse, though.
And my current Samsung is on AT&T and still gets pictures.
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The one button mouse was a deliberate design decision based on research that showed a majority of people did not use the right mouse button. They didn't understand the difference between a right-click and a left-click, they just clicked. The number of computer-illiterate people like that is now much smaller than it used to be.
The one-button mouse continued in order to force developers to not hide functionality in contextual menus that a certain amount of people would never see: this is why 10.4 (or maybe 10.3) introduced the cog wheel button which acts as a right-click.
I never used a one-button mouse, and Mac OS X has always supported multi-button mice. Those who wanted it got it, those who didn't were no worse off.
I think they underestimated the intelligence of their audience, but there were "good" reasons behind it.
I can understand the potential logic behind it, but the "Mighty Mouse" isn't a good solution and their laptops STILL just have one button for their mouse controls. They should just get over their pride and do something the PC side did first considering even Mac fans expect to have to buy third-party mice.
As far as the one-button thing on their laptops go, I actually prefer their method of right-clicking on their trackpads (two fingers on the pad + click) over pretty much every other right-click method, including the second button.
Interestingly, 10.5 was pitched as a Developer focused OS as well, perhaps Apple is ploughing a lot of cash into R&D, waiting for a real feature for the users, rather than the kinda incremental stuff.
I find interesting that the site there doesn't make any mention of "10.6" so Snow Leopard, as the name implies, seems to be Leopard Service Pack 1.
Screenshots have shown the Snow Leopard seed as being 10.6.
The one button mouse was a deliberate design decision based on research that showed a majority of people did not use the right mouse button. They didn't understand the difference between a right-click and a left-click, they just clicked. The number of computer-illiterate people like that is now much smaller than it used to be.
The one-button mouse continued in order to force developers to not hide functionality in contextual menus that a certain amount of people would never see: this is why 10.4 (or maybe 10.3) introduced the cog wheel button which acts as a right-click.
I never used a one-button mouse, and Mac OS X has always supported multi-button mice. Those who wanted it got it, those who didn't were no worse off.
I think they underestimated the intelligence of their audience, but there were "good" reasons behind it.
I can understand the potential logic behind it, but the "Mighty Mouse" isn't a good solution and their laptops STILL just have one button for their mouse controls. They should just get over their pride and do something the PC side did first considering even Mac fans expect to have to buy third-party mice.
As far as the one-button thing on their laptops go, I actually prefer their method of right-clicking on their trackpads (two fingers on the pad + click) over pretty much every other right-click method, including the second button.
Yeah, for the longest time I didn't want an Apple laptop just because of the single mouse button. The two fingers + click works perfectly.
The one button mouse was a deliberate design decision based on research that showed a majority of people did not use the right mouse button. They didn't understand the difference between a right-click and a left-click, they just clicked. The number of computer-illiterate people like that is now much smaller than it used to be.
The one-button mouse continued in order to force developers to not hide functionality in contextual menus that a certain amount of people would never see: this is why 10.4 (or maybe 10.3) introduced the cog wheel button which acts as a right-click.
I never used a one-button mouse, and Mac OS X has always supported multi-button mice. Those who wanted it got it, those who didn't were no worse off.
I think they underestimated the intelligence of their audience, but there were "good" reasons behind it.
I can understand the potential logic behind it, but the "Mighty Mouse" isn't a good solution and their laptops STILL just have one button for their mouse controls. They should just get over their pride and do something the PC side did first considering even Mac fans expect to have to buy third-party mice.
As far as the one-button thing on their laptops go, I actually prefer their method of right-clicking on their trackpads (two fingers on the pad + click) over pretty much every other right-click method, including the second button.
Yeah, me too. I've completely ignored the trackpad button since the option became available; two-finger right click, tap-click, two-finger scroll....why would you even want a button? And the Air is even better equipped.
Interestingly, 10.5 was pitched as a Developer focused OS as well, perhaps Apple is ploughing a lot of cash into R&D, waiting for a real feature for the users, rather than the kinda incremental stuff.
I find interesting that the site there doesn't make any mention of "10.6" so Snow Leopard, as the name implies, seems to be Leopard Service Pack 1.
Screenshots have shown the Snow Leopard seed as being 10.6.
But it's still not listed on the site.
Anywho, I love the one-button debate. It's always the first thing people bring up with they bitch about Macs, lest do they realize you can walk into wal-mart, buy a $5 mouse with 2 buttons and it works great.
Interestingly, 10.5 was pitched as a Developer focused OS as well, perhaps Apple is ploughing a lot of cash into R&D, waiting for a real feature for the users, rather than the kinda incremental stuff.
I find interesting that the site there doesn't make any mention of "10.6" so Snow Leopard, as the name implies, seems to be Leopard Service Pack 1.
Screenshots have shown the Snow Leopard seed as being 10.6.
But it's still not listed on the site.
Anywho, I love the one-button debate. It's always the first thing people bring up with they bitch about Macs, lest do they realize you can walk into wal-mart, buy a $5 mouse with 2 buttons and it works great.
Not to mention I prefer my one-button mouse.
Though the fact remains that if so many people just give up and buy a two-button mouse, why doesn't Apple just save them the bother and make a two-button mouse themselves?
I know it's easily fixable, it just shows Apple's occasional odd logic.
Interestingly, 10.5 was pitched as a Developer focused OS as well, perhaps Apple is ploughing a lot of cash into R&D, waiting for a real feature for the users, rather than the kinda incremental stuff.
I find interesting that the site there doesn't make any mention of "10.6" so Snow Leopard, as the name implies, seems to be Leopard Service Pack 1.
Screenshots have shown the Snow Leopard seed as being 10.6.
But it's still not listed on the site.
Anywho, I love the one-button debate. It's always the first thing people bring up with they bitch about Macs, lest do they realize you can walk into wal-mart, buy a $5 mouse with 2 buttons and it works great.
Not to mention I prefer my one-button mouse.
Though the fact remains that if so many people just give up and buy a two-button mouse, why doesn't Apple just save them the bother and make a two-button mouse themselves?
I know it's easily fixable, it just shows Apple's occasional odd logic.
Now this is just ignorant.
The Mighty mouse, which ships with all Desktops Macs save the Mini, IS a two button mouse.
I would imagine the staunch refusal to give the Macbooks two buttons has to do with aesthetics. In any case, two fingers + click is all you need.
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Interestingly, 10.5 was pitched as a Developer focused OS as well, perhaps Apple is ploughing a lot of cash into R&D, waiting for a real feature for the users, rather than the kinda incremental stuff.
I find interesting that the site there doesn't make any mention of "10.6" so Snow Leopard, as the name implies, seems to be Leopard Service Pack 1.
Screenshots have shown the Snow Leopard seed as being 10.6.
But it's still not listed on the site.
Anywho, I love the one-button debate. It's always the first thing people bring up with they bitch about Macs, lest do they realize you can walk into wal-mart, buy a $5 mouse with 2 buttons and it works great.
Not to mention I prefer my one-button mouse.
Though the fact remains that if so many people just give up and buy a two-button mouse, why doesn't Apple just save them the bother and make a two-button mouse themselves?
I know it's easily fixable, it just shows Apple's occasional odd logic.
Now this is just ignorant.
The Mighty mouse, which ships with all Desktops Macs save the Mini, IS a two button mouse.
I would imagine the staunch refusal to give the Macbooks two buttons has to do with aesthetics. In any case, two fingers + click is all you need.
The mighty mouse isn't quite a two-button mouse; you can't left-click and right-click at the same time. Plus it's kinda irritating having to pick up your left-click finger every time you want to right-click.
One button mouse:
Having a single mouse button available by default makes for better UI design in general. The average Windows app hides a big portion of its functionality in context menus because developers always expect two mouse buttons. While the Mac has supported context menus since OS8 having a single mouse button be the default configuration makes developers think long and hard about how they present controls to their users. Mac apps tend to only include functionality in context menus that is accessible from other parts of the UI including keyboard shortcuts. Using the trackpad to detect two-finger touches is an elegant solution to context clicks and scrolling, it's also ambidextrous. You're SOL if your "scroll zone" on a PC laptop trackpad is on the right side of the pad but you want to use your right hand to scroll.
MMS:
MMS support on handsets only works properly on AT&T if you've got all of the proper MMS gateway information set up. If your phone's firmware doesn't give you an option you'll get the dumb viewmymessage.com link. Two phones of the same model (with different firmware) might have completely different MMS behavior. The iPhone isn't the only phone without proper MMS support.
And aside from the retarded, arbitrary restrictions and design choices Apple seems to have with the iPhone (And everything else of theirs) I'm pretty pysched the iPhone is having an official release in Australia pretty soon. Optus (One of the 2 carriers) has a "Pay $100 to possibly get an iPhone" thing, which is refundable, which I'm probably going to pay.
One thing though is that Internet/data plans are ridiculously limited and absolutely, incredibly overpriced. I'm talking worse than Apple's pricing of RAM -- yeah, that bad as impossible as it sounds. So it's going to be interesting how the iPhone will be available and the plans accompanying it.
I of course won't be getting a new phone for many years (I'm leaving soon for the Philippines) which sucks but at least when I come back there will be so many awesome new things out.
Does anyone have experience with ordering your computer over the phone? I have to do this to get my additional student discount for CS3 and I'm wondering how easy/hard it is to make sure your computer is customized properly.
Interestingly, 10.5 was pitched as a Developer focused OS as well, perhaps Apple is ploughing a lot of cash into R&D, waiting for a real feature for the users, rather than the kinda incremental stuff.
I find interesting that the site there doesn't make any mention of "10.6" so Snow Leopard, as the name implies, seems to be Leopard Service Pack 1.
Screenshots have shown the Snow Leopard seed as being 10.6.
But it's still not listed on the site.
Anywho, I love the one-button debate. It's always the first thing people bring up with they bitch about Macs, lest do they realize you can walk into wal-mart, buy a $5 mouse with 2 buttons and it works great.
Not to mention I prefer my one-button mouse.
Though the fact remains that if so many people just give up and buy a two-button mouse, why doesn't Apple just save them the bother and make a two-button mouse themselves?
I know it's easily fixable, it just shows Apple's occasional odd logic.
I got a Mac two years ago after using a PC since Windows 3.1 and get this, Windows is different to OS X, which is why having a right click on the former is much more necessary. On a mac ctrl+click is the same as right click, and to be honest after doing it for three or four months, I preferred it. At the time I was using an imac with a mighty mouse, and I didn't even have right click turned on because I never used it. Also, being able to scroll in any direction, smoothly and precisely makes switching to any other mouse not worth it for my purposes (print design).
Also, I doubt most mac users do buy a two button mouse because unless you're used to one, there's no need.
On macbook pro I currently have, using just the mouse pad I can
"left click"
"secondary click" (two fingers + click)
scroll in any direction (two fingers)
The last one alone again, frankly makes the macbook trackpad superior to anything I've ever used on a PC (although I've obviously not used a PC daily for two years). All the PC notebooks I've seen either don't have any way to scroll without tedious use of scroll bars, or they rely on a rocker switch that only allows incremental horizontal scrolling.
In addition, I can also
two finger pinch (resize an image, icons, coverflow etc.)
two finger rotate (rotate an image, not used too often)
three finger swipe (up,down,left,right; goes forward and backwards in browser history, iphoto etc.)
All on a pad that's simply one buttoned.
So, personally I'd say that the mac mouse and trackpad are superior.
Do you really need Final Cut Express and Photoshop? Because they're super expensive. I'm assuming you're actually a student: can you not just use copies on campus, or see if they have students covered under a site license?
Also: print/fax machine? Really? You need a fax machine? You can get one of the printer/scanner jobbies for $99 and save yourself 30 dollars right there.
I wouldn't get a wireless keyboard and mouse personally. You'll spend half your life shouting at them as they run out of battery or disconnect at annoying moments.
Also, why is Applecare half the price in the USA than in the UK? *grumbles*
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syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Productsregular
edited June 2008
The Apple wireless keyboard/mouse use bluetooth, and are rock solid.
I would rather say that you ditch the mighty mouse in general and get a logitech or microsoft mouse, as apple mice are just garbage.
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Either Razer or Logitech is the way to go! Depends on the way you like to hold your mouse. Although the DeathAdder has Mac drivers now as well and is more of a handpalm mouse just like the logitechs.
Apple's mice are abominations. Justifying them is just futile. The laptop trackpads are fucking brilliant though.
And I recently had to format and reinstall Leopard because my Leopard upgrade was getting shitty performance, and I have to say, it's pretty awesome that you can just drag in a couple folders from your backup and your system is basically back to the way it was previously.
You're SOL if your "scroll zone" on a PC laptop trackpad is on the right side of the pad but you want to use your right hand to scroll.
My work laptop is a Dell Latitude D620 (newer model is 630) and the Alps trackpad software that it uses is awesome. You can set the side you want to scroll with, the width of the pad you want it to detect scrolling on, and if you want horizontal scroll as well.
I have it currently set to vertical only (with widescreen monitors I don't see much use for horizontal) and the thinnest width possible so I never accidentally grab it as you basically drag your finger half on/off the pad which is perfect for feeling tactile knowledge of where I am top-bottom on the pad.
However, my friend's HP (which may have had customizable options but he never touched them) with 1/2" of scrolling area and one of those smooth trackpads was HORRIBLE.
So, in my excitement over the new iPhone, I was happy to hear that it's roughly the size of the iPod Touch, and that any cover that fits that will fit the 3G iPhone. And considering the new case, I figure I need one. And I don't want to pay the overinflated prices at AT&T.
Anyway, the question. Does anyone know the exact dimensions of the iPod Touch and the iPhone? A cheap case I found is inflexible plastic rather than something that bends, so there's no margin for error.
Do you really need Final Cut Express and Photoshop? Because they're super expensive. I'm assuming you're actually a student: can you not just use copies on campus, or see if they have students covered under a site license?
Also: print/fax machine? Really? You need a fax machine? You can get one of the printer/scanner jobbies for $99 and save yourself 30 dollars right there.
1) I don't need Final Cut Express, but I got a Sony DV camcorder over the Christmas Holidays that I'd like to actually use as iMovie just crashes and burns on my G4 here.
2) I need CS3 considering I've graduated as of last month and I don't have a campus to use it on anymore. In addition I'm starting my career at a Design Studio today so I may need to take work home from time to time.
3) I'm only grabbing the printer/scanner because there's a $100 rebate on it so I figure, hell, may as well.
im not sure where you heard that the new iphone's dimensions were similar to the ipod touch but that doesnt quite add up... sure it is tapered so it is thinner at the ends but it is actually thicker the the current iphone by just a little bit in the center.
ipod touch 4.3 x 2.4 x 0.3 inches
3g iphone 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.48 inches (115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3 mm)
iphone 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches (115.0 x 61.0 x 11.6 mm)
im not sure where you heard that the new iphone's dimensions were similar to the ipod touch but that doesnt quite add up... sure it is tapered so it is thinner at the ends but it is actually thicker the the current iphone by just a little bit in the center.
ipod touch 4.3 x 2.4 x 0.3 inches
3g iphone 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.48 inches (115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3 mm)
iphone 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches (115.0 x 61.0 x 11.6 mm)
By all accounts, the curvature of the edges makes it unnoticeable. I don't think it's a huge deal.
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My guess was that it was AT&T's. First because if Apple wanted to make you go to a site they wouldn't have implemented it in flash and secondly because my RAZR (my phone before my iPhone) stopped showing me picture messages and made me start going to that damn site instead of letting me view them on the phone as it had always done.
[edit] This is weird. Both of my brothers have RAZR's. One says he's now got to go to the site to view any picture message sent to him, the other says that he can still view said messages on his phone without visiting the site.
Actually, Apple pretty much dictated the details of EVERYTHING involving the iPhone to AT&T. So it was Apple that made the choice to have the phone not receive images via messaging, which makes no goddamn sense outside of thinking different-land.
That said, it's most likely just a coincidence that the site AT&T directs you to is in Flash, which doesn't work with the iPhone (AT&T made that site for all phones, so that's outside of Apple's reach.) That's another, separate issue. A second issue which makes the first issue worse, though.
And my current Samsung is on AT&T and still gets pictures.
As far as the one-button thing on their laptops go, I actually prefer their method of right-clicking on their trackpads (two fingers on the pad + click) over pretty much every other right-click method, including the second button.
Screenshots have shown the Snow Leopard seed as being 10.6.
Yeah, for the longest time I didn't want an Apple laptop just because of the single mouse button. The two fingers + click works perfectly.
Yeah, me too. I've completely ignored the trackpad button since the option became available; two-finger right click, tap-click, two-finger scroll....why would you even want a button? And the Air is even better equipped.
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But it's still not listed on the site.
Anywho, I love the one-button debate. It's always the first thing people bring up with they bitch about Macs, lest do they realize you can walk into wal-mart, buy a $5 mouse with 2 buttons and it works great.
Not to mention I prefer my one-button mouse.
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Though the fact remains that if so many people just give up and buy a two-button mouse, why doesn't Apple just save them the bother and make a two-button mouse themselves?
I know it's easily fixable, it just shows Apple's occasional odd logic.
Now this is just ignorant.
The Mighty mouse, which ships with all Desktops Macs save the Mini, IS a two button mouse.
I would imagine the staunch refusal to give the Macbooks two buttons has to do with aesthetics. In any case, two fingers + click is all you need.
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Have you checked with your University's book store? I got mine through the bookstore for 10 bucks.
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(even though the right side of trackpads on pc laptops usually use the scroll feature)
I work pretty extensively with laptops of all makes and models
trust me, the scroll doesn't work nearly as well as the macbooks on any of them
I don't know why exactly, because it seems like a simple thing to make, but they just all completely suck in comparison
The mighty mouse isn't quite a two-button mouse; you can't left-click and right-click at the same time. Plus it's kinda irritating having to pick up your left-click finger every time you want to right-click.
Having a single mouse button available by default makes for better UI design in general. The average Windows app hides a big portion of its functionality in context menus because developers always expect two mouse buttons. While the Mac has supported context menus since OS8 having a single mouse button be the default configuration makes developers think long and hard about how they present controls to their users. Mac apps tend to only include functionality in context menus that is accessible from other parts of the UI including keyboard shortcuts. Using the trackpad to detect two-finger touches is an elegant solution to context clicks and scrolling, it's also ambidextrous. You're SOL if your "scroll zone" on a PC laptop trackpad is on the right side of the pad but you want to use your right hand to scroll.
MMS:
MMS support on handsets only works properly on AT&T if you've got all of the proper MMS gateway information set up. If your phone's firmware doesn't give you an option you'll get the dumb viewmymessage.com link. Two phones of the same model (with different firmware) might have completely different MMS behavior. The iPhone isn't the only phone without proper MMS support.
And aside from the retarded, arbitrary restrictions and design choices Apple seems to have with the iPhone (And everything else of theirs) I'm pretty pysched the iPhone is having an official release in Australia pretty soon. Optus (One of the 2 carriers) has a "Pay $100 to possibly get an iPhone" thing, which is refundable, which I'm probably going to pay.
One thing though is that Internet/data plans are ridiculously limited and absolutely, incredibly overpriced. I'm talking worse than Apple's pricing of RAM -- yeah, that bad as impossible as it sounds. So it's going to be interesting how the iPhone will be available and the plans accompanying it.
I of course won't be getting a new phone for many years (I'm leaving soon for the Philippines) which sucks but at least when I come back there will be so many awesome new things out.
Dammit, I'll have to settle for a 32GB iPod Touch.
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I got a Mac two years ago after using a PC since Windows 3.1 and get this, Windows is different to OS X, which is why having a right click on the former is much more necessary. On a mac ctrl+click is the same as right click, and to be honest after doing it for three or four months, I preferred it. At the time I was using an imac with a mighty mouse, and I didn't even have right click turned on because I never used it. Also, being able to scroll in any direction, smoothly and precisely makes switching to any other mouse not worth it for my purposes (print design).
Also, I doubt most mac users do buy a two button mouse because unless you're used to one, there's no need.
On macbook pro I currently have, using just the mouse pad I can
"left click"
"secondary click" (two fingers + click)
scroll in any direction (two fingers)
The last one alone again, frankly makes the macbook trackpad superior to anything I've ever used on a PC (although I've obviously not used a PC daily for two years). All the PC notebooks I've seen either don't have any way to scroll without tedious use of scroll bars, or they rely on a rocker switch that only allows incremental horizontal scrolling.
In addition, I can also
two finger pinch (resize an image, icons, coverflow etc.)
two finger rotate (rotate an image, not used too often)
three finger swipe (up,down,left,right; goes forward and backwards in browser history, iphoto etc.)
All on a pad that's simply one buttoned.
So, personally I'd say that the mac mouse and trackpad are superior.
Thoughts? Reccomendations? Etc?
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Also: print/fax machine? Really? You need a fax machine? You can get one of the printer/scanner jobbies for $99 and save yourself 30 dollars right there.
Also, why is Applecare half the price in the USA than in the UK? *grumbles*
I would rather say that you ditch the mighty mouse in general and get a logitech or microsoft mouse, as apple mice are just garbage.
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Other than that it looks sweet.
I've got a Macbook Pro here and use a logitech wireless laser mouse, it's pure awesome. Also, my desktop pc uses a wired Logitech G5 laser mouse too.
Logitech make the best peripherals. (in my opinion)
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And I recently had to format and reinstall Leopard because my Leopard upgrade was getting shitty performance, and I have to say, it's pretty awesome that you can just drag in a couple folders from your backup and your system is basically back to the way it was previously.
My work laptop is a Dell Latitude D620 (newer model is 630) and the Alps trackpad software that it uses is awesome. You can set the side you want to scroll with, the width of the pad you want it to detect scrolling on, and if you want horizontal scroll as well.
I have it currently set to vertical only (with widescreen monitors I don't see much use for horizontal) and the thinnest width possible so I never accidentally grab it as you basically drag your finger half on/off the pad which is perfect for feeling tactile knowledge of where I am top-bottom on the pad.
However, my friend's HP (which may have had customizable options but he never touched them) with 1/2" of scrolling area and one of those smooth trackpads was HORRIBLE.
Anyway, the question. Does anyone know the exact dimensions of the iPod Touch and the iPhone? A cheap case I found is inflexible plastic rather than something that bends, so there's no margin for error.
1) I don't need Final Cut Express, but I got a Sony DV camcorder over the Christmas Holidays that I'd like to actually use as iMovie just crashes and burns on my G4 here.
2) I need CS3 considering I've graduated as of last month and I don't have a campus to use it on anymore. In addition I'm starting my career at a Design Studio today so I may need to take work home from time to time.
3) I'm only grabbing the printer/scanner because there's a $100 rebate on it so I figure, hell, may as well.
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ipod touch 4.3 x 2.4 x 0.3 inches
3g iphone 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.48 inches (115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3 mm)
iphone 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches (115.0 x 61.0 x 11.6 mm)
By all accounts, the curvature of the edges makes it unnoticeable. I don't think it's a huge deal.
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