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Ask TUAW: Choosing an iPhone, used Mac disposal, wake from sleep, podcast software and more {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 12th 2009 4:30AM I have a problem, which I'm not sure is effective anyone else.
I just got Google Wave. And it's neat I guess. Anyhow, I want to get it up and running on my iPhone. Everywhere I look, everyone seems to have the same suggestion: simply point my mobile Safari browser to wave.google.com. But instead of some login, I instead get booted to some generic info page about Wave. Can't find any login info anywhere. Help! This is seriously driving me nuts. Thanks!
Snow Leopard quirk prevents opening groups of recently downloaded files {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 5th 2009 1:39AM Thank God this issues has been somewhat isolated. The inability to open up a large number of files has been driving me up the wall. Didn't realize the key attribute was that they were freshly downloaded (just selected all the files in a folder that wouldn't open before, and now they magically do).
And yeah, this is by far one of the stupidest new "features" that Apple has ever come up with. I was hoping it was a bug that would be fixed in 10.6.2, but if this is the way it's going to be... might have to downgrade to 10.5 after-all. Splendid.
Snow Leopard Fixes: the angle-bracket "copy email" behavior {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 23rd 2009 12:25AM For me, it's Preview. Am I the only person who has this issue in which, if you select a bunch of different images, not all of them will open up? Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Anyone?
A bit of [Big] Apple history: visiting Tekserve {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Aug 29th 2009 11:29AM I'm sorry, but that place has always made me embarrassed to be an Apple user, and will perhaps continue to do so till the end of time.
First off, the employees there are uniformly some of the rudest people you will find anywhere, just a bunch snobby Willamsburg hipsters who care more about shooting the shit with themselves then helping anyone, and by the time your number is called and it's your turn, they're immediately impatient and condescending. Though shit customer service aside, what I find most appalling is that absolute lack of any real technical knowledge. I can think of at least TWELVE different occasions over the years in which various friends brought their machines to do some repair work, and afterwards their machines were worse off, in which I had to step in and fix the original problem (I myself have a minor background in Mac repair), and in at least one of these instances, it was a Tekserve employee!
If you're a woman, forget about it; my roommate at the time, a teacher, had her iBook die on her, so she brought it to them with hopes that the grades that she had been working could be recovered, otherwise her job would be in jeopardy (they were due the very next Monday). Tekserve quoted an astronomic price, one she could barely afford (since she's a school teacher and all), but was against the wall and agreed, especially when they promised to have it done in a week. Five days passed and when she returned, they had "fixed" something else, but not the original issue, and when she asked why not, the only response was "oops." It should be noted that half the time she was being flagrantly hit on, and the other half they treated her like a five year old. Anyhow, when she asked when the actual repair would be done, another five days was casually quoted, and when she got upset, they immediately gave her an attitude. Essentially "well, that's tough shit, we already started working on your machine, so you can't take it back without us charging you for the original job." The only reason why they fixed it in two days was because I came in huffing and puffing on her behalf, as the boyfriend (thankfully, even though they were submitted late, it was just by two days and she was able to keep her job).
I have another friend who loves them to death because when she got her Mac back, she was happy to discover that all these applications that she has never installed were there. Over time, I began to learn exactly what they do, which related to my roommate's situation: they take Macs and often miss-diagnose problems so they can swap those Apple supplied parts with cheap third party accessories. Tekserve then sells those original parts, either back to Apple or to someone else, I dunno. From what I understand, it's somewhat of a common, dirty tactic. Apologizes if I'm stating some common thing, since I clearly am not involved in the business side of repairing computers. Maybe the Best Buy's Geek Squad does the same thing, I don't know.
Add in the fact that if you go to the back corner of the store, where one can witness the techs doing diagnostics on brought in machines, and its often a pow-wow of various employees sitting around, going through assorted personal files of that Mac's owner (I'm certain that this happens across the board, but to be so out in the open about is just plain retarded), and that place honestly amounts to gigantic pile of bullshit. BTW, how in the hell do they get away with it? Simple; their main clientele are artists and non-computer types, so they fall for whatever nonsense the average Tekserve employee spews out, since the aforementioned groups know nothing about computers (hey, I'm an artist and that's why I started off on Macs, cuz I was complete idiot when it comes to PCs, that's really the case for most of us… or at least used to be…. yes, things has somewhat changed in recent years) and because they're usually there because of an emergency, so they're just desperate for a solution, no matter what.
At least that's how it used to be, when they were the only game in town, but now that there's the Apple Stores, perhaps it's changed. Then again, people are intensely "loyal" to Teckserve, for whatever misguided reasons.
Oh, and for the record, I've told pals of mine who write for both the Village Voice and the New York Press about Tekserve's shady business tactics, and they both said "we're not touching that story with a ten foot pole" because they get so much money for ad revenue.
I Love Katamari rolls (literally) into the iPhone's App Store {Engadget Mobile}
Dec 20th 2008 10:52AM Have any of you folks actually played the game? It's a complete broken mess, even with the update.
iPhone, the ultimate mobile gaming platform my ass...
The Beatles don't go on {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Sep 5th 2007 4:48PM "I don't understand why having the Beatles on iTunes is some sort of meaningful threshold to be crossed. Who cares?"
The irony behind this statement literally makes my head hurt.
