iPad

Det blev alltså en iPad, en iPod Touch giganticus. Jag är tveksam. Den går knappast att hålla och skriva med båda händerna som en iPhone/iPod Touch och att hålla med en hand och dansa med en hand på tangentbordet känns som det sliter snett. Det finns en tangentbordsdocka som gör den typ till en uppfälld bärbar men med fast vinkel mellan tangentbord och skärm (själva iPad). På grund av den mojjen på tangentbordet som håller iPad:en så blir det knappast smidigt att ta med tangentbordet. Njäe, nog inte riktigt min grej.

Dock kommer den väl, för att citera slashatkanalen ‘’jailbreakas skiten ur’’.

Lite fakta (verkar inte gå köra flera applikationer samtidigt):
*Safari, webbläsare
*YouTube HD
*Film och musikprogram (iTunes åtminstone för musik)
*Kalenderprogram, modifierat iCal
*Kartprogram, ser ut att vara Google Maps än så länge.
*Fotoprogram i stil med på iPhone
*E-postprogram
*IPhone-/iPod Touch-app:ar i mindre fönster eller uppzoomade, till exempel Brushes
*PDF-läsarprogram
*iBooks, e-boksprogram (samarbete m bl a Penguin, Harper Collins, Simon & Shuster, macmillan och hachette book group), ePub som format
*iWork för iPad; Pages (text + layout), Keynote (presentationer) och Numbers (kalkylprogram)
*Adressboksprogram med stort dubbelsidigt uppslag
*Koppling till iTunes för köp av media
*SDK publiceras idag.
*Verkar inte ha flashstöd
*Virtuellt tangentbord i närmast full storlek

Typ 700 g
9,7 tum LED skärm
<1,5 cm tjock
10 h batteritid men osäkert vilken aktivitet den tål då
>1 mån stand bytid
1 GHz processor (Apple A4)
16 - 64 GB flash storage
GPS och Location Services
Accelerator
Kompass
WiFI 802.11n
Bluetooth 2.1
Mikrofon och högtalare
Kan kopplas till projektor
Samma synkroniseringssaldd som för iPhone och iPod Touch
Tangentbord med hållare och docka finns (fast vinkel)
Två modeller; WiFi och WiFi + olåst 3G

Priser:
WiFi 16GB $499
WiFi 32 GB $599
WiFi 64 GB $699

WiFI + 3G GB $629
WiFI + 3G GB $729
WiFI + 3G GB $829

Guitar Hero Annoyances

Guitar Hero (III) is a fun game but it’s also getting on my nerves. The first thing is that it doesn’t support case sensitive file systems. Well, no big deal I thought. I just make a disk image and mount it an install the game there or so I thought. The game installer doesn’t allow you to do that. No big deal I thougt. I’ll install it on the main disk in the Applications folder where it want to place it but where it won’t work since the file system is case sensitive - no warning during installation process.

When the installation was done I tried to start just to see how well or bad it would work, maybe just some minor function would not work, well the whole game crashed immediately. Back to the plan of moving the game to the non case sensitive disk image. This time it started up as supposed. Time for some imaginary rock. School’s Out here I come :-)

After a little playing I realise that the game doesn’t save my progress, not even after several restarts of the game, not even after completing a whole career and beaten the devil himself in guitar battle (maybe he’s pissed off and jinxed my game?), not even when I went to the menu and saved manually several times.

After some googleing  I found out that some Windows user had found out that if they didn’t install the game exactly where the game wanted on C: the saving was fucked up, not done in the wrong place or fucked up with a warning. Just fucked up but happily telling you ‘’saving’’ and then ‘’overwrite successful’’ (and that noone involved in the game seemed to care about this bug). I guess it’s a similar thing that has happened to me since I also have the game in another place (my game doesn’t give any warnings neither, according to in-game messages everything’s OK and the saving is successful).

Now I thought I came up with something smart, I ~/Library/ where many MOSX programs store data there was a Guitar Hero folder and I guess this corresponded to the folder in My Documents that the Windows users had problems with so I thought that maybe something with the case sensitive file system crashed the saving process so I made an alias (MOSX linking system) from this folder to a folder on the non case sensitive file system disk image. Didn’t work so now I will try with a Unix link instead since some programs need these instead of the links that Finder uses. If that doesn’t work I guess I have to figure out what realive path the program maybe use, that wouldn’t work when I move the game, and try to fake it for the game.

I also looked in the preference file for the game but no clues there. Also it seems like the online features doesn’t work for Windows and MOSX since you need a Guitar Hero account AND a console specific account and link these and there doesn’t seem to be any of these for neither operating system, just for the Playstation, Wii and Xbox.

:/

Guitar Hero III and cases

We were thinking of getting a Guitar Hero for our Mac OS X computer that serves as entertainment computer, music, video, BZ Flag server and so on. For this project I looked around on the web to be sure to get a bundle with a guitar and compare some prices. During this process I looked at Apple's own web site and there found out, the only place I think, that Guitar Hero doesn't support case sensitive file system. Now this probably can get solved by doing a disk image with a not case sensitive file system and mounting it and installing Guitar Hero there but it got me thinking.

Not supporting case sensitive file system, WTF? It do support Mac OS X and HFS+ but not if it's formatted case sensitive. I'm not a programmer but I can only come up with one reason for not supporting case sensitive file systems, lower and upper cases are used in a way that no concern has been taken to whether they are upper or lower, why do it that way?

As I said, I'm not a programmer so if someone can enlighten me, please do. Why do some programs not support case sensitive file system?

Oh, one more thing, BZ Flag also gives you problems with case sensitive file systems but it's open source so you can follow the guidelines at the web site and change the one letter in the program that has to be changed. I'm not betting on the possibility to be able to do that with Guitar Hero.

iTunes Media and iThing apps

I thought up something quite smart, I believed, when I went to iTunes > Preferences > Advanced and changed the location for my iTunes fodler. The new location was in my Dropbox folder Dropbox > Media > iTunes and therefore would be copied to my Dropbox account and easily copied to other computers and if my harddrive goes boink my music and other media survives in the Dropbox account. Since the application folder for iPhone/iPod applications live inside the iTunes folder one might think that the applications also will get copied to the Dropbox account but no.

Even if I change the location of my iTunes folder the iPhone/iPod applications is placed in ~/Music/iTunes/. I even tried to remove all my iPhone applications on the computer and reloaded them from my iPhone but that didn’t help. They still ended up in ~/Music/iTunes. Why, Oh Why? If the folder is inside the iTunes folder and that is changed it should move along with the iTUnes folder, or?