August 30, 2013

Ah, that explains it. Be gone with you, operator! You offend me, sir.

March 3, 2013

Oh, ok, so I just wait 75 days and then I can watch the movie I bought? Sounds great! WTF, #apple @iTunes ???!!! FAIL.

Oh, ok, so I just wait 75 days and then I can watch the movie I bought? Sounds great!

No idea why all of a sudden this started happening (I didn’t “associate” the computer with a different Apple ID), but apparently this has been a known issue for years, since June 2011.

Google search: http://bit.ly/12m325F

I guess the intent was to prevent piracy ( http://betanews.com/2011/06/07/what-happens-when-you-download-itunes-past-purchases-with-a-different-account/ ) but both in concept and implementation this is a horrific user experience fail. Beyond embarrassing.

Simple solution instead of this malarkey: if you try to play or download something that was purchased with a different Apple ID, you are asked to enter the user name / password for the Apple ID used to purchase the item.

I also just learned this:

“Movies rented on your Apple TV are not transferable to any other device and can only be viewed on your Apple TV.” ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1498 )

Fucked up. I love my Apple TV but honestly this is so absurd that I might ditch it and find an alternative…

It’s funny, I just read this article yesterday:

http://www.zeldman.com/2013/03/02/the-curse-of-the-zeldman-curse/

Maybe I’ve been cursed with the Zeldman Curse?!… NOOOOO!!!…

November 18, 2012

The “Do not press this button” button in @alfredapp made my day. : )

http://www.alfredapp.com/uh-oh/?ref=button

July 15, 2012

Can’t there be some kind of standard keyboard shortcut for “Go to line #…” ???

In Dreamweaver for Mac it’s Command-,
In Dreamweaver for PC it’s Control-G
In Coda it’s Command-Shift-L
In TextMate and Espresso it’s Command-L
In TextWrangler it’s Command-J
…

WTF

Ah well.

Maybe the real problem is I need to pick one program to use and stick with it… : )

July 15, 2012