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Not Gonna Take Long...

2008-07-23T06:49:35Z

It's not gonna take long to see these!

1 Million iPhones Sold. Not Impressed!

2008-07-20T06:09:55Z

Nearly all the tech website that I read everyday, they are talking about how remarkable it is that Apple was able to sell a million iPhones in just five days. So what? And it very interesting to see that there are so many dumb people to see that amazing!

Ok let's talk about it then! Well it would have been a big hit if it was US-only, it wasn't, it was global with millions of people eligible to get it.

So you want to compare? Apple sold sold 1 million iPhones in 5 days. so it will be ~ 200,000 a day. Nokia sells 1.28 million phones a day! Don't just listen to Apple's marketing Bull S***. Do some research!

Never Switched to Swhich Back!

2008-07-16T09:12:53Z

I've used Mac for 2 years in Ai (The Art Institute). The programs that we were using were FinalCut Pro, DVDStudio, and Adobe After Effects CS2. I had the most painful computer experience of my life! They tell you Macs DO NOT crash. And they mean it like if they crash, it will be the END OF DAYS! Those piece of craps crashed on me more than ANY OS I've used. Even my hacked PSP does not crash that much while loading homebrew! And you might say well that one Mac had problem. NO! I used different machines! At the end I just told my instructor that I'll use my BEAUTIFUL PC to hand in my projects. Come on! Why using a Mac when we have the Premier Pro in Windows? Why using DVDStudio when we have Encore in Windows?

The other thing that bothers me alot was after my first few weeks that I started hitting some usability roadblocks here and there that I strongly disagreed with. I'd google or ask other Mac users about their solutions to these issues and would always receive a similar answer: "Why would you want to do that?" or "You shouldn't be doing it that way anyway." Thats fine - so I'd go off and look for a workaround. Unfortunately, because of Apple's lack of transparency and lack of customizability - I usually found myself out in the cold. Eventually I found myself with this mountain of usability issues and no workarounds that really impeded my day-to-day use. I was back in the same position I was.

The problem was not the software, but the Apple's and the Apple community's attitude. The attitude is that if users want to do something the "non-blessed" way they are confused or incorrect. Want two mouse buttons on your MacBook Pro? "You can do that this other way." Want to play music without storing your whole library in iTunes? "Why would you want to do that?" Want to use something besides iTunes to load your iPod? "Thats silly." Want to run on different hardware? "Thats a bad idea." All this was happening while Apple was clamping down on iPhone modding. Its total lack of transparency (both through code and legal action) assured that you did things their way and "only" their way. I'll be the first to admit I'm not Apple's target market (nor should I be), and ultimately their extreme efforts to prevent myself and others like me from improving and customizing their product was a deal killer for me.

Apple is not delivering an OS, or hardware, or even software. They are delivering an end-to-end technology experience, and if you are willing to just go with their experience you're in good shape, but if not - you're screwed. Apple is for people who are willing to buy into one way - their way - of doing things. Its purely the Apple way or the highway. Ironic given their 1984-esque commercial that implies Apple is for people who wanted to break the mold. Undeniably Apple has made some great choices with its harnessing of open source which contributed to my decision to switch, but its foolish to not recognize "why" those open source projects were successful in the first place.

If you're willing to put your user experience in the hands of those at Apple, getting a Mac may be a great solution for you. Ironically, if you really want to "think different" there are many better options like Windows or Linux!

1234 iPod Parody

2008-07-08T00:06:12Z

Windows Vs Mac

2008-06-14T19:41:04Z

A few years ago as you know, apple was making their own processors. And they were always comparing their CPUs with Intel CPUs. Things like Mac CPUs are x times faster than Intel CPUs and so on. Then suddenly, they stopped making their own CPUs and turned to Intel to make processors for Macs. So they started making Mac with Intel cores. If you're CPUs were better than Intel, why did you back down? It's still a mystery!

Also they've always been saying how bad Windows is and how much viruses Windows have (I haven't got any virus for 8 years!) and simply how crappy Windows is. Ok let says Windows is what you're saying (IS NOT!). If Windows is as bad as you're saying, WHY did you make your computers hybrid to install Windows on them too? It's a very simple question. Windows is bad so why did you make your Macs compatible with Windows? Yes, this is still a mystery too!

Apple also have been saying how they always update their OS and how Microsoft doesn't do that. Let me see. Apple makes a few changes. Add a couple of option buttons to the programs that they've had for a very long time, then they increment the version of their OS by .1 and call it a new OS. Nothing has been changed. It's just all minor changes but now you have to go and buy a new disk for about $120. What does Microsoft do? Well they make a new OS every 3 to 5 years but for those minor changes that Apple charges, they simply let you download it for free as an update. So which one would you like better?

You know how I see Apple company? I see them like one of those students that were always bullying other students. Apple is SO childish and because they can't compete with other companies, they starts to make fun of other companies (You can easily find examples but I'll give you one, "Hello I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC...".).

Now you might think that Apple is the winner now. Because Macs now can run Windows too. No it's exactly the other way around. Microsoft didn't do a THING. They are happy. On the other hand Apple made them selves compatible with Windows. That means that they still rely on Microsoft and it also means Windows will sell even more than before!

So who is the winner?

Stop Lying You BASTARD!

2008-06-12T11:30:03Z

Yesterday I watched WWDC 2008. Like any other ones, they kept lying and throwing cool words like "innovation" around which again another big fat lie!

I don't know what's up with Apple. Anything that they do is an innovation. They fart, they've innovated the way that we fart! Common! Get a life! Before I make this website, I've always liked to watch WWDCs cuz I like how they lie and amazingly no one gets it either! I can't go back and proove the old lies that they said but hey, now I have this website and I can show their new lies here!

They kept going on and on about that stupid Mobile Me crap and they were saying how COOOL it is and how it's using the latest technology and how they've implemented the AJAX technology and it was like they've made the whole AJAX!!! Specially when he was showing it off. He kept saying things like "It feels like your desktop" or "It looks like you're running a desktop application". Yes pumpkin! it is called AJAX. I guess you guys are new to it! And of course they mentioned that how they've innovated the way that we brows a billion times! People are either blind or they want to be blind. There are PLENTY of websites that use AJAX and they are FAR SUPERIOR and BETTER than that Mobile Me. And most of them are OPEN SOURCE and FREE! Here is one, and another one, and another one after that, and the third one! Want more? And yes they've been doing AJAX for a VERY LONG TIME.

Ok now the pricing. How much was it. mmm. $99 per year for 20GB of space with 200GB of bandwidth! Uh I'm sorry but any one who buys this service is and idiot! Ok now what does it have? NOTHING! You can't do ANY web scripting AT ALL! So anything that comes with the package can not be modified (like other Apple products). There might be just some dumb templates that you can choose but THAT's IT! Now you wanna share stuff? How about buying a webhost? Cuz it's WAY BETTER! How much better? Well let me tell you! UNLIMITED SPACE, UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH, UNLIMITED DOMAINS, UNLIMITED EMAILS with PHP, MySQL and SO MUCH MORE! For how much? $95.4 for 12 months and if you buy 24 months is even cheaper for $166.8! And guess what! You can make your own WEBSITE or even WEBSITES! O but I forgot something VERY important! Mac ppl don't want to think! Come on! They just want something that works! They don't like to spend one day and make a UNIQUE gallery for them selves. That's TOO MUCH WORK and THINKING! They just want a service to make the same design OVER and OVER and make them selves dumb and dumber! Now I know that this service does something else that the webhost does not offer and that's push email push blah blah blah. But if you really need your desktop (email, calendar and addressbook) everywhere that badly, there is something called remote desktop! Now that's the REAL desktop anywhere! And for iPhone freaks, yes you can control your PC with your iPhone! If you're wondering where is that COOOL webhosting company, CLICK HERE TO SIGNUP FOR HostMonster.COM NOW.

Oo. And also. Get a better designer next time to design your logos man! We've seen similar logo 8 years ago!

Life Cycle!

2008-06-10T09:15:30Z

It seems that all the Apple products have only 1 year life cycle! They've been doing it for their Macs, iPods and now the iPhone. And amazingly this is THE ONLY company that does it!

If you think about a PC, you don't trash it and buy a new one. You simply upgrade the graphic card for example. If you think about gaming consoles, they AT LEAST have 10 years of life cycle! Great example for gaming consoles is PlayStation 2. If Sony wanted to make one PlayStation every year, we would have had PlayStation 14 (PS1 = 1995), not PlayStation 3!

They've made iPod in EVERY SINGLE shape, size and color and they are saying it's selling like CRAZY! Well yea you've made a new iPod EVER SINGLE FREAKING YEAR! If 10 people buy each clone of your same damn iPod and you have 10 iPods in different size, you just sold 100!

You know what? How about making iPhone for every age? That's gonna be so damn COOL! And making it age restricted. So I have to buy iPhone 23 and next year on my birthday I HAVE TO buy iPhone 24!

Making a new shape or color every single year DOES NOT mean that the device is very popular. It's based on how long a device can last and still people buy it because they love it!

Cake Cutter

2008-06-02T07:11:01Z

The founder and current HP CTO Rahul Sood celebrated his birthday by slicing his cake with a MacBook Air, and it worked quite nicely.

No optical drive? Then it's good for slicing cake at least!

Time Machine, Sounds Awesome!

2008-05-28T04:41:15Z

Is Mac OS X Leopard's "Time Machine" feature a step forward or a step back in backup and recovery technology? It's easy to take either side of that debate, so it's probably a very aptly-named feature. Some prospects of Time Machine are very forward-thinking and futuristic, while others represent the "dark ages" in the past of backup technology.

On the positive side, it is easily set up, does a fairly fine task of backing up a system to a 2nd drive, and has an interface that looks fairly simple to work with. It will probably make more people to back up their Macs than any other feature Apple has added to the Macintosh since 1984.

On the other hand, Time Machine is a huge step backwards in backup technology in a surprising number of ways:

- Compression: In order to get the most out of disk space, most backup utilities compress backup data so it doesn't take too much space. Time Machine does NOT compress backup data!

- Encryption: Most modern backup utilities have some form of encryption to ensure that the backup data is safe (in case if it gets stolen or someone gets access to the backup data...). Time Machine does NOT have any encryption option!

- Delta Storage: Most backup utilities will detect the segments of a file that have been changed since the last backup so the program will only backup the portion that has been changed. For example if you have a 600 word document and you have only changed the first page, the backup utility will only backup the first page because it has the other 599 pages not the whole document... but guess what? Time Machine does NOT! And sadly this lack of feature will waste an incredible amount of disk space and time to copy the huge files over and over AGAIN!

- Data Aging: Most modern backup utilities have something called Date Aging which means that the program will delete the oldest copies of a file to open up some more space on the hard drive and most of the time, you can specify how many shadow backup you want. So for example you can configure your backup utility to have 5 copies of the same folder with all the files inside it and so on. Time Machine on the other hand does not have this feature which means eventually it will run out of space and the user has to delete the oldest shadow backups manually in order to open up some space...

- File Vault: File Vault doesn't "play nicely" with Time Machine. To back up a File Vault account, you'll have to create an unencrypted account and then log in to that to create a Time Machine archive, according to Tech.co.uk.

- Sensitivity to Disk Formats: Since Time Machine is file and directory based rather than delta-based, it would seem to think that as long as the backup disk is formatted using a scheme that Mac OS X supports for reading and writing files that this would be enough. Unfortunately, Time Machine has problems with disks that have a Master Boot Record on them, iDisks and iPods can't be used for backups, and non-HFS+ disks can't be used for backups. Yes, I know! FUN!

- Applications in Backups are Executable: Because Time Machine doesn't make any effort to encrypt or compress the backup data, applications are stored in executable form on the Time Machine drive. If you delete an application from the system for any reason, it's possible that Leopard will launch the copy from the backup without warning when you click on a relevant file.

- Naming Issues: If the computer name contains non English alphabet letters and numbers 0 to 9, past backups may not be visible in Time Machine. That is very interesting! Well if the name has been accepted in the Preferences Pane, why Time Machine can't?

- Aperture Database Corruption: According to Apple, "running Time Machine backup or restore operations while Aperture is running may lead to inconsistencies in the Aperture database." It's getting even more interesting! I can see Leopard screwing up backing up a third-party application but let me get this straight. OS X is made by Apple, Aperture is made by Apple and Time Machine is also made by Apple. So that means their own product can't work with each other? Does actually anybody test these programs before they release it? I guess that's what they say about their awesome compatibility!

- Missing Feature: As pointed out in the Mac TidBITS site, Steve Jobs announced at the WWDC in June 2007 that Time Machine would support disks attached to Airport Base Stations. When Leopard actually shipped in October, that feature was eliminated. Apple had also previously claimed that Time Machine would support encryption (it doesn't).

- Bootable Backups: Most modern backup utilities support the option for making backups that are bootable. Well you guessed it right! Not Time Machine.

- Multiple Media: Good backup strategy dictates that you backup your system to more than one media set, especially when you're using a technology like hard disks which can fail and take your backup with them. It's considered good practice to backup to more than one disk, switching between them on a regular basis. Time Machine doesn't support this common practice.

- Intelligent Filtering: Most modern backup utilities will automatically filter out files that it doesn't make sense to backup, such as swap files, cache files, and the like which are created dynamically at startup and contain no user data. Time Machine allows for manual exceptions to be setup, but doesn't apply any intelligent filtering. It just backs up everything whether it's useful or good to back it up or not.

- .Mac Sync and iDisk Sync Issue: According to TidBITS, synchronizing files with .Mac Sync and iDisk Sync causes them to be marked as changed and therefore as requiring backup. This means Time Machine will spend a considerable amount of time backing up files that haven't actually changed. In addition, it will backup your entire mail database every time you get a new message.

Some Cool Vidz Part 2

2008-05-25T08:50:35Z

Here are some funny vidz part 2 that I thought I must share...

Mac Switch Ad Parody - Fun Stuff

Mac Switch Ad Parody - Editing

Some Cool Vidz Part 1

2008-05-24T08:29:13Z

Here are some funny vidz that I thought I must share...

Mac Switch Ad Parody - IT

Mac Switch Ad Parody - Gamers

Thanks for Your Negative Emails

2008-05-16T04:41:37Z

Hello, I'm the owner of AppleFree.org. Just wanted to thank you for all your negative emails (some positives too).
Well we have an expression in Persian that Says:
If you got a lot of negative feedbacks, that means you're doing it right.

Also wanted to share one of the emails I got with the wonderful readers of AppleFree.org. So there we go:

From: iGirl Appleawesome
Subject: Comments

You should really reconsider some or your arguments.

1) macs do get less virus\'s because the coding the system is built upon is a linux/unix knock off ( i hate to say it) so the coding is harder to hack. So do you know what this means? TORRENT TORRENT TORRENT
2) Mac may not be exactly a gaming PC but, who the fuck cares buy a playstation you motherfucker.
3) The service in every apple store is been far better then any of a pc store.
4)NO BLUE SCREENS OF DEATH
5) If a macbook air was hacked in 2 min, then any vista machine could be hacked in 1.
6) Do you find it odd that more PC owners have iPods more then anyone else?
7) PC\'s are cheap because they are built cheap, Macs are a higher price because they are built better? PC\'s cost effective? Not really when you have to factor in how long the fucking device will last, how much it will cost to repair. And at some point it will need to be repaired.

I\'ll see you in an apple store soon when your pc breaks down =-]

Then I wrote:

Hi, Tnx for your email. The things that you listed, now I'm gonna write some list:
1) macs have less viruses that doesn't mean they are secure. As you've heard, mac got hacked under 2 min! It has less viruses because a virus writer DOES NOT want to waste his time and write a virus and affect 1% of people who have mac! He will write a virus for 99% of people who have Windows! So if you think about it, hackers and virus writers were helping Windows...
2) Yes mac is not a gaming PC FOR SURE. So what exactly is mac for? Browsing the internet and checking email (a PSP can do that too) and making stupid movie clips that you can't show in the real business world? Or maybe doing some iChat with it. That should be fun! How about making some stupid websites with iLife which again you can't really make money out of it!
3) Well it might be but I've never used any of PC services! If you are a little smart, you should be able to figure things out. It's the 21st century! :)
4) Yea you're right. No blue screen of death. Instead you guys have the Beach Ball Of Death. It's prettier I say but it doesn't give a CLUE of what's wrong in your mac! The whole system just locks up! At least the blue screen of death would give some info of why the PC has crashed.
5) Vista got hacked 1 day after and it WAS NOT a security hole in Windows itself. It was a security hole in Adobe Reader. So mac could be hacked this way too. And if you think about it, Vista DID NOT get hacked. Adobe caused it. And Ubuntu did not get hacked at all cuz they don't use Adobe Reader. They have their own PDF reader...
6) Well iPod is a different thing. I don't care about iPod. It's just a music player!
7) Again with the cheap and not cheap. There is difference between a product being sold cheap or a product being sold the right price. Now PCs have the right price. On the other hand macs NO WAY! And about the cost effective. If anything gets old in your PC, you just replace that part! But in mac, you trash the whole mac and buy a new one! About the repairing. As I said it's 21st century. If you can't figure out what's wrong with your computer, what do you know then?

And yes KEEP DREAMING to see me in an Apple Store! Cuz my PC NEVER BREAKS DOWN!

But tnx for your email. :)

It's FUN isn't it?

iPhone owners talk less, spend loads more

2008-05-14T23:50:05Z

I believe it is good to talk, but iPhone owners think it is better to browse the World Wide Web, send e-mails and listen to music. A report has showed that owners of the coveted handset spend far less time chatting on it than users other handsets do on their devices.

According to analyst iSuppli, of all the time non-iPhone users spend with their phones, over seventy percent is used up by voice communications. But when the analyst questioned US iPhone owners, it showed they typically only spend 46.5 percent of their 'phone time' actually making calls.

But iPhone adopters are heavy mobile internet users, with 12.1 percent of their handset time spent surfing the online. Those without the Apple talker generally browse the web 2.4 percent of the time.

E-mail also popular with iPhone owners, with most spending 10.4 percent of their time with the gadget checking or sending virtual letters. Non-iPhone addicts only spend 2.8 percent of their handset time on e-mails.

Since Apple's device is also an integrated iPod, it is not surprising that listening to music takes 11.9 percent of most users' time. But music just accounts for 2.5 percent of the time non-iPhone owners spend with their phones.

If Apple Wanted To Innovate The Way We Poo!

2008-05-11T22:17:48Z

The Air Poo is everything Apple could stuff into a toilet, negative OS X. The multi-touch flushpad intuitively applies 1 finger swipe to send # 1 down the pipes and 2 fingers for # 2, which its built-in iPod dock and surround sound masks with "crystal clear highs and bowel-shaking lows."

There's a dock for the "greatest laptop available" for potty-surfing, and of course, a heated toilet seat to keep your bum toasty for as long as your MacBook Air battery lasts. It is rumored that the future firmware update will add cushioned ass-wiping with faux Global Positioning System for unbelievably accurate strokes to the feature list, for just twenty dollars.

Five Reasons Why PCs Are Better Than Macs

2008-05-09T22:16:49Z

PCs Are Better For Games: Macs, for some reason, have never been very good to gamers -- games on the Mac have mostly been a second thought while Microsoft is balls-deep in its Xbox experiment. For PC owners, experiencing a top-of-the-line computer means being able to purchase an assortment of titles so big you'll never truly have to get a videogame system. Meanwhile, the Mac makes you look like a Soviet searching the bread shelves for crumbs of entertainment that may be released on the whim of cruel developers. Add to that the price and troubles Macs have in switching graphics cards, which is essential if, perhaps, you actually wanted to keep playing modern games. GameTap and Steam make the PC a gaming-on-demand service with 100s of retro and current titles there for the taking. GameTap works on Macs, but just Intel ones -- and not for all titles. And so it goes, until you would like to tear your hair out.

PCs Are Better Media Machines: I could see the Mac owners already bleedin' out of their earholes over this one. F*** you, Macs can do everything with media in the whole universe! No, they can't. 3 letters for you: D.V.R. Windows Media Center has been a DVR replacement for a long time now, streaming all the video content your torrenting heart wants to boot, because Gates swings that path. Steve Jobs favours Front Row, Apple's happy little interface that has no TiVo magic whatsoever. Apple TV, a set-top box that should have been a DVR, rather locks you to an iTunes account enslavement and a media-purchasing DRM-rental-blindered idea of "fun." It possibly simpler to use an iPod and a Mac to download TV shows, but you are also stuck with one media store, no recording alternatives, and no way out once you are completely sucked in. Yep, I know there are third-party DVR alternatives for the Mac. For how much Macs cost, you would think they could bundle one in, right?

PCs Are a lot More Cost-Effective: Macs are still priced too high. Tell me you do not agree. And if you don't, then you have been hypnotised, as well. The Apple Stores and apple.com have made a one-world pricing world for all things Mac, while in the personal computer world there are a lot of manufacturers, dozens of retail stores, dozens of sales and rebates, and plenty of cheap refurbished parts on the market that people can use to build their own dream PCs. Apple's cheapest laptop computer is still more than one thousand dollars. You can get a PC laptop for five hundred at Best Buy. Yep, they are different in quality -- but an eight-year-old who needs to plunk out a book report does not need 0.13 inch-thin wafers of aluminium. Families, non-nerds, and most of the adult world need less-expensive options, and for $500, the only thing Apple sells that has a screen and reads e-mail is an iPhone or an iTouch.

Apple Is Fascist: You can not build a Mac easy, and you can't truly customise it, either -- not unless you prefer to avoid your warrantee. They are like fancy sports automobiles run on a single computer chip, fixable only at your dealer for a set price. Hacking a Mac looks like rape to fanboys, and it could be done, but with a trip to Fry's Electronics and a little lunch money in the PC world you are able to basically soup up your own Windows roadster. That's not appealing to most people -- but there are amazing things you are able to do on PCs with homemade software that normally Is not OS X-compatible whatsoever. Waiting for a Mac patch of a file-sharing programme, cell phone patcher, or whatever your freedom-cherishing heart and soul wants can feel like exile. Sure, Macs have less computer viruses, worms, and crapware -- but they as well have costly, difficult-to-mod machines that get outdated in a couple of short years. The same thing happens to PCs, too. And they're cheaper.

It's Still a PC World Out There: In case you prefer to run your world business with a healthy dose of cheap labor from Pakistan (or, with the declining dollar, Alabama), just think that it will be Windows you will need to run it on. But Macs run Windows! Yep, I know. The Mac is a good, high-end Windows machine. And it is really cool that Macs run Windows XP. But the real issue is, when will OS X be good enough to not need to run Windows at all? That power to boot up XP isn't much a Mac victory as it's Bill Gates' triumph. He now has compatibility with his competitor, which was the whole idea in the first place. Apple had better follow suit and make iLife (and other exclusive Mac softwares) useable to Windows users in its entirety. Of course, they won't.