Goodbye BT - It's the little things

Its the little things that matter so much. Like not sending you your introductory voucher, sending you promises it will be in the post. Putting up prices arbitrarily. **bleep** you off the most. Charging if you don't pay direct debit and then helping yourself. Adding a couple of quid for paper billing and going e-mail without your consent. Telephone help in India where the people works-in-dark-in-early-hours-of-the-morning-very-helpful-to-tell-you-what-I-am-reading-off-the-scre...en. Raising the prices again. Giving you the opportunity to subscribe to special offer discount that isn't and tie you into a new contract for 24 months. Minefield of options when you call then hangs up after ad nauseam please-hold Smetana's Má vlast. Goodbye BT. I hope it is the last. FFFFFFFF-rown. Disconnect fee. Keeping paid in advance charges. Not our policy to give you a refund. Now you see the cockroaches in the contract. Pull the plug and leave you high and dry. Deny you pulled the plug and keep the billing going - that's Technical We're accounts. It shows you are still contact on our computer. We must be right. It is the little things.

Spot on JSTTESCONET !
The only thing I'd disagree with you about is these are Big things not Little things.
It must be so depressing working for BT and knowing that they have such an appalling reputation. My heart goes out to their employees who need a job but can't find another employer.

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The little things #2

Basically I´m thrilled with this update, which I haven´t got yet.
Among others the elastic audio features -Yes, the term "elastic" is used in promo material-And from the video I´ve seen, it seems much more straigtforward than Pro Tools.
But the little things:
#1 The graphics department. Are you ever struggling to get a volume curve right? Zoom in, zoom in.
PT is much more accurate here. In other words, Logic can be very clumsy.
Not to mention the famous double spl´s and the "suddenly" diminished mixer window.
#2 Wouldn´t it be nice to open sample editor in place, so it corresponds to the position in arrange?
(#3 No, I know!: Selecting i.e 8 drum tracks to make a common fade out, No! (You can use the inspector, numerically))
#4 Does the new package include a decent de-esser?
#5 Got the Waves GTR3. Was that a waste of money, compared to the Amp Designer?
(well not exactly a little thing)
And more of course. Curious to hear your opinions.
JanD

phillipthurston wrote:
ok 2 things why do you get so little data on the 45 dollar plan when most apps take so much to run. They should give at least 2 gb of data for that one then they would get more happy customers to sign up.
It is up to the customer to choose the plan with the amount of data for their needs. If you want 2 GB of data, choose a plan which has 2 GB of data. Don't choose a plan lower in price without enough data for your needs. There are plenty of people for which 1 GB of data is plenty for a month of service.
You simply seem to be unhappy with Verizon's prices. Verizon will lower their prices if and when pressure from the market forces them to do so. Unfortunately for you, that will probably mean Verizon will STILL have a 1 GB plan AND a 2 GB plan with the 1 GB plan being lower in price than the 2 GB plan. I am sure you will then complain Verizon has "so little data on the $35 plan when most apps take so much to run" when the $45 plan could possibly have 2 GB of data just like you wanted.

It's the little things that drive me crazy...

As I continue making the slow transition from Avid to FCP, little things that should be no-brainers continually trip me up. What can I do to keep my border intact and not lose it when I crop?
Secondly, why is it when I change the speed of a clip on the timeline does it stretch the clip out and push everything down (and vice-a-versa too)? I simply want to - in Avid terms - time warp it within the span of the timeline's clip.
Thanks gents,
BenR
Senior Editor
VTA FL
Hollywood, FL
www.VTA.com

As I continue making the slow transition from Avid to FCP, little things that should be no-brainers continually trip me up. What can I do to keep my border intact and not lose it when I crop?
Many have made the journey.
You have to leave your baggage at the door, FCP is a very different beast that will confound you to start with.
But you may learn to love many features and wonder why it is so hard on an Avid.
In any case,
the answer you are looking for lies in the order or computation in FCP.
Motion follows Filter.
So you need to work around this little order issue.
Crop the image or footage.
Then nest (under the Sequence menu),
Right click the nested clip in your timeline, select load in Viewer,
add your border.
Welcome to your first new way of thinking in FCP.
You'll find many more times you will wonder how people don't scream 10 times a day on FCP.
Then a years time you might use an Avid and ask "why can't I just import a 2000 pixel image and zoom with out it looking rubbish?"

My ipad (64g wifi 3g) just turned its self off and when i finally got it back on it was just on the apple start up screen with the little thing spinning beneath it. Can an anyone help!!!!!!!!!

if anyone has ether had this happen to them can u tell me and if you no how to fix it please tell

Recovery Mode is how to start all over again on your iPad like new. It erases everything, even the operating system, and reloads directly from Apple. Once that is done, if you have performed a backup of your iPad in the past, you will be able to restore all of your configuration settings and preferences after the reload occurs.
To prepare for a recovery mode restore, have the following ready:
- Your computer (plugged in to power) ready with iTunes up and running
- Your iPad synch cable plugged into your computer but NOT your iPad
- Make sure your iPad is at least at 20% battery, preferably higher
NOTE: Do NOT touch the iPad once recovery begins. Make sure your computer doesn't suspend, sleep, or shut down while the process is going on.
Steps:
- Sitting next to your computer, take your iPad (which should NOT be connected to your PC) and hold down the sleep button (on the top of the iPad) and the home button (front of the iPad) at the same time
- After about 10-15 seconds, the unit will power off (do not do anything when the "slide to power off" screen appears, just keep holding the buttons)
- When the iPad turns back on, you will see the silver Apple appear on the screen. Continue holding down the home button but release the sleep button and immediatly plug the iPad into your computer running iTunes
- You should see a symbol appear on the iPad with a picture of a USB cable with an arrow pointing to the iTunes logo. iTunes will then say that it detected an iPad in recovery mode.
- Let iTunes restore the device. It will download a fresh copy of firmware, install it, and verify the SW.
NOTE: This may take a while. iTunes needs to download about 500MB from the Apple server, then it will start the loader on the iPad, and load the OS.
- After iTunes said that is successfully restored your device, you may get an error message saying the iPad isn't recognized and you're still at the screen with the USB cable and iTunes logo on the iPad. Don't sweat it. Unplug the iPad from the computer. Power off the iPad by holding the sleep button until you see the "slide to power off" - go ahead and slide to power off. Once it is shut down, push the sleep button again until it powers on.
- the iPad will come back to the familiar USB cable/iTunes logo. When it does, just plug it back into your computer and iTunes will activate the iPad.
- if you had previously backed up your iPad, iTunes will tell you there is a backup and ask if you would like it restored. If you wish to do this, accept the prompt. This will also take some time. Note it will NOT put your apps, music, movies, TV shows, etc back on your iPad, just your settings and preferences.
- once the restore is complete, iTunes should recognize your iPad and you can pick your synching options (apps, music, movies, etc, etc) and have a blast! The only thing I noticed it doesn't retain is the page layouts for your apps, so either screen capture them before you begin, or write it down.
I hope this helps

Amazing the little things that are missed

I admit, it's the little conveniences that I miss in 6.0.
I miss being able to play a file before opening it. Helpful when you have a mass of sound effects to choose from. Leaves01, Leaves03, Leaves03. (Yes, you can do that through right-click and spawning a player, but it was nice to have it native.)
Am I just not seeing it or is there no longer a way to right-click and zoom to the tracks you want to see in multitrack?

Hi Lighthope,
The ability to preview files before opening them is available within the Media Browser panel, in addition to placing shortcuts to commonly accessed locations, searching within a folder, drag or insert directly into multitrack or CD sessions, and other functionality. You can choose to manually play, auto-play on select, and loop playback. This functionality has also been added to the Files panel.
The Au3 style of preview in the OS Open Files dialog was very hacky and delicately implemeted on Windows XP, but Windows 7 and OS X no longer made this functionality possible. Both OSs implemented methods to preview files from these dialogs without launching them. It was our intent with the Media Browser to implement a better system of browsing your sound effects from within the application, where we would have control over the implementation and would not be constrained by OS support.
As for your track zoom question, are you referring to the functionality where you right-click and drag on the vertical scroll bar in multitrack to zoom in? This functionality has not been implemented in Audition CS, but a task in our feature backlog exists to revisit track zoom. Currently you can zoom into tracks using the mouse scroll-wheel, ALT = (zoom in), ALT - (zoom out) or by dragging the border between tracks.

The little things that make you go "grrr"

What minor issues get on your nerves? Perhaps we can all help each other out by airing our grievances.
For me the main thing has got to be that every update of firefox is slower and more leaky than the one before it. It used to be fast and smooth, now it regularly takes over 500mb of ram. I just love the extensions though

zenlord wrote:That my boot is slowed down to wait for my connection to be up. Backgrounding is not helpful, because I have some nfs-shares that need the network-connection.
I know what you mean. It's most annoying on my eee where it tries to bring up eth0 during runlevel 1. Hangs the process for 1-2 seconds. Not much, but it's an annoyance.
JohannesSM64 wrote:I couldn't get neither netcfg nor wicd to work, so I put sudo iwconfig ra0 essid name && sudo dhcpcd & in my .xinitrc..
Maybe try posting a thread with your driver info and the config file you tried to use? I thought netcfg was broken for me for the longest time before noticing I had a typo in the hex string for the key
jceasless wrote:The fact that being in 'power' group doesn't give me access to shutdown, nor does 'storage' give me access to mount, nor does 'network' give me access to ifconfig.
You can configure a lot of this to be exactly like that using sudo and the SGID bit for certain binaries.
I'm annoyed at my eee 900 taking longer to get from bios to grub than from grub to login. I hear there's a bios update that can fix that, but I'm afraid to brick it. Anyone know how I can tell if I have the specific correct bios?

It's the little things that bug me...

This is really a bit of a rant; though if someone can help to fix any of my problems that'd be great.
1. The way that all available midi notes in the entire song seem to appear on the Midi editor window (forget what it's called in Logic) if you double click on it (this must just be me, right??)
2. The way the scrolling works - if I have a loop of say four bars, Logic doesn't seem to be clever enough to realise it'd be nice if it didn't move the entire arrange page back and forward - that is; a loop which is small enough to fit on the screen doesn't automatically do that. And the follow song button seems to do nothing at times
3. The limiters - they don't work! I suffer awful PDC with the adaptive limiter on individual tracks, and neither of the limiters do what they're supposed to - ie. limit the signal!
4. When I solo one track, I always seem to get at least one other track through!
5. The CST reset toggle... it doesn't happen much, but when you do accidentally catch it you know about it... "undo", please!
So, I'm hoping these are easily fixed (well, probably not the limiter bit...) let me know your thoughts...
And this rant/mild whistleblowing isn't in place of a "feedback form" - I hope we can fix at least one of the problems!
Thanks,
Mickey.

1. The way that all available midi notes in the
entire song seem to appear on the Midi editor window
(forget what it's called in Logic) if you double
click on it (this must just be me, right??)
If you mean the Matrix Editor, you're describing what dbl-clilcking in a blank area of that editor is supposed to do. But probably like you, it's rare that I ever want to see that display. From time to time I'll accidentally call up this display when I think I'm dbl-clicking on a note (to see it in an Event Editor window) but I accidentally click on a blank space in the Matrix Editor instead.
I think this function, so rarely needed, should be modified so that it's invoked by having to hold down a modifier key+dbl click instead. But if you see the all-notes display and you didn't mean to see it, it's pilot error.
2. The way the scrolling works - if I have a loop of
say four bars, Logic doesn't seem to be clever enough
to realise it'd be nice if it didn't move the entire
arrange page back and forward - that is; a loop which
is small enough to fit on the screen doesn't
automatically do that. And the follow song button
seems to do nothing at times
True 'nuf. I'd recommend having the Catch function on a key command (mine's "A") and be able to turn it on and off as you see fit. Turning Catch off will solve this problem, but I agree that the problem you described is annoying.
3. The limiters - they don't work! I suffer awful PDC
with the adaptive limiter on individual tracks, and
neither of the limiters do what they're supposed to -
ie. limit the signal!
What's PDC?
4. When I solo one track, I always seem to get at
least one other track through!
I run into this too. Logic is buggy when it comes to certain Soloing operations. My advice would be to set up a key command for "deselect all tracks" or "deselect all objects" (it's one of those two). Hit this before you solo anything.
5. The CST reset toggle... it doesn't happen much,
but when you do accidentally catch it you know about
it... "undo", please!
CST?
And this rant/mild whistleblowing isn't in place of a
"feedback form" - I hope we can fix at least one of
the problems!
Since Apple is so secretive and un-communicative as a software manufacturer, and doesn't bother to acknowledge known and unknown issues with Logic, IMO the best thing you could do is post your problems here (as well as the feedback thing). This way other users will either be able to help you out, or, from your experience they'll learn something more about their system.
Anyway, that's my lil' rant on top of your rant.

Oops -- help with the little things

Somehow, my beginning post was submitted before I wrote it . . . sorry.
Anyway, I'm trying to move to iWork '08. I've played around with it a little, and found some things I can't figure out, even using the help menu extensively.
Is there any "drag and drop" ability? I can't find it . . .
I've been working with tables to put in some simple things, and I can't seem to highlight all the text in the table to assign it a style -- I have to manually drag the curser over the text in one cell at a time.
Is there any way to paste text and make any hyperlinks in it appear as regular text, without changing everything so that all hyperlinks come in as plain text?
Thanks!
susan

muddymop wrote:
1. There's *drag and drop* ability. I have tried dragging an image file, a PDF file into Pages document and it successfully insert the image in.
2. You should be able to select the cells in the table and assign a style to it. Place your cursor at one of the cell (it should have a blue border around it), click on the cell and drag across the table to select multiple cells, and then click on the style that you intend to change. Alternatively, you may also click on the entire table (it should have the resize handles at all the sizes) and change the style.
I'm sorry if it wasn't clear -- I should have asked "can you use drag and drop on text?" I haven't tried what you did; I've started with text and can't get anything except a regular curser.
Thanks for the info on styles in tables -- I did get that to work.
susan

Thanks for the little things

I have the iPhone 3g with the new 3.o OS and just noticed that when you have your cell forwarded, it now displays an icon on the top of the screen next to the 3G/Edge/Wireless icon.
I remember back to the first version of the OS and missing this feature... ALways for got to un-forward.

hi , You can try a few things here...specially since you have so many wireless networks around you.
bring up network connections, right click on the wireless network connecting and bring up properties...select the wireless networks tab and remove all networks from under "preferred networks".....once done , add your network.You can specify the encryption keys under the association/authentication tab. One more thing,under the preferred networks , you have an advanced button....hit that and select the 2nd option...
on the router you can try and change the beacon to 50 and reduce the RTS and fragmentation threshold by 40 each...these are found under the advanced wireless settings.

The little things that make you go 'ooh, nice'

One of the things I enjoy with rolling release and access to a lot of development software through aur is the new discoveries you make every so often when you roll out a new version.
I just updated bespin-svn and have to say 'ooh, very nice!'. Some changes, nothing dramatic, but enough to make the whole qt experience just that more polished.
I've generally shied away from using sudo because I prefer the root password for administrative task, not my way easy user pass. I just discovered you can set sudo to always prompt for root password. I am using sudo systemwide now and loving it. Much smoother to use now. Probably also a bit more secure as sometimes I can forget to exit root terminals when multitasking.
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Allan wrote:
dolby wrote:The fact that all articles regarding EXT4 deal only with the FS speed, and not its stability as if it became irrelevant or something that is taken for granted.
Not the way you meant the "oh nice" but oh well..
Haha! I saw you had posted in this thread and thought to myself "Dolby likes something! WOW!". Turns out you don't...
I like a lot of things. I just happen to dont express my likes as often as i express my dislikes, nor as often as i would like to express them, for various reasons, some of which are beyond my control.
Most people do nothing but praise and i ...dislike that.

It is the little things...too cool

With all the bad stuff, what cool things have you noticed about the iPhone?
For instance, I just noticed that the Calendar on the home screen actually reflects the real date.
I like that when you rotate the picture actually rotates (as opposed to the screen going dark for a minute).
Anyone else?

FantasticHunter wrote:
Well guys after working on my credit for two months. I wanted to treat myself for my birthday so I applied for the Capital One Quicksilver One and I was APPROVED. I was so excited to finally see an approval screen instead of "we need more information, please call this number". While the limit is only $500 I am still very proud to have been approved for it with only two months on my other cap1 card.Also I had applied for discover first to try to get into the double cash back before the app time ended but I was declined :/. Gonna try to see about getting the AF waived next week, I am just so excited Thanks to all the wonderful people here to have given me tips and helped me start building my credit.Congrats and happy belated birthday Now a MJ honesty moment Why app a card with AF and then try to have it waived the very next week .....No no noSorry but things like this is why the EO number is now shut down just being honest plus it was probably waived for the year In the future only app the cards you want don't settle for any others for any reason FYI these are the types of success stories we like to read bravo and keep pushing forward on your journey

The Mac Mouse Lag (It's the little things)

Has anyone found out how to fix the "lagging mouse" issue on their Mac? Apparently this has been an issue for years. If you're doing trivial things like browsing the web or checking email, you may not notice. But if you're doing more intricate things like programming or graphic designing, that's when it becomes extremely annoying. It really pains me to say this but after spending a few hours on my mac, when I want to get work done, it's refreshing to go back to windows because the mouse is more accurate. Why Apple continues to neglect this is beyond me (guess they're to busy designing the iWatch).
To quote another user "Having a not properly responding mouse drives me nuts! Its like trying to write with a pen while someone pushes my shoulders."
The link below documents the issue...noticed that it was written in 2011.
The cause for all your Mac OS X mouse annoyances
If anyone has any solutions please post.
Thanks in advance

I've been doing more googling on this issue. It appears this problems has been around longer than I thought. That is scary. Apple's inaction is basically saying that they are not going to fix this.
Here's another post written in 2006 documenting the problem. It was posted by a graphic designer describing how his company switch to Macs only to find out how inaccurate the mouse was.
Mouse Accuracy Problem - The macosxhints Forums

Selecting and deleting the little 'things'

Hi
everybody
When I expand a king forms in cs3, I obtain a lot of appenrently useless 'contour paths' (see images). I did not find a way to select them all (only the 'contour paths' ) and delete.
Can that be done with javascript?
JP

I forgot the illustration...

HT1349 the little things where the charger goes is broken. can i return and get a new ipod touch

i need help

Probably not. It would come under accidental damage which isn't covered by a warranty. YOu can take it into an Apple store and have them have a look at it, but all you may get is the ability to purchase a replacement.

The imac i have won't restart...the little thing just keeps spinning below the Apple icon...how do i reboot?

How can i reboot my imac when it won't open?

Work thru the steps at > Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup
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