IMovie '13 "dumbed down" compared to iMovie '11

It appears that Apple has decided to make the Mac versions of iLife and iWorks apps identical to the IOS versions on the iPad. This required a "dumbing down" of the Mac versions which they did in the newly released versions. I see this in iMovie '13 which among other missing old features is the ability to group Projects into folders (like Family, Vacations, etc.) which is extremely important when you have a few dozen or more projects.
In another forum, it is clear they did the same thing with iWorks:
As a dedicated user of the iWork applications I looked forward to seeing what new features Apple was going to support. I cannot tell you how disappointed I am - all three represent regressions IMHO. Read through the discussion about Pages, Keynote and Numbers, and you will see right away that people are deeply puzzled with the features that have vanished. It sure seems in an effort to make the iWork apps more like their iOS cousins that Apple has dumbed down and severely limited the OS X versions.
From missing vertical rulers and loss of merge fields in Pages to the loss of a number of transitions and actions in Keynote the lists go on and on. I am certainly glad that installing the new apps does not remove the old - as I am really forced to stay with the older versions to keep the level of features I have been used to. Those of you who value the advanced features of the previous version of iWork *please* avoid dumping the old apps until you *really* get a chance to see what isn't there in the new versions. Lots of flash and less substance!

Just tried to do my first project with the new version after upgrading from iMovie '09.
Video import.. no option to move files into the Event.. thats annoying.
Screen layout is designed to take up the full screen width of my 13" MBP. This causes issues with my preferred use of the dock on the right side as opposed to the bottom. I either have to make the dock auto-hide or go to full screen when using it. The shot below shows the settings button being clipped out by the dock.
You can make that window bigger but not reduce it or change the relative size of the other sections to allow it fit into the width I'm giving. Its not a maximizse/restore issue at hand here.
Then onto transitions. I don't use themes as such but when I would edit video, I'd go to the Theme selection, select none but select a default transition of wipe left (ala star Wars). Then I'd just add title screens and start assembling the timeline with the same transition being automatically inserted for me.
That now no longer works. I can go to Movie Properies (⌘-J), select settings and then check auto-content. But it adds a default disolve and does not let me select the transition I'd prefer.
Whats worse, I can change transitions individually, but not if I select the whole lot. And to add to this insult, the visual representation of the transition icon remains the same as opposed to changing to reflect the style of transition you selected.
They switched out a visually intuitive application with a more simplified version that for me is just full of compromises. For now I'll have to stick with the old version.

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Thanks so much for the offer of help. I'm using 10.9.2 OSX. I have Numbers 2.3 (554). I tried the new version but it was "dumbed down" so much (to make it usable on multiple platforms) that it was of no use on iMac.
I still can't get my contacts to open in Numbers like they used to do. I have a group of five addresses in a test folder in Mail called "untitled group." But no amount of pasting, dragging, etc can get them to open up in Numbers. My "real" folder has almost 100 addresses so I can't do it one by one.
Thoughts?
Thanks again.
Bob

Bob,
You can place contacts in a table In Numbers by the following methods:
Numbers 2.3:
drag from contacts
Numbers 3.2
copy from contacts, then paste into Numbers
In both cases you need to open System preferences, then select the "Security & Privacy panel and allow Numbers aaccess your contacts information.

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JDS - Dumbed down and dumber

Re: JDS on Solaris 10
Summary: Dumbed down does not mean easier.
I don't think I have ever, in 15 years as a Sun customer,
hated anything as intensely as I hate the Java desktop!
Hate it, hate it hate it hate it!
1) Launch menu - cryptic names for things eg. 'Web Browser'
rather than 'Mozilla'. It is a good idea to know the name
of the program you are using. Are people too stupid to deal with
the possibilty that there might be more than one
type of browser, or file viewer, or word processor etc?
Call programs by their names, and organize them into tree-structured
hierarchical menus, with help tips to elaborate on what they
are. Also, what if we have several versions of the same
program on the system?
2) Nautilus - Defaults to 'Documents' directory. Stupid, retarded, one
of the most idiotic Windows concepts ever to infect Unix.
Tells user that they
should dump all their files in a 'Documents' folder. What they
should do is to organize their files by topic in a tree-structured
directory, starting with the Home directory. There is no
way to disable this "feature".
One other thing - why can't Nautilus have an option
such that if there isn't an action associated with
a file, you can have it default to open in a text
editor? The CDE file manager does this easily enough.
3)gnome terminal - Should default to 'Backspace' and 'Delete' as
delete characters, not some silly control character.
4) Evolution - Not well integrated into user's account.
     - Can't drag messages into Nautilus
     - Can't drag messages into Local folders higher than 'Mail'
     eg. some subdirectory not in within Mail
     - can't save just the text part of the message
     - can't open saved mail files except in Mail directory
The CDE mailer does all of these things. It appears that
progress means "loss of functionality".
5) Launch menu - pretty sparse, with respect to applications.
User has no way to add menus and submenus to the Launch menu
as they do in GNOME. Only the Applications and Preferences
menus can be changed. Instead of hiding a potential wealth
of applications in an "Applications" menu, the main
categories should be right in the Launch menu. One possible
example of menus appearing in the Launch menu:
Accessories
Documentation
File Browsers
Games
Graphics
Internet
Multimedia
Office
Other
Spreadsheets
System
Word Processing
Isn't that intuitive? You can find programs by what they do.
There are many possible variations, if only the menu could
be customized.
6) Dumbing down of StarOffice. SO launches with a "Templates and Doucments"
window, that shows the files listed in the most recently-visited
directory, but doesn't give any clue as to which directory
that is (eg. no path. Okay, it tells the name of the current directory,
but without the larger context of the path, that is only partly
useful. What's wrong with the full path? Also, why only show the names in
the menus, and not the dates and sizes of files? That information
can often help indicate contents.
The people who decided these standards should be fired. I'm not
being facetious. I don't want people who think like that
(what, were they hired from Apple?) working for Sun and dumbing
down Sun's products from one generation to the next. If I wanted
a system designed for idiots I'd use Windows-XP. Sun can't
win by being exactly like Microsoft. Sun must offer a DIFFERENT
and BETTER product.

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>wew64 wrote on Sat, 10 September 2005 18:48</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
brian, I >recommend you stick to your Unix command prompt.
>Then when you want something, you'll be stuck in your little home
>directory, and you'll only be able to type commands of programs you
>know.
>Example: if you want a web browser, you'll have to type in mozzilla, or
>konqueror, or firefox, Web browser will not work any more, intuitive
>enough??
>Hows that for simple.
One of the great things about modern Unices is the ability to
quickly switch back and forth between command line and
GUI. However, especially when bringing in new users who
have never used anything but Windows, you need to have a
good GUI.
I routinely introduce students in my university genetics
courses to Unix. We do all of our bioinformatics on
Unix, and the last thing I want to have to do is
to give them an environment that is less powerful than
Windows.
In our research work in genetics and bioinformatics,
again, we need a fully-featured desktop. The command
line is sometimes ideal, but other times more ackward
than the GUI.
>If you don't know how to change/rearrange/organize menu startup
> items, documents, etc... Maybe your just too smart for your own good.
>If you were a Unix/Linux administrator, you would know how to add
>profiles for users, then you could change all those little pee-ons you talk
>about.
In fact, I do know how to change menus in GNOME, which
is no simple task. I do not have root permissions on our
campus system, so changes would have do be done
using vfolders, which as I've pointed out, has many limitations.
As well, I don't relish the mess involved in getting new users
to each fix their menus.
The issue is not that there aren't workarounds, but rather,
that I consider Sun to be the best computing platform on
the planet, which I why I have had Solaris exclusively on
my desktop since 1990. Therefore, a trend toward dumbing
down what has up to now been a great system is very
troubling to me. Sun should be leading the way in providing
power without sacrificing useablilty.
>I also think you should learn more about a product before hackin it like
>that.
I speak from experience using Sunview, Open Windows, CDE,
KDE, Red Hat's GNOME, Java Desktop, not to mention Windows XP
and limited Aqua.
Currently, the only "computer" in my office is a SunRay. I don't
use Windows for anything. Everything from routine office
tasks to DNA sequence analysis to programming
is done on the SunRay.
The convenience of not having to switch back and forth
among several Windows boxes for different things is
priceless.
My comments, then, are from the perspective of someone who routinely
does real-world work in the Unix environment.
>This is just me blabbin away, as I do not like to hear negative comments >about JDS.
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Projector & MacBook Resolutions dumbed down

I'm a teacher, and my school installed ceiling-mounted projectors, with the wiring running into the walls. The projectors have nice resolutions of 1200 x 800 and higher.
Upon plugging in my laptop via a projector cable that connects from the MacBook to the new wall recepticle, the resolution to both the projector and the MacBook is dumbed down to 800 x600, and that is IT! --all higher resolutions dissapear from the display preferences on both computer and projector.
However, I ran a cable directly to the porjector (rather than using the new behind-the-wall install, and all the nice, high resolutions are there.
So, we're all thinking that the wiring job was done poorly.
But, surprise, when a MacBook Pro is plugged into the new wall recepticle, all the high resolutions show up!
We then tried four MacBooks, and all get the dumbed-down 800 x 600.
So, why does the MacBook not handle the new wiring receptacle?

My bigger question is WHY does the MacBook Pro work, and not the MacBook?
But, in looking at what's behind the wall receptacle and plate, they ran some wires into a round multi-pin set-up, and that round-d pion plugs into the normal rectangular projector receptacle we see outside of the wall. So, though the receptacle showing out of the wall is the normal rectangular projector type, behind it is this round multi-pin thing. Weird.
So, I could've understood the idea of a poor wiring job, but whatever they came up with works with MacBook Pros and not MacBooks. (Again, I can run a long normal projector cable up to the projector and all the resolutions work.)

Is the classic css panel only available in C6? I hate the dumbed-down css designer panel

Im currently testing Dreamweaver CC 2014 during the Trial period. So far I like the interface but I HATE the css designer panel. I've been using Dreamweaver for 7 years and the classic css panel was one of the key components I use on a daily basis. For me this is a deal breaker - Im in the middle of a major design project and dont have the time or the patience for this cluttered and dumbed-down css designer panel. Can the people at Adobe at least give the seasoned users the option to have the classic designer panel? Or should I just stick with the old CS6 and keep using it until something better comes along?

For a while, we had the choice of panels, but it looks like that option has been removed, have a look here https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nfDpAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=dreamweaver+cc+class ic+css+panel&source=bl&ots=Lut…

IPhoto 11 'dumbs down' emailing pics - anyone else disappointed?

The one command I used the most in iphoto was to email photos at one of the 4 sizes provided. I did this constantly and was able to title and label photos in my mail before sending. Now, having wasted a lot of money on the upgrade I see I no longer have that choice - it is some pre-decided "enhancement" size that just give a childish preview of pics in a folder.
The whole point of emailing a pic is to give the person emailed an instant look at the photos at the desired size. The untrained simply drag the pic into whatever app they want. Who is going to find the folder, open an app and look at the pics? It is too much work and too complicated for most.
Bad choice apple - a case of an upgrade offering much less that the previous version. I would like my money back. I will certainly give this 'dumbing down' upgrade a miss and advise every mac user I know to beware. Really disappointed, Michael

If you don't like the new ways that iPhoto handles emailing then you can access the old way with a small change in how you work:
1. Drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Mail icon in the Dock.
or
2. Use the Photo browser in Mail - or any Media browser in the entire OS
Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
You can then resize the image in the iPhoto Window
Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
Finally, you can make a simple OS Service to to automate the procedure. For more on this have a read of this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2627690&tstart=0
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TD

Bit Rate Dumb Down

For better quality, I was downloading using higher bitrate. Realize now, battery burn on IPOD is too fast. Would like to dumb down from higher Bitrate to 128, without rebuilding Itunes Library. Anyway to convert already downloaded tunes from e.g. 320 to 128?
thanks in advance......

Thanks for all your help, David S, but the point is
that I have tried many different bit rates, from 4.0
to 7.0, and I don't have time to waste all day trying
different bit rates for an 8-minute project.
My main question is: Why would it work fine on all
of my other short projects, including the 8-minute
one, and then when I cut out 20 seconds of that same
project, it starts screwing up!?!
I am going to try trashing my preferences. It is
starting to seem like a corrupt pref file to me.
It turned out to be a corrupt pref file, as I thought. Thanks for your many, many questions, David S.

I dumbed down to 10.6.8 from 10.7.3...

I dumbed down to 10.6.8 from 10.7.3 after my grey screen of death appeared. now all my programs (mac) are 10.7 and won't open in 10.6.8. Also I cannot update to mountain lion because the app store nor itunes will not work with 10.6.8 because I am getting an error message that this version will not work with the current OS - check with the developers.
I just want to upgrade and replace everything but I can't! Help! Thanks.

Did you erase the drive before you tried reinstalling 10.6.8? Don't know how else you went from Lion to SL without doing that but you say all your Programs are for 10.7 which would lead me to think you reinstalled SL over the top of Lion.
If that is what you did you are lucky the computer even starts.
Boot from the SL install DVD, open Disk Utility and erase the Macintoch HD. Then reinstall SL. Then get out the Applications DVD that came with your system and reinstall the Mac Apps that are on that DVD.
Update whatever version of SL you installed to 10.6.8 with the Combo Update and you will have a working Mac again.

Syncing: iCloud vs USB dumbed down

Can someone explain to me, and please dumb it down, iCloud vs USB syncing. My needs are pretty simple iPhone 4-wise and computer-wise.
I have a Macbook with Leopard. I am not wifi. I just want to make sure that if my phone crashes I have my information and if my computer crashes I can get my information if I need to. Until yesterday I didn't even know I could sync using iCloud.
I don't want duplicate information if I can help it. I also don't have a MobileMe account but I think I need it to sync using iCloud?
Can I get some clarification?
thanks

Thank you so much for the clarification. I may get wifi but doubt I'll upgrade to Lion. So if my phone and computer crash at the same time I'm SOL for the most part right?
Can I ask then, how did my contacts get to my gmail account? That happened and I have no idea what I did to get that to happen.

I no longer have an iphone but need downloads of previous purchases. how do i get them. im really not good with computers so i need it dumbed down please

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You can potentially redownload previous iTunes purchases (apps, music etc) on your computer's iTunes by clicking on your id towards the top right of the iTunes screen and then clicking Purchases on the popup (I'm assuming that you have the current version of iTunes on your computer). But for apps unless you have an iOS device to install it on then I don't see what redownloading it will achieve, what you will be redownloading is just the game, it does not include any purchase history within it.
If you want to view your purchase history (e.g. order numbers, receipt numbers) then you can view that via the Store > View Account menu option on your computer's iTunes. Is that what 'technical support' want, so that they can try and link your iPhone progress of the game to your Android purchase of the game ?

Why doesn't apple allow you to dumb down the mid range powerbook

I bought a MacBook, I really love this little thing, but I'm beginning to think that the lack of a dedicated graphics card is going to **** me off. I would readily upgrade to a MacBook Pro, but I would want the Mid Range 15" with the 256 graphics card. But I don't need 1 GB of ram, nor the 100GB hard drive. Why won't they let you dumb it down?
And on a side note, I have PB 1.33, and the only issue I have with it is the Airport was so stunted as to almost be useless, could barley see the Wireless router in my apt, from across the way. How is it with the new MacBook Pro?

To keep the sort of malware rather prevalent for Android devices off of your iPhone. Depending on what you need to download, though, you can probably find a third-party app that will do it. Since such apps keep their documents in their own sandbox, it helps protect the iPhone from being infected by malicious "documents".
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Aaargh! 3000 N200 crippled/dumbed-down BIOS options and lack of VESA modes

Hi,
I have a Lenovo 3000 N200. The actual hardware is okay for the price (cheapest computer with Penryn CPU and 1680x1050 screen), but the BIOS settings are another matter...
The biggest issue is that Lenovo has disabled the CPU PAE/NX feature in the BIOS and there is no way to enable it. (This has been covered in another thread.) Anyone buying an N200 would have good cause to return it for a refund, since nowhere is it mentioned that this CPU feature is disabled. Luckily 64-bit support is still there, otherwise I'd definitely return mine.
That's not the only problem though. The available settings/options in the BIOS are extremely inadequate. I looked at the v3.03 BIOS update file using a BIOS editor program, and text for all the missing options is in the BIOS image -- these features already exist but Lenovo decided to disable them. Is there any chance Lenovo can enable the missing options in a future BIOS update?
Here are the main annoyances for me:
There should be an option to change the graphics scaling in the BIOS. Non-widescreen modes like 640x400, 640x480 and 800x600 are stretched horizontally to fill the whole screen. I would prefer them to be stretched but keep the original aspect ratio. Once Windows or Linux has booted, you can tell the graphics driver to do that, but that's no help if you're booting to DOS or e.g. a Linux boot CD or Windows installation CD.
There are not enough VESA graphics modes. My N200 with nVidia GeForce Go 7300 graphics has a 1680x1050-pixel screen, but the highest VESA resolution is 1400x1050 (modes 0x347 and 0x348), which always appears stretched. Other nVidia cards seem to use modes 0x368 and 0x369 for 1680x1050.
And here is a run-down of other options which should be user-settable but aren't:
The internal hard disk is always bootable, there's no way to set the BIOS not to boot from it. (You can set its priority lower than the DVD drive, but if there's no bootable disc in there it will always boot from the hard disk.)
The execute disable bit is always disabled, with no way to enable it.
No option to disable the 2nd core of the CPU. (Useful for testing software.)
No option to disable Intel Virtualization Technology. (Useful for testing software.)
No option to enable dynamic CPU frequency mode. (This would be useful in DOS; currently the fan spins all the time there.)
There's an interesting Linux-related option which is not selectable: 'Select IF a Video Repost is to be performed during resume from S3'. Options are 'Disabled: Never', 'perform a Video Repost upon resume from S3', 'Only perform a Video Repost IF the OS is Linux', 'Enabled: Always perform a Video Repost upon resume from S3'.
No option to choose whether there is an alarm when the battery is low.
No option to select the TV video standard (NTSC/PAL/SECAM).
No option to disable the trackpad.
No option to set the keyboard auto-repeat delay and rate.
No option to disable other hardware like the DVD drive, Ethernet card, WiFi, Bluetooth, or HD audio.
All in all, the disabled no-execute bit and video mode issues with the BIOS have kind of soured my experience with this machine. I wish Lenovo would re-enable the missing features in a BIOS update... sigh.

Roderic wrote:
Respect and appreciation for highlighting the lack of BIOS features; I have been spending a long time trying to get S Video to work with my PAL tv. Only now found that the black and white result is due to unmodifiable NTSC settings in the BIOS, and now you tell me they cant be changed.
So aye, another hat in the ring for Bios Update Please.
Hmm so was it advertised in the UK as having TV out - if so and it cannot deliver it because it is NTSC only then this is not fit for purpose and you could get money back.
I'm also disappointed in the lack of advanced power management like toshiba have (dim screen and slow down CPU as battery runs down) and lack of dvd acoustic silencer.
And thanks for posting this - saves me the trouble of buying a cable to plug into the tv-out port if it ain't gonna work!

Why is Airplay so "dumbed down"

The "it just works" is a great philosophy until things stop working.
I have an Ipad2 and Apple TV setup. I can use airplay from the laptop to appleTV but not the Ipad... tried rebooting, shutting down apps etc.. nothing works. The Ipad is on the network and can surf the internet etc. but no airplay....
Please can you consider putting some startup and configure options around airplay ...at least give us an option to attempt a "force connection" or something...surely If I have my appleTV IP address on the local network and there actually was a "start connection" option...perhaps I would have better luck..
Is there is way to "force" a connection establishment?? If not do the "einsteins" at Apple working on new features ever plan to do something about it?

Rubbish. Just rubbish.
I have airply working from my laptop but breaks-up when using my iPhone on the SAME network. Apple should fix it or use open source solutions without such problems. Airplay devices, and I bought Bose speakers, cost alot due to Airplay...... and the quality shouldn't be so POOR.

Why did Nokia dumb down Nokia Maps with each new v...

I recently did a YouTube video comparing Nokia Maps to the GPS apps available on the iPhone AND Nokia Maps on Nokia N86 8MP.
The interesting part is that how many more functions does N86's old Nokia Maps have over the new Nokia Maps on the N8.
Lots of functionality has been lost, while all the other GPS apps got new functionality, Nokia Maps is instead dropping functionality left and right.
Why Nokia?
Here's the video(s) BTW, if you are familiar with Nokia Maps, you might want to start watching from the middle of Part 3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD4ClLT73T8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIgEhWJYW2I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWvn_Yd4Zps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NSYTpXx5Xw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgUAc7dVK_E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hXloYq-t3Y
Thanks! And I really hope Nokia will take note and integrate those old and useful features back into Nokia Maps.

Oh, for sure I agree noone is pushing me, but the problem is... there's not a new-technology minimalist phone out there, as far as I know.
I want a C2-01.5 like I have now, but with a faster processor and more memory. Same size, a bigger (less edge margin) screen'd be nice, but whatever. A bigger battery and perhaps an even skinnier/smaller form factor. I want the OS to be super configurable and have options on top of options on top of options (and if it let me disable/hide the things I don't use - to reduce the clutter of the menus, I'd be in frickin' heaven!). Finally, I want them to put WiFi into this simple small stick. And the simplicity of the basic Nokia keyboard layout (with slightly raised keys {great job on the C2-01.5} that I can feel with my fingers) would be awesome too. If anyone can think of something like this described dream-phone, please do let me know. I'll build you a small temple and pray at it weekly. As far as it goes with this experiment, I'm sending the N301 back. And I had such high hopes!
Funny and sad at the same time.
Thanks, guys!
-tffy
P.S. Nokia, if you wanted to hire me for product design, I'm all ears. Finland's a nice country. Lotsa salmon and saunas and pretty blonde girls.

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