Piece of crap iMac!!

suddenly I can't burn a CD or get my favorite POGO game to load! Was burning 3 CD's in a row - 2 burned fine and the 3rd wouldn't saying speed too fast - so I went all the way to 1
X and it just checks media and then shuts off, even with a playlist of 1 song! Some games on POGO load but not others. Only have iTunes 4.8, not the troublesome 6.0 ! Only OSX 10.2 .8, not Tiger! should have gotten a Dell!!!!

Hi Gerald — If you don't find answers to your problem here, you might try the iMac category in the hardware forum, where the topics include CD and DVD burning. Meanwhile, for whatever it's worth, I have found that software updates can eventually cause adverse effects for those who don't keep up. I brought my operating system up to 10.3.9 and solved a lot of problems. Very soon, I'm going to need Tiger, I'm sure.
I don't know what you've heard about iTunes 6, but there are lots of complaints in these forums that don't reflect my own experience. For me, iTunes 6 and subsequent updates have worked fine and have expanded my capabilities.
However, don't take my word for any of this. Check out the aforementioned iMac forums and also the forums for System 10.3...., where you'll find a variety of troubleshooting tips, like repairing permissions, etc.
Good luck.
— David H
466 upgraded to 1.2Gz PowerMacG4 & 800MHz iBookG4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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Well based on the way the internet forums are blasting away at RIM its obvious. This is just a shinny spiffed up version of pocketcrap. Well, you can shine a turd all you want but its still turd.
There are way too many problems with this software for anyone at RIM with half a brain to have thoroughly tested it.
Now we see post from people "representing" RIM that say "we know about the issue and it will be fixed in future updates", hey that's great. It only took you 8 years to put this piece of crap out how long should it take to fix it? By then there should be smartphones that can actually sync....oh wait there are there are options.
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So let's hear it for RIM and their wonderful tech support!! Great job!! Let's keep up the good work!! Perhaps one day the tech support people could actually read the boards and put together a complete list of issues/bugs and solutions..... THAT ACTUALLY WORK!!!

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LiveCycle Designer 8.0 is the biggest piece of crap I have ever used.

I have been digitizing some forms for a customer, and this is my first experience with this product. It has not been a good one. I have been using the 30-day trial, and really don't want to buy it now. Here is my list of problems:
1. When you copy and paste, or move and object, there is a fade effect. On some of my machines, this is not noticeable, but on some, it is very noticeable. There is no way that I have found to turn it off.
2. When you copy and item, you are moved to a seemingly random place on the page. Why does the page even need to move when you copy something?
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5. Inability to group text / numerical fields. When I am making a form with over 200 individual fields, it would really help to be able to group them in some sort of logical order.
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7. Why not have discreet horizontal/vertical guides, instead of crosshairs? At least give me the option.
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I have used a lot of Adobe products in the past, and haven't used one this bad since PageMaker 6.5. Come one Adobe, you have a lot of good products...
This is definitely not something my company will purchase.

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Digital voice piece of crap

What a piece of crap this service is.
Dial local area code for all local calls, are you kidding me? This is 2010 not 1910.
Cisco Call Manager and Vonnage have been doing this for years... Why can't verizon's piece of crap software do it?

I agree with the previous poster. You can't blame Verizon for that. I've had 10-digit dialing for about 10-15 years in MD. Also had Comcast's Voice service and had 10-digit diualing as well. I will admit that with Verizon having to dial a "1" should be fixed. Nothing like going on your caller ID and hitting redial and then getting the tone saying you have to dial a "1" first. Then you have to memorize the number from caller ID and redial it with a "1".
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Nothing but 'Problem' message. Tell me how to leave ASAP. Piece of crap.

Just bought ExportPDF 30 minutes ago. Nothing but 'Problem' message. Please cancel immediately. Tell me how to leave ASAP. Piece of crap.

Hi John,
Please see my reply in your other post on the same subject: Please cancel immediately
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Do I have a defective one or is the 3 a piece of crap?

My iPad 3 takes three or more hours to charge fully. I've turned the brightness down and clean up the open apps daily. Do I have a bad unit, or is this a rotten piece of crap? In addition it won't last through a 4-hour seminar.

From my experience you have a bad one. I have an iPad 3 and battery life has been amazing. I use it all the time and even have forgotten to charge it overnight and have gotten a second days worth out of the battery.
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My iphone is totally messed up. showing main screen magnified 100x and cannot reset. How do you turn this piece of crap off even to re-boot it?

my iphone is totally messed up. showing main screen magnified 100x and cannot reset. How do you turn this piece of crap off even to re-boot it?

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IMAC Internal CD/DVD is a Piece of Crap

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Firefox keeps crashing and I am on a MAC. I go to about:crashes and there are NO reports there. This update is a piece of crap. I have always liked Firefox, but I am seconds away from getting it off my computer forever! FIX it or at least do not send

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== Crash ID(s) ==
It never gives me one!
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_4; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/533.16

about:crashes only lists crashes that you have reported using the [[Mozilla Crash Reporter]] which comes up after a crash. Because there are so many possible reasons for a crash, getting the crash ID really helps volunteers find the cause quicker.
That doesn't mean we can't help without a crash id. :-) No crashes here, but I'm also on Snow Leopard and using Firefox 3.6.6.
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Do you remember any specific circumstances about when the crash occurred? What sites you were on?

V CAST Media Manager is the worst piece of crap software I've ever used...

I mean, who wrote this thing? Sorting is f*d up, uploading files is a freaking nightmare, so much scrolling around because you current view is not cached when you click to a different area...
This thing is total junk.
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TOTAL AGREEMENT. Except calling this *** software "crap" is being far too polite.This is an HTC Incredible attempting to connect to WIndows 7 64-bit.
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3. When I attempt transferring files to phone K: (since there is no option to transfer the files to the drive letter J: that the phone is apparently using) the transfers fail.
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5. When I navigate within the Vcrap application to "How to connect to your phone" a blank screen appears. So far, the blank screen is the most honest part of the Vcrap software. It really doesn't have a clue.
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The reason I did NOT want an iPhone is solely because of iTunes, another *** software application (although it works) that takes over your PC's media collection and forces you to do things you don't want to do.
The Motorola Driod I have works perfectly: it mounts when connected; I drag and drop my media files and the media player of my choice recognizes the files and plays them. Brilliant. Too bad Verizon's greed is keeping me from a smooth user experience such as that. This lousy experience will influence my future decisions in phone carriers and the type of phone I purchase. I cannot BELIEVE that this is what Google had in mind with they launched the Android OS for phones.

New update for Linux??? Really??? Piece of crap...

Way to go Microsoft!!!
You did an amazing job at completely destroying Skype for us Linux users.....
I will explain...
I DON'T want to use pulseaudio, pulseaudio is known to be the worst sound module in Linux (you are hearing this from someone who works with pro-audio in Linux), ALSA has always been the most stable and most supported sound module in Linux.
Why? Just WHY? Did you stop supporting ALSA? Skype was working perfectly well with it! And Why?
This is probably the best question.....
Why did you make it impossible now for us users to use an older version of Skype? We are forced to use the latest 4.3 version, I tried reverting with no luck at all, for the first time in my computing life this is the first time I have ever seen something like this.
Do you really think I'm going to switch over to Windows just to use Skype? Do you think I'm really that stupid? It really is insulting. A program owned by a multibillion enterprise (which strangely now has advertising in it and the original one never did), there are other options for us, such as google hangouts, just another piece of software that I have happily removed from my computer, it was a great communication program before you bought it, lasted a few years, but today has been the day that I say "Goodbye Skype"....
Who's your next target?
Android?
Haha.....
Good luck Microsoft, I stopped using your operating systems 10 years ago, not one day goes by that I miss them, I can easily do the same with Skype.

Sokel wrote:
The problem isn't about supporting ALSA.
I am afraid it is about supporting ALSA.
Sokel wrote:
It's the fact that pulseaudio controls the entire audio stack in most modern distros. That's not Skype's fault. Controlling ALSA outside of the pulseaudio stack can cause quite a few issues, since it's the front end.
In a system with Pulseaudio, ALSA is redirected to Pulseaudio by means of a PCM plugin. So there is no such thing as controlling ALSA outside of the pulseaudio stack, unless it is done deliberately.
In fact.... because of this there is no need to support Pulseaudio at all.... just support ALSA only and people who want to use Pulseaudio (whoever that may be), will have working sound.
ALSA is the universal Linux sound API and has no flaws in this area.

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Just a piece of ****! Old version worked better
''edited by a moderator''

Ha ha Sad but true
Deleted firefox from my system, Just kept freezing all the time mainly with videos and pdf files
Wouldn't download files from certain sites either
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