lol....you macs are so funny...guess im just jealous i dont have $3000 to spend
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lol....you macs are so funny...guess im just jealous i dont have $3000 to spend
Actually in the pre-OSX days, iTunes was easily skinable (to the point where a noob could easily do it). Then Apple noticed with sites like resexcellence that people were messing with the colors with iTunes and rewrote the GUI to discourage iTunes skins (this was around 2004). Apple made a public statement at the time talking about their decision to kill the iTunes skins, and said something to the effect of "here at Apple our philosophy is to discourage stuff like this because all these skins could end up confusing users by changing colors or the appearances of buttons or menus from what they're used to."Quote:
Originally Posted by jaycanuck
I can think of quite a number of things that Apple has changed, just with OSX- since 10.2 to make it harder, not easier, for end users to manipulate the "look & feel" of the OS.
That said my post was made half jokingly tongue-in-cheek, I really wasn't being that serious about it.
Fuck the mac if your paying 3 grand no offense. Id much rather get AlienWare. Such beautifully Designed Computers/Laptops
That's ok, in the end it's whatever tool you're comfortable with. About the iTunes though, you're thinking of Soundjam. iTunes never had the ability to skin (mind you...you can hack it yourself or with 3rd party apps). That being said, I miss those Soundjam days. Napster...soundjam. So much more innocent (innocent in that you could rip songs off). Interesting story behind the acquisition of Soundjam and the "almost success" by Panic.com with Audion at http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/Quote:
Originally Posted by SarahG
I have heard stories of people breaking into apartments, seeing a mac & an alienware on the same desk- and stealing the mac because they didn't know what the alienware was and figured the mac would be easier to flip.Quote:
Originally Posted by ef9hatchman
Lol...Alienwares are beasts.My friends little brother has one(geek status) but he owns online games shit is sooo clear 200fps on counterstrikw is what I saw last time I was estaticQuote:
Originally Posted by SarahG
Wrong, iTunes v1 & v2 was skinnable. I probably still have skinned copies and some skins on my external HD somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaycanuck
v2 was the version that apple had out during the cross over period when they were still making dual boot machines (v2 worked in OS9 or OSX). Most people didn't even know it was skinnable, but it was.
Again..it's a difference of opinion as I've used Macs in everything since 1994. But to make sure (because even I have a faulty memory at times) I checked the history on wikipedia and found this.Quote:
Originally Posted by SarahG
So unless my memory is faulty, I don't ever remember it being skinable. Jobs does tend to take a lot of those features away as he's anal about design. Probably another reason I like Macs so much.Quote:
SoundJam MP, developed by Jeff Robbin and Bill Kincaid and released by Casady & Greene in 1999,[6] became the basis for iTunes when Apple purchased it in 2000. Apple added a new user interface and the ability to burn CDs, and removed its recording feature and skin support, and released it as iTunes in January 2001.
wikipedia is wrong about when Jobs had the skinnable feature removed, it was 2003 when that was finally taken out of the program.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaycanuck
Mac User since 1985, on a Mac 512 ('Fat Mac'). Current machine is a Mac Mini. It's my 5th Mac, but I've managed to collect 22 old Macs somehow.
Typing this on a Win notebook though... which tends to need system work a lot and crashes at least twice a week, while my Mac has yet to crash for the first time in three years (and guess which system gets to do all the heavy stuff).