With his finger in the dam. Or any other protuberance, for that matter.Firstly, just so's you don't think this is just me ragging on Apple software, yay movie rentals. I am so happy about this - granted, I am suffering at the hands of tiny HDD which rather limits what I can do in terms of buying/ renting movies, but it is one step closer to a future of media consumption that I can support. A film when I want - not having to wait for the postie to lose it, or Amazon to send it to the wrong address. Bish, bash, bosh, consume. The price is also not so great - It is a bit "lol $ = £", but that is the way things have been for longer than I care to remember.
So now to the bitching. Or rather, doing things a little different. Safari and iTunes maybe pretty killer apps in their own rights, but since I upgraded my RAM (OH HI!) I've sat through the day and watched my physical RAM disappear, until a reboot was required. Now I don't tolerate that kind of thing in OSS stuff (I'm looking at you, Evince), so I'm not going to take it from a more... Professional (?) app. So I'm rolling with the 'Fox again, at least for the time being for my browsing. This is nothing new to me and I look forward to FF3 being finally released.
My other trial of app is an iTunes alternative called Cog. I'm not calling it an 'iTunes replacement", 'cause it's not. Full stop. However, given that iTunes loves RAM like a fat kid loves cake, I felt a change was in order for those times when all I want to do is listen to music and not necessarily revel in the glory of all the other things that iTunes does. And so far I'm pretty happy with Cog - it reminds me a lot of WinAmp, but a WinAmp that was made by people who didn't hate their userbase. You drag an drop from the built in folder search onto a playlist, then play and minimise to the dock. It even integrates with the remote and my media keys and last.fm, too, if I felt the desire to run that hideous app ever again. Cog is very minimalist, but it plays pretty much everything and is easy to use and only takes up <20meg of RAM, so I'm happy.
Now tell me how wrong I am for caring about stuff like this.
3 comments:
OK, you're wrong for caring about stuff like this.
iTunes bothers me.
I am going to investigate this "Cog".
So I actually took a look at Cog. It seems it can't do smart playlists. Nor can it import my playlists from iTunes. Nor can it search my music based on... any criteria at all - even file name!
Ignoring the ongoing problems that those lacking features might cause, they essentially make it impossible for a long-time iTunes user to switch
Not to mention you necessarily lose out on a searchable music library from any open dialogue or iLife app unless you use iTunes as well, which is just redundant.
Finally: surely doubling the amount of RAM you have installed should make you less obsessive about memory leaks?
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