What can I do to improve Translation quality?
German to French translation of äääääääääääääää…
Thanks Séb for the heads up!
Nike- or Zune+ ?
One major problem that is not evoked in this blog post is the very bad handling of the playlists and special Nike+ mixes.
First of all, and this one is not a Nike+ - specific problem, since it occurs also with the iPod application : I have BOUGHT two (absolutely fucking great, by the way) Nike+ Original Run mixes from iTunes store. The file type is, obviously “Purchased AAC audio file” and while it worked perfectly on the first generation iPod nano, it is impossible to synchronize them to my iPhone 4.
If I create a playlist, the playlist is copied, but empty.
I had to create an Apple Lossless Version (my default format for CD importing) to be able to finally synchronize them to my iPhone 4 and thus be able to use them in Nike+, to run.
Now I can sync them. Unbelievable. This is so Microsoft feeling. Unworthy of Apple.
But even then, they are not recognized as Nike+ runnings, but only as regular music files and thus do no appear in the Nike+ app in the special section, nor as being used in the Nike+ web statistics.
And of course, there are all the bugs and whistles already widely evoked, such as the sometimes inability to resume a run once paused or the fact that for the CASSIUSPLAY Nike+ Original Run that is composed of a 45:36 mix and a 5:02 looped Stretching Track, the damn thing plays only the 5:02 track, which is absolutely driving me mad, when I run for about an hour and don’t want to reset my run once I’ve started it.
All these problems didn’t exist on the first gen iPod nano.
Let’s now talk about the hilarious (because it’s better to laugh than cry) associated website. All the problems of the website already existed back then, when I used the iPod nano. They only became worse and/or different with the evolutions recently brought to the website.
I won’t get into detailed problems about this fucking site, but…
• it’s slow as hell
• won’t allow me to use 1Password to avoid having to enter my password every time
• the “automatically send workout data to nikeplus.com” setting only works if I hit the “Sync” button once I have plugged my iPhone
• it’s slow and buggy
• made in fucking Flash ! which is even more moronic, since it’s an Apple partnership
Come on. Flash. On an Apple-related website. Hello ? Do you realize it doesn’t work on iOS Safari ?
• it’s slow
• it’s buggy
• it’s slow
• it’s buggy
• the friend feature is bugged as hell : Z could find me, add me and see me on her page, but I can't find her, although she could add me and I agreed and thus it says I've added her but I can't see her stats, it's absolutely ridiculous
• and did I mention it's a fucking Flash site, slow and buggy ?
Too bad, because there are a lot of fun and nice ideas and features and it's very nice to be able to have one integrated system to track all the running stats. It would be really great if both the iPhone embedded app and the web site were not coded by lazy morons and it had been thoroughly tested.
Feels like a Zune+
There are so many complaining people on the Apple support site that I won’t even have to add my two (euro)cents.
I just don’t understand how or why this can go on like this. It’s just not acceptable, especially from a company like Apple and even worse when partnering with a company like Nike.
I’m really pissed off.
But I have to go running anyway.
Hmmm… not tonight. My stomach hurts.
I'm nowhere on this planet…
Ok, so I seem to exist… but elsewhere. Cool, maybe I’m where Peter Pan lives. Maybe I’ll never grow up, never die and just fight pirates for ever. Just what I’ve always wished.
8$ = 0,17€
It’s not the first time, this happens quite often.
Anyway, if this exchange rate is accurate, let me tell you that I will order loads of stuff on the web!
Ou bien le dollar s’est écroulé et je n’étais pas au courant. Ou bien Yahoo! Finance déconne grave… ou bien est-ce seulement les taux fournis au widget ? Sauf que je ne veux pas aller sur leur page, qui est chiante et effrayante juste pour convertir des devises et que je veux pouvoir utiliser le widget.
Ce n’est pas la première fois, cela arrive souvent.
Mais si ce taux de change est le bon, laissez-moi vous dire que je vais commander des tonnes de truc sur le web!
Warning:
That day, I suddenly lost all my FireWire peripherals. Just like that. One second they were there and the next second, they were gone. After a few on/off and unplug/plug processes, I checked the System Profiler and discovered this time, the iMac G5 lost his FireWire interface. He already lost Bluetooth, some USB (not all), AirPort, microphone and/or camera… but FireWire, it’s a first.
It required a restart and a zapped PRAM to solve this.
J’ai oublié de publier ceci le jour où je l’ai sauvé, donc le voici avec presque un mois de retard. Mais ça reste intéressant.
Ce jour-là, j’ai soudainement perdu tous mes périphériques FireWire. Comme ça. Une seconde ils étaient là, la seconde d’après, ils avaient disparu. Après quelques extinctions/allumages et débranchement/branchement, j’ai vérifié les Informations Système, pour découvrir que l’iMac G5 avait perdu son interface FireWire. Il avait déjà perdu le Bluetooth, certains ports USB (pas tous), AirPort, le micro et/ou la caméra, mais le FireWire, c’est la première fois.
Il a fallu un redémarrage avec zapping de la PRAM pour résoudre ce souci.
AppStore gone crazy…
Here is something that happens all the time, lately… I see that in iTunes, telling me 5 apps have available updates online.
So I click on “Applications” in the list. And get a listing of all the downloaded Applications. In the bottom right corner, a message tells me that I can go and download the 5 updates.
I click on that and I get the following message :
I live in France, so, even if my whole machine is in english (for reasons I’ve already explained, I think), the iTunes Store I’m logged to is France’s and the specific messages are in french too. But here is the translation :
Application updates
No updates are available right now for ••• (•••@mac.com). To look for updates for another account, log in with this account.
[ Finished ]
Well, this is obviously another case of “we hired cheap, incompetent people from microsoft and now we make our users suffer as if they were on the Dark Side and we still haven’t taken the necessary steps to make it right”… Sure, as crappy as Mac OS X, the related hardware and applications have become, they still are far superior in terms of ease of use, elegance, stability and robustness to their windows counterparts. And I wouldn’t cross the line and leave what is still the best system available. But I certainly miss the days when uptime could be counted in weeks, even months and we could laugh at windows users problems, since we now know what it is to be forced to do regular backups, fear fo
Now, please, Apple, do whatever it takes to become the best hardware and software company again. Steve Jobs is known to fire people easily and harshly, for much less than that! Time to practice, Mr. Jobs, time to practice…
Keep on firing!
Hence…
And I’m quite disappointed, to say the least, that my “personal information is not sent with this report” and that I “will not be contacted in response to this report”…
Aperture and iPhone? No way…
I was using iPhoto, as I told you earlier and I was so happy with this fantastic iApp. But iPhoto suddenly decided not to let me apply “reduce noise” or “sharpen” effects on my photos. After lots of efforts and time lost, the only solution left was to switch to Aperture.
Well, ok, why not…
There are quite a lot of issues, the main one being it’s quite slow on my iMac G5 and making the need for a new machine even more obvious.
Another one is the following. And it drives me mad.
While the iPod Touch or iPhone synchronisation with iPhoto’s Library was easy and perfectly working, the synchronisation between Aperture’s Library and the iPhone (or iPod Touch, you got it now, I won’t use both names each time) is simply bugged beyond all you can imagine.
I’ve searched the web around, to find out if there was a solution. And it appeared that some people suggested that Aperture needed to finish generating the preview for the photos for them to appear in iTune’s Photos synchronisation tab.
Ok, well, I let Aperture work (a long time) to generate the previews for my 36,580 photos. And guess what? It only proposes me 111 photos in iTunes! Yes, out of more than 30,000! And only a few of my hundreds Albums and Projects. This is insane. Unacceptable from Apple.
In fact, before it finished generating all the previews, it allowed me to see much more photos from my Aperture Library. This is insane.
They have hired people from Microsoft or what?
Just to be sure and since I still haven’t deleted my damaged iPhoto Library, I switched the sync to that iPhoto and it shows me the whole Library and all the Albums I’ve got. Works perfectly as it should.
So what? I will have to maintain two photo librairies to be able to sync my iPhone correctly? It’s not acceptable. This is a major bug and it has to be solved.
Quand il faut…
Recently, it’s iPhoto who decided to annoy me. Obviously, I’m not the only one, but we still are not enough to alarm Apple and even less incite them to correct the problem. However, I want to deeply thank Terence Devlin for his kindness and patience.
So, there was little choice and we had to switch to Aperture, since it’s the only way to continue combining archiving, easy sharing and retouching. It’s a lot more demanding than iPhoto and also much slower on our aging machine.
Oh yes, did I already tell you about the other problems? Of course not, impossible, the blog was brain dead…
Well, it “forgot” it had a built-in iSight. And also it knew how to burn DVDs. Obviously, the G5 has been the generation of too much, at IBM, for Apple.
It is more than time for us to put this iMac into early retirement. It is more than time to go for an duo core intel iMac 24”.
Parce que je suis le souffre-douleur de je ne sais quelle divinité malfaisante, je cumule.
Récemment, c’est iPhoto qui a décidé de me faire des misères. Visiblement, je ne suis pas un cas isolé, mais nous sommes suffisamment peu nombreux pour qu’Apple n’y voit pas matière à s’alarmer et encore moins à corriger le problème. Je tiens cependant à remercier chaleureusement Terence Devlin pour sa gentillesse et sa patience.
Donc il a bien fallu se résoudre à passer à Aperture, car c’est semble-t-il le seul moyen de conserver la capacité à combiner archivage, partage simple et retouches. Il est bien plus lourd qu’iPhoto, bien plus lent aussi sur notre machine vieillissane.
Ah oui, je ne vous avais pas dit les autres problèmes ? Ben non, pas possible, le blog était en état de mort cérébrale…
Eh bien elle a “oublié” qu’elle avait une iSight intégrée. Et puis aussi qu’elle savait graver les DVD. Visiblement, le G5 aura été la génération de processeurs de trop chez IBM, pour Apple.
Il serait plus que temps de la mettre à la semi-retraite. Il serait plus que temps de passer à un iMac 24” intel à double cœur.
Maudit…
Entre autres emmerdes, déceptions, trahisons, échecs, espoirs déçus, voici que 157 858 034 octets de la base du blog, qui était reparti après un passage sous RapidWeaver et encore en cours de restauration, d’ailleurs, ont décidé de partir en fumée, le 13 avril (non, c’était un mercredi). Le fichier n’a pas changé de taille, il est juste plein de… vide.
Les “support ninjas” de Realmac Software eux-même n’ont rien compris à ce qui a pu se passer et encore moins pu me fournir une “moulinette” capable de retransformer le blog publié en fichier RapidWeaver…
Bref, une nouvelle archive de l’ancien blog et un nouveau départ de zéro.
La première version du site est toujours disponible, pour mémoire, là. Et la seconde version, encore une fois malchanceuse, est ici.
Il serait temps que ça s’arrête, tout ça, car je fatigue.