No atos(1) in the iPhone dev kit?

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One thing I love about Java development is the ease of finding bugs through stack traces. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that Cocoa likes being so verbose about it, it prefers just giving memory addresses to the function. CocoaDev has a nice article about how to add this that's based on Apple's documentation, but it requires /usr/bin/atos that I cannot find in the iPhone SDK. That doesn't mean it's not installed, but at this time I have no way of knowing that it is. I have no idea how I should let people beta-test my products and sending automatically back intelligent bug reports without this tool. Ok, I have no idea on how Apple plans to allow for betatesting applications if the AppStore is the only application distribution method, and I have no idea how people do this otherwise as atos(1) isn't included with the default OS X system either. ;-) But I would really, really like to include stack traces with bugreports from beta testers.

No CoverFlow for shared iTunes libraries

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I'm not a frequent user of CoverFlow, but now that I wanted to use it on my shared iTunes library in my living room from the Windows iTunes client I noticed that I cannot select neither CoverFlow nor in an album list. I'm stunned and looking forward to trying it out on my MBP

No Airtunes update

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Tuesday's Apple announcement held many goodies, but Apple seems to be going nowhere on Airtunes. Airport Extreme had been updated, but no Audio Out. And with my Airport Express, I cannot simply add more Airport Expresses to play the same set of music in every room of my house: Because iTunes and the Express use Apple Lossless compression to encode music (rather than native MP3 or AAC), you can stream audio to only one unit at a time (source). Dear Apple, wouldn't you make a nice little plug-this-adapter-in-the-wall-and-get-audio-out Airtunes device that I can put in every room of my house with a stereo, and throw in a remote control or two in the package?

No Norwegian for me, thanks!

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I'm so happy I took the consequences of the last failure trying to fly Norwegian/Sterling that I now flew with Cimberair. The service was swift and great! :-) However, Norwegian is still trying to mess up their customers' lives (Norwegian link there). Same trouble as last time. What is it with these guys? They make Ryan Air look like choir boys.

No excuse not to play in tune

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In paragraph 23, chapter 4, page 58 of On playing the Flute Quantz writes on intonating:

“The flute has the innate defect that some of its notes when sharpened [playing sharps] are not quite true, some being a little too low, some a little to high. For in tuning the flute you must first see to it that the natural [diatonic] notes are tuned truly in accordance with their proportions. The faulty ones you must, as much as possible, seek to play in tune with the help of your embouchure and your ear.â€?

This is a little note to those who claim that you should play any instrument as is and that some instruments can never be played in tune. Many other instruments have the same problems (i.e. saxophone and recorder) and the players of all the instruments that have these problems should seek to play them as well intonated as possible.

In paragraph 16 he writes: “This defect can be easily remedied, however, if the player possesses a good embouchure, a good musical ear, a correct system of fingering, and an adequate knowledge of the proportions of the notes.â€?

Now, if you’ll excuse me I have to go practice playing in tune

No news of silence

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According to SmallBusinessComputing, Maxtor Rocks on With DiamondMax. I assume that means that we'll have one really noisy harddrive on the market. Cleverly, they haven't mentioned the sound it makes at all. I expect heavy noise pollution

No small system

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Hmm, I don't think I use unusually many applications, but without any of my data, my OS X system uses 22,2Gb. Not just a Windows-thingy being bloated, then.

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