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Re: ipad 2 mute bug

P Santhita — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:49:43 -0000

Goshhhhhh !!
i've been restoring my iPad for god knows how many times, till I found your post here.
thank you so very much !!!!!!!!!
now i have my audio back!
thank you

Re: How are you improving every day?

gagi — Wed, 04 May 2011 16:18:13 -0000

This is a quote from one other pretty awesome site, and the best comment I've ever see. I end up repeating it to myself quite often too:

There are guys out there with 10 years of experience, but there are a lot more out there with 1 year experience repeated 10 times.

And it's the latter are the ones that frighten me.

Re: ipad 2 mute bug

Tanmay — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:47:50 -0000

A full restore would've fixed it if you had not performed a *Restore* wherein your settings are restored rather than being set to default.

An reinstall in DFU on the other hand would've cleared that setting :)

Re: ipad 2 mute bug

Paul — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 02:36:54 -0000

I had this problem too and filed a bug report with crapple. tons of bugs in their app store recently. makes me angry i gave them so much of my money when i did.

Re: ipad 2 mute bug

Paul Betts — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:09:08 -0000

Double-tap home button, slide to the left (i.e. move your finger to right) - the speaker icon will let you toggle mute.

Re: How are you improving every day?

Sheep! — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:19:45 -0000

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Re: How are you improving every day?

jpantuso — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:21:34 -0000

I've turned off the wordpress extension that was adding the automatic
hyphenation, I'll turn it back on when I have a chance to put some more
reasonable behaviors in than the defaults apparently have.

Re: How are you improving every day?

williambswift — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:18:47 -0000

I'm reading in Firefox on Vista and see 2 - in fire-eating and the 3rd note.

Re: How are you improving every day?

jpantuso — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:13:13 -0000

The harsh tone is there precisely because this is old news. It was a rant
born of pent up frustration at the lack of mental engagement we're all
dealing with every day. It is unfair I admit, as it always is to
characterize broad swaths of people. It was cathartic for me, and apparently
affirming for a lot of others. And if even one person reads it and tries
harder that is a win.

Re: How are you improving every day?

Chasethompson19 — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:25:22 -0000

This post made my year. I've spent this entire year striving daily to improve myself, and I've grown so much.

Re: How are you improving every day?

Joe — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:53:04 -0000

The hyphens are automatic, I wonder if the amount of them vary with browser. I see 9 total in the article, do you see more?

Re: How are you improving every day?

Benevolentpony — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:23:52 -0000

seriously, what's with the hyphens?

Re: How are you improving every day?

Braden — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:14:52 -0000

Man, I have been trying to sum up my feelings on this subject for the past few weeks and you have done a phenomenal job! It might be a little dangerous on my wellbeing however, I am finding it harder and harder to just be around 'sheep.' The conversations, blank stairs, and overall uninterested nature due to their inability to learn something new is sickening. Posts like this make me feel a bit better about my insatiable need to learn new things. Kudos!

Re: How are you improving every day?

jotbe — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:03:29 -0000

The hidden hyphens are used for automatic hyphenation. E.g. Safari supports it.

Re: How are you improving every day?

Sandra | Get Relationship Back — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:30:50 -0000

Great post! I love seeing the grades of competency, they make so much sense!

Re: How are you improving every day?

Andy Hairgrove — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:20:38 -0000

Gre-at arti-cle, but wh-at is wi-th all the hy-phens? Am I (a wanna-be geek) missing some-thing? :)

Re: How are you improving every day?

Ruben Berenguel — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 11:35:21 -0000

Improving daily is what keeps us growing. The laborious ant always wins over the lazy cricket... or even against the brilliant cricket that only works on it once a week. I already blogged about it (Doing Your Best & 8 Tips on Continuous Improvement), but I still feel that I need to do it more often, write a better post about it... and try to convince everyone about doing it daily. But it is really hard work: reading blogs every day, keeping up with the news and all this can eat a big chunk of time unless you manage your time efficiently.

Cheers,

Ruben
Latest in my blog: The Emacs 30 Day Challenge

Re: Brain/Mind: Part 0–Introduction

Robert Bartz — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:29:51 -0000

I look forward to your articles Joe. I’m a big fan of the line of thinking and perspective I presented, but the physical side of maintaining our internal computers is a huge part of that perspective and something that is pragmatically necessary!

Re: Windows Live Mesh Cluster Fail

Guest — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:49:52 -0000

to be honest if you depend so much on 1 source it'll eventually bite you in the ass.

anything mission critical time wise like presentation slides defintely should get saved multiple places like email, cloud, usb.

all cloud services can have down times or bugs (some obviously less than others) and it's foolish to blindly trust ANY one source (s3, dropbox, mesh, etc)

Re: Windows Live Mesh Cluster Fail

Josué Almeida — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:18:44 -0000

I use Live Mesh and this happened to me once but every time it syncs, it moves the "old" file to the recycle bin... It just doesn't deletes it! I have to manually delete it, so if shit happens, I can always just look in the recycle bin. Did you search there? =\

Re: Windows Live Mesh Cluster Fail

Robert Bartz — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:13:33 -0000

Wow… I didn’t know that this insanity happened, I’m just going to say good work making the save and keeping things rolling!

Re: Windows Live Mesh Cluster Fail

Ryan — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:47:34 -0000

This is part of the genius of Dropbox. They figured out that automatic synchronization is worse than useless without accompanying version control.

Re: Windows Live Mesh Cluster Fail

Joe — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:51:44 -0000

They merged Skydrive and Mesh into "Windows Live Mesh" which is really a worst-of-both solution. Too little cloud space to be useful, and way fewer features on the desktop client than before (i.e. the nifty history and shell integration is gone).

Re: Windows Live Mesh Cluster Fail

Guest — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:47:18 -0000

I thought mesh is scheduled to be discontinued early next year?

Re: Windows Live Mesh Cluster Fail

taylodl — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:23:57 -0000

Microsoft tools have a tendency to fail when you need them the most. It sucks you got bit so hard. Hopefully your presentation still went well.