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Did you know that you could use Command-A with text fields on the iPad? It's very handy when using an external Bluetooth keyboard. It selects all the text in the field and displays a touchable Cut - Copy - Paste menu, letting you easily replace the field text or copy it to the system pasteboard.
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nebmot said 4:41PM on 2-01-2010
When are they going to fix the home sharing?
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Itchy said 4:44PM on 2-01-2010
Took them bloody ages to fix remember password!
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Le Big Mac said 4:58PM on 2-01-2010
Okay, I'm glad I'm not crazy. I'd been wondering why I had to reenter my password even though I had checked "remember password". Didn't it work properly back in like 4.0? Here we are 5 years later and it can't get that feature going?
As for security, I've got a screen lock password.
Joachim Bean said 4:43PM on 2-01-2010
I'll see what it does and how it works. Some are still having issues since iTunes 9 came out (crashing). :(
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Hendricus said 4:54PM on 2-01-2010
And I thought not remembering my password was a safety feature ;-)
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Le Big Mac said 5:41PM on 2-01-2010
Then what's the checkbox to remember/not remember for? Super security?
waiownsyou said 4:57PM on 2-01-2010
Damn it, Apple-- it's not Tuesday yet! HOW DARE YOU!
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jonnypjh said 5:53PM on 2-01-2010
It obviously includes iPad mumbo-jumbo hidden away inside of it. The device will be shipping in a matter of weeks. I'd bet that if anything there's at least an icon hidden for it.
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directeco said 5:24PM on 2-01-2010
FINALLY! I've been waiting for this fix for smart playlists for going on 6 months! If you used the live updating feature it would scramble all the items in that smart playlist in a completely random order. Makes the whole thing useless when you want a playlist that lists all your music in the date they were added to your library.
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Look said 6:18PM on 2-01-2010
smart playlists still broken!!!!
jp4270 said 9:55PM on 2-01-2010
My smart playlists are still broken! A simple one is media is music, limited to 50 songs by most recently played. Still jumbled up.
igzabier said 5:37PM on 2-01-2010
jailbreak apps sync fine, glad to see ms.crabapple will make functional products eventually, it just works
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Spencer said 5:46PM on 2-01-2010
Hmm, live updating still breaks it for me. Anyone having success with this? If you do, please tell me how.
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Nick said 8:15PM on 2-16-2010
It didn't fix my playlists!
Live updating playlists are still completely wrong on my ipod touch!
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Nelly111S said 6:35PM on 2-01-2010
Live updating (top 25 most played playlist for example) still broken. How annoying!
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HerTech said 6:52PM on 2-01-2010
Live Updating is STILL broken! When will they stop playing with our emotions and fix the darn thing? This is VERY frustrating and inconvenient to say the least!!!
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SSteve said 7:04PM on 2-01-2010
What I'd really like to see fixed is sharing when an artist name is different than the sort field. If the artist "Johnny Glockenspiel" is sorted "Glockenspiel, Johnny" on my iMac he still shows up under J when I access him from my MacBook. Ok, that's no big deal--I can live with that. But if I select him from the artist list and start playing, after the song is over it disappears from the list and playback stops. I reported this in 2008 (rdar://6202099).
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Pat said 7:07PM on 2-01-2010
looks like they broke the previously-broken-then-fixed control+command+Z key command to show/hide the mini player. and yes, i know command+shift+M does the same thing, but muscle-memory people
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Simon Arch said 7:54PM on 2-01-2010
Plus there's the whole "don't fix what ain't broke" angle to consider. It's a bad idea to make even small changes to the way apps work when there's no clear benefit to the end user.
Simon Arch said 8:37PM on 2-01-2010
I should point out that you can correct this behaviour in the System Preferences. In the Keyboard prefpane, click on Keyboard Shortcuts. Select Application Shortcuts from the pane on the left. Click the "+" button to create a new shortcut. Select iTunes from the popup menu of applications and then enter Zoom in the menu title box. Then in the keyboard shortcut box enter a new command.
You'll need to do this twice more. First for Switch to Mini Player and second for Switch from Mini Player. Just make them both control-command-Z and you'll be set.
I'd rather Apple revert iTunes to the way it USED to work, but until then, this will do. At least I CAN fix this problem. They've done this before where there was NO way to fix what they'd broken.