Posts by pik80

I was hoping that they were going to fix the syncing issue that has been happening between both ATVs and iTunes. I heard that ATV will mount if you erase everything but I am afraid if it doesn't work and ATV says erased. I need the...

There is an article that was just posted on Macworld by John Siracusa that says many of the same things that we have been talking about here regarding the Finder and iOS. You might want to check it...

Quote: Originally Posted by dutch pear most of the heavy lifting will have to be done by the OS. It would sure be nice if the OS could do this like with faces but you pay the price by not having anywhere near the accuracy that tags...

Quote: Originally Posted by dutch pear Yes, spotlight/faces/itunes are far from perfect “Yes, spotlight/faces/itunes are far from perfect,” Spotlight only searches names of files and contents. The names of the files are too narrow of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss My thoughts exactly. If anyone can figure out a method for this, it's Apple. But it's probably going to piss off a whole lot of people, especially geeks. I think they would keep folder search...

Quote: Originally Posted by dutch pear In this respect, computers should get smarter and do the work for the user. Things like spotlight, the itunes automatic meta-data system, smart folders and iphoto's faces/places features all point...

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin There would certainly need to be something but personally I think that 'something' is the fixed hierarchy. I don't think it negatively impacts the usefulness of the tag system. What is negative about...

“Say you are in the untagged folder and you add a custom tag to a file but forget to give it any other tags.” The same problem could happen with a file name where you don’t give the filename all the words that it needs to have and...

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Naturally you may have related files and want to tag them the same way but it's easy to lose untagged files or files with few tags and not remember how to get back to them in order to name them...

Quote: Originally Posted by minderbinder Just because you don't need a feature doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. Well it would force people to change faster. Some people will put off change as long as they possibly can.