With the iApp approach – the files (if you care to look, and I don’t very often!) are logically organised e.g. photos are in a hierarchy for by year/month/date then the image files themselves are what ever you want to call them. Any albums are just symbolic links to the same files. I can’t think of how I’d do it better manually!

I bet I could find an arbitrary picture using iPhoto (an app designed from the ground up to manage photos) quicker than you could using your file explorer – however good your hierarchy!

The location of the file is irrelevant to me – I just have better things to do with my time than to manually keep my filing structure in order – my computer is much better at doing mundane tasks. What counts is how quick I can find the file to print/edit/whatever. As long as I’m safe in the knowledge that if I ever wanted to switch OS or whatever, my files are in a sensible (and easily importable) structure.

You suggest I should let go and conform to Mr. Job’s ideal but did he ever consider that his ideal is not suited to me and the way _I_ work? i.e. the way that works for me. I can understand why having a one size fits all solution would be an advantage to a beginner but to a person with thousands of files gathered over the years it can only be a bottleneck.

I want to know where my files are because:
- I don’t want them locked into a particular OS’s schema.
- I want to be able to blitz and re-install a different OS without my files being tied into my old OS’s architecture.
- I want to move them from one filesystem type to another to utilise advances in technology.
- Maybe my filing system makes more sense to me than Mr. Jobs.

The iPhone. For a technologically inferior phone, this phone seems to have an unwarranted level of hype, which is typical of Jobs. I’m willing to accept it’s a preference thing, maybe people prefer the usability which is admittedly a key feature of a Mac (personal preference only, not that any other platform is fundamentally harder to use). But the volume control clearly weakens the “usability” card. If the screen is tall, tough, you need to be as clever in your UI design as you do when your makign tarty coverflow controls. They could of course put a nice, tactile rocker switch on the side of the device like every other phone has – which is physically re-inforced to prevent accidental holding down and consequent deafening.

@programx

Very nice design. If you have the page up showing stocks for a certain company 1 way will show news story and small graph of share price. Rotate it and the graph is displayed full screen. Its a very nice design and works really well. It is free so I recommend you have a quick look.

I understand your concerns it would need to be labelled that your page is setup to change when roated. For a whole site maybe not but for a small section / about page it is possibly handy

I’m sure you’ve both researched the problem but just in case any one else stumbles across this post here’s a few tips that have worked for others (as always – try the following at your own risk!).

The problem can be caused by the headphones losing contact with the jack so check:
1. Your headphones plug isn’t loosely fitting
2. If you have dirty contacts in the iPod jack socket. Try using some contact cleaner or blowing it with some compressed air

Other causes for the problem:
3. Some third party headphones have a metal rim around the base of the plug (seems to be especially common on high end models) this can sometimes short against the metal on the jack – confusing the iPod into thinking it needs to pause.
Here you need to insulate it – most people have stuck a piece of tape between the two to prevent metal-to-metal contact. Alternatively, others have just bought an iPod remote to act as middle-man.

Hope this helps!