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#326092 - 14/09/2009 18:35 Re: New iPods - anyone else underwhelmed? [Re: hybrid8]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	Originally Posted By: hybrid8 Oh, the other thing (used a lot with Twitter posts) are URL shorteners. Arrrgh! They're fine if you're trying to rick-roll someone, but I want to know where I'm clicking to, not see a bunch of garbage characters. That's why I use [url=minilink.org]minilink.org[/url], which retains the domain name and the extension of the original URL. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#326107 - 14/09/2009 22:15 Re: New iPods - anyone else underwhelmed? [Re: wfaulk]
DWallach carpal tunnel Registered: 30/04/2000 Posts: 3810	Totally agreed. URL shorteners are not only ugly, but they're an additional point of failure, and they also give zero indication to the user of where they're about to take you. They leak private information to the shortener vendor, who now knows where you're going and how popular that destination is. Eventually, they'll probably introduce interstitial adverts.
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#326108 - 14/09/2009 22:16 Re: New iPods - anyone else underwhelmed? [Re: DWallach]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	I only use them in cases where the original URL is either even more ugly or, in places where it counts, exceptionally long. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#326123 - 15/09/2009 17:37 Re: New iPods - anyone else underwhelmed? [Re: wfaulk]
Dignan carpal tunnel Registered: 08/03/2000 Posts: 12341 Loc: Sterling, VA	edit Okay, I feel the need to correct myself in a previous post. There are indeed ads in the free version of Pandora. However, I completely missed them because it's about 20 seconds every ten songs. This is not a deal breaker in the least, I just didn't want to be inaccurate on that point. The bottom line is: I've always hated radio, but I might pay for Pandora. _________________________ Matt
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#326285 - 23/09/2009 02:01 Re: New iPods - anyone else underwhelmed? [Re: hybrid8]
drakino carpal tunnel Registered: 08/06/1999 Posts: 7868	Originally Posted By: hybrid8 EDIT: Nice new bug in 9.0... iTunes now mixes together the tracks of multi-disc releases. It used to number the tracks 1..10 followed by 1..10 and now it does 1,1,2,2,3,3...10,10 Arrgh. Fixed in 9.0.1.
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