Of course, iTunes handles a lot more than just music. Perhaps that's why it's so slow on PCs (or Apple wants to make sure that the Mac experience is better than using a PC). If you only need a music manager, I'm sure there are a slew of better choices on both platforms. But if you own an Apple device (iPhone/iPad),…

Don't worry. When gay Americans are given civil equality in our country (which will totally happen any day now) by passing ENDA and having marriage equality in every state, Gawker won't have any need to run gay-themed articles. To celebrate, you can have a pizza party on that day!

32 states have bans on same-sex marriage. 29 states don't have any LGBT discrimination protections. THAT'S WHY it is important to be out. That's why it's important for the conservative homophobes that follow NASCAR to see that gay people DO exist in their world, and that they are exactly like them. Otherwise, they'll…

"Cities" can't be offended by foul language. Cities aren't human; and the city had no rationale for rejecting his payment. Had the city accepted his legal tender, none of what followed would have happened. It is not illegal to voice a belief that a particular town is shitty, or to call the residents of a town that…

It totally makes sense. You believe that marriage is only for procreative men and women — even though you know (but won't admit) that non-procreative couples get married all the time. So, of course, the best way to voice your (fucked-up and bigoted) opinion is to take off your shirt (because you secretly want to be…

Not just French people. But French people running around topless, wearing salmon pants and opera masks. It's hard to imagine a more butch image in my mind than that.

Looking forward to giving this a try. It would be nice to have a few weather widgets on the desktop; and a countdown timer, flip clock and screen capture widget.

I've been in a same-sex relationship for over 17 years. 12 of those years were in Orange County, CA, a very conservative area. We never had a single issue living there as a gay couple. Compared to 1998, living as a gay man is a piece of cake if you move to a metropolitan city. In this day and age there really isn't…

Yeah, DirecTV does buffer the current channel and the last channel you were on. That was pretty sweet when we had their service. The only solution on U-verse would be to record both football games and switch between them using the "Resume" playback feature. Kinda clunky, but it works. I agree, there are a ton of…

We've got U-verse 18 Mbps internet service that is hardly slow. The only thing the DVR is lacking is slow-motion playback. I've currently got 60% of free-space on my DVR. Room enough for an additional 90 hours of HD programming. You can also easily remove all the ad channels from your guide (as if U-verse were the…

The screen rotation patent is stupid. (Not that most of these patents aren't.) Yeah, you press a button up to three times to rotate an image. I'm pretty sure Photoshop did that in version #1. That's less patentable than "turn the phone sideways and the 'desktop' rotates to match the landscape orientation" or let's…

I haven't had any issues playing Netflix videos (or AppleTV or Amazon Prime) over AT&T U-verse. I'm wondering what bandwidth they're using for these rankings. My current speed is 18 Mbps, which is plenty fast and 99% reliable. (The DVR boxes... not so much.)

The fact that they lied about their screen's (so-called) superiority (to the iPad) to try and justify the use of a low-res screen speaks volumes about their credibility and integrity. Why would anyone pay the same amount of money for a product that is inferior to the market leader? Basically the people that are buying…

Why would a lower-res screen be deemed better for media? Especially when the iPad has almost a perfect color gamut. Perhaps the wider screen would make for a better viewing experience (without having the 'black bar' issue), but I doubt that a lower resolution would be a benefit.

If the area below the time and date isn't being used, why not allow the user to add up to four "cards" to that space? That would be less complicated than scrolling cards that you have to organize like the app pages... and you'd get to view them all at once. Then when you tap on a card, one of those black-outlined…

It does annoy me that people so quickly dis Siri. It does some very impressive things seemingly seamlessly. I think it's pretty cool that I can have Siri add "sauerkraut" to my Shopping List, or "Remind me in the morning that I have to take the dogs to the vet for shots." Sure enough, I get a reminder at 7 a.m.

Okay, the first thing people need to do after they install iTunes 11 is bring back the Sidebar (Option + Command + S). It's extremely difficult to use iTunes without the Sidebar. Then click on Music in your Library and select Artists from the list in the center. Now you can see every artist in the left column, and…

Are you talking about the Sidebar that lists the Library, Store, Devices and Playlists? That's Option + Command + S under the View menu.