Wow, for some reason I never thought leaving sweet stories. I always typed exactly what happened.

No More!

photophile

"thats enough john mayer"...

mr30gZune

Jesus, what are you doing up in the middle of the night reading John Mayer's blog anyway?

You got some 'splainin' to do!

drewdraws2

John needs to get out more!

MINI Driver

bahahaha, that was the best part of that movie. good stuff.

I once sent a picture of Admiral Ackbar in ASCII to Apple cuz i was so angry that Safari crashed when I was writing something important for school...

ezman

He actually starts his messages with "John Mayer here"?

ferrdidly

Thanks for the video. It was infinitely more interesting than the star-struck drivel that was posted. Did I say that "candid" enough? I decided charming was beyond me.

lianna_g

Safari has crashed ... maybe three times for me since I bought a mac in june. yay!

MastaFalse

nice desktop pattern...maybe its left over from the jessica simpson days...

dude seriously, your desktop needs some attention.

noremac

if i must link i will link

+ Watch video

oooo it works:)

MrBlahBlah

If I got a free Macbook Air before the release data, my bug reports would definitely be a lot nicer than they are now. Currently, I'm downright mean, as if the bug report request is the icing on the cake - "oh, NOW WHAT?!"

Lizard_King

@MrBlahBlah: You can't you have to link them

rawbdee

ugh, how do you imbed youtube vids? i feel like a n00b

MrBlahBlah

kind of like this?

MrBlahBlah

You too good for Leopard's built-in wallpapers, Mayer?

spededdler

i tend to draw naughty pictures using ones, zeros, and dashes and then righting an informative letter under it.

Sheemo44

One time I made a suggestion. So far nothing's happened.
I know I shouldn't have expected anything to come of it, but I was still a little disappointed...

Babysealclubber

Safari crashed at least 5 times a day for me (no exaggeration) so I've left pretty much every kind of feedback imaginable. I recommend books, leave movie reviews, tell them stories of wild Friday nights, and even update them with scores of meaningless high school basketball games. One day Safari will not crash due to my in-depth feedback, I'm sure of it.

LillieDesigns

I gave up a long time ago, since well, it never did any good. Sure they might use it in their next product, but I just bought the current one!

Knight-Zero

maybe it would be kinda cool, you know sending a picture of a drawing of genitals... maybe.

yablunk

I have never had a problem that wasn't my fault really, so I have never posted. Angry or otherwise.

smilleyofais

I once sent a death threat to Bill Gates in a bug report for Vista. Ever since, my computer's been acting even worse!

bana

Good thing he put down the specifics of the situation.

someToast

Hehehehehehehe

AJ_Syrinx

Wow. Movie dick clips aside (and I won't even make any gratuitous John Mayer references), I was so gratified to find out that I'm not the only one to find Safari to be a crash-laden piece of sh*t. Seriously. Where does Apple get off intimating that their stuff always "just works" and that Vista is crap? I've never had a Vista crash, and even XP is stable once you get wonky (3rd-party) drivers sorted out. For that matter, I never had as much problems with (sorted out) NT 3.51 and 4.0 as I did with OS/X 10.2 -- with only Apple software loaded. Just today I had problems with the much vaunted Leopard not wanting to properly close a DivX player session. That may have been the fault of DivX, but still... News for you Jobs: They're OSes not religions. They're all good, they're all bad. They all take turns pissing me off. Get off the high horse....

Mandatory_Field

John Mayer seems like the kind of person people talk about saying, "he just won't shut up," or "he goes on and on and on and on," or "all you have to say or do is one thing and he'll talk about it foreveeer."

Am I right? Plus, who the fuck gives long drawn out conversations just to get to the point at the end to customer service and technical support?

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

8====> )*(

madcow3417

Did he see Dave Matthews complain first?

spaceman7

I "woke up" from my John Mayer days when I heard him ridiculing "every Dave Matthew's song ever made". Seriously, he's like DM#2. Nothing gets you back on track with what's important in life like when "Mr. carbon copy" pop-star ridicules "Mr. source copy" pop-star of being simple and unoriginal. Thank you Mr. Mayer, I'm no longer focused on the music scene and now spend my efforts trying to follow the war in Iraq and the situation in Darfur.

...be suspect of any man or woman over the age of 22 who still uses the phrase "anyhoo" in conversation.

newgalactic

i dont know why ppl say safari is crash-laden....i got it friday and im using xp..i got it to just see how it is..and i like it more than firefox

ftw5000

I'm usually an Apple apologist, but Safari crashes on me five or six times a day.

xenti

@ferrdidly:

He actually starts his messages with "John Mayer here"?

How could he not? He's living in a '60s era spy movie!

gibson042

restart, software update and repair permissions biatch

discounteggroll

Hi guys.
John Mayer here. I banged Jessica Simpson.
You guys did not.
That is all.
Sincerely,
John Mayer

scarbrtj

Back of the line, hippie.

strider_mt2k

Sounds like Mayer is trying to butter up Radiohead and The Verve for some side projects. :\

Fuzi Lojak

Is 'name dropper' the proper term when you're the personality/celeb?

FThorn

@smilleyofais: hmmm, what is your system? Casio G-Shock? oK, I have sent out like up to 50 bug reports, but never have bothered with a more elaborate description, if any. Things like: 'Tried to close a tab in Safari and it crashed' are already on the more talkative side. Now, I simply use FireFox, which is also a pain in the a.. and clogs my system after a while, but at least does not crash every time I close a tab (which has been Safari's predicament on my machine from 1.2 through 3.1, without any reactions from anybody). I wonder if anybody ever reads that, anyway. If they have like 100-200 coming in on a daily basis, they would already need at least 3-5 people alone to actually read them, let alone act on them.

yogibimbi

@frigg: John Mayer here.

Doesn't everyone start their messages with "John Mayer here"?

ideaman2020

Oh and hey, where is the 'Stop' button?

sonicwind

LOL, like anyone at a company ever reads that crap.

sonicwind

@TheCyberBob:

I'm sure any background looks cool when you are bangin' Jessica Simpson.

WildSeven

Maybe i should start sending bug reports in everytime safari crashes, but as much as safari crashes i would spend all day writing up bug reports. They can just go ahead and leave that feature out of the next version, I don't think anybody likes it.

luciusad2004

I swear in the mid to late 90s John Mayer used to tour (at least twice) the coffee shops of Borders book stores. Yes I'm serious. He have a core of like 8 crazy girls and one guy show up. I was never there when he was, but I saw him or his helper setting up once and couldn't be bothered to stay. The other employees at the time did confirm that yes, he was a tool.

Of course, if I'm remembering wrong and it wasn't him, I'm the tool. Guess I'll have to live with that.

All_Thumbs

Suburbancowboy:
[itlu.ownz.ch]

Ta-da!

excaza

I'd like to report a problem. iTunes is 65 megs of bloatware. It runs slow as crap if you are really into music and have a large collection. If I move a folder on my computer, I have to do a ridiculously long rescan for the folder, and then I have to go and remove the old entries from the program, or else my songs are listed twice. I moved my Tagged new music from my untagged new music folder and it took almost an hour to scan the folder. Then all of the songs I moved were double listed.

Media Monkey is 6.5 megs and works way better, and the gold version automatically rescans any folders I designate, and removes entries it can no longer find.

As soon as MM works with iPod Touch, (beta version sort of works) I can hopefully ditch iTunes and only use it to add videos and upgrade the firmware.

suburbancowboy

How silly of me to actually think that putting in stuff like what I was actually doing at the time with iTunes would possibly help the people on the other side. I shoulda just written "IS BORKEN!" or "LOLZ! IZ WEIRD!" or "things got all haywire after that". Idiot.

His desktop background looks like a crime scene photo for a brutal group murder of the Strawberry Shortcake troupe. Or like the vomit of a thousand hobo unicorns or something. Seriously. wtf.

TheCyberBob

Gosh, John Mayer is an even bigger tool than I thought.
Hope he enjoys those county fairs he'll be playing in 5 years.

And in a glaring exception to usual Mac app/OS elegance, Safari's ALWAYS been glitchy. More like 'It just crashes.'

thebullfrog

LOL, great post, Jesus.

SunZhiQian

@ferrdidly:

"He actually starts his messages with "John Mayer here"?

Many people do. Apparently, whenever you correspond with Apple on a bug report, only the ones that start "John Mayer here" are accepted by the automated system for review. I think I read that in the Missing Manual by David Pogue, who said it will also work with his name, but it creeps him out a bit, so he advises readers to use John Mayer instead.

frigg

Why are you guys even giving Safari the chance to crash that often when Firefox is free?

Lizard_King

He's a great guitarist no doubt....but please, shut your god damn mouth and play that damn gee-tar!

Jimbuck

@RamV10: I just link to this, but same concept.

Xenocide

@ideaman2020:

"John Mayer here.

Doesn't everyone start their messages with 'John Mayer here'?"

John Mayer here.

You know it's funny now that you mention it. I never really noticed it before but I think you're right!

frigg

A guy I work with always clicks "send report" when he gets a windows error. It's always the same report too.

"Eat shit and die motherfuckers".

So far no responses.

RamV10

No_ I ignore the comments ection and merely hit the 'Send to Apple' button_

But 2 things come to mind:
- because he's John Mayer and he does music and he's buddies with Steve - I'm sure he gets 'special' treatment and the Apple cronies will jump on the issue immediately_ then we'll all see the john.mayer 2008-001 iTunes Bug Fix come out in a couple of weeks_

- and maybe we all start adding comments in the Bug Reports and signing them:
Sincerely,
John Mayer

and maybe we'll all get more attention from Steve and the boys_

uberfu

John mayer is amazing, as long as he puts that down that fucking acoustic guitar! When he's not singing "I love you more, no I love you more" songs and he's actually rocking his electric (his guitar skills are fantastic), he's divine.

@drewdraws2:
His blogs are hilarious! He's like a big geek (thus filing a bug report) who is famous for music.

trickonion

It's funny, because I work tech support for Apple, and people will call in all the time saying they've been sending bug reports, thinking I can see them or they pull up when they call automatically by voice recognition or some other magic. The reports go to engineers... and we tech support monkeys never ever see them. They don't even really tell us what they mean, unless you happen to be one of the upper tier folks with some Unix training, or if it's in an article describing some very very specific issue. So... yeah. They go to engineers.

NightElfMohawk

Oh, and I almost forgot...

My stupid mouse
Has got me in trouble
I clicked too much again
To a tab in Safari yesterday
And I could see
My command had offended
It said "Safari has unexpectedly closed..."
Just begging for a crash report today.

Oh, another iTunes casualty
Score one more for Steve
How could I forget?
Apple said "back up you data"
No smart playlist for my head
Oh, what's a boy to do
I guess I better buy a Zune.

Mayor McRib

Mayor McRib Here:
I know John is probably reading this, so I just want him to know that I am a big fan. I really am, and I buy everything you put out (music wise). Just send me a little note that you are reading this and that you are ok. Thanks.

Mayor McRib

I have never had Safari crash and never had my iPod do anything that couldn't be fixed with a simple restart. What am I doing right? Been using Macs for over 20 years and wouldn't use anything else.

MonicaVM

John Mayer... never heard of him.

krokus

( . Y . )

cissyrene

Clever boy that John Mayer. Hope he gets his problem solved. Maybe trying it on another one of his Macs that he has (I hope he has more than one). I know... I know... his iPod is tied to a single Mac, but it doesn't hurt to try the same thing on another system.

chillywilly

Clapton has always been a boring, fake-ass lamer when outside a band; -exactly like Sting.

Just because JM has learned SRV's style and his version of Jimi's "Voodoo Chile", doesn't mean he's near as good. -He's just the most famous young guy playing guitar after the MTV/VH1 Axis of Evil jettisoned music by people who write their own songs, sing and play instruments, for more "commercial" stuff.

If Sting's superlame pseudo-jazz was trying to rip off Dave Matthews, it would be John Mayer.

Plus JM is a convicted man, as there was a Federal Law passed after SRV died stating that no new guitar player is allowed to pull a "What's That Smell?"-face. BB is the only one left with that license.

spaceman7

@frigg: John Mayer here:

I thought we were all supposed to start any comment with "John Mayer here."

edosan

izim1, I think your argument will fall of deaf ears. I agree with you on most of your points, but John has kinda brought all this on himself and I think he realizes it. That's why you're seeing this gradual progression away from his "typical" stuff to newer throwbacks to the greats like Clapton, SRV, and Hendrix.

Lol. Wow, who woulda thought that someone that sings so much about "love" would garner so much hate.

That's oversimplifying things a bit, but it's interesting.

karmaghost

@newgalactic: @thebullfrog:
errrrr you guys DO know that he is one of the best guitarist of this generation. aside from the crappy pop love songs, he can fucking play a guitar like few others can. praised and christened as the "new guitar god" by everyone from Clapton (the original guitar god) to buddy guy and bb king. comparing him to dave mathews is ridiculous. mayer plays blues/pop while mathews sings that "new age wannabe santana" music. to say sounds like dave mathews is just ignorant. as ignorant as saying he'll be playing at state fairs or whatnot. the man is a multi grammy winning critically acclaimed guitarist. that drag-queen jessica simpson is probably the worst piece of ass he's banged.
that being said: he is a tool. but a very talented tool.......

izim1

@Trowble (XBL/PSN): John Mayer might not be familiar with the sw QA world, and doesn't really know what relevant information to pass along. I mean, he's probably kind of busy being famous and having women faun over him, and working in the occasional workout when his ipod's not on the fritz.

ludwigk

@newgalactic:

Helll no. Dave Matthews is not the "original" John Mayer. John Mayer writes better music, better songs, and is just an all around cooler person.

Plus, Mayer plays jazzy/blues, Matthews plays whatever the fuck you want to call it, as long as it isn't jazzy blues.

FranklinTurtle

About people getting back to you when you submit bug reports, I think it has to do with a few things, mainly the dedication of the product's team, the saturation of bug reports, and the helpful:spam bug ratio. Personally, I am a beta tester for Meebo IM and I always get a personal response from their team, its a nice refresher to see them being real people so I always try to be refreshing to whoever reads my report, and that can be in many different ways.

KraigR

@LillieDesigns: Next time it crashes post the segement indicating what crashed to a Mac forum, I am sure someone might work it out. I often find plug-ins tend to be the bane of damage.

twilight-arc

@spaceman7: your post lost any credibility it ever had after the first sentence. Clapton is God. Every one knows that bb knows it, beck knows it, and Hendrix knew it(first trip to London: "you guy's think I could maybe meet eric Clapton") the only one that was clueless to this fact was the great SRV. The man intimidated EVERY BODY. SRV-1 Clapton-2 Hendrix-3 then everyone else. EVH has always admitted to spending YEARS trying to sound like Clapton.

izim1

@karmaghost: like I said: the guy's a tool. And the main reason is because he tried to please a crowd that he really didnt need to. The "pop" crowd was never going to acknowledge him as a guitar player. They don't even know what "instruments" are. And the "purist" turned on him because he tried to please the pop crowd. Its a miracle banging jessica Simpson didnt just kill his career. But you gotta give credit where it is due: he's a multi-Grammy winning guitarist and nothing is gonna change that. Plus I give him props for the SRV tatoo he has on his arm. I first heard of him at clapton crossroads guitar festival in 2004. Five seconds worth of licks and the crowd was stunned. The "TOOL" with the popped up collar was sounding too much like Hendrix for comfort.....

izim1

@edosan: JMh.

I think we've discovered a new meme...

ideaman2020

i stand corrected: DOUBLE popped up collar INCLUDING a pink polo. you cant get more "douchebag" than that. even bigger tool than i had originally thought. but you cant honestly say the kid isnt very talented with the guitar. while it's not really saying much, he IS one of this generations most talented musician. for the guys comparing him to dave mathews.... really guys.... think before typing..... "google" is a clueless kid's best friend..

+ Watch video

izim1

@excaza: I've used that program. It still takes forever to do a simple scan, and remove bad files. In fact, I am using it right now. I've been running the program for an hour and a half, and it is not done removing the tracks (roughly 1900 fromone folder and into another).
Media Monkey on the other hand, does this automatically, with no extra software, every time I boot it up, and it only takes about 5 minutes to scan everything.
No comparison. iTunes is just a very shitty program.

suburbancowboy

Ron and Fez noon-3

vocalyouth

Not that I disagree with you about iTunes vs. Mediamonkey, I'm just curious.

excaza

How big is your music library that it takes itlu an hour and a half to scan?

excaza

You know you could alwase just send them a image made in ACSII :P

reluttr

Why wish you could do something when you can, Just make a image in ASCII and send it directly to good ol M$ and apple express style.

btw I'm curious how apple responds to this, I mean they kinda have to respond don't they?

reluttr

Hi guys.
John Mayer here, again.
Safari just crashed on me while I was using it.
Thanks, you guys.
Sincerely,
John Mayer

Safari crashed and I added that to the comments before I sent the report to Apple_ Just Curious!

uberfu

@excaza: I moved roughly 1900 songs, but I have 250 gigs of music. To remove the song from theone directory, and add it to the other, it took at least 2 hours. I don't know what the final time was, because I left the PC running, and went to sleep.
iTunes slows down my entire PC once the library gets that big. Media Monkey runs no problems.

suburbancowboy