Bowtie is a free application that allows you to control iTunes with shortcuts, submits to last.fm, and is simple / lightweight with a great xhtml+css+js theme system - Matt Harwood
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“I am going to post my question here and on the apple.com forums. Let's see who responds quickest and most accurate. Why would my MacBook Pro just shut off all the time with an hour left on the battery? I don't get it.”
how old is the battery? I've had similar issues with 2+ Year Old batteries - Sean Reiser
I have had mine since April of 2007. Found a thread on apple.com with numerous people having this issue. Oh no ... http://discussions.apple.com/t... - Amani
Space-time distortion. Happens all the time. - Denton Gentry
It could be the battery is overheating, thus triggering some kind of panic shutdown. I've had this happen to me with two batteries (and I'm not entirely sure what the actual reason is). Apple replaced both batteries for free. - Carlos Granier-Phelps
You could have a damaged cell. Mine started doing it after 300+ recharge cycles although it was with about 20 minutes to go. - Timothy Griffin
Carlos: no worries. Apple wouldn't replace my battery as they said I'd had over two years worth of use in 14 months -- wasn't too worried, though, as I had abused my poor MacBook and it stood up to it magnificently. - Timothy Griffin
@Timothy... I'm on my fourth battery already (in 2 yrs). But Apple has always replaced them for free (I do have Apple Care, though). - Carlos Granier-Phelps
Carlos: That was my problem, i.e. no AppleCare! It's only my second battery, though, and I am swapping for a new MacBook Pro in a few weeks and this time I got AppleCare. - Timothy Griffin
I believe I am on 375 cycles (what does that really mean?) so I need to call AppleCare. I don't think I have apple care, but I am not sure. - Amani
Amani: "A charge cycle means using all of the battery’s power, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a single charge. For instance, you could use your notebook for an hour or more one day, using half its power, and then recharge it fully. If you did the same thing the next day, it would count as one charge cycle, not two, so you may take several days to complete a cycle." - Timothy Griffin
@ Timothy - Thanks for the explanation. It seems like more and more people are having this issue. - Amani
Mine started doing that as well, seems to happen when I have a run on plugging it in and unplugging it often. It's in the apple hospital at the moment, let's hope it gets sorted. - Stuart Forsyth
Had a similar problem, I had a bad harddrive, get it checked out before a crash - Bryan Thatcher
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Apple tested my battery, cells poked so they gave me a new one. Was doing the same thing - from 30% power to off in less than a second :) - Stuart Forsyth
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if he's good enough for scoble, he's good enough for me - friended! - Adam Singer
Apparently I do =D And I'm guessing those receiving your shoutouts would agree, don't you think? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Tina: one reason why I say it's more important to pick carefully who you are following is just this reason. Why is anyone following someone just because I talked about them? That seems that you're setting yourself up for disappointment. I might not choose the people I'm following as carefully as you might (in fact, I have plenty of evidence that I'm not that careful at all). - Robert Scoble
the fact that Robert follows me is major evidence of his carelessness - Sean Reiser
Yeah, Sean, I've been meaning to talk to you about that! :-) - Robert Scoble
Mathew: you telling me you aren't smart? Damn... - Robert Scoble
Robert, like it or not people respect your opinion. While you following someone may very well not be a recommendation, you specifically mentioning them can be. And that's not a bad thing. FF needs as much positive exposure as it can get, and I'm just happy to see someone with a wider reach doing just that. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
But still I have no idea for an @ profile like webhat : ) Cool! Come on webhat, ff is yours. - Erhan Erdogan
When Robert started following me on FF my feed was dominated by upcoming Massachusetts events and political youtube videos. I've had smarter content since then, but I did notice he wasn't being very selective with follows. :-) - Bruce Lewis
Robert: I hate doing that too... but get on it or you end up with a whole shoe-box full of receipts like I did a couple years ago... Not pretty when I got the call from my accountant! - Mark VandenBerg
Wow you followed my cause I think I am smart, what the heck did I say to deserve that! :-) - Bill Pennington
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Bill: that's not a very low bar, if you think about it. How many people in the world would know about wordpress and would link to articles about it? In my experience not many. - Robert Scoble
Fair enough I will try to live up to the inclusion on your list of smart people - Bill Pennington
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Robert: I didn't mean that as a bad thing (that i friended him just because you friended him) - but the fact that you pointed him out to me meant he was probably interesting. I've friended a few people you pointed out and almost ALL turned out to be great people. It's not a blind follow, I respect your opinion. - Adam Singer
Katie: my favorite restaurant, Tres Amigos, is on Kelley. - Robert Scoble
Yes yes...good stuff! We walk there when I visit! - Katie
I used to live right by Tres Amigos. Loved that place. Who needed to cook? - todd
Exactly. I think we eat there at least twice when I visit and I visit once a year at least. And we spend at least every morning at the Coffee Company not as much for the food as much for the meeting spot. - Katie
Katie and todd: makes me think we should do a FriendFeed meetup there soon! - Robert Scoble
If I get up there, I"ll have to mention it. I was hoping for the holidays but I may have to work. - Katie
Do they still show your own full body image as you walk by? When SARS was on everyone's lips, it was interesting watching people go by... some wanted to stop and look, while MANY others wanted to race by without seeing for themselves. It gave new insight to me on the meaning of the cliche "whistling by the graveyard" and how prevalent the desire to hide from the truth is.... and just how wide spread the practice of ignoring symptoms of treatable diseases (until the disease is no longer treatable) might really be. - David HC Soul
No, the lady walked over, aimed something that looked like a gun, then moved onto the next person in the car. It went so fast I didn't have much time to be freaked out until she was gone. Our driver explained that it was a new kind of thermometer that looked for SARS victims. - Robert Scoble
Too bad... I was fascinated by the image and where all the "hot spots" are - I was trying to decide whether the left side of my face seeming to be distinctly warmer than the right side had any significance when they asked me to move along as I was delaying the line a bit. - David HC Soul
You know how many moms would kill for a thermometer like that? That's even easier that chasing a kid to use that thermometer that goes in the ear. We sure have come a long way from the glass rod with the mercury that goes in the mouth for 5 minutes that was used when I was a kid. - April Russo
sars got that tech going .. disaster=progress - Gregory Lent
“You never hear about Microsoft Dynamics on Twitter or FriendFeed, but when I was in China last week I was watching an entire supply chain switch to it.”
Now is that saying something about Twitter/FriendFeed or about Microsoft Dynamics? =) - RAD Moose
RAD: talking about enterprise software isn't as interesting as cat photos. - Robert Scoble
That's not completely true, lolcatz about enterprise software are fun too :) - Daniel W. Crompton
We are going to start using MS Dynamics for our Help Desk system (Nelnet, Inc. NNI) - Susan Beebe
As a former admin/developer, there really isn't much exciting to talk about - Wayne Arthurton
I kind of wish we'd look into it for our help desk. I hate Remedy (it needs a remedy), and we've already got our heads so far stuck into Outlook, Exchange and SharePoint that it might make sense. I'm no expert on these things, though, so I could be totally wrong. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
Define your terms... Dynamic AX? GP? CRM? We use them all and, as a general rule, they are solid. To anyone contemplating CRM, consider publishing the Outlook client via 2008 Terminal Services. It will make your life much simpler. - John Denver
I think the Microsoft Across America events I attended were CRM. I am rather clueless beyond all that. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
It is popular in India too, especially for small businesses. I know a couple of rapidly growing solution providers implementing and customizing Microsoft apps and not able to keep up with the load. - Dorai
It really does work well with Outlook and thus it makes it easier to go through the same processes. Their early versions were a big buggy when it first came out, but in the last year the program just flies and they did good with it, beats the heck out of SAP if you are already using Outlook by all means. - Barbara Duck
Speaking of SAP things must be a little tight there, working on SAP in "Second life", maybe the customers are more friendly there (grin). SAP has software that goes beyond CRM but that is a large part of it..http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... - Barbara Duck
There's a web based version as well which I have not had time to play around with yet, and I can't remember if it is out of beta yet, but I should connect it to my "Office Live" set up which is solid as a rock and works with the desktop applications very well. - Barbara Duck
Not sure why, but there are some sharp MS-platform minds on Twitter, and there are some sharp MS focused folks here of FF. I'm a mostly MS focused guy and our podcast has plenty of info on it from our collective experience with the products. I guess you just have to find them. - Eric @ CS Techcast
Did you really eat the dessicant gel? Damn man I nearly fell out of my chair and darn near choked to death on my tea from laughing so hard!!!! - J. D. Ebberly
There's a wicked strain of cold virus goin' round. Better take vitamin C, zinc, Echinacea and Zicam nasal gel as well as two Cold-Eeze lozenges every four hours for 7 days. Take ColdMD tablets (they're real big but they really put the hurtin' on that cold, let me tell ya) and dissolves some GermMD tablets in water or your favorite juice and drink up. The orange-flavored GermMD tablets are best. Drink a metric ton of orange juice and a lot of water and gorge on a lot of chicken soup, as hot as you can take it. Dress warmly if you are in a part of the US where it's cold out. Don't take any chances at all - the colds are NASTY this season. I've already wrestled with one back in September. You don't have to accept your cold; rather, FIGHT BACK! You CAN beat the hell out of a cold in two to four days! GIVE IT HELL!!!! - J. D. Ebberly
Probably using batch operations in Photoshop. - Jason Huebel
I'd rather avoid having to install Photoshop on that computer. I was thinking more along the lines of the Windows XP PowerToy. - Carlos Granier-Phelps
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There is an automator script I think in the demo files that can resize a bunch or change the style. - Andrew Leyden
This article says you can do it using Preview (and Automator). Haven't tried it, but looks like it might be what you're looking for: http://is.gd/843N - Rick Martin
Now all it needs is to be able to automatically save all the resized files with a new name. (Right now you have to click Save As... for each one and enter the details). - Carlos Granier-Phelps
16Gb 1st Gen Touch here. Got it when they first came out. I not only don't leave the house without it, I rarely leave a room without it. - Mark VandenBerg
Touch. After owning one since it came out it has changed what I use to access the internet. I am probably on the Touch 75% of the time and my laptop the other 25%. Game changing for me. But, I am right on the edge of buying the iPhone, not because I need the phone, but because I want more connectivity than I have been able to get with the Touch. I am not surrounded by free WiFi unless I am at home or certain restaurants and airports. That gets frustrating at times. Oh yeah, and it also plays music and podcasts. Thinking about dropping my Sirius subscription in the car since I listen to the Touch 95% of the time. - Michael Pardee
thanks for all the input - spouse is getting the touch for Christmas (I soooo hope he hates it hehe) It is always good to get your significant other a gift you personally want :) - jlt
I like my second-hand, !activated iPhone 2G :). It's a Touch I can stick a SIM card in. If only I had an adapter that would allow it to work with my FM transmitters. It gets annoying, though, when I don't have access to WiFi, or when I have to re-authenticate to the WiFi at work. T-Mo, call me ;) - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
well my touch is doing great...more of a pda though - Anthony Feint
