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Fed Up, A Popular Mac Developer Quits The iPhone - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
2Picture, Frank Pfabigan, Rajiv Doshi and 40 other people liked this
Frank is well-known in some circles as a Mac enthusiast. You know, the kind of person that is often derided as a “fanboy.” And that’s why what I’m about to tell you is surprising: He’s ditching his iPhone.
- MG Siegler
from Bookmarklet
Wow.
- Matt Cutts
Eh, he'll go back to the Mac as soon as they make something shiny new for him again.
- Piaw Na
I honestly don't get all the uproar over the Google Voice app rejection. Why would AT&T let you use your unlimited data plan for a competing phone service when they charge you by the minute for that same service? It's like getting upset that Burger King won't sell you a Big Mac.
- invariant - farewell FF
invariant: Google Voice uses regular telephony, not VoIP. Any calls you make with Google Voice would have to go through AT&T's voice network, and would use your minutes.
- Mark Trapp
@invariant, because people want a useful phone instead of a piece of junk? It sounds like you revel in tolerating junk, tho, so be my guest....
- j1m
++Mark, but what freaks me out here is that even though GV would drive more calls (and revenue) to AT&T, they can't get past "but it does what we do and we can't have that". That is just plain broken. My best guess (and that's all that most people are actually doing about this...) is that somebody at AT&T gazed into a crystal ball and said "You know, at some point they won't need us....
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- Andy Bold
Considering that you can run GV on other phones on AT&T's network, it's hard to fathom why AT&T would be the ones nixing the app.
- Gabe
He should go re-read The Fountainhead, and then Animal Farm. All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. Ideals are inevitably compromised. Those who do not compromise their ideals are replaced by those who do. And a corollary from the priest in Caddyshack: "There is no god!"
- Walter Korman
Gabe, are those other phones exclusive to AT&T? (UK based so I really don't know) Maybe that's the difference?
- Andy Bold
from email
Live now: Security Now 207 with Steve Gibson. Your questions, Steve's answers. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...
Ace and Willem (@wim66) ☠ liked this
Finally get to watch it live and be in the chat room
- HiP_P
Best show on twit as far as real value is concerned.
- Dale
WOW.... not good about bank malware
- HiP_P
Hmm.. Imade a brief comment about 10 mins ago but had to reboot from a patch install but now it's gone. ?? I still say that SN is the most valuable netcast on TWiT TV.
- Dale
I see it there Dale
- Leo Laporte
That's just weird.. and the thread is not collapsed either. At least there nothing indicating it is. I'll try another refresh.
- Dale
It's back - refreshing the page did it.
- Dale
Buy.com controversy http://news.cnet.com/8301-10...
- Nils Sandin
cheers Nils
- HiP_P
This is sort of security related---Happy Sysadmin Appreciation day to all those sys admins that keep us safe and secure!
- Larry Roth
Question [ 01 ] - "FireXware" in Canada wrote with the subject: SpinRite and SecurityNow got me a job and a new hard drive! Hello, I am a security now fanatic, I started listening only a few months ago and have finally caught up. I am pleased to say that I have finally had a chance to use SpinRite in a real data recovery situation. Being 16 years old, and the only tech savvy person in...
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 02 ] - Chris in Australia wonders about the new attack on AES-256... I'm sure you will cover the new attack on AES that reduces the complexity for recovering an AES256 key to 2^119 (and possibly less): see Bruce Schneier’s blog. I have read that this attack does not affect AES128. Why is that? And, if this attack cannot be modified and applied against AES128, does that mean that AES128 (with a complexity of 2^128) is now more secure than AES256 (with a complexity of 2^119)?
- Leo Laporte
hi from georgia
- daveccorey
Question • [ 03 ] - John Hughan in San Francisco, California has a cure for Jet Lag... Hey Steve and Leo, I heard that the two of you (especially Leo) sometimes have trouble with jetlag. I wanted to mention a book that I've used that has helped eliminate jetlag, no matter which direction I'm traveling or how many time zones I'm crossing (I've done up to 10). Evidently it's based on a...
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- Leo Laporte
Reading can make one drowsy so I can see that as a good patch for jetlag.
- Dale
Question [ 04 ] - John Kennedy from Metairie, LA asks Steve to touch the bleeding edge... Hi Steve, I am a long time SpinRite customer and Security Now listener. On the Security Now netcast, I often hear you comment that you do not use current software versions because they are unstable and unproven. Some examples that come to mind are your comments on sticking with Windows XP and...
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- Leo Laporte
[ 05 ] - Andrew McKinnon in Brisbane Australia wonders about his iPhone's Internet address: Hi Steve and leo, My question relates to the iPhone: Basically until a month ago my iPhone was reading my IP address as 144.233.xxx.xxx, however on recent days it has been reading 10.1.xxx.xxx. Am I right in assuming that my iPhone is now being proxied by my ISP as this seems like a private...
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 06 ] - Kevin Ghadyani from Overland Park, KS worries about the number of HTML errors and warnings on the Security Now! page of GRC... 13,853 errors and 24 warning(s) says the W3C validator!! I thought you would've fixed yours because you're like that, but even msn.com validates. I'm extremely surprised to see this, and would hope you'll fix the errors over time. I've never...
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 07 ] - Mike V in Greeley, CO *really* wants security... NOTE: I am totally ok with you reading this on the show. Hey, Steve. I'm only 14, but I love your podcast and every episode is a journey into the complex world of security. I wish I could say that I've listened to every one of your episodes, but I just started tuning in in March. I have a system for mobile USB security...
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 08 ] - 16-year old Scott in Upstate New York makes a brilliant observation about Firefox Privacy... Steve and Leo, I am 16 years old and have been listening to Security Now since episode 25. Your show has taught me everything I could want about security and how my computer and the Internet works. Keep up the great work! Anyway, a few episodes ago, you discussed how Firefox...
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 09 ] - Patti Clark an early CompuServe employee in Knoxville, TN remembers with us... Hi, Steve and Leo. I was listening to episode 205 on Lempel and Ziv when my ears perked up on the CompuServe segment. I spent most of the 1980's as an employee of CompuServe. You were correct when mentioning that CompuServe was a time-sharing company and H&R Block was their parent. The...
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 10 ] - David Cox in Colorado Springs reports that Security Now! almost killed him!... Hi Steve, I began listening to Security Now! shortly after you and Leo began with episode one, while I was stationed in Cornwall, England with the U.S. Navy. I drove one of those tiny Smart cars back then, you know, the poor man’s Mercedes. It was called a “Smart for Two” and they are slowly...
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- Leo Laporte
Question[ 11 ] - Robert Antman in Los Angeles has a thought about “Perfect Passphrases...” Dear Steve, Thank you for providing the Perfect Passwords service on your website. This password generator is perfect for many applications, such as generating a pseudo-random WPA password. But it is not so perfect in other applications, such as generating a pseudorandom passphrase for typing into...
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 12 ] - Jeff, hiding out somewhere in the USA doesn't want to blink! Subject: RFID in credit card - should I run and not walk away? Steve, My Chase credit card was approaching its expiration date and I received the new card in the mail. My new card came with a feature called Blink (a.k.a. RFID Chip). The average person probably thinks that waving a card in front of a terminal...
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- Leo Laporte
The New Sony Playstation Portable The PSP Go - Looks cool! Find more: http://g.clipotech.com/psp_go Read: - http://www.consolevideogamesmania.com/psp...
"The Sony Playstation Portable has likewise evolved, and the Sony Playstation Portable has likewise assumed an uncanny but memorable name – the PSP Go!"
- Svartling
from Bookmarklet
PSP Go will be released on October 1, 2009.
- Svartling
16 GB of built-in memory, Flip-in/flip-out controllers, No more UMD support, An extra analog stick
- Svartling
WANT!
- LouCypher
You will have to wait until October 1 :)
- Svartling
When I arrived in China July 3, only YouTube was blocked. By the time I left Twitter Facebook & Friendfeed were too. Dictators hate web 2.0.
Tony, Corvida, Courtney Walsh and 18 other people liked this
Only cause they like to be the ones doing the super poking...
- Johnny Worthington
He he controls the super poke controls the world..
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
It's all your fault ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Also, they have a far more effect set of features to deal with mobs...
- Johnny Worthington
You shut down their web!
- tomit
they must have seem you Leo directing all that bandwidth to north america ;)
- Bryce Campbell
I'd really like to go to China, but I don't know if I could handle a country that doesn't have the "real" Internet.
- Kimber Scott
Kimber Scott, i too would like to go and tour china -- i just think that would be very interesting, ya the government blocking and controlling the medias is a pain, but whats there to do?
- Bryce Campbell
They didn't like Web 1.0 either :)
- Joel Webber
It's the Leo effect ... all that posting .... keep making your mark Leo :-)
- Peter Konnecke
from email
You can very easily just use proxy servers in China, through for example yor firefox settings. Easy thing to do, then no sites can be blocked by them.
- Charbax
very true leo. for all the people that think there is no value in social networks or twitter they just need to look to china. if these services were not valuable at sharing information and news china would never shut them down ;)
- Rodney Rumford
Interesting! Not too surprised though...
- mahjongmi
China might not like that private user information of their citizen be in the hands of US companies, as we all know, all US companies have to provide backdoors to CIA, NSA and such into all online communications.
- Charbax
Well, you should come to Iran! It's much worse here. It's been quite a long time these web 2.0 sites have been blocked.
- Daryoosh (داريوش)
from fftogo
Why Amazon went Big Brother on some Kindle e-books - http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Ace, Hanna Wiszniewska and Jeff P. Henderson liked this
"Amazon.com shocked customers yesterday when it reached out to hundreds, if not thousands of Kindles and simply deleted texts that users had not only purchased, but had started to read."
- Svartling
from Bookmarklet
I wonder how Amazon would have the right to do this kind of thing. If a paper-book gets banned, people who previously purchased it can't be forced to return it for a refund; right? So why would it be any different for digital versions? Anyway, why would Amazon remove Animal Farm. Geez.
- Ace
Breaking News Online: How One 19-Year Old Is Shaking Up Online Media | ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Jeff Zwier, Gregory B. and Ace liked this
"BNO has made the most of a number of different media technologies. The team is best known for its presence on Twitter - at 800k, BNO has four times more followers than ABC News and twice as many as Newsweek. BNO also makes extensive use of RSS, email, FriendFeed and now promises an iPhone app leveraging the phone's brand new push messaging sometime next month."
- Neville Hobson
from Bookmarklet
Abby's Road 1: An Intro With A Guest You Know - http://twit.tv/abby1
Michael Hansel, Kolomona, mahjongmi and 13 other people liked this
Oh wow, it's 49 minutes! I was expecting this to be something much shorter.
- John Flinchbaugh
This first episode really is quite sweet.
- John Flinchbaugh
Abby is so bright and articulate. How proud you must be of her, Leo. Really enjoyed her show. Maybe a chip off the old block!!?
- shelter watch
Great Episode, keep up the good work!
- Bryce Campbell
Great show! Abby, it was great to hear your back and forth banter with your dad. Your connection with the older generation was what made it so interesting. Getting your peer group to do more of that might be a good theme to come back to now and then. As a member of the fossil generation it was captivating to hear. Your ability to get the guest to explain how things happened to them is the reason that I want to come back to Abby's Road again. Keep up the good work. Allen Majewski
- allen majewski
Abby's Road needs to be placed somewhere else it doesn't fit in with the rest of your shows on twit.tv. I don't enjoy it at all.
- DeMedici
I think Abby does a great job and she is just learning and developing her "style" I think all the people who keep complaining about her show need to just back off and let Abby be! obviously Leo thinks it is a good idea for her to have her own show and that should be good enough for all of us.
- Shane Davis
Congrats to Abby!!
- WazNeeni
Way to go. I wish my Dad was like your Dad. He let's you create things, mine bans everything. But I can get around everything. LOL.
- Zachary TG
Way to go Abby. I hope you keep your obvious confidence when talking to other guests. "A chip off the old block."
- Royston Marshall
Great interview! Thanks, Abby & Leo!!
- mahjongmi
Mount Rushmore as seen from Canada.
Ahsan Ali aka. Slick, Daniele, Roberto Orsini and 415 other people liked this
HAHAHAHA
- Anika
Fair trade for them getting the good view of Niagara Falls I'd say.
- invariant - farewell FF
frickin sweet!
- BEX
lol
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
LOL
- Tibor Holoda
Yup that's exactly what it looks like from here.
- Barry Sanschagrin
ROFL
- Ethan
So where exactly did Nicholas Cage enter to find the treasure?
- Geoff Schultz
LOL! too funny.
- John Blanton
from twhirl
LOL
- Roberto Bonini
Heh. B. Kliban did a cartoon of this with their pants down. Good job on this, tho :-)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
hahaha, that's funny!
- freedom fighter mom
from twhirl
What? There's another view? Please post.
- Ken Morley
I'm pretty sure it's in the collection "Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head", published back in the early/mid 70s. I know I've got it around here somewhere...
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Hahaha. Awesome sight for 'em Canadians!
- Santosh
face down and ass in the air! Love it!
- John Hillestad
Cool, except anybody who's been to Mount Rushmore knows it faces east! So really this is the view from Wyoming.
- Ben Hanten
Ben: Americans have never been known to have a sense of direction.
- l0ckergn0me
Hilarious :-D
- Ace
I literally LOL'd.
- Mike Cefalo
Sarah Palin sees this from the other side of her house.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
awesome
- Nick Humphries
I lol´d.
- Jens Christian Freund
ahahahahahahah
- Adriano Mercurio
LMAO! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
lol ... yup that's just what we see from Canada ... a bunch of asses
- jay macpherson
Well played, jay. Well played.
- Jason Huebel
*access memory: Braveheart battle scene*
- Mo Kargas
Too funny!
- Mark Harai
Haha... I LOL'ed for real too.
- Barbara
wiping away tears. rofl
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
+1 Jay (not really true, but still very funny :o)
- Ken Morley
Hay I am Canadian !.....giggle
- hollyseven
How did I miss this?! HAHA
- Mona Nomura
I think somebody has a wedgie!
- CAJ, somewhere else
The view from Canada is the rock on the left & Lincoln's shoes.
- Wade Dorrell
that is epic. ;)
- Philip "dmouse" Campbell
Hilarious! :)
- Cyndi ~ @muchmorethanmom
Awesome!
- Timothy Federwitz
hahahaha wtf
- tohuko
That's priceless.
- Todd Libby
Teddy has a nice butt =p
- LouCypher
where do you get this stuff from - Frank loves it
- Kathi Barrett
That is brilliant. B3TA or somewhere similar?
- dannystaple
Hahahah! Mount Rushmore as seen from Canada.
- KyNam Doan
haha ace babes xx
- abigailashleawhitaker
This is an old pic, but is still always funny to see. :)
- John Pyper
The reason I ask you to answer on FriendFeed is because then your answers are bundled together and you can interact with others.
Mathew A. Koeneker, Ace, Kathleen Forden and 68 other people liked this
It is amazing that Twitter users don't get this point easily.
- Robert Scoble
It can be hard to follow a conversation on Twitter ... Do you think they'll add threaded Tweets linked to from the original status message?
- Ideas At Random
Maybe there should be a way that Friendfeed could pull in @replies from Twitter, and place them in the comments of the respective post here, regardless of whether they have a ff account or not?
- Tim Young
Tim's idea is a great one
- James
@Random there's already a in-reply-to id, but not all clients support it, and it is quite limited anyway
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
I think FF is a far superior web application to Twitter but for a lot of people, Twitter is social media, just like AOL was the internet to a lot of people in 1995.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
@Jean-Charles VERDIE Have you ever used the "Nested Twitter Replies" plug-in for FireFox? http://userscripts.org/scripts... It's a GreaseMonkey script that follows the reply-to id you talked about. It would be cool to have this type of threading offered by the standard Twitter status page.
- Ideas At Random
While Tim's idea is great, I'd rather FF spend time making FF better, rather than giving the most basic of conversational features to twitter.
- Andy Bakun
Twitter is a good tool to keep in touch with a few people via SMS sometimes. Friendfeed can't do that (nor of course, was it designed to). I've always maintained FF and Tiwtter and two different tools for different (but sometimes overlapping) services. I have never understood why so many folks seem to pitch them head to head in some kind of contest.
- Ian May
I actually considered linking the rss feed of my @replies with FF, so that, if someone was curious to see the rest of the conversations I have on Twitter, they could.. but that wouldnt organize it. Andy: I agree. My biggest pet peeve is that most people think of FF as just a Twitter app, when it's not at all that. But if the people at FF are sitting around one day, with nothing to do, I wouldn't mind them working on porting in @replies. :)
- Tim Young
Tim: yes, let's keep that at a priority of "FF is fucking awesome, now what are we going to do?".
- Andy Bakun
With only conversations in mind, it might not be a point of getting it, but a point of acting upon it. Conversations are at the focus of FriendFeed, and you get involved more and with more people in the context of a single conversation - you get a post covering a topic, anyone can join in, and it's instantly visible to everyone. On Twitter however it's really hard to follow and engage...
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- Ivan Zuzak
I really feel twitter is a half baked system. Someone described it as micro-RSS and that is exactly right IMO.
- Geoff Schultz
I really like FF's "My discussions" tab ... Makes it easy to follow real time discussions you've commented on and check the progress ... That's also why I like http://www.backtype.com ... It lets you track your comments from all over the web into one place & then add it as a data source to FF
- Ideas At Random
Every time this discussion comes up, I find myself wondering why Jaiku wasn't more popular.
- Donald Forth
Donald: Jaiku's UI wasn't very nice and once it got to Google it stopped iterating and getting better.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: As one of those rabid mobile Twitter users, I confess the point you make, while quite valid, is a difficult paradigm shift. Routines can be hard to break and the shift from mobile tools for Twitter, and heavy SMS, to completely web-centric FriendFeed is a huge change in "work flow" and in thinking. It's been a challenge and is still a struggle, and I'm sold. Even being sold on...
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- Ken Camp
@Ideas @ Random -- There is a Greasemonkey script (@troy... something's script) which I run that shows threaded conversations on the Twitter homepage.
- Miss Elle
the paradigm might be the problem. i was excited to see this tweet and, out of habit, responded back via twitter ("scobleizer looking forward to monday's blog. twitter is, many times, an unrepentant 'black hole' of information" & "and data which can be reliably retrieved often requires the extraordinary efforts of people, tools & tech outside twitter") when i should've come Here directly. twitter seems to be stuck in a morass--unable to make easy things easy...
- wishinoo
Ken: Most of my FriendFeed activity is done on my iPhone. I don't see FF as being web-centric. :-)
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
MarkL I might agree with an iPhone. I don't use or want one though and thinking a iPhone answers mobility overlooks most of the market. I use a Blackberry and am unlikely to change. Robert and I have talked about this as well. I do use an iPod Touch, but frankly, it's simply not a useful interface for me and I don't do FF on there either. If FriendFeed is going to succeed in leveraging...
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- Ken Camp
Yes, Ken, it is amazing to me that FriendFeed hasn't funded more mobile clients yet. I don't notice that because I am on an iPhone but they definitely are betting on the future of mobile instead of where it is. That is a very good strategy, worked for Microsoft very well, remember?
- Robert Scoble
It is a stepping stone, that once one takes, moving from Twitter to FF, you seldom look back.
- Thom Kennon
In case anyone's interested, Tim Hoeck -- http://friendfeed.com/timhoeck -- is working on a Android app. Looking good: http://i.friendfeed.com/1f4651f...
- Christopher A Carr
re: FF being fucking awesome, you can get utter Luddites hooked. Step one, open them an account. Step two, add some people they know. Step three, set it as their homepage, so that the home feed is opened when their browser starts. That's it. Wait for a week, they'll start liking stuff and commenting. I bet it also works on senior citizens. Because it's really intuitive, it just sounds incredibly complicated when social media geeks start expounding on its virtues.
- Goran Zec
Agree that FF is wonderfully intuitive. I'm a relatively new user and still finding new things I like. WRT whether or not FF should work on how to thread Twitter conversations, I'm with Tim. It's too big a shortcoming of Twitter (in light of its current uptake rate) to have *someone* not put effort into figuring out how to do that. May as well be FF; odds are good it would be done well. Then the conversation "URG, how do I..." gets answered with "simple, FF". Seems like a potentially big win.
- Scotty Perkins
Robert,: I can't argue about the potential strategy of treating iPhone as the only phone. But it does leave a gap since iPhone makes up far less that 5% of the mobile phones on the planet. To overlook SMS is to overlook a huge part of the world and an overwhelming market. That's not to say it won't be lucrative and powerful. But it leaves a hole that will be filled by someone. And...
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- Ken Camp
And I'm really curious how many iPhone users are NOT using the browser on their iPhone to use FriendFeed. I haven't seen a lot of buzz around other clients. To say it isn't browser-centric because they use it on their iPhone (via the browser) isn't terribly credible to me.
- Ken Camp
Robert, I'm glad you took time to explain that. I confess - I have been guilty of expecting the obvious ;-)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I can see Twitter's character limit an issue, when a user does not also have a FriendFeed account.
- Nicholas Chase
Ken - SMS message pricing is going exponentially upward now. Telecoms are putting artificial pressure to phase them out and get people on to IM and the like, so they can reclaim the bandwidth for something less silly.
- Matthew DeVries
Ken: I'm using BuddyFeed on my iPhone. I also post items from Safari using the BuddyFeed bookmarklet, including photos. At least 80% of my FriendFeed activity takes place from my iPhone.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
Mark: The struggle for Ken and I both is we use Blackberry's. If we used an iPhone I'm sure it would be different but we don't. We're tied to the Blackberry devices. As far as I can tell, the only way to use FF from a mobile device effectively is with an iphone. None of the other phones make it as seemless. It is one of the BIG drawbacks for me, and why I still use twitter for most of my communicating.
- Sheryl
Matthew: I don't see SMS pricing going up anywhere. I actually see carriers at the business level talking about reducing pricing. It's a near-zero cost to carry and no management overhead or bandwidth of consequence is involved. As a 30-year telco business veteran, I expect to see it get cheaper, easier and more abundant for the next 2-3 years. They cannot force most of the world to IM,...
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- Ken Camp
Mark: Thanks. I haven't looked at BuddyFeed, butdo use Twitter clients on both Blackberry and iPod. Like Sheryl said, we use BB, but we do use our Ipods too. Maybe BuddyFeed or AMigo by a friend will give us more friendly mobile tools. Sadly, on the Blackberry, the web interface and fftogo are simply unusable. They're our only mobile options.
- Ken Camp
I use MotherFeed to post from my iPhone. I've pretty much stopped using Mobile Safari to get to FF. I don't use my WinMo phone for FF, but I keep meaning to try out that app that's in alpha right now.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Sheryl: That's because the iPhone isn't a phone. It's a handheld computer that you can sometimes make phone calls with.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
..and when given on FriendFeed, the answer can be twitted. Should make everybody happy ;)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Mark: I agree the iPhone is like a mini pc, but interestingly enough so is the Bold. The one thing iPhone does better than Bold is provide a multi window opportunity, but my Bold has a qwerty keyboard which for me makes it a much nicer device to use. I would like a downloadable app for my bold that would allow me access to FF not dissimilar to socialscope on the bold for twitter, or...
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- Sheryl
@Ideas at Random: this is a GM script. Works only with Firefox (tried it with GreaseKit on my safari, ain't work). I can't remember but there's a website providing that kind of service too. But my point was that it was a very poor system and that Twitter _themselves_ should provide something more consistent
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
Since Opera users can import GreaseMonkey scripts, it may well work in that browser. I'm too lazy to find out, though. http://www.ghacks.net/2008...
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
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