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Chuck Norris: JEDI MASTER! - http://jeffisageek.posterous.com/chuck-n...
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- (jeff)isageek
from Posterous
Add this URL to Gmail and it will stick Evernote in your sidebar http://renecum.com/gadgets... (via @steverubel)
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Myka ION brings Hulu, Boxee and other web content to your TV - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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"It's been almost a full year since we heard a peep from the fine folks at Myka, but it looks like we could be talking about 'em a lot more often judging by the specs list on its latest contraption. The simply-titled ION is an Atom-based media PC that relies on NVIDIA's Ion graphics set and a customized interface that brings Hulu, Boxee and pretty much any other web content you can stumble upon to your television. Within, you'll find a 1.6GHz dual-core Atom 330 CPU, up to 4GB of RAM, ten USB 2.0 ports, VGA / DVI / HDMI outputs, an eSATA connector, Ethernet and plenty of audio outputs. The fanless design ensures that things remain quiet, and for those oozing cash, a Blu-ray drive, HDD and WiFi module can be implanted. It's up for order right now starting at $379, but you'll be stuck waiting four to six weeks for delivery."
- David Cook
from Bookmarklet
What are all the best Bruce Campbell one-liners?
Rodfather, Jemm, Jason Benway and Alex Scoble liked this
Groovy.
- Alex Scoble
Hail to the king, baby.
- Alex Scoble
First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me? *spits* Blow
- Alex Scoble
Do I chose all books, or one book or what?
- Chris Greene
Little goody two shoes.
- Chris Greene
Linda?
- Chris Greene
Klatuu! Verada! Neh-*coughs in hand*...There! I said it!
- Alex Scoble
Nickel, necktie, necturne...It's definitely an N-word!
- Alex Scoble
Do I look like your monkey? (from live performance in Santa Cruz 2003)
- Chris Greene
Good...bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
- Alex Scoble
How's a little bit of hot chocolate, huh?
- Chris Greene
London bridge is falling down, falling down..
- Chris Greene
3 books. No one said ANYTHING about 3 books.
- Chris Greene
Gimme some sugar, baby.
- Chris Greene
All from AoD? He doesn't have any from anywhere else?
- Alex Scrivener
Linda was from ED2 and I was particularly happy with my live quote.
- Chris Greene
Must be some kinda Bubba Ho-Tep.
- Chris Greene
@Alex: I loved him in Brisco County Jr as a kid. Don't remember any quotes, though...
- Jemm
He's awesome in Burn Notice.
- Chris Greene
Top 10 Apps that Boost Your Media Center [Lifehacker Top 10] http://lifehacker.com/5393916...
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"A smart person learns from experience; a smarter person learns from someone else's experience." -David Glazer
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@mncahill I should drag the lawnmower out for one more go ... leafblowing easier on short grass.
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Ugh, why is iTunes such crap. It just updated, tried to trick me into installing a bunch of crap, then hung for 2 minutes while loading.
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TDL Update: Awesome, I don’t need iTunes anymore!: Wow, what a find by LifeHacker! I moved to .. http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs...
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How do you update the iPhone without iTunes?
- Jason Benway
from iPhone
RT @rotusa You know the difference between God and Obama ....... God doesn't think he's Obama. #joke #sadbuttrue - http://twitter.com/Obama_R...
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RT @rotusa You know the difference between God and Obama ....... God doesn't think he's Obama. #joke #sadbuttrue
CannonGod to CannonGod's feed, iPhone, The Apple Room, Appetite, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech
Apple, for Christ's sake - Sync. Over. Wifi. Do it.
Nigel Kitchen, Louis Gray, Kurt Starnes and 45 other people liked this
While you're at it, stop keeping a fucking hardcopy of apps. Keep a simple text log of what I've downloaded and just re-download when I want to load out my iPhone.
- CannonGod
Drag & drop music? I need that! Photos? Ditto.
- CannonGod
Finally: Stop threatening to delete EVERYTHING! This is scary & not intuitive.
- CannonGod
CannonGod, you are definetely right man. Your words representing many of us...
- YunusYAMANER(CITRIL)
I invariably don't sync because I refuse to strip and burn all my data just to add ONE SONG. Because of this I've lost important information. Speaking of which, I don't think my Notes get synced - which is where I keep a lot of random yet essential info. And I've lost this before >:( Really it's all just a ploy for me to buy a MobileMe account, and I hate being taken for a mug.
- CannonGod
I think Apple is too hung up on creating backups of backups of backups of...
- CannonGod
They caring us...:)
- YunusYAMANER(CITRIL)
This whole issue is all the more ridiculous when you understand that Home Sharing is basically what I want but for portable devices! Fingers crossed someone realises this and creates a nifty hack to fool iTunes into wirelessly sharing to my iPhone. </hint>
- CannonGod
I've been calling for wireless syncing since I rolled with an iPod Video!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Hear, hear. Wifi sync is long overdue. I'm thinking their trying to protect the Apple TV and the 4 people that use it.
- Adi
I had BT and infrared syncing on a WM phone 4-5 years ago! C'mon Apple catch up...
- Ron Thompson
OMG! I LOVE THIS THREAD. seriously fucking sick of them holding back on basic stuff. C'mon Cupertino!
- vijay
WiFi sync could be a massive drain on the iPhone battery.
- Bill Sodeman
True, but then again most devices can be charged from a plug socket. This may seem inconsequential to plugging directly into the Mac and syncing as regular, but this will become more and more essential when iTunes learns to granulate the syncing process. Right now it's just way too bloated.
- CannonGod
from email
Back when I had G1 Zune with Wi-Fi syncing, I never used it. I configured it just to say, hey it syncs wirelessly! Then never used it again.
- Mac64
Please. I love wireless. Come on Apple! What happened to innovation? But the i back in iPod and iPhone!
- Zachary TG
You can sync big fat media files over WiFi or have a battery that doesn't commit suicide. Pick one.
- David Chartier
from iPhone
David: True enough that when you want to replace large amounts of data on your iPhone/iPod it's better to directly sync connected to the Mac, but if iTunes granulates the syncing process I can easily add a single song/photo/app without hooking up. It just makes sense to me. I think it's sad I have to use apps like AirSharing to do this instead. I have whole albums wirelessly synced this...
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- CannonGod
Apple is half way there with MobileMe...Kinda... If we can sync Contacts, Calendars, and Bookmarks over 3G, it shouldn't be hard to sync Apps over wifi.
- Joshua
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/me gives Tad a good dose of solidarity
- Alex Scoble
It's just a hobby ;)
- LogEx
PubSubHubBub and RSSCloud : Adding Them To Your Wordpress Blog - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r...
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A proposal to protect traditional marriage in California: http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen...
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One RSS Feed Everyone Should Subscribe To: Who Favorites Your Tweets - http://marshallk.com/one-rss...
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Our most retweeted post right now: "TweetDeck Adds Major Facebook and MySpace Features" - http://mashable.com/2009...
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RT @TweetDeck: Direct Link to TweetDeck v0.30: http://downloads.tweetdeck.com/TweetDe...
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Can I shortcut to the top of a page immediately in Safari in Iphone?
carlinux and Jason Benway liked this
Yes, tap the top bar with the time. ^ up there ^
- Toby Graham
from iPhone
How come i never figured that out myself. Thanx Toby.
- Nik
How to build cheap cloud storage (67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867) - Backblaze Blog - http://blog.backblaze.com/2009...
Nick Mutton, Marco Willemse, David Berrebi and 175 other people liked this
Amazing level of transparency and detail about their custom storage servers. HN discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item... (discusses why this is appropriate for backup, but perhaps not generic storage needs)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Put me down for two.
- Jason Shellen
45 drives per unit and many units means they must be constantly replacing failed hard drives - just due to the sheer quantity of them in use
- Jacob Old
It wasn't entirely clear to me from the blog post what you have to do to replace a drive. Looks like at minimum you have to remove the unit from the rack, and I don't see any drawer guides or similar to assist with that. And do they have to take the unit offline to replace a single drive?
- Jason Wehmhoener
Geez. Back in 1998, Microsoft was bragging about their 1 TB cloud... :-) Millions of $ then I think.
- Mitchell Tsai
One happy Backblaze customer checking in.
- Russellreno
sounds neat - now what to do with 67 TB of storage...
- Matt Ellsworth
Seriously Matt! Lots and Lots and Lots of video? HD video!
- Rick Cogley
So, they store their data "securely" in Palo Alto? That makes me scared.
- Jonas S Karlsson
Quoted from blog- "Backblaze Storage Pods are building blocks upon which a larger system can be organized that doesn’t allow for a single point of failure." They have indicated an amazing amount of cost savings.
- Wins Fern
$117k for a petabyte of storage. Wow.
- Nicholas James
Petabyte schmetabyte.
- Rick Cogley
Mitchell: I don't think 1TB was "millions of dollars" in 1998.
- Steve de Mena
Nice idea. Pity that it only supports a HTTPS interface, not surprising at that cost though (the software that runs the filesystems on the NetApp and other devices isn't exactly cheap to write). Anyone see if they quoted transfer speeds? I'm wondering what impact the four SATA cards each with SATA multipliers on them has when it comes to access speeds.
- Russ
Steve: according to http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625... disk cost ~$0.08 / mb in 1998, which comes out to >$800,000 for 1 TB or just over a million bucks in todays dollars. so maybe not millions, but a million!
- Karl Rosaen
Russ: It runs Debian. If you were rolling your own (and they don't sell these units), you could turn on NFS or some other protocol (CIFS, iSCSI). They only use HTTP because it's cloud storage. NFS license is a major expense on NetApp, but all the major Linux distributions can act as NFS servers, CIFS servers, and probably iSCSI targets.
- Andy Dustman
Andy: I know that you could do that on them but it leaves the problem of what to do with the storage. You could merge the 3 volumes into an LVM VG but the performance could become an issue with any load on it. It seems I wasn't the only one to question the performance, while the views of a Sun engineer aren't exactly unbiased it does highlight some of the downsides: http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archive...
- Russ
Russ, great find, thanks.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Fascinating article; but more questions: "In rough terms, every time one of our customers buys a hard drive, Backblaze needs another hard drive." -- so what happens when a drive fails; how much redundancy is there? What happens when a meteorite destroys the whole building; is there off site backup too? (I know this *is* the off-site backup, but still...) I wonder how much data flows in and out over time. Maybe I should just read their website.
- Rob Fisher
Rob: they mention using 15 drive RAID6 volumes that can lose up to 2 drives before failure
- Mike Chelen
The worst part about this cluster design is the fact that I couldn’t shut up about it for the first couple days after finding out about it. It was the solution I proposed to every problem. There were complaints.
- A Mitchell
IMO RAID6 is not that great. Granted, it's highly unlikely to lose 3 drives at the same time, but there's still possibility. Besides, for write-intensive app, parity calculation is quite time-consuming. I personally prefer RAID 10 (striped array of RAID1 pairs). Yes the effective usable space is less than half total capacity, but for backups -- which will sooner or later be used to restore something -- I prefer data integrity over usage efficiency.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
IMO RAID6 is not that great. Granted, it's highly unlikely to lose 3 drives at the same time, but there's still possibility. Besides, for write-intensive app, parity calculation is quite time-consuming. I personally prefer RAID 10 (striped array of RAID1 pairs). Yes the effective usable space is less than half total capacity, but for backups -- which will sooner or later be used to restore something -- I prefer data integrity over usage efficiency.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
Create a font from your own handwriting: http://www.fontcapture.com/
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Google to People of Earth: Yo, we know Gmail is down. Chill. Peace. Out. http://www.google.com/appssta...
Jason Benway, Keith Bourgoin, Theresa Beffa and 4 other people liked this
How can I chill when I can't get to my email?!? #yesgmailisdown :-)
- Ladybug Heather
DON'T TELL ME TO CHILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *hyperventilates*
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
grrrrrr
- Adriana Ripandelli
iPhone 3.1 to ship next week, offer MMS and more - http://www.9to5mac.com/iphone_...
MiniMage TKDteacher of FF, Sean O'Hanley, Zachary Adam Cohen and 2 other people liked this
"AT&T has hinted a new version of the iPhone OS will ship later this month, iPhone Software 3.1. The new software is likely to deliver on some of the promises made to AT&T users when iPhone 3.0 shipped, specifically MMS messaging (at last) and the capacity to engage in Bluetooth file transfers."
- Nik
from Bookmarklet
Being a Creepy Stalker? There's an App For That - iPhone Apps - Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/5345336...
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"Maybe I'm a skeeze deep down, but some of these apps seem pretty damned useful. I mean, for purely informational purposes, of course"
- ElStewie
from Bookmarklet
Parse.ly Spices Up the News Based On Your Interest Filters - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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Disqus V3 Launches: Publishers and Commenters Get Their Own Services - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Unassisted Triple Play Ends Phils' Win Over Mets - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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I just saw http://www.my6sense.com/website... and it is a personal Techmeme for your Iphone except it learns. Coming "within days." Awesome!
Scott Magoon, Jacque, Jason Benway and 48 other people liked this
yeah, a personalized step closer to that "right context" i'm referring to.
- Yann Ropars
Super!
- Amir
Looks like a great idea! On a side note, tho — I'm always a little annoyed that iPhone app sites aren't optimized for mobile (iPhone Safari, at least) display.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
please don't laugh at me guys, just opened my first iphone but I cannot even make a call or anything, I get no service. Do I have to call o2?
- Mark
Been using it, and it rocks. you will all enjoy.
- Scott Klauminzer
My6Sense is another really interesting app, but remains iPhone only. I know we're seeing a variety of apps like that. The same holds in reverse for Blackberry only apps. I wish there was a better mix of cross platform tools so we could use the same ones on our Blackberries and iPods. Not likely any time soon.
- Ken Camp
Mark: the iPhone should already have a sim in it but if it doesn't you need a small paper clip to open the iPhone drawer at the top of the phone.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Ken: they will port it eventually. Picking one platform to develop on makes sense.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
thanks Rob! Had to insert sim card myself but the iphone manual "Finger Tips" doesn't actually tell you how ;P P.S sorry for hijacking your thread, but im excited to make my first post on my iphone on friendfeed
- Mark
They have a mobile web version that predates the iPhone native app. iphone.my6sense.com, so it should be no trouble to add platforms
- Scott Klauminzer
iphone.my6sense.com is great. Can't wait to see the app.
- metalerik
When/will it be available in the app store?
- Amir
Amir: We're shooting for a release on Thursday, but ultimately it's up to the App Store's approval process (which is unpredictable to say the least).
- Brian Remmel
Robert, I'm not sure I agree they will port it. I agree they've made those noises, but in reality, there are *very* few companies porting anything between iPhone and BB. And by the time they get too it, my take is that it will be to catch up to a competitor who's beat them to other platform (in the case of porting either direction). Competition is the driver really. And losing face or...
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- Ken Camp
Scott: I know they have a web version. I use a Blackberry, and any web version of any service is useless in general. The browser is the weakest link in Blackberry. Functional but not strong at all.
- Ken Camp
Brian: I know what you mean.
- Amir
Damnit, I got beat to the punch once again. Another breed of relevant personal search powered by our browsing
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
people-powered search has a lot to be said for it... harder to game the system than google...
- Fred Davis
Looking forward to loading this. Have to many "feeds" apps on my iPhone. Hope this means I can reduce them to something workable.
- Jamie Craig
from Nambu
Jamie: Will be available soon - hope you enjoy it!
- Barak Hachamov
Just checked their site out, it looks sensational. I'll probably buy although I have just forked out of a NewsReader last week which, I have to say I'm completely delighted with, "RSS Flash G." The lack of a landscape browser in NNW just proved too much to bear but I'm glad in a way because without that irritant I wouldn't have found RSSFlashG. RSSFlashG is a very feature rich...
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- David Hall
David: THANKS! you don't need to buy it. It will be for free. We will add more features in the next version.
- Barak Hachamov
I'm surprised to find out that my Digital Intuition is hot, but also has an annoying voice :(
- Tech Introvert
Barak, even better. TBH the app store is so insanely competitive in terms of pricing I don't mind paying for the good stuff. I don't t begrudge RSSFLASHG people the €3.99 for the app (I actually consider it to be worth more). My issue with the appstore is all the useless stuff I've bought. The stuff I actually do use is, if anything, cheaper than it should be and at the same time I've...
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- David Hall
I am trying my6sense out right now, but it's making me really nervous to enter passwords for all my social media accounts.
- Scott Magoon
Scott, please keep us posted on how it goes. Btw, I'm guessing you have a preview copy or else it has hit the app store in your part of the world a deal more quickly than it has over here in Ireland.
- David Hall
Anymore news on this anyone? Scott did you overcome your concerns about feeding this app your Social Networking codes? It's a concern I didn't even have until you raised it so I've been checking back here to see how you got on? Is your silence indicative of a disaster, or is your mind now at peace with the world again on this issue, and if so why?
- David Hall
from BuddyFeed
David, I did not overcome my concern about typing so many logins into My6sense. I abandoned the setup process. Also, I wasn't using the app, but accessing the mobile page (iphone.my6sense.com) via my iPod touch. Maybe it shouldn't bother me so much, but that Twitter stolen documents thing has made me nervous.
- Scott Magoon
Scott thanks for the response. I'd be interested to know what type of reassurance someone like Barak could provide that would make you more comfortable about this? I suppose that's a question that applies to users like you and developers like the My6Sense people. This looks like an app for the geekiest among us and, no offense, you're probably, like most people on FF, geeky. So you're...
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- David Hall
from BuddyFeed
Tech Introvert: Well, I'm your digital intuition....so thanks! But that is not my real voice...it's pitched higher than usual :-) Didn't you watch the interview with Scoble?
- Ilana Gurman
Scott, David: thanks for bringing this up. We'll actually be converting to the OAuth Protocol in just a couple of weeks (although our current database securely holds your SN credentials, no worries) so this will help you to feel more comfortable about accessing your social streams and/or sharing messages on them via my6sense. Regardless, you can enjoy the service by adding regular RSS...
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- Barak Hachamov
Barak thanks for the response. I guess "OAuth Protocol" is a good thing (frankly I haven't a clue) but I don't know how bad a thing no OAuth Protocol actually is. I'll be downloading the app in any case and, depending on what, if any, further information attaches to this discussion, and my own level of paranoia on the day, I'll be signing up for some, or all, of the service. I'm...
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- David Hall
any update on this application. I've been checking into AppStore every day or two since and still no sign. I know the approval process can be drawn out but the overshoot on my6sense eta is mega at this stage.
- David Hall
from BuddyFeed
David: Thanks for checking in. We're still pending approval but do expect it to happen any day now. As @dhrac would say, "they're testing our buddha skills" ;) Frustrating as it is, we're exercising a great amount of patience and we look forward to delivering digital intuition your way..! Will keep you posted :-)
- Ilana Gurman
from email
Ilana, thanks for getting back on us on that, best if luck and I hope they upload it soon.
- David Hall
I'm pleased to be first with the news my6sense has landed in the app store, at least in the Ireland AppStore anyway. Just downloaded it now. Don't know if I'll get a chance to play with it for a while but for those who are interested it's there waiting for you.
- David Hall
Thank you David! We are super excited about this. We actually planned on officially notifying everyone tomorrow so we could get in a bit more testing in...Hope you enjoy it, and please please get in touch with your feedback!! Cheers :-)
- Ilana Gurman
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