Got an error! Nooo! "The FriendFeed API retuend a 403 (Forbidden) for that request. It is possible that FF To Go is being rate limited" - Bwana McCall
Yup; I'm getting a 403 now...which means it's being rate limited. - Benjamin Golub
I got this working for NoiseRiver as of yesterday :) I tell you folks: entries deletion and undeletion are coming too... they just aren't as stable as me and Ben want them to be :( - directeur via NoiseRiver
Ben, It works fine for me! These methods use authentication --you know that - directeur via NoiseRiver
It's possible that the FriendFeed team might not have meant for us to start using these API calls...if so I'm sorry FF. - Benjamin Golub
I'm sad if it's the case. I was playing with them since yesterday and even deletion worked and then it stopped... - directeur via NoiseRiver
Yes, you're right... it's now throwing 403 errors on NoiseRiver too :( - directeur via NoiseRiver
What is fftogo? The site doesn't have an about page. - Bjorn Tipling
Hide disabled until it becomes more stable/official; I'll enable it again later, promise! - Benjamin Golub
I'm sorry Ben, it worked for me since yesterday this is why I told you it was stable... - directeur via NoiseRiver
Doesn't friendfeed have a mobile version? They definitely have an iphone version. - Bjorn Tipling
No mobile version other than the iPhone version. - Benjamin Golub
perhaps it would be useful in the meantime to implement an individual entry hide implementation separate from the official FF hide? should be trivial because NoiseRiver is already filtering/hiding by keyword and fftogo should be easy to add a filter for entry ids per user. also would be easy to filter services and users/services, too. the foaf stuff gets a bit complicated, though. when (if?) the hide APIs are added officially, it should be easy to sync/transfer the hidden entries back to FF. - David Vasileff
David: You're actually right. Implementing "my" own version of hide should be easy and very doable for NoiseRiver. But I think that it would be in vain for two reasons: 1) I discovered almost by coincidence that "(un)hide" and "(un)delete" features are coming to the API and I integrated them to NoiseRiver and told Ben and Patrick (the guy behind MioNiews) about them. Alas it's as we may see very soon to be used. We're waiting for the official release so we can really use them. 2) Implementing our hiding won't be better than the FriendFeed Api's one because filtering from the source is always better than filtering before the display. - directeur via NoiseRiver
directeur, I agree with your point. I don't know if users are craving hide but if they were and APIs weren't going to be available for a while and it was a barrier to user adoption, it's something to consider. in any case, I think there is merit in having ability to hide separate from FF, perhaps more with fftogo, where mobile users might want to hide rich media posts or hide entries with lots of comments on mobile but still have them display on friendfeed.com - David Vasileff
Here's what I need: Fast, works on existing directories (no iPhoto style import), easy to delete photos I don't want, simple color correction + cropping, and very fast. Very nice to have would be the ability to upload to Smugmug or Google, basic video stuff (time crop), video re-encoding (my camera saves videos as mjpeg for some reason). - Paul Buchheit
Aperture is the primary professional, and most excellent application for OSX. It is worth the money, it is not iPhoto. It is easy to use, and you are likely to not want to use anything else. - Steve Pribut
I don't need anything fancy, just fast and able to handle a good number of photos. Picasa is pretty close -- I wish they would just make a Mac version (and improve the color correction and video abilities). - Paul Buchheit
I only know of, aperture, lightroom, photon & the apps that comes with phanfare.com, flickr & smugmug - Zee from WeDoCreative
Aperture is really cool because you can make batch changes to a set of photos, make branches, and undo across restarts, among other things. It requires importing though, which sounds like you wouldn't want. - Chris White
Closest to meeting all of your requirements used to be iView. Not sure if that's still true. I bailed on it after Microsoft bought it and renamed it Expression Media. http://www.microsoft.com/expre.... I use Aperture now. - Jack Baty
Files can remain in the directory in which they reside. They do not have to be imported into the library, although that makes it easier for backup. A free trial might is available at: http://www.apple.com/aperture/... . It more than adequately meets your criteria for photos, but does not deal with video, which it will back up to your chosen directory. You can readily move them, put them on an external HD, etc. Lightroom is an alternative. - Steve Pribut
I switch to my Windows machine and use Picasa for photos. - Amit Patel
The problem with a lot of these photo organizers is that they want to own your world, but that's not what I want. I'm going to upload the photos to one or two places, copy them to other computers, etc. Having them stuck in some weird system on one computer is not ok. That's why working with the actual filesystem directory structure is important. - Paul Buchheit
Why not just use the Leopard file system + Preview? Is it because of speed? Preview supports cropping and color correction. The new finder features, like coverflow and pressing the spacebar for a preview are handy too. I put the Picasa Uploader in my dock so I can easily upload photos, although I wish Picasa would accept images dragged onto the dock icon. - Chris White
how about using expandrive and hosting all your photos on on a separate server and then using one of the many photo editors to edit them on your desktop? - Zee from WeDoCreative
I'll be interested to know what you settle on. - Bruce Lewis
Chris, I don't have Leopard -- can you delete from inside of Preview? - Paul Buchheit
I don't think you can delete from the app called Preview, but I only use that for cropping and color correction. Coverflow, which lets you flip through your images does let you delete via Command-Delete. The default app for images is Preview, so if you want to crop / color correct, just double-click. Leopard is suppose to be faster for image display in the Finder, although I haven't seen any speed comparisons. - Chris White
Chris, do all these programs retain metadata for edited photos? Most important, the EXIF date the photos were taken? - Bruce Lewis
Bruce, I'm pretty sure both Aperture and Preview maintain EXIF data, although I haven't tested that. - Chris White
man, it sounds like we're looking for the same thing. iPhoto sucks. - Brett Kelly
iView is what professional photojournalists use. I would have a look at that if I were you. I'm pretty sure MS is still keeping the Mac version of it. - Gabe Schaffer
Still using iView for now. It sounds like the newer Expression Media has had less than positive reviews. I have over 30,000 pictures in various catalogs and it works nicely. It did take a while to figure out a workflow that works for me but I had somewhat of an advantage since I had to design filesystem layouts previously. Extensis is an another option. If you care about IPTC or GPS EXIF, some hackery will be required as the different tools have different levels of support. - Jauder Ho
i like both aperture and lightroom. lightroom gives me better-looking photos though aperture is a little easier to use. at least i find that to be the case - Cee Bee
@Paul could you please share your requirements with us? Blindly suggesting an app without knowing your exact needs is pretty pointless. I use Adobe Bridge for workflow automation, meta management and multi client asset organization but I bet it won't be a good match for you. So please share your functional requirements. - Berk D. Demir via twhirl
I use Lightroom, and that's what I'd recommend. If you don't want to spend any money, you might want to check out blueMarine (http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it...). I've only played around with it for a few minutes, but I see it has potential, and it seems like it'd be just fine for the items you mentioned. - Donato
@Donato Cool.. I haven't seen this before.. :) @Paul I was looking for something like this in the past. What I wanted was a photo browsing application with Tagging and the ability to browse what you already have. I've ended up settling for Lightroom, but it's still sort of an overkill and it's RAW features are not useful for an amateur photographer like me. I'm really interested in what you find out from these comments heheh. - Chris Chua
Maybe I need to write my own. Does AIR have the necessary capabilities for this kind of thing? - Paul Buchheit
Sure, you could write it in AIR, but I haven't heard anything yet that convinces me you can't just use the leopard finder for what you want. - Chris White
@Chris, you can Delete from Preview. @Paul: you can't show the photo full size in finder, you'd need to open with a separate program. - David Vasileff
I use Xee, http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/xee... it aspires to be what Paul is looking for I think, but it doesn't do color correction, but you can hotkey to an editor of your choice, including Preview, which does color correction. Xee is free and there's source code available, too. - David Vasileff
we might see a mac version of picasa this year. Adobe elements is a $100 alternative to iPhoto. I have used it. Works good but a very heavy tool. - pankaj
David, how do you delete in Preview? Do you need more than one document open? - Chris White
I mentioned blueMarine the other day, but just found http://www.photonator.com/ a few minutes ago - then remembered your query and posted 'er back here. You're not subscribed to me, but that doesn't mean that I can't help. ;) - l0ckergn0me
Chris, Preview Edit menu has move selected image to trash menu item or command-delete shortcut. it deletes and closes the window if you have a single image open. - David Vasileff
Picasa is the only reason I still turn my PC on... Are they going to make a Mac version any time soon? Otherwise it's time to write one. - Eugene
10 pounds of strawberries! Sooooo tasty. - Benjamin Golub
I generally don't like fruits, but strawberries, I HATE them. No one believes me when I say that i hate the fruit and anything that has its flavor :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Holy Cow....it is bigger than flikr.....scarry - Matt Rider via twhirl
540 terabytes doesn't seem all that big. - Louis Gray
It may be bigger than flickr but the pictures are actually used on flickr rather than being locked up to a profile and a few hundred friends. - Rahul Das
it's a lot, especially considering they downsample images. i.e. your 1.2mb jpg gets reduced to 128kb on FB. The original resolution is lost. So 540 TB is a lot of downsampled images! - Mark J. Feldman
Flickr has about 2.5 billion images. - Ole Begemann
I suspect that Gmail has both more images, and more image data. Email is still what many "regular" people use for photo sharing, amazingly. - Paul Buchheit
540TB is puny for 30B images. 19.3KB/photo average. SmugMug has more storage and only ~325M photos. - Don MacAskill
Facebook limits photos to 5Mb each and 50 photos per album, though. - Prolific Programmer
again, I'll pay my yearly fee for Flickr. sorry Facebook. - Andrew Feinberg
Is that photos or images in total? Could be lots of 1-20K png and gifs for apps - Cris Pearson via twhirl
The ratio on comments on my Facebook photos to comments on my Flickr photos is probably about 20:1, despite the ratio of number of Facebook photos to number of Flickr photos being about 1:10. Comments are nice, especially for hacks like me that aren't going to get any attention -- deservedly so -- from the folks on Flickr. - Kirk Kittell
@Andrew: Do I trust them to host my photos? Is that what you mean? Or is that a more general question? - Kirk Kittell
I mean do you trust them to host your photos and not use them without your permission? Their TOS lets them use your information for promotional purposes and sell to advertisers. Flickr lets you choose how your photos are licensed. Think about it. - Andrew Feinberg
I use a non-commercial license on Flickr. However, it's a minor issue to me how Facebook handles the photos. The primary reason I use Facebook to share photos is because I will get some reaction from my contacts. I'd trade that aspect for losing control of a few photos any day. If I wasn't a hack, I might change my stance. But I'm a hack. If I don't share on Facebook, I have no reason to think anyone sees my photos, and that's a loss, I think. - Kirk Kittell
@Andrew Feinberg: I think that's an excellent point, but I think you'd be shocked at how many people just don't care. First, the re-use of their photos isn't important to them, second, they think their photos aren't worth re-using, and third, they think of it as a cost to pay for the free service. I don't get it, but tons of people think that way. - Don MacAskill
Photography for me is a hobby, so I don't care what anyone does with my pictures. Indeed, all on flickr are CC-licensed. - Prolific Programmer
Mine are CC also and have been used by some high-traffic blogs and others. But, the choice to allow that is mine alone. Facebook has enough money and user data, they don't need anything else from me. - Andrew Feinberg
@Andrew - I'd trust Facebook over Flickr, since it's not Flickr's policies you should be worrying about, it's Yahoo's - and they definitely have not been playing nice with Flickr users since they took over ... - cerement
@Prolific Programmer The limit for photo's is 60, 3 pages of 20! - Joe Dawson
I don't think that comparing sheer volume really tells anyone anything useful. It's not surprising to me that Facebook would lead on this metric - people literally dump their whole memory card there, uploading hundreds of snapshots from the same party. But all photos are not created equal, and what I've never seen on Facebook though is anything that might be considered *photography*. For that, Flickr clearly rules the roost. - Eric
One of the two prior comments *must* be wrong..! :P Let us know when that post gets published! - Luis Jose Conde
I user Google Spreadsheets for my budget keeping. - Benjamin Golub
And to think I thought I was the only one who enjoyed creating Excel budgets! Now keeping to them, that's another story altogether... - Daniel Smith via twhirl
I find the more time I spend in time planning the less time I spend in getting things done. Sometimes I think that's the secret point of these systems. I spent weeks in college creating a master schedule using posterboard and colored thumb tacks. Sure beat writing papers. - Leo Laporte
Please use a VLOOKUP! Pretty please! - Andy Wibbels
Maintaining a financial budget in a Google spreadsheet has saved my financial life. - Bill Bittner
I was just thinking that July 4th is an awesome day to have as your birthday. 1) You don't have to ask for the day off 2) It isn't a holiday where gifts are given so you don't have the Christmas birthday issue and 3) It isn't a huge holiday where people would have other plans like New Years. - Benjamin Golub
actually Ben, you'd be surprised how often people have other plans. Its a three day weekend so people go away alot. But you get fireworks for your birthday so that is awesome! - Rachel L Fisher
Happy Birthday Kevin! Hope you guys are enjoying some dinosaur sauce. :) - Chris White
Ah, THAT'S what all the celebrations were for today! As I was standing around Charleston Park and watching the explosions in the air, I thought to myself... wow, this must be about someone important. Congrats, Kevin! :-) - Adam Lasnik
Reasons why we don't regularly backup. Too lazy = 100% - possible248
that's not true.. tons of people are still too non technical to know better! - Stefan Hayden
I really think the only really good backup system will be one where the OS we're using does it for us automagically. It will upload the files to a server which will them break them into tiny pieces and redundantly copy them all over everywhere. If a file is lost you'll be able to retrieve it bit torrent style. - Tad Donaghe
I don't make backups because I like living on the edge! I'm a wild rebel staring horrifying data loss right in the face and laughing heartily! - Akiva Moskovitz
A very important article imo; great best practices in there. - Benjamin Golub
Thanks Ben for those two links before: I've stagnated in learning new programming languages since my high school and early college days. You gave me a good base to start up again. - Mark Trapp
I had a brief love affair with Python around the turn of the century. I have simply no need for a scripting language in my life anymore. I still think about it fondly sometimes and its tracts of beautifully aligned and formatted code. - Akiva Moskovitz
@Akiva: Can I know why? (The "No need for a scripting language in my life anymore" part). Corporate America? - Yuvi
I feel the opposite, Akiva. Coming from a background in C and C++, then learning Perl, Java and PHP, using white space to delimit statements seems so.... backward. - Mark Trapp
Mostly because I've stopped running my own servers at home. At the turn of the century, I had a couple of FreeBSD boxes living behind an OpenBSD firewall serving around 100 friends' websites and primary e-mail accounts. I scripted a lot of stuff back then and took the job (which I did for free) quite seriously. Now, my day-to-day computing life doesn't require scripting so much and when I do encounter some little task that could be handled by a script, I do it in F#. - Akiva Moskovitz
Oh, 'kay. I'm using Python to extend a .NET app of mine ;) Cool language. - Yuvi
Mark, I too have a C/C++ background and currently rake in a stupid amount of money coding in C# so I'm definitely pro-curly-brace. But having dealt with horrendously-written and blindly-formatted C-family code, I definitely appreciate the forced formatting that languages like Python and F# have. It's so much easier to deal with when it all looks the same. - Akiva Moskovitz
Wonder where all the curly brace love comes from. Hate it. - Yuvi
For me, it's what I was 'raised on' once I started coding in real languages (modifying C-Net bulletin board code in BASIC on a Commodore 64 simply doesn't count). I'm sure if I had begun my career in a white-space language, I'd hate curly braces. A friend of mine used to write VisualBasic professionally before moving on to becoming a SQL guru and he absolutely despises curly braces. - Akiva Moskovitz
Right: I learned BASIC in 6th or 7th grade, and that was really shunned as it wasn't considered a "real" programming language like C or C++. Once I learned C, it was curly braces from there on out, with diversions into various assembly languages and LISP. The concrete benefits, at least for me, were for printing source (which is sort of lost on people now): you could wrap lines and span execution blocks across multiple pages and not have to worry about any ambiguity. - Mark Trapp
I learnt C first in 6th grade, but it was Turbo C, and I had no internet access. So when I learnt VB6, it was a huge advance over C, and I immediately ditched C for VB6. Then I came to .NET in .NET 2.0 and been in VB land ever since. Still hate curly braces, just as much as I hated them in Turbo C. - Yuvi
@simon Thanks for that, I hadn't seen that before. Sadly it lacks the functions I'd want to use but it's a good starting point, cheers - Cains
When will everyone start to realize that Google is taking over the entire web and it's time for everyone to stop kissing their ass, I mean really enuff already. They are going to kill everyone. Should we all just give up and buy GOOG stock? - Donovan Slennon
@Donovan Is google acting in a way that is harmful to the "entire web"? Are they taking steps to reduce competition or innovation? It seems to me, and I use many google services, that they are innovating and encouraging other innovation. The nice thing about the web is the choices - I think you can ignore google if you want - although, I haven't tried. I mostly like their services. - Sean
Agree they are brilliant and innovative but Google are mowing down all competition in every related field one by one - have you seen their media server - pow, another few markets decimated in a matter of years; health - pow, lets just kill off health players; are we all just going to plug into the beast - i know i haven't expressed it succinctly or even well but if you can't see that Google is all powerful and is all about profit then we all need help. Someone needs to look at some antitrust law and save us - Donovan Slennon
@Donovan - ok, thanks, that is what I wanted to know, where they have been anti-competitive. However, in their defense (and I don't know why), there is a difference between anti-competitive and better than everyone else. I will be watching more carefully in the future. - Sean
Cool; I don't know my antitrust law but when you use your market power in one market to squash competition in another then you are abusing your power - key is the definition of the market - but helen keller could see that they are the standard oil of the 1900's. The extent to which the leading market commentators are silent on this is reminiscent of the free ride given by the media to Bush's Iraq invasion - no one stopped to look around until after the mess; so we desparately need some dialogue - Donovan Slennon
Donovan, Google has not killed the health field; there are a number of competitive products (HealthVault just to pick one), so if people gravitate to the GOOG (whether its good or bad), unless they took some specific anti-competitive actions, what's the problem? Outside of search and search advertising where is the field where they have more than even 30% market share? Ok feed readers perhaps :). I use their services if I like them. If not I don't. - Deepak
Respect your opinion but I don't think you're smelling the roses b/c of all the lovely scented sht that google has emeshed us in; just ask anyone with a web or web related business what the #1 issue/risk in their business is and it's those 'do gooders' from mountain view - one of the greatest pr machines of all time - Donovan Slennon
Since I am quite sure I have never bought into any PR, lets agree to disagree. I use what I like. A decent chunk happens to be from Google, and that's what it happens to be. YMMV of course - Deepak
I have a difficult time calling Google anything other than a 'good' company considering that I use a ton of their products and I don't pay a dime for any of them. Yes, they are a threat and competion for many companies which means those companies need to try harder for my paid business - it's pro-sumer. My message to those who don't like Google: Be better. - Vince DeGeorge
Feel free to test this out if you want. After you delete a comment there is a link at the top of the page to "Undo" the delete (ie restore the comment). In fact nearly every action on fftogo has an "Undo" link at the top. - Benjamin Golub via fftogo
"Welcome to the Live Music Archive. etree.org is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial, both for access here and for any further distribution. Artists' commercial releases are off-limits. This collection is maintained by the etree.org community." - Vince DeGeorge via Bookmarklet
I'm always shocked at the number of people who don't know about this TREASURE TROVE of wonderful live music. - Vince DeGeorge
No more rum for Pirate PJ-that leaves Sodomy and the Lash I guess - Mark Forman
DP-PJ, yeah - it's an old source, that amazingly many still don't know about. In the world of Pandora, Songza, and more - this site is often overlooked. - Vince DeGeorge
<3 etree; it's where I get a lot of live Phish shows - Benjamin Golub
Ya I read the note on phish.com about maybe doing a reunion. Would be awesome since I only got to see them once. I'm not big on Umphrey's though. - Benjamin Golub via fftogo
"Google's framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Windows CE, and Symbian). Based on the xUnit architecture. Supports automatic test discovery, a rich set of assertions, user-defined assertions, death tests, fatal and non-fatal failures, various options for running the tests, and XML test report generation." - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet
Google's C++ test framework, open source under a BSD license as of today. - DeWitt Clinton
Forgot to say, the tooltip shows also the rooms to which the user is subscribed. TOO BAD Friendeed's API don't allow yet subscription/unsubscription :( - directeur via NoiseRiver
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