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Installing HAML bundle for TextMate < He hacks. He blogs. - http://bjhess.com/blog...
svn co "http://macromates.com/svn... Haml.tmbundle"
- Ben
Is software defined radio the future of ham radio?
In my mind it will open up development to the wider community. With a large chunk of the radio defined in software it allows experimentation that is harder to achieve with electronics and component parts. The majority of users purchase a black box that does everything already - I am quite excited by the idea of buying a radio frontend that can be developed by the community in software.
- Ben
FlexRadio seem to be working hard on supporting Linux. Will have to save my pennies so I can give it a try. They have made the right move making their PowerSDR software open source.
- Ben
Is cost of a FlexRadio System prohibitive? An entry level SDR is nearly $3,000 dollars unlike a $500 to $1000 transceiver. I'm curious what the market share is for entry-level radios manufactured by Yaesu, Icom, Kenwood, and Elecraft? Interestingly, TenTec offers an SDR in its Argonaut but its output is 25-watts. Why a low-power, nearly QRP type SDR? And I didn't find a price tag on the Argonaut at TenTec as well.
- ka3drr
FlexRadio Systems announced Flex-1500 [500mW to 1W] at $499 and Flex-3000 [100W] at $1499 introductory. Nothing like this on the ham radio market or compares. Will Flex-1500 be the flagship SDR leading NexGen ham radio operators?
- ka3drr
I negotiated with my wife to get myself a flex-3000 for xmas...
- Charlieray
I was told that the Flex-1500 has a small footprint and is in a metal extrusion type case. Source was at Orlando Hamcation
- David Billsbrough
$579.00 -- Price jump on the Flex-1500 -- http://www.flex-radio.com/Product...
- David Billsbrough
Google Mobile - Sync (This is huge if it works well. Am trying it now). - http://www.google.com/mobile...
nmind, Jeff, James and 82 other people liked this
so far, no sync :(
- Mistletoe Glen
It seems to work great. Only 5 Google Calendars though.
- Wallace Wilson
I'd try it out but iPhone has this odd limitation of only one "Exchange" account at a time and I already sync with my Work Exchange. :(
- Paul Wade
Yes, this is ONLY useful if you don't already sync your iPhone to an Exchange server!
- Stephen Foskett
Love this. Hope that Apple end up supplementing lost MobileMe revenue with increased handset marketshare. Want to know if GoogleSync and MobileMe can be used in tandemn (until MobileMe subscription expires).
- Conor Ogle
Working well on WinMO so far, just needed to backup and import my outlook contacts into Google first. Looking forward to this thing moving
- Tyler Brownfield
Conor, I don't see why not. I have my work exchange server and my mobileme account (along with Yahoo, Gmail (email)) all on the same iphone and it all works great. I just wish I could add a second exchange account for Google.
- Paul Wade
Worked for me on my Windows Mobile, but I couldn't sync my calendar, as i'm already syncing elsewhere!
- Les Zaldor
Thanks. Do you think a one-time sync to get Google in line with MobileMe is going to be enough? I'm concerned about one overwriting the other.
- Conor Ogle
Google sync uses ActiveSync in Windows Mobile. This means I can't sync to both it and my work exchange server... such a bummer.
- Alan Le
Conor, MobileMe and Exchange Activesync are kept completely separate on the iPhone. No data crossover at all.
- Paul Wade
I like the thought, but I won't put it to use. I don't want my personal stuff, mixing with my work stuff anymore... Maybe another time, remember it's beta, but we all know google will keep it beta for like 2 years (i.e. gmail still beta) lol
- Jayson Flint
So what happens to my Address Book?
- Conor Ogle
Working here, fantastic - been waiting for this for a while. If you have multiple Google Calendars make sure to visit m.google.com/sync on the phone (not on the computer) and select the additional calendars you want to sync.
- Ben
I've had this for some time now using nuevasync.com... but, now I can sync directly to google, and remove nuevasync from the equation. nice.
- Neil Bernhart
This is a major game changer IMO. Why would any small business owner want Blackberry or Exchange servers at this point? GMail allows you to park a domain & gives you 7+ gigs for free. With OTA sync, you get the Blackberry-esque features, also for free. If I have 10-50 employees, I have the choice of hosting multiple servers onsite with multiple moving parts along with purchasing CALs, HW & SW maintenance, and dealing with never-ending storage needs. Or, I could let someone else do it for little to no cost.
- Peter Ghosh
oh, and beware... push eats battery life on the 3G like there's no tomorrow. if you can live with getting updates every 15 min, I would stick with fetch.
- Neil Bernhart
NuevaSync has been offering the same service from months on the iPhone and other phones. It can also do up to 8 calendars.
- Chris Williams
Only one calendar is synced from Google. Nuevasync supports multiple calendars.
- Jared B. Luther
Jared, you can sync up to 5 cals with Google Sync. Sadly, none of them can be shared calendars from what I'm seeing. Sticking with NuevaSync for now.
- Kevin C. Tofel
@Kevin - they can be shared. I'm viewing shared and even public calendars with Google Sync on my iPhone.
- Wallace Wilson
Is this one of those things that doesn't work with Google Apps for your domain? It doesn't seem to want to work for me.
- Ryan Anderson
I am a Google Apps user and I am getting nada. Me thinks I will be heading back over to Nuevasync.
- Matt Martin
@Peter, if I was a small business owner, one thing that I'd consider is the security. Google Apps doesn't give you any ability to manage the device. Both BES and Exchange allow you to remotely kill or hobble a device as well as push custom apps and security policies. You can get BES free for less than 10 devices or go to hosted Exchange/BES. Sure it costs you money, but businesses should be concerned about where all that data is going and being stored.
- Kenton
@Ryan, I found the fix. You need to go into the dashboard for your domain and enable the sync.
- Matt Martin
@Ryan and Matt: It DOES work on hosted domains. You need to login to your Google Apps admin control panel and enable sync.
- Peter Ghosh
@Peter, thanks for the heads up. Seems to be working well..
- Matt Martin
I think for individuals and small businesses this is going to be killer in which data security and device management can be a bit more lenient. I wish just sucks I'm stuck with Exchange already at work.
- Brian Bufalo
@Kenton - Good take on security. Given that this is using Activesync, I think the Google Apps-enabled kill switch is imminent (ActiveSync via Exchange has kill switch features). The fact that the domain's Google Apps admin has to enable sync'ing in the first place is a good start.
- Peter Ghosh
btw, 1 hour in and this feature is nerdtastic!!!!
- Peter Ghosh
Thanks for the tip on enabling it via the Google Apps dashboard; seems to work fine for me now.
- Mistletoe Glen
Nice! I didn't know about the activation from within the Admin panel of Apps for Domains, and now it's working great. Thanks Matt & Peter!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Still no news and/or tricks on how to get the calendar to sync to the Nokia symbian phones?
- Henrik Söderlund
I don't have any options for additional calendars on m.google.com/sync, just the iPhone setup instructions. Is this an Apps bug?
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Tried setting it up on my HTC Mogul and it no work. Had to change the username to cjwelle%gmail.com for the user name to get the domain to show up. But after that no sync of any information. Not ready for primetime in my book.
- Uncle CW™
Setting up Google Sync now. updating my N82 firmware first. hope it wont delete my contacts list like it does for iPhone.
- Sunil Joseph
Wallace, thanks for correcting me. I wasn't able to see my shared calendars, but after your comment I thought about it. My shared cals are from a Google Apps account and our admin likely hasn't enabled it for that one. Thanks!
- Kevin C. Tofel
I've been using the version for BlackBerrys for a couple of months or so, but turned it off the other day as it kept retracting my appointments during syncs leaving me with an empty calendar and missed appointments! Not sure what was happening there, and it's hard to tell if there's a newer release for the BBs that's come out now too.
- Benjamin Watt
Sounds like a good idea but I can't get it set up. Keep getting "exchange account validation failed" but no clues as to what failed. Are there any restrictions on usage outside the US?
- Mark Warren
I use this on my BlackBerry and it works extremely well for me.
- Christopher Howie
from twhirl
I also found a problem here in germany - if you try to sync more than one calendar it said "this device is not supported" - adding ?hl=en to switch to english helped and I could sync all my shared and read only calendars: http://m.google.com/sync?hl=en
- Frank S.
Works perfectly for me. Now I can stop using nuevasync...
- Jorg Jansen
I've used the BlackBerry version for a few months now. It's great!
- Rob Boek
Well, If you are using and depending on /or can't get around another service, e.g. an Exchange server, in your cross sync calendar and contacts mix Google Sync is most likely not going to do much for you. Las time I checked, Google Sync assumes the dominant position and does not let you specify any sync conditions you'd might come to expect from other syncing apps. E.g. syncing contacts to and from your Google account not optional. I'd like to be able to tell Google how and what I'd like to sync, though.
- Vidar Andersen
If apple would simply support CalDav on the iPhone this would be a moot point. I can have iCal attached to Google Calendar and working off-line... but not the calendars on my iPhone. I don't get it...
- Brian Roy
Proof of the pudding for me will be how it handles alarms. If that works well, bye bye MobileMe!
- Chris Hearn
I wonder if using ActiveSync has any implications for Verizon users who have the $30/mo data plan for "Web Mail/Web Browsing", vs the $45/mo plan which is for "Syncing of Calendars/Tasks/Email/Web Browsing"? Could they be doing any packet capture by protocol?
- Jef
works awesome. i've been using nuevasync since i got the phone but was waiting till google did their own. now i'm happily waiting for them to support sync for tasks with.... ?
- tommy payne
from twhirl
NO, it doesn't work great. It has all the same problems with any other Exchange Sync. Your phone is "slaved" to the "exchange" - once that happens - no other contacts, no other calendars (with Google Apps you only get 1 calendar). The limitations of this pretty much out-weigh the up-side.
- Brian Roy
This is very tempting, except just this morning I was thinking that I need to start extracting myself from excessive dependence on the Google. I guess I could use this if I can figure out some other Google service to jettison.
- Erik S
I've been using Neuvasync for the past 9 or 10 months. It's a free Exchange service that interfaces with your Google calendar and contact store. It worked extremely well providing near real-time OTA synch between my iPhone, Outlook (with a Google account) and the web. I've now switched over to Google's Exchange service. Since Google was already hosting my contacts and calendar there was...
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- Troy Forster
from twhirl
I've noticed that if you setup Google Sync with your iPhone and have the OS X Address Book set to sync with Google, it appears the latter no longer happens. While OTA updates seem to work flawlessly between Google Contacts and the iPhone, if you intend to keep the Address Book in sync with the other 2 then something is in need of fixing.
- Scott Jarkoff
Any difference between Exchange and MobileMe push on the iPhone with regard to battery life?
- Chris Hearn
ilike :) works so far
- videopixil
How is this handling fields that Google doesn't have in Gmail, i.e. birthdays? I'm a little hesitant to just sync contacts specifically, because Gmail doesn't have the number of related fields that the iPhone or the Address Book app does.
- Aakar Shroff
its not new though... its existed on the blackberry for a loong time (and has been working quite well for me)... is the "new" just the version for the iPhone or am i missing something?
- simran
Currently Google Sync only supports Contacts for my Nokia N95 Too bad I use GooSync now for my calendar, but it only updates a couple of weeks ahead. Wish Plaxo had 2 way sync with Google Contacts. And that I could use any address book in gmail.
- nooble
Took a while to get this up and running well, but I've decided to forgo access to my work email/calendar to have my Google Calendar on my phone.
- Bill Glover
I have never been a big fan of Google's contacts system. If contact photos (which I use in my iPhone for caller ID) don't get synced they way Outlook does it, I won't bother. Google needs to overhaul the whole UI and feature set of it's contacts system. Right now it is probably the worst of all the main webmail services.
- Rolf Schewe
youll let us know?
- Richard Binhammer
from twhirl
I have a question for anyone who's used this so far. What happens with conflicts? How does it determine if a contact is the same and which one wins the conflict? Can this be set? It would be nice if the phone wins for phone number conflicts and Google wins for email address conflicts (possibly address, too), but that's a pipe dream, I guess.
- Chieze Okoye
Also, what happens with contact images? I don't want to overwrite the ones already on my phone but it would be nice to have some pulled from GChat for the rest of my contacts that don't have them set already (so I guess I would like phone to win contact image conflicts)
- Chieze Okoye
D'oh! only the main calendar on WinMob! Sucks! Oh well, guess I won't be using it now. Switching to Nuevasync, I guess.
- Chieze Okoye
Internet Explorer security alert - http://digg.com/microso...
"In fairness software is hard. A problem such as this may be deep routed - any solution needs to be reviewed, tested and tested again. The publicity could be much worse if the fix breaks a feature or creates another flaw. Thats where open source software comes into its own. Many hands make light work."
- Ben
Internet Explorer security alert - http://digg.com/microso...
"Security holes are always going to appear. The key difference is that fixes cannot ever be speedily released by a commercial company - they don't have the resources to fix the code and suitably test it in a couple of days. The clear benefit of Firefox and other open source browsers is that the security fix can be peer reviewed by a much larger community than that of a commercial company. Therefore as yet there is no fix from Microsoft for this vulnerability - with serious Firefox issues a fix ususally appears very quickly."
- Ben
Is The Mac Mini Dead?: Apple Stops Mac Mini Shipments - http://digg.com/apple...
"I didn't realise they wern't selling well - I always saw the mini as the golden bullet that would bring Apple boxes to more homes - its the sort of machine that'd suit my parents down to the ground. Hope this isn't true, otherwise it'll be a real shame."
- Ben
New Xbox Experience Allowing Amateur Games Distribution - http://www.1up.com/do...
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Looks pretty cool! Keep checking majornelson.com btw, he hinted at an early 'beta' nxe :)
- Andie Fairlie
ooo interesting, thanks. Maybe will re-follow him on Twitter - although he used to go a bit nuts with updates
- Ben
Baby gorillas get new jungle home - http://news.bbc.co.uk/go...
Yay for the baby gorillas!
- Ben
Moved to http://www.twitter.com/besutt
hehe, the magic of the internet ;-)
- Ben
The Top 100 Pownce Users - http://powncewar.com
I love the way web apps are opening up - sharing information via API's allows for fun sites like this to exist. Hopefully the trend will continue as more applications move server side.
- Ben
retweet @JCrites I assume @Scobleizer has a tent pitched outside an Apple store in the Valley by now.
Jeff P. Henderson, Yolanda and James Hull liked this
Nope. Apple store employees have already told me they will have an oversupply of 3G phones. So, no need to wait in line. We'll be there early in the morning tomorrow, though, just to join the fun.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Are they saying that is the case across the US or just out on the West side?
- Mathew A. Koeneker
plus it's dangerous to breathe the air in the valley today and feels like 10,000 degrees outside.
- Doug Brooks
Do you mean a literal tent, or are you referring to the expression about what happens in your khakis when you're really excited about something?
- Chris Johnson
O2 have made it clear in the UK that they don't have enough iPhones to meet demand - a few dozen for each high street store - could you ship some of the spare ones over? ;-)
- Ben
Check this out http://tinyurl.com/ypamjs - the BB 8830 is available for a 100 bucks and does everything iPhone does and more. Plus, you can get a lot of applications to work on this - Garmin has a great GPS - no monthly fee.
- Sanjay Kalra
Lively by Google - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Google Virtual World - pointless? Can embed them on blogs, Facebook, igoogle, etc.
- Ben
Photo manipulation with Surface - nice.
- Ben
British Weather - http://blogs.sun.com/startup...
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Nice photo - it really has been a miserable day today. Bad choice for a week off work on my part.
- Ben
Rogers caves on iPhone 3G plans, offers up 6GB for $30 a mon - http://www.engadget.com/2008...
Nick, EJ Finneran, Sweyn Venderbush and 5 other people liked this
I know you can't compare markets directly but that sounds like a great deal compared to the minimum spend contract on offer with o2 in the UK. Having trouble loading the Rogers site to compare the deals directly. Lots of pre-orders being placed I guess :-).
- Ben
Well, it's a start, at least. I really wish that Rogers would offer a reasonable explanation for their actions. So far, all they've managed to do is spew fluff such as "normal users won't really use that much", etc.
- Bradley McSpinn
finally - thanks for not sucking rogers.
- Cole Orton
Just be aware that the $30 is only the data plan; If I read this correctly, there's plenty of other charges that will be applied to owning that phone. (e.g. voice plan, caller ID, etc.)
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
@Cole: Rogers still sucks. It's still a 3-year contract and that's only a promotion. They should remove the time bomb!
- Long Nguyen
silly Canadians... The U.S is still awesome
- Noah David Simon
still not gonna buy one, the 30 dollars only applies to data and i'm sure the voice plans still suck
- Chris Jones
from twhirl
Lets use this to start the I want a free breakfast from AT&T on Friday! :-p
- Mark Hurley
from twhirl
Great, now i want to get an iphone 3g, again...damn you rogers
- Charles Desaulniers
So it's official? I get a sausage and egg buscuit with my 3G iPhone?
- Mike Lewis
from Alert Thingy
Opera Web Standards Curriculum - http://www.webstandards.org/2008...
Would have loved this a few years a go. Hopefully it will cover CSS down the line. In a medium with so many mixed standards its often useful to know the 'right' way of doing something.
- Ben
I Want My SVG - http://blogs.sun.com/bondolo...
Ben liked this
SVG support is sorely missed in IE. You have to ask yourself why they haven't bothered. Shouldn't it be more of a priority as applications move away from desktops towards the web?
- Ben
@oliverg: open source doesn't always kick *beep*. Linux still hasn't beat Windows or OSX on desktop.
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Linux's time will come. Just like Firefox can come from no where Linux can do the same.
- James Robertson
Wishful thinking, James. Even as friendly as Ubuntu is, the vast majority of the world isn't ready for Linux on a desktop.
- Bradley McSpinn
that's not the same. Firefox is leveraging the platform, Linux is a much bigger jump. Also, Firefox isn't winning just because it's open source. Quite the opposite: as it is open source, it's much better in terms of feature vs Explorer. For Linux to do the same, it must really step change the way we use our OS. I don't see this happening. The OS is now a commodity, web and mobile are the new platforms, and maybe that's where Linux can play a bigger role.
- Simone
If by "the vast majority of the world," you mean China, India, Latin America and Africa -- there are a lot of Linux desktops being used today. And what do you mean by "ready"?
- Mike McCallister
from NoiseRiver
Yes, there are absolutely a lot of them deployed. The 1% is still a very big number. I still don't think that the 99% is necessarily wrong, though. Their Win or Mac boxes do exactly what they want them to do, so they have neither reason nor desire to switch.
- Bradley McSpinn
The vast majority of the world can't afford Windows. ;-) I think we'll see distros like Ubuntu starting to beat Windows or OS X in developing countries first due to economics. While that's taking place, the distros will continue to become more and more end-user friendly and sport prettier UIs.
- Joanmarie
@Joanmarie - A good point. There's also the major brand + linux aspect. Buying a Dell with Linux on it can certainly lead to increased affordability. I honestly wish that Linux were more of an option for me, as I'm a big fan. But with some of the programs that I use, there's simply not that option.
- Bradley McSpinn
James, are you related to Michael Robertson, who just threw in the towel on "Lindows?" http://www.informationweek.com/news... :-D
- Karim
Maybe because Linux doesn't really have giants behind it like Microsoft and Apple?
- Cem Catikkas
"Beat" is subjective (as is everything) it all depends on what the end user really wants from their soft/mach, no?
- thecolor
I prefer in many cases to just save doe on the OS all together.
- thecolor
I believe the mainstream end user doesn't care what platform he runs. How many iPhone users know what's running under the hood?
- simonpure
I can't agree - at all - that Linux adoption is smaller than Windows or Mac OS adoption. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty much convinced that Linux is "better" or "readier" to the desktop than Mac OS, and certainly than Windows. There are LOTS of others things playing around - and that's the big issue for its adoption. You can't forget you're comparing "Microsoft's OS" and "Apple's OS" with "an open source OS". If you see the huge amounts of money spent for user awareness of Windows and Mac OS you'll see...
- Marcos Marado
EEE PC is a great example for this. Most people prefer the Linux version to the Windows version, and would choose it even if they were the same price. That happens - of course - because people don't really see it as "a real computer", so they don't have that weird idea that "PCs have Windows", and so they look at that machine as "a tool to do stuff": read mail, web, IM'ing, video conference, word processing... the kind of stuff they use their "real computer" too, anyway.
- Marcos Marado
Remember as well that there is a lot of open source software under the OSX hood. They are using the mach kernal developed for the NeXT, but the rest is based on Free BSD. The proprietary stuff is mostly eye candy.
- Brad Collins
from twhirl
yeah, a nice example of how the only thing needed to boost Linux (or something like that) is just a huge marketing effort... Of course that Windows is so bad that it makes competing easy (that was probably the most important key for OS X's success...)
- Marcos Marado
What's needed is for Linux to be preinstalled. I've an eeePC, and it just works. Few home users ever install an OS. Platform neutral tech like Google Docs and AIR will help.
- David Sim
Linux is so easy to use nowadays. Plus, you can even run Windows-only apps with it, much safer then in Windows. To win more grounds it just needs to be pre-installed and maybe prettier.
- Danilo da Silva
"Linux still hasn't beat Windows or OSX on desktop" - *cough* when Win or Mac still can't what Linux could do a year ago - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- cerement
Sigh. OS Flame wars. *Hide*
- Yuvi
ok, lets forget about what os optimistic.is better. the reason linux cannot win is because to win it would need to change its own principles in order to do so and because there are 10 mayor linux distros, 5 for enterprise (but that are also good as workstations) and 5 other for consumers. from the ones for consumers you got 5 to 10 versions of each distro and in the case of ubuntu you...
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from feedalizr
oh and for those that said: people would choose linux if presented with a option and the Eee pc running linux sells more than the one with windows: both accounts are wrong. there have been 3 commercially available Linux PC`s at wall mart for 100,200 and 300 dlls. all 3 failed and were retired from the market. and Asus only reason to launch with linux was because they launched with a...
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from feedalizr
I am not ready for Linux on the desktop, and I consider myself to be firmly in the "rest of the world" camp of luddites. Am I missing something, or is there a reason why I should be anything less than completely satisfied with Mac OS X on a shiny Macbook?
- sage brennan
@Mike Mcallister: Microsoft Windows still dominates China in overwhelming fashion, due to the massive head start it got from the software pirates. The Microsoft OS/MS Office software is still *almost* as free as Linux is, here in China -- except for a small minority of people who buy desktops with legal software bundled-in. Linux is gaining from a very small base, but has many, many miles to go before it sleeps.
- sage brennan
The biggest chance for Linux is the growing trend of applications being hosted online. If it can adapt to this model it has a good chance in the enterprise - because if you can run the web stack (Firefox/Google Gears/Adobe AIR/Java/etc) you may as well be running a solid, free and open local OS.
- Ben
It's not linux itself that's the problem. It's the people.
- Yuvi
There's a reason why Linux has never overtaken Windows or OS X. Casual users don't want to deal with that many things.
- Cyndy
I used to run Linux and/or FreeBSD as a desktop for many years until I realized I spent more time tweaking the system than I ever did doing any actual 'work'. What worries me is that it's taken them nearly ten years to essentially crawl from where they were when I ran it in the late 90s to where they are now. Innovation needs to happen far more quickly than that for it to ever truly be viable and it seems the only major thing they've managed to do in a decade is to make the install mostly painless.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Watch out for Linux on Mobile.. The time shall come.
- Muthu Ramadoss
Using Linux is one of those perfect world scenarios. When you start you have that warm fuzzy feeling, but it quickly evaporates as you come to the conclusion that peripheral support is sparse and, incidentally, perfect worlds don't exist.
- Blake Robinson
from Alert Thingy
Robert, I got to hand it to you. You are the master of dropping conversation bombs. Windows + Linux in the same sentence = fur flying. Personally I go for OSS almost every time. EXCEPT.... I run XP ;)
- john conroy
Blake puts it perfectly I guess. Linuxers (and perhaps Vista folks) must read Raymond Chen's blog.
- Yuvi
On the other hand, how much does OS choice really matter any more? As long as it can run a Javascript capable browser ... as Ben and simonpure note, if it can handle Google Apps/Adobe AIR/Java then it's ahead of the game ...
- cerement
I needed that three day weekend. Now, recharged and refreshed, I'm excited to be heading back to work to get some stuff done. Happy Monday, everyone!
You and me both. I hate to say it, but I really needed to be at work today.
- Jared Smith
I have the week off work - but can't stop thinking about work! Not good at all ...
- Ben
9W2WTF (Mohammad): My Homebrew 10 Meter Moxon antenna in my backyard - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
I'd love to construt something like this. Making a contact on a homebrew antenna must be one of the most satisfying aspects of the hobby.
- Ben
Good read and an interesting antenna as well. I gather, 9W2WTF, constructed the antenna as a 1/2 wave, without balun or match, and cut its length for the desired frequency, such an antenna is not a big foot print either. A solid idea for a CC&R ham radio operator and I wonder what its gain is over a dipole? He did mention deep nulls in specific directions as well. Interesting project for 10-meter sporadic-e propagation.
- ka3drr
I think we should be lobbying for more Ham's to join the social web... The issue is that it's going to be difficult to standardize on one...
Agreed. I don't see the point of joining twitter AND pownce AND ajiku AND friendfeed AND [insert next ig thing here]. I'll stick with friendfeed as being the place to aggregate the other social networks.
- Gordon Smith
from twhirl
s/ig/big/
- Gordon Smith
from twhirl
Its interesting to think what value the 'new social web' has to offer over, for example, the already popular Yahoo Groups. The best I can come up with is the increased connectivity. Your message will reach the widest possible audience. I think I'd have a hard time explaining the advantages to the average person. As you suggest Jeff, unless groups are fragmented into very specialist areas, its hard to keep up.
- Ben
Thinking about it a bit more (when I should be working :-), the one thing web 2.0 style social networks offer is openness. On FriendFeed for example I will often click the 'everyone' tab to see what else is out there. Yahoo Groups is typically a closed affair requiring somebody to search out the content, whereas Twitter may grab the attention of a passer by.
- Ben
Firefox down - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Alex Williams, Brandon, Rishabh Mishra (p248) and 20 other people liked this
Indeed! Firefox 3 Success Failure! http://tinyurl.com/4do6q3
- Stephen Pierzchala
Direct download links http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Bwana ☠
Not surprising though - and even better publicity...
- Wictor Wilén
So thats what the problem is! I rebooted my computer twice
- Dave Peck
Down With FireFox ! Viva internet Explorer
- Farzad
Failfox? Foxwhale?
- Iain Baker
that reminds me something, uhm twitter?
- Eren Emre Kanal
Firefail!
- Bwana ☠
where is getfirefoxtomorrow.com when you need it?
- Wade Dorrell
I think the last thing they posted was a "Mission Accomplished" banner and a quote from Mozila about large number of downloads -- "Bring it on," I believe they said...
- Karim
FireFailFox?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Well, getfirefox is responding now, at least. Still showing FF2, though. C'mon guys.
- felix
Now they are redirecting www.getfirefox.com to the FF2.0 download. Wtf? I already have FF2.0.
- Jon Erickson
They need Blaine Cook to show them how to scale!
- Pat Hawks
10am Pacific, guys! Be patient.
- Ward Seward
What time do you think it is, Ward?!?
- Pat Hawks
260,000 downloads and counting http://www.mogulus.com/air_moz...
- Bwana ☠
Looks as if everything just clicked into place - page loading and reloading fine here.
- Ben
Pat, oh yeah.... good point. I guess I can't tell time. I guess I'll join in on the bitching now.
- Ward Seward
@Ward - lol. Really wish I could "like" that comment :-P
- Pat Hawks
Kim: You just won a lol and a subscription. Where are you going now? Disneyland?
- Russellreno
"Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
- Pat Hawks
So is it worth it?
- Steve Cornelius
Yes, but I've been using it for months.
- Robert Scoble
Pat, just keep trying... it will work. I just completed downloading it.
- Ward Seward
downloading now :)
- David Smith
from twhirl
"Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" -- looks suspiciously like that Amazon.com outage a few days ago...
- Karim
Installation Success. I just got mine from the mozilla site. But one big drawback, wow a bunch of incompatible add-ons, bummer
- Jon Erickson
I was able to get the browser download but having problems accessing the addons page. :/
- Arlan Koizumi
The addon page is passing incorrect HTTP headers. Some firewalls (ours for example) blocks that sort of thing.
- Joel Gray
According to moz, the addon site is down, but addon updates server is still running apparently... I'm following them live on mogulus http://www.mogulus.com/air_moz...
- Bwana ☠
I just downloaded FF3... proper like also, so I feel proud I have done my bit for the record cause.
- Travis Koger
Finally downloaded. 12,000 downloads per minute = 200 downloads per second * 7 MB = 1.4 GB = 11 Gbit = probably smoking somebody's OC-192. Ok, so I officially cut them a little slack now. ;-)
- Karim
I got it on the work computer. So much faster and slicker so far. Though I had to reinstall of my add-ons. None of them would auto-update. Also causes Windows Live Mail to go nuts (probably MS's fault), but clicking Logout there crashes FireFox. There is no way that's MS's fault.
- xero
got in at the right time! really happy with the speed of FF3. looks great as well, still testing all the new features.
- michael sean wright
You know, it's funny. I tweet something, then check Friendfeed to see what people say. Twitter doesnt really have that, or I lack followers.
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totally.
- edythe
Me too. I have stopped checking Twitter that much. Now I only check it two or three times a day instead of the hundreds of times I used to check it. FriendFeed has totally taken over my spot as "obsessive tool of choice."
- Robert Scoble
ditto.
- edythe
I would like to see some sort of greasemonkey or hack to have a "twitter" edit bar to twitter from Friendfeed. That would be pretty cool.
- Colby Olson
friendfeed twitter client - http://userscripts.org/scripts...
- Michael W. May
Good eye Michael. Thanks for the link.
- Colby Olson
D'oh, if only Firefox3 supported greasemonkey.
- Colby Olson
Install Nightly Tester Tools, disable compatiblity checking, install greasemonkey, works great https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US...
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
@Colby: it does with the nightly tester tools extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US...
- edythe
:)
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
@mwm: jinx
- edythe
And _who_ said friendfeed was useless?
- Colby Olson
The two companies should merge! The connectivity of Twitter + the accessibility of FriendFeed. It'd be great!
- Ben
well if you use twhirl it's about as close as anyone can get to a FF+Twitter merger http://twhirl.org
- John Blanton
from twhirl
well if you use twhirl it's about as close as anyone can get to a FF+Twitter merger http://twhirl.org
- John Blanton
from twhirl
oh no sorry for the 2x post
- John Blanton
from twhirl
@John Yes, but I was looking for something a little more "right on the webpage" instead of an application. Thanks though.
- Colby Olson
@JohnBfromMemphis: Come to the site and delete one of them. Twhirl won't do it?
- Voyagerfan5761
yeah. on the one hand, Twitter's lack of conversation tracking is its downfall. On the other hand, if it starts lobbing in capabilities left, right and centre then it's moving away from simplicity, which is its original USP. Hmmmm....
- john conroy
@john conroy: if you go to your main tab--http://friendfeed.com/[userna... then add "/comments" to the URL, it's not so hard to track convos. i just wish that that had its own tab.
- edythe
@Robert Scoble -- does the fact that this is your new 'obsessive tool of choice' give you the confidence to think that FriendFeed is going mainstream...or do you think there are other factors (e.g. your desire to get feedback as a blogger) that make friendfeed a great tool for a niche, but not necessarily a mainstream application...seriously wondering, and not trying to be condescending about it... :)
- Michael Broukhim
I have been using twitter for a while now and I'm more convinced than before that it is not a tool for conversations. It is more of broadcasting tool you can use to share some message with people who follow you or solicit them to answer some direct question...
- Davide D'Incau
I don't really care. There are lots of interesting people on FriendFeed and that is all that really matters to me.
- Robert Scoble
I also like to use twitter to start the conversation and then come over to Friendfeed to expand on it. Quite a nice model if you ask me.I'll go wherever the conversation is happening.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
@Michael Broukhim FriendFeed UI is maybe not suitable for mainstream users but while the niche is using the service FriendFeed can keep on improving the system for when they will go mainstream.
- Davide D'Incau
FriendFeed sparks more conversations because you can pool much more information. 140 chars, anywhere, anytime, just blurting something out - Twitter is the tool of choice. No use comparing a Needle to a Knife; but Twitter, really is getting streamlined by most to broadcast and FriendFeed is just expanding into a very interesting mode of conversation. In a manner of saying, perhaps, Twitter is more about 'Me' and 'You' and FriendFeed is more about 'Us'.
- Parth Awasthi
Darn it! You stole my idea! I guess I wasn't fast enough! :)
haha - hopefully it'll be useful. Personally I was hoping that all feed items from room members would appear on the room page - for example I would see all the blog posts/bookmarks from room members. It doesn't seem to do that - rather you have to explicitly share something.
- Ben
So I guess you were thinking more like maybe what Pownce has for groups, where you can have a bunch of folks organized. For instance, I have 2 contacts there in a group called "hams", though come to think of it, it would appear that while I can send to that group, I can't monitor just messages from that group. Sounds like that's what you're looking for. Nice idea though, hope this works out.
- David Kozinn, K2DBK
My first original friendfeed post. On Twitter I track my username for replies and conference acronyms when attending. What words do you track on twitter?
UK ISP bows to record industry, to send P2P warning letters - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"As far as I can see it will be the responsibility of the BPI to identify file sharers. They will look for relevant IPs and pass them along to Virgin to trigger the letter. I would expect the motivation is to alert parents to what their kids are downloading. If I were paying for the connection I would want to know if a member of my family were using the connection illegally (and the risks involved). I wouldn't have thought Virgin Media were actively monitoring p2p traffic."
- Ben
Tracking words with Twitter - http://digg.com/softwar...
"The link in the blog is incorrect. Correct url: http://blog.twitter.com/2007... ... The tool itself looks like a useful way of seperating signal/noise."
- Ben
E3 is no more - http://digg.com/gaming_...
"Check out this arstechnica article - apparently sources close to the 'Entertainment Software Association' claim that the show will go on, but will be downsized .... http://arstechnica.com/news..."
- Ben
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