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listening to "Ian Brown ft. Sinead O - http://blip.fm/~dsorf
Ian Brown ft. Sinead O'Connor – Illegal Attacks has been repeating on iTunes since I woke up at 9AM, and all day since yesterday afternoon.
- Gaurav Patel
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listening to "Moderat - - http://blip.fm/profile...
Ditched Basement Jaxx for one of my favourites, Moderat. Listening to "Rusty Nails" #electronic
- Gaurav Patel
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My iPhone is being updated to 3.0. I hope it goes well. I'll have a Palm Pre and a Nokia at tonight's NYC Tweetup too.
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How big pocket do you have? :P
- Qbat
let us know how it goes...
- bailey
Larsen: big, big pockets! And two of them plus one one my shirt. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Why did you leave the conference?
- Eric
Palm Pre as a backup! Should be other way round! Heheh, hope all goes well at the Tweetup. I'll be in NYC next week Monday!
- Gaurav Patel
Eric: I just didn't make it out of bed today. Was very tired, the Building43 launch finally caught up with me. Plus I have a panel to do tonight and I have to be up early tomorrow to video StockTwits.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I hear folks are having issues with 3.0 update, AT&T servers overwhelmed, "activation" issues?! caveat emptor!
- Susan Beebe
Susan: I hit the activation issue too, but just tried it again and it worked fine. Just a few more seconds...
- Robert Scoble
Too bad there's no WebOS update today. I was hoping to see some of the niggles fixed to "combat" iPhone 3.0. *sigh* Have fun in NYC, Robert. If I had time to drive up from the Philadelphia area tonight, I would.
- Kevin C. Tofel
Oh, my, I'm already in love with iPhone 3.0. After 30 seconds I can tell you that having search on the phone freaking rocks. I have thousands of contacts and this is a life saver.
- Robert Scoble
When is FriendFeed having a conference?
- Eric
Robert will you be writing and posting a Palm Pre review? I know you've been interested in it since January, but have not heard much on it from you.
- jcunwired
I get "cannot connect to activation server" FAIL each time I try (at least 10x now).
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Yeah I just got that message too.
- anna sauce
taking robert's advice and re-installing
- anna sauce
3X and still get error.
- anna sauce
Palm Pre and iPhone are just pushing each other to update and bring more features to the table in a much faster timeframe. Great for us consumers.
- Ron Wening
Finally! "Preparing iPhone for Software Update"
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
It was instantly impressive how different it was in so many little ways. And for an OS that was already fantastic.
- thinkQuick
my update went fine even on my 4G iphone, disconnected iphone but a weird error message keeps popping up on my computer can't connect with this iphone error....
- Kim Landwehr
@Kim Landwehr: Sounds similar to error message I got (iPhone 3G). Find your .ipsw file and open it using iTunes. That fixed it for me. http://ff.im/46ruU
- Ashish Rangole
Robert - glad to hear that the update went thru successfully for ya! awesome. My new 32GB black iPhone 3G S is getting closer! It's no longer in China, it's now in Louisville, KY!! w00t...tick, tock! Can't wait for the UPS brown truck to arrive!
- Susan Beebe
updating iphone now. With mms, i'll have a 21st century phone at last
- Ken Power
"Activation server" issue can be fixed by breaking internet connection (pulling the ethenet cord or turning wifi off) while firmware expands after the download.
- Kirill Petrovsky
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you broke the internet again?
- Jay Cuthrell
I did no such thing!!
- Veronica
3 years on.. You'd think they fixed it.
- Srujan Ameda
Blargh, got that too. Dying with cut/paste anticipation...
- Zaz Harris
i was hoping maybe apple would step up their servers for this, apparently, not so much
- Andre Vautour
Worked for me (UK) but I'm hearing from multiple reports that this is an epic fail in the US
- Daniel Ionescu
I upgraded from Montana so I'm sure it's related to where you are trying to upgrade from at any given time. i.e. SF has gotta be slammin' iTunes Store hard right about now
- Jay Cuthrell
This is what you get when the entire world downloads simultaneously.
- Gaurav Patel
working now, we'll see if it goes all the way!
- Veronica
yea they just came back up, I doing it now also
- Fee501st
But now the iTunes store is down, i cant update any of my apps lol
- Fee501st
I can't update my apps either :(
- Daniel Ionescu
from IM
I just had the same thing. Restarted itunes and it worked.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
try clicking on Store in iTunes, and then go back to the updating.
- Veronica
Crossing my fingers. Or at least my earbuds
- Jamie Sundsbak
rebooted and try App updates, Fail :( anyone else get in?
- Fee501st
everything is working so far!
- Veronica
spoke too soon!
- Veronica
Download the update and let it attempt to install. When it fails to reach the activation server, start a manual update (click update in iTunes) At the point at which the software is being extracted, turn off / unplug your internet connection. The software installation will then proceed. Once you receive the “Cannot connect to the iTunes store” message, turn in / plug in your internet connection. After this, you may have to eject your iphone, unplug the usb cable from the phone, and then plug it back in.
- Rod Stewart
what happen Veronica?
- Fee501st
had an error when i was downloading the updates for apps, but now it seems to have gone through.
- Veronica
Kersal Massive - http://uk.youtube.com/watch...
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I'm laughing too hard to write anything proper, oh man
- Gaurav Patel
I'm seeing a TON of new people on both twitter and friendfeed. Welcome and let us know if we can help!
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Great.
- Roberto Bonini
http://www.kyte.tv/scoblei... has a video about friendfeed that I did that shows you around. You might find it helpful.
- Robert Scoble
Thanks for getting me more involved in both!
- mrkeroppi
You helped already with the video you posted up on Kyte.tv (http://tinyurl.com/7spgrp) - I was a member before and I had tied in all my RSS and various social network feeds, but I didn't really use Friendfeed. Just felt like a knock-off to Google Reader if I'm honest. Now, I know it's a tool not to mess around with. Extremely powerful, easily one of the best ways to get news for myself outside of Google Reader and I will be certain to explore it further once my exams are done.
- Gaurav Patel
Thanks - I would have probably waited on joining FF if not for your video. The idea of cross-SM concatenation is brilliant, even if it's not quite there yet - FF is my SM portal of choice right now.
- Jim Mitchem
Hello :) that's a good video, I actually started coming here more often after seeing it
- Sebastian
you can help by paying attention to the massacre in gaza - people on twitter are, but there is hardly any discussion here - why is that?
- ernie yacub
was just watching it; gave me some new ideas on how to use FF
- Donald Townsend
ernie: I don't comment on it for several reasons. For one it's such a hot botton issue that I know that engaging on that issue will cost me 80 hours and I just don't have the 80 hours to give. Plus, no matter what side I'm on, there will be people on the other side and I still have bruises from the Obama election that are still healing. Finally, it's not something I can do much about. I'd rather focus my energy on things that I can control and have some influence in.
- Robert Scoble
Twitter is a great place to give your opinion without too much risk that you'll get dragged into a long conversation. Friendfeed is a much better place to have a long conversation, which changes the dynamic of what you will find useful to discuss here.
- Robert Scoble
ditto for me as well Robert. first introduced to FF by ed dale, but finally took the leap after your encouragement. am grateful most days!
- Gregg
One more thing: friendfeed is an aggregator, so if you care about Gaza and Israel, I would open a room here on that topic, and start posting tons of stuff to it. If you are blogging about it, I'd make sure your blogs are being aggregated here. Those topics will find people who will engage. It's just that I'm resisting because this is CES week and I don't have the time.
- Robert Scoble
If any of you new starters are interested in video games, http://friendfeed.com/rooms... could do with the extra life :)
- alphaxion
If I accidentally hide something, how do I unhide?
- Rutger Blom
Rutger: if you realize your mistake in time you can just "undo" right there. But, hidden items are at the bottom of the page in a link. Just visit there and click hide again and it will unhide.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Thanks!
- Rutger Blom
@Robert I'm liking your comments here... A room for each side probably will do more...
- Pico Seno
I refer you to my FF post from this morning http://friendfeed.com/e... Like literally I'm picking up 2 followers an hour, and I have no clue why. I just know I haven't suddenly became interesting, important, or influential. I'm the same screw off I've always been.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew: I'm gaining more than 100 per day here (more than 1,100 since Arrington's intervention with me) and more than 200 a day over on Twitter. These things are gaining steam.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, that's interesting. More new followers in twitter than FF. Have you noticed any changes in that trend?
- Tapio Kulmala
Well yeah, but you say things people care about. People lining up to follow me? In the world view? Come on....
- Matthew DeVries
AND I haven't changed at all since friday.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew: people have this believe that the one who dies with the most followers wins. It's just a game at this point to collect more followers.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, do you sleep? Seriously :)
- Bwana ☠
not much last night.
- Robert Scoble
I'm here because I saw your zillion posts on it. I like it!
- Dave Gambrill
Robert: Really? Disappointing really - I'd rather have less than 10 interesting and informative people following me than 5,000 drooling idiots. I see enough of the later crowd on a daily and face-to-face basis to cover the "moron" category of my life.
- Renee Hendricks
poor Robert :) Get some Zzzzzzzzzzzs!
- Susan Beebe
Bullo: that's what I figure it is. But Twitter is growing remarkably quickly now. People are figuring it out and with Mr. Tweet and other directories, you are probably on one of those as an influencer to check out.
- Robert Scoble
Well, I may be playing wrong, but after the first 5 or so I stopped playing the "Courtesy Followback" game and started actually looking at their content and blogs and interests and made an informed decision on following back. Damn near almost followed some kind crazy PETA scientist bomber
- Matthew DeVries
Great initiative, thank you Robert! What I'd like to know is how many people forward their tweets to their friendfeed account.
- Zack Brandit
Zack: I'm following about 6,000 here and a good percentage do. I hope people use friendfeed to aggregate their lives together here totally. We can hide things on the reading side if it gets to be too much.
- Robert Scoble
Question - if you're subscribed to someone on FF, is it relevant to also 'follow' them on Twitter? Seems a bit redundant. No?
- Jim Mitchem
Matthew: I quickly stopped the "courtesy followback" - and I do the same, check their profile, look at their website, etc. If people are offended, so be it. I really don't want to spend time reading about how your last bowel movement was or how cute your cat is.
- Renee Hendricks
Susanne: That could become a horrible Mash-Up tweet as well.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew: Oh the horror!
- Renee Hendricks
robert, u don't have to comment, you can like/rt, which you do a lot with other posts as do many of your colleagues, but curiously not about gaza which is immediate and critically important, especially for the people in gaza - they need to know that not everyone in the western world believes the msm propaganda.
- ernie yacub
ernie: as opposed to their propoganda, right? Got it. This is why I stay out of this fight. Who threw the first missles? It wasn't Israel.
- Robert Scoble
Here is a PROs and CONs to using FriendFeed conversation: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- B2B Specialist
Careful Robert. This is a battle you don't want, I don't think. (even though i agree)
- Jim Mitchem
robert, you are wrong, which is why you need to engage in the conversation, or at least read some history - gaza is a prison camp with 1.5 million people cut off from the world, food, fuel, work, money, etc by israel - most are refugees who were driven from their homes by israelis.
- ernie yacub
gaza =/= hamas, who Israel is fighting. Don't want to get bombed, don't stand next to a guy wearing a hamas sticker.
- Matthew DeVries
Seems we're quickly straying WAY away from the original topic - take it elsewhere ernie, sheesh
- Renee Hendricks
What she said.
- Matthew DeVries
well, he asked how to help us noobs - this one wants to pay attention to what's really needed from people like you who have the resources, tools, knowledge and experience to help prevent such atrocities - you were all excited about mumbai, why not gaza?
- ernie yacub
Robert: I recently joined both friendfeed and twitter and with the help of my blackberry I'm becoming horribly addicted. I will admit that you were the first person I followed and I'm glad because I agree with your opinion that it's not about followers, but quality conversation. That said, I'm curious about how rooms work. You have any pointers?
- Chris Brakebill
Robert: In case of an emergency would you call 911 or tweet? ;-)
- Rutger Blom
Going through your video now...very helpful!
- Alison
its getting strange when my mom's 65-year old best friend starts following me on twitter. How many a social media accounts lie dead after 1-2 posts?
- karyn
Parents, grandparents and friends of parents may actually become a problem for many young users of Twitter, as karyn indicates. Might see an increase in private update accounts.
- Ian Holton
from twhirl
I posted a Diary on DailyKos mentioning Twitter and FriendFeed and got comments like "what isTwitter" I gave them Sarah_Palins twitter username and tauted this new means of information exchange. Will be doing a follow up posting later. today.http://www.dailykos.com/story...
- bcultral
Thank you for subscribing to me, I never thought you would!
- Web20Critic
Robert, is TON the measure of user body mass or the weight of their tweets/FF posts? Which leads to the next logical question: how much does a 140 character tweet weigh? The Guardian said 2 years ago that the entire internet weighs at most two ounces (60 grams)! http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
- Micah Wittman
best think about friendfeed, still up now without the fourty minute delay that twitter is suffering from.
- Richard A.
Giggling at co-worker who has been wondering for hours why his phone isn't charging whilst plugged in... someone had removed the battery..
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They didn't even catch on to the weight difference? Some people eh... Also, stop bullying people popey :(
- Gaurav Patel
When people block you because you have different opinions than them, what does it make them?
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Funny.
- Mona Nomura
It makes them people who block you because they don't like your opinion. LOL.
- Trish R
Irrelevant?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Non confrontational ? Maybe hipocritical? Or just silly. Who knows? I don't even know how to tell if I am blocked.
- Trish Haley
Invisible
- Amber, Random Time Lord
blocked
- Chris Loft
I block people who are idiots/jerkwads, not because they have differing opinions. Life's too short to deal with dillholes.
- Alex Scoble
"dillhole" is now my new favorite word.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
People with differen't opinions?
- Gaurav Patel
I was wondering the same thing, Trish H. How do you know if someone blocks you? Also, how would you know the reasons why?
- Trish R
The blocker.
- Rochelle
Block around the clock
- Morton Fox
Trish R: You know someone blocked you when you go to their feed and it says "XXX has not yet accepted your subscription request" when they don't require approval or you were able to view it before.
- Amit Morson
Question: do you use Google Alerts? If so, how do you use them?
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Yes I do religiously. I use them to track mentions of my blog, my name, and other various keywords.
- Mike Fruchter
How many? Like order of magnitude...
- mikepk
Two alerts. Vanity only.
- Stephen Pierzchala
Do you scan them and only click on a couple? Do you go through all of them? Lookin' to pick some people's brains. :)
- mikepk
Subscribed to several through RSS, inc. ones for my name, the hush project, and my favourite brands / technologies if they are really important.
- Matt Harwood
I would use it to track my name but most mentions would be for my Austrailian mass murderer namesake! I have one set up for the place I work at which occasionally proves useful.
- Martin Bryant
I have about 10 alerts currently setup. I filter them directly to my Google Reader and Gmail. I click all the alerts, sometimes they are false hits. This has been the case lately with a majority of them.
- Mike Fruchter
Google Alerts are absolutely essential. I have 18 alerts at the moment ranging from my full name, my username, specific products, and things that I have worked on.
- Bjorn Stromberg
I have a couple of vanity searches via alerts, but it's a crap shoot. Do you have any idea how many times people post 'stupid blogger' and mean the actual service?!? =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I use it to track PS3 public beta sign ups. In November got into 4 betas...
- José Tavares
@tina lol :)
- mikepk
We're working on a piggyback service for Google Alerts, mainly focused on PR firms and people with *big* volume. But I was curious if there might be other, more general user, applications. Is there anything you wish you could do with them? Filtering? What if you could get a sense of the quality of the hits?
- mikepk
Ooh ooh, do you guys do "as it happens" alerts or prefer more rolled up alerts (daily).
- mikepk
Yes, I use Google Alerts to see if anyone is talking about me or using one of my photos without permission.
- Morton Fox
I prefer mine 'as it happens' AKA via RSS
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I guess it makes sense on FriendFeed that most(?) would use RSS for the alerts. The people we've been working with almost exclusively use email. Ironically all of our tech is based on feeds :)
- mikepk
All of mine are as it happens, I'm way too impatient to wait for a daily update.
- Bjorn Stromberg
tina, there's an "as it happens" setting in the email form too.
- mikepk
It kinda sucks - there's a lot of garbage and I tend to get the same entries every few weeks
- andy brudtkuhl
I've noticed the blog alerts have gotten particularly bad. Oh 'nother question, do you guys do "comprehensive" or more focused alerts?
- mikepk
I have to say, this is awesome. I really appreciate all the answers, thanks.
- mikepk
I'm also a little punchy since I didn't sleep last night.
- mikepk
Sure do. I track some items for work... as well as my own "personal brand."
- Herb Hernandez
It sounds like people are pretty happy with the base offering, which is good to know. Maybe I can quiet that cylinder in my mind now. :)
- mikepk
I wish Google Alerts had an API. I'd love to be able to programmatically define my alerts - as compared to manual entry.
- Mike Reynolds
That would be cool. Definitely don't want to ask people for their google account credentials to do that as a third party. I'm sure it would violate all sorts of TOS on the goog side too. :)
- mikepk
vanity search in GNews, and a couple of key terms for research
- Duncan Riley
i use keywords for my blogs, my name, my company, our competitors names, industry information, all sorts of stuff. very useful tool.
- Morgan
I follow a handful of things - political candidates I like, the United Football League, etc.
- Nation Hahn
I use them for press tracking, as well as reputation tracking... http://bldwtech.com/2008... and http://bldwtech.com/2008...
- Ian D. Nock
from twhirl
They're a good substitute for when another site doesn't have alerts. I've been using them, among other things, to tell me when Audible is selling books I want to listen to. For example, I used an alert on [site:audible.com netherland] to find the book I'm currently reading.
- Paul Haahr
Paul, that's a good use I hadn't considered. Clever.
- mikepk
I use them to keep track of who is saying what about a website I am involved with.
- Gaurav Patel
Is there any part of the service that annoys you? What do you wish (beyond an API) it offered? We've got a lot of ideas (too many as usual) so I'm curious if we're over-thinking. How about, for example, an SMS gateway for items with particular filter patterns, of a specific quality level, or from particular sources?
- mikepk
If you follow someone on FF - is it necessary to also 'follow' them on Twitter since you're getting their twitter (and more) feeds on FF?
Good question. I do generally follow them on both, but I draw the line somewhere, I can't be following them on every single one of these services people sign up to.
- Gaurav Patel
My son just got phished on Twitter. He got it through email. Didn't know about the scam.
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I wonder what the phishers will do with an account they took control over. Would they send out commercial messages, or more phishing...?
- Dennis Goedegebuure
More then likely, quickly change the password and e-mail so that the person is locked out of their account.
- Matthew Arevalo
That is one reason why I turn off all email and SMS on all systems.
- Robert Scoble
We realized it because Maryam got the message from him.
- Robert Scoble
This is one of the reasons why I wont be clicking on any more shortened URLs through Twitter or any other service for a while.
- Gaurav Patel
What can be done to put a stop to this, if anything?
- Brandon Mendelson
maybe this could push for the short urls services to start showing the 'real' url they point to, as http://www.longurlplease.com/ do
- Carl Grint
DM the person it came from and tell them to change their password... It will block access to the account by the Phisher...
- Brian Roy
@Brandon nothing needs "to be done" - this is 100% attributable to user error. the phish attack happens from followers that people don't really know, and only when the user clicks on a link sent via email, and only when the user doesn't look at the link they are about to click on...
- Jeremy Toeman
There was a warning posted when you logged into twitter just the other day warning about this exact thing. As much as sites like friend feed are great for the amalgamation of your social network streams you do loose valuable data like this when you don't log into the actual site.
- Christopher Mercer
@Gaurav Why would short URLs be a problem? Just look at what the actual address is when you click through...
- Matthew Arevalo
What needs to be done, is for the FBI, and their counterparts, to make a few examples with vicious prosecution. The sum total of loss because some scum bag(s) can't function within societal norms, is immeasurable. It's time.
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
@Jeremy I haven't found this to be true with the DM Phishes I have received (re: people you don't know). I agree with @Ed's statement that we can do something about this by prosecuting (if they are American, a big if) those responsible. It would be nice to see a service using the Twitter API to keep track of this. There sure was a fast enough reply to the idiotic authority-based Twitter search idea ...
- Brandon Mendelson
I also got a DM from @pscoble with the link. I'm glad that FF has tinyURL mouseovers that reveal the actual link. I'm not clicking on any TinyURL links on Twitter for a while.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Agreed. Shortened URLs can be scary -- really have to trust the sender when the snipping service doesn't offer a preview feature such as http://preview.tinyurl.com ... there is a cookie setting available as well which will autopreview any TinyURL you try to goto. Incidentally TinyURL's Terms of Use states:"Using it for spamming or illegal purposes is forbidden and any such use will result in the TinyURL being disabled and you may be reported to all ISPs involved and to the proper governmental agencies."
- RandaL Hicks
Now I think more people will understand why tinyurl was selected to be the default url shortener for twitter. Go to preview.tinyurl.com and turn it on.
- April Russo (app103)
Cool! I did not know about the TinyURL preview feature. Just enabled it. Thanks for the tip RandaL.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Yeah, I just got a DM from Patrick Scoble at 1:37pm EST today... I ignored that... bummer
- Susan Beebe
Here's what happened to me: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- David Cook
i just got phished too, but firefox blocked it, so i believe i am safe for now... hard to tell though because it was from a twitter friend
- Kevin Buckstiegel
from twhirl
The US is the biggest for spam, not phishers. Phishers would be easily prosecutable even under existing laws. The Russians are believe to be responsible for 50% of phishing.
- John Rubier
from twhirl
@Matthew: I hear you, however if I see a link, I want to click on it - I don't want to check if it's safe, that takes too much time. Imagine doing that for every shortened URL you wanted to click on. Just look at first 10 Twitter posts by your friends, then imagine checking them all.
- Gaurav Patel
What I would love to see happen is what RandaL Hicks mentioned, some kind of URL/site preview before being redirected by the shortened URL provider to the actual site. http://www.nsfw.in/ does this well and by default, TinyURL and others do not (afaik) by default, but you can provide a preview URL which is longer though and defeats the purpose.
- Gaurav Patel
Looks like the tainted blog has been removed by the BlogSpot administrators, or at least one of them has (http://rosalierebyb.blogspot.com/). I happened to have got one of the DMs from orionstarr, and promptly deleted it, after informing him.
- Tyson Key
I just sent a direct message to a friend letting him know that his account had been hacked and was sending out phishing links. The hacker responded to me "fixed it.. hehe here is that blog i wanted to show you: (another phishing link)"
- LA Snark
@Jack at LA Snark - I got one of those "fixed it" DMs too, after Twittering with an @reply to the person who's account the 1st DM originated from.
- Tyson Key
If you are a WOT user, you might want to put in your $0.02 here: http://www.mywot.com/en...
- April Russo (app103)
TweetGrid ugly yet effective. http://www.tweetgrid.com/grid... somebody write a userstyle for this mofo & slap it up in a Fluid Embedded SSB...
That's a pretty hot idea. Shame it looks like shit.
- Gaurav Patel
I'm interviewing @leolaporte later today and will be on http://live.twit.tv too, starting at about 3 p.m. Pacific Time.
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Does that mean you will be in Petaluma?
- Dustin Curtis
Dustin: yes!
- Robert Scoble
Awesome! Can I stop by and watch you record?
- Dustin Curtis
kewl... Photowalking Petaluma w/ @LeoLaporte and the @Scobleizer?
- Prolific Programmer
dustin: you'll have to get permission for that from @leolaporte. I can't invite more people to his studio, sorry. @Prolific, nope, I don't think we'll get outside for a photowalk. I might steal his 5D MKII though.
- Robert Scoble
Ah, okay. How about dinner after at Tres Hombres (down the street)?
- Dustin Curtis
dustin: hmmm, call me after the show is over. +1-425-205-1921 -- I'm with my producer and my son, gotta drop my son off after the show and we'll need to get back on the road to get home, but will need food in there. Just don't know the schedule and our moods well enough to plan things out right now.
- Robert Scoble
Two tech giants meeting for an interview. This may be worse than the LHC being turned on. Have a great time Robert, I'll be watching live from London, UK.
- Gaurav Patel
I shall be watching whilst eating a takeaway indian meal from a new place called Raj!
- David Lloyd
Darn time difference! I'm going to miss it ... I'll bake a cake in stead
- Sneaker Peet
I'll have to catch the podcast, since I'll be watching the Eagles game instead...
- Peter Ghosh
I personally cannot wait for this interview and I hope Scoble does TWiT afterwards
- David Lloyd
@gauravity thanks.
Guess he's busy, hope that article helps; it's how he learnt.
- Gaurav Patel
anybody know anything about css sprites - i'm moments away from an eureka moment but just cannot get there - help!
I'm sending one of my boys to you right now (@omgmog).
- Gaurav Patel
Ms. Dynamite – Dy-Na-Mi-Tee - http://www.last.fm/music...
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Brings me back to secondary school, good times!
- Gaurav Patel
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This (I was about to type game for a second there, damn habit) app is simple and awesome, to top it off, it looks great. It doesn't however get me off my arse to check my weight everyday though so I have days missing, particularly in the Christmas and NYE week!
- Gaurav Patel
It's a new year. Have you backed up all your stuff yet? I have and it feels good!
Eric P, Frank Koehntopp, Rob Brammeld and 19 other people liked this
Not yet. Thanks for the reminder.
- Nurse Katie
Gotta love Mozy
- Aaron Eaton
Did it a few days ago when it sounded like my hard drive was going bad. And yes, it does feel good. :)
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
nearly
- Niki Costantini
I have as well Robert. I use Mozy for backing up to the "cloud".
- Toby Brown
Yep, just setup my 1TB WD Elements external HDD with Time Machine yesterday night! (sorry Seagate! It was a present!)
- Gaurav Patel
Every hour.
- LogEx
Did it before the new year. Am I not supposed to do that? Zune thing prompted me :-)
- Dominic Jones
Doesn't your Mac do that automatically?
- Robert D. Fraser
All of our machines back up to Jungle Disk important folders every six hours and once a week I do a Time Machine back up on my MacBook Pro to an external 100gb laptop drive in a USB enclosure. I have never had a backup solution until maybe six months ago and I didn't realize how much relief it brings just knowing it's happening.
- Akiva Moskovitz
done on the first, everything now sits up on S3 :-)
- Patphelan
I backed my laptop up last a few days ago. The servers all back themselves up to each other nightly.
- matthew john ernisse
Robert: not really. To properly back up you need three copies. One on your local drive in case something gets corrupted. One on an external hard drive or other media in case your hard drive dies. One on an external hard drive or other media or storage service that you store someplace else in case your house or office burns down.
- Robert Scoble
Ah, the holy trinity of back up!
- James D Kirk
You know it's funny you should mention this today, I was just thinking about how I need to run one of my periodic offsite backups. Here's what I do for backup: 1. My work machine is also my macbook pro, back up with time machine to a drive here at the office. Macbook lives with me. 2. All important documents I have back up to Jungledisk/S3 nightly, awesome service dirt cheap. 3. Store all of my personal docs and media on an ever expanding drobo.
- Lon Seidman
But that means I have to use Time Machine and it's soooo slow.
- Kelly W.
I back up key data nightly to my server. What I do need to work on is remembering to take a copy of the data into the office so I have an off-site backup -- right now everything is under one roof.
- Dan Overes
I haven't done any backing up in the past. I have a 500GB external sitting idle, what's the best Windows backup software to use?
- Ian Mikutel
Who needs to back stuff up? We all live in the cloud now!
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew: you definitely don't do HD video or have a Canon 5D if you say that. :-)
- Robert Scoble
4. Offload my 100+ gigs of personal/professional photos, 70+gigs of iTunes, 80+ gigs of backed up AVCHD SD cards (raw footage) from my HD camera, and the 400+ gigs of completed uncompressed edited stuff to an external hard disk that I keep here at work for an off-site solution. Not easy given how my library keeps growing!
- Lon Seidman
The best windows software to use is Copy/Paste
- barl0w
For Robert's first criterion for a proper back-up, I highly recommend everyone download and install something like Subversion. It's great for local back-ups of documents and files. It protects not only from corruption but allows you to go back in time to previous document versions.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I do a weekly backup on Linux. WAY faster than any program on Windows. My external USB drive is my primary and it gets backed up to my super slow internal drive (as opposed to my super fast internal one).
- Helen Sventitsky
Yes Sir, always good to to do so at the Top of the year.
- Tate DA FF MVP
I use Symantec Ghost (somewhat flaky) for a full image every two weeks. Carbonite to the cloud constantly. May go Drobo in the New Year.
- Mike Neumann
I'm sure it's cause I don't do multimedia, but I've never ever backed up. Ever. Instead, any new computer I get, I wipe the HD, re-partition so only OS files are on C, and 1, 2 or more partitions are for installing apps, and data storage.
- James D Kirk
YES!! In fact, for Christmas I got another 500GB Lacie NAS file server, iTunes server, backup (SmartSync Pro backup software). I am seriously considering Amazon for in the cloud backup. Feedback anyone??
- Susan Beebe
just bought a 2nd Drobo, going to be testing in house replication, then going to do remote geographic replication in the next month or so.
- clarke thomas
Done on the Time Capsule that my brother brought for me from US. Now contemplating on a Jungle Disk for that off-site copy.
- Chintan Zaveri
My best purchase of 2008 was my 500gb time capsule. My HD just recently crashed on my mac, and within 3 hours it was all restored after i replaced the HD in there with a 250gb seagate. The time capsule costs about 300, but you cannot put a price on the peace of mind it gives.
- jason l baptiste
I back up my 1.5TB hard drive array to an internal 1.5TB Time Machine array. This allows me to take my PowerMac G5 wherever and have my backups with me. In the future I will also have a 2TB external hard drive that will be a clone of the G5 using Carbon Copy Cloner. This workflow gives me incremental backups of both Time Machine and a bootable clone. I could also move the external hard drive offsite and do backups over the net once a day, week, etc.
- Brent Cameron
I literally just finished backing up my drive and it failed. What is frustrating is that this is the second Seagate drive (2nd was to replace original) to fail in less than a year.
- Jauder Ho
I use an external drive to backup my computer which I run manually at least weekly. Fortunately a lot of my stuff is online through Google, Flickr, etc. The only thing really needing to be backed-up is financial information and code.
- Justin Yost
New years resolution: use shoeboxed.com
- Sarah Perez
I have Windows Home Server backups going back to November 2007 :)
- Roberto Bonini
Excellent idea. Any recommendations for a freeware portable windows solution?
- Frank Koehntopp
Always, but never to my complete satisfaction. Synchronized off site backups are still largely out of reach for me, given the amount of data I have - you just can't back up a terabyte of data to the cloud, given the sorry state of broadband. I have (at least) three copies of everything locally though.
- Eric P
Remember what happened to JournalSpace: http://www.brentozar.com/archive...
- Justin Yost
the JournalSpace fiasco is also a good example of why relying on 3rd party companies to protect your data is a bad idea. Just because you have copies of your images on flickr isn't enough, etc... If $company goes bankrupt and sells assets, the harddrives with your data on them might easily be sold to a asset management company who doesn't care to pay to keep them powered on...
- matthew john ernisse
I use Mac, so Time Machine is all I need. I had to use it recently too, which really proved its worth. Fantastic backup (and restore) solution. Go Apple for making things so simple!
- Mark Stanley
iPhone 3G will not restore - "The iPhone cannot be used with iTunes because the information required for activation could not be obtained from the iPhone. Check that the SIM card is inserted in your iPhone and that it is not PIN-locked." I did, and I even went to AT&T to replace the SIM. Fucked!!!
Toastpaint, Roney Smith, Susan Beebe and 3 other people liked this
You, sir, have so far had the worst luck I've yet seen with the 3G iPhone. CONGRADULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Chris, I would check into the Apple store for some help. AT&T doesn't know what they are doing when it comes to the iPhone.
- Justin Korn
So, iPhone 3G get's a "Status: FAIL"?
- Outsanity
iphone 1.0 here still. glad i didn't upgrade :)
- Chris Harris
Apple needs to just put up its own towers and have the iPhone on its own network. Its like putting 3rd party ram in a Mac, its nothing but problems :P
- Scott
That SUCKS. So far, my 3G has been working fine. :D
- joey@jwvmods.com
Unlucky man, as Justin pointed out, it may be worth going into an Apple store and see what they say.
- Gaurav Patel
Have you tried DFU mode? I had this happen to me and it was guessed to be a bad sector on the flash drive. Apple will replace it... they did for me.
- Douglas Porter
from twhirl
I've had nothing but problems with the iPhone 3G. Fail!
- Matt Singley
here's to HTC Dream + Android!!!!
- andy brudtkuhl
I was considering getting a new iPhone but after this and all the other fiascos...maybe I'll hold out for the new touchscreen BlackBerry.
- RottNKorpse
You've just been the worst case iphone scenario Chris from the beginning.. hope it gets straightened out!
- Eric Gonzalez
Did you do anything *other* than install and remove 3rd party apps on the thing the entire time you've owned it? From what I've witnessed you downloaded and installed every app in the store. Your usage certainly isn't typical. And you really shouldn't be dealing with the AT&T store for an Apple hardware product. For one, the service at Apple is 1000 times better.
- Adam Turetzky
Daamn... Hearing this just makes me NOT want to buy the iPhone any more. It's like the cursed phone. I think you have an isolated problem Chris, because I haven't head of this anywhere else.
- Oliver
You may want to try Leo's fix. Format, start from scratch and then only install Apps from iTunes. Just a suggestion. It worked for most of my friends at school when I told them.
- Zane
One of the things I would do is delete every app you have on the phone (other than what it came with of course) and start over again from scratch. Go little at a time reintroducing the apps to your phone, until you get to the ones that may be causing trouble. As someone else pointed out, you've been downloading and trying out alot of apps. Many of them have proved buggy. Maybe just start over again and don't put apps back for awhile.
- Lisa Lee
Ow.
- Toastpaint
force restore, done by holding home button while connecting the USB end of chord to computer. Before doing this make sure your phone is completely off ( press and hold sleep/wake button until you see "slide to power off") You should be prompted "iTunes has detected nameofiPhone in recovery mode and needs to restore" click ok then restore
- Norma
Amazing that there still is a line for iPhones at the Burlingame Apple store. I don't remember people waiting in lines like this for phones.
Spencer, Andrew Hyde, Jeff P. Henderson and 12 other people liked this
It's kind of odd that people want to wait for long time to get some kind of electric thing from some shop. ;)
- Daniel Schildt
I actually bought mine yesterday. I would rather wait in an hour-long line to buy a phone at Apple than at ATT. The activation process was streamlined and the staff were knowledgeable and pleasant.
- Peter Ghosh
I was amazed yesterday at the Lincoln Road store on Miami Beach. Store opened at 8 am. I arrived at 9 am to find no line and that the genius bar opened at 10 am. When I returned at 10 am, long line. Lazy people can't get there early?
- Sergio Cruz
reports are that the people on line now are being paid by apple :-P
- Allen Stern
I should go around my local area in SW London to see what the situation here is. I doubt it's as bad as the states.
- Gaurav Patel
Apple gave us the VIP treatment while on line. To AT&T it's just another phone to sell.
- Ernie Oporto
Allen - Used to know a real estate that did that with cars in his parking lot :)
- Charlie Anzman
just came back from apple store to get an iphone. 30 people in line at 7a in Boca Raton, FL. still handing out cards to get them. had tried to get one last night, but were all sold out.
- Fred Neil
VIP indeed - they served us cold lemonade and handed out free bottles of water.
- Kevin Gamble
There was a line outside the Regent Street Apple store at 8.30 am yesterday morning. Staff inside said every morning they expect things to get back to normal, and every morning there are still more people quieing up outside!
- Jon Mulholland
I feel the same way as Peter Ghosh. We went to the Apple store last night and were lucky to be the last people to get into the line (which while surprising that there was one, was still relatively short). We waited to talk with a "specialist", and once we did, the whole procedure was fast and went off without a hitch. I didn't have the same confidence that I'd get a good experience at the AT&T store.
- Cheryl Jones
I assume this is due to the need for activation, right? Given that wasn't the case the last time around, everybody needs to go to retail, which makes the lines.
- Louis Gray
Louis: that an I'm convinced they are selling 10x what they sold for first model. Tap Tap Revolution already has been downloaded a million times. Freaking amazing.
- Robert Scoble
Maybe they're there to exchange them. Trading speed for short-lived batteries isn't such a great deal, methinks.
- shelisrael1
I guess I better prepare to wait later next week when I go to try and get one.
- Dean Clark
shelisrael: they are sold out of external batteries. Mine lasts long enough, if I don't use it for FriendFeeding. :-) But that's why I carry three phones. One of them is bound to have a charged battery. :-)
- Robert Scoble
There was a line on Long Island today too.
- Steve Rubel
Wouldn't it be easier to order them online and wait 5 to 7 days? Especially now that the initial "got to have the first 3G iPhone" mania is past.
- Bob Stemen
There are still usually lines in the Apple Store in London, too.
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
people wait in line for jamba juice, starbucks and outback every day
- Omar Shahine
Huge line at Apple store in the Falls here in Miami. I have no desire/need for the upgrade. My initial geek instinct was to run out and buy it, but my practical nature asked myself "what do I get". A larger monthly bill, a little bit faster access when not in WIFI(about .5% of the time), and nada. I'll stick with my scratched up Edge version unti Apple gives me a reason to upgrade.
- Brad Nickel
The best computer bag I’ve owned: STM Journey - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
Will DeLuca, liangcw, Mark McGimpsey and 27 other people liked this
This is an awesome computer bag that I'd recommend to anyone, especially people with bad backs.
- Robert Scoble
What bags do you love? By the way this post is one of the only ones that took a year to write.
- Robert Scoble
I've got a cheap DaKine messenger bag for everyday use and a Lowepro Compurover AW for the camera gear + laptop.
- Andrew Smith
Compudaypack = laptop (17" MBP) plus full SLR camera rig - http://products.lowepro.com/product...
- Jason Carreira
I carry a timbuk2 large messenger. I'm fearful of a wheelie in China, as others have had items take from their bag, while wheeling through the streets. I opted to cut my weight/laptop size, rather then upgrade to a wheelie.
- clarke thomas
First had an old XPS 2 from Dell, http://www.flickr.com/photos..., now i have a Samsonite Outlab X+III Laptoprucksack - great!! http://thegearjunkie.com/images...
- Ronald
I have gone through so many of these it's embarrassing. These days, I use a very slim sling case from MacCase.
- Steve Rubel
Your blogpost about your breakfast walk with Zuckerberg at Davos is one of my favs. More students are using rolling bags to carry books here at university.
- Phillip Jeffrey
I would have this bag in denim jeans :-)
- nuncomment
I'm attached to a Tom Bihn "Brain Cell" - a minimalist size/design case, with it you can toss it into a larger bag (they of course sell other bags in which it hooks securely in place) - great quality and made in Seattle http://tombihn.com/page...
- Micah Wittman
from twhirl
I'd like to check it out. My laptop backpack is hard on my back, even though it's better than a shoulder strap bag. BTW, nice seeing you last night, Robert.:-)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
brown paper bag
- Damien Franco
The best bag I've ever owned was made by Brenthaven (sold at the Apple Store). I've had mine for 5 years and it looks brand new. $150 http://www.brenthaven.com/catalog...
- Brandon
theres some bag coming out that gets u past security without having to take ur laptop out, google it i'm too lazy to find the link right now.
- adolfo foronda
It also means you're a prime suspect for theft. I'm surprised no one has tried to steal it off you, especially if they see all the goods you have crammed into it.
- Gaurav Patel
Gaurav: my bag is so heavy no one would get far after stealing it.
- Robert Scoble
Tumi, it's taken a beating and been round the globe multiple times still holds up.
- Dave Martin
thanks, this help. ironically, i've been in the market for a bag. thinking about a backpack for the new macbook pro 17.
- Ryan
I'm using a Targus backpack. However, I tend not to bring the notebook computer out much unless I'm traveling. The phone can handle most of the web access.
- Morton Fox
I like the function and style of a Golla bag.
- Carolyn Chan
I've been lugging around my Tom Bihn Buzz Bag for a year now. Its getting a bit heavy, but for short distances I have a Waterfield Sleave for my X61T. Works great.
- Uncle CW™
I'm a BIG fan of my Spire backpack. 9 years and not a stitch out. They are based out of Colorado and the website is http://bit.ly/2UCGwN. I've been trying to get them to make a combo camera/computer bag. Let them know if you are interested in such a bag.
- Jauder Ho
Recently bought a Kata DR-467, could do with a few more pockets but it does most of what I want (including forcing me to carry less stuff!)
- Andy Davies
I like it. I'd like it better if it had a convertible backpack option, like this one: http://bit.ly/1jIr9i . Of course, the STM is much more stylish.
- John Federico
Still using a Swiss Army briefcase I got as MVP Swag (with a TUMI insert)
- Brian Sullivan
I got one from Microsoft, for beta testing Windows Live Messenger. Still use it for my 15" notebook :)
- Imran Hussain
from feedalizr
Adam Kinney still has your old backpack I think! But he's moving on... http://adamkinney.com/blog...
- IanBlackburnold
Brenthaven--nothing better
- Ryan Petty
Timbuk2 Commute XL
- Jeff
If you visit my blog from an iPhone, it should format correctly. Would love someone to do so ands send me a screenshot. Pretty please :)
I sent this to you via Twitter DM but it obviously didn't go through. Here are some shots taken from my iPod Touch, which has the same browser as the iPhone: http://tinyurl.com/6xgkwg http://tinyurl.com/6ory5r http://tinyurl.com/5w5hcj http://tinyurl.com/5eycbf http://tinyurl.com/64n7lt -- If you need anymore, please ask.
- Gaurav Patel
Thanks, Gaurav, appreciate it very much. Looks good on an iPod Touch!
- Neville Hobson
I needed to FTP a huge file from my home network to my server. Thought I'd use the Mac, but it turns out its native FTP client is read-only. No problem, with the Asus EEE PC on the LAN, I just used Windows XP which doesn't have such a lame FTP client.
LPH™ and his dog P™, MiniMage TKDteacher of FF, Kevin Sablan and 5 other people liked this
That's likely to get me some lame BS flame mail from Mac zealots. But they will be wrong. Windows is much more macho, in this one dimension.
- Dave Winer
You pick the best tool for he job at hand
- Herb Myers
Just use FireFTP - FTP client for Firefox....
- Shawn L. Morrissey
Terminal window lets you use the powerful unix FTP. Transmit is my usual mac client of choice.
- iSteeve
BTW, the Asus didn't become usable until I got the new driver for the touch pad. Now it's sweet. I don't mind the keyboard, I've been trained to use marginal keyboards on cell phones. This one seems practically luxurious in comparison. I'm going to be doing a lot of traveling in the next couple of months, so it's going to be nice to have a *much* smaller computer to lug with me. Still have to find a nice easy paint program for the machine.
- Dave Winer
why not use Cyberduck, Fetch, or Transmit - all great FTP clients
- Mike Hussein Cohen
*All* FTP clients are lame. Use scp.
- Keith Rollin
Im with Transmit, rather simple and easy, free too.
- Colby Olson
FIlezilla
- James Tenniswood
scp is lame, use rsync -e ssh!
- Sam Pullara
captain ftp has been my macFavorite
- Kevin Sablan
from twhirl
Are you sure about the read-only thing? Wasn't it a permission thing? I thought I uploaded files with it as well. That said, I use Transmit all the time. The .mac (eh, mobile me) synchronisation of favourites is a nice bonus when working in different places.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
This may be helpful, http://bit.ly/16uOB4. Personally, I use Fetch.
- David J. Pettifor
@acedanger, working fine here. Should direct you to an article from Macworld regards file sharing in Leopard.
- David J. Pettifor
WinSCP does all of the above (I think, bar rsync): FTP, SCP, SFTP and with various SSH encryption options. Free too, of course. Taken over from Filezilla as my preferred tool. I haven't found anything as good for free on Mac OS.
- Ian Fogg
Transmit if you wanna pay, Filezilla if you don't.
- Todd Brunner
from twhirl
What the heck is "read-only?" I just tried mac's ftp out, it will upload and download files just like any other ftp client.
- Owen Byrne
wrongdo-dongo Dave. You can upload as well as download with the Finder's FTP feature. Or you can kick it old-school and rock the command line interface in terminal.
- Aaron deMello
Ever try'd designFtp.com?
- Ben Borges
from fftogo
that was always one thing I hated about the Mac. Actually, I had to move some files from my old PBG4 to a XP laptop and ended up using Samba.
- Adam C.
FileZilla works well and is an open-source multi-platform free FTP client. http://filezilla-project.org/
- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
Owen, correct. You just read a file. I think he's talking about uploading. Still I'm scheptical that the client would be designed to behave like that. Doesn't exactly go into the "pros" column for convincing me to get a Mac.
- Ernie Oporto
MacFuse and MacFusion...nuf said.
- Jerry Schuman
from twhirl
Dave, which "native" FTP client are you speaking of on the Mac? It's hard to get more "native" than the simple command line UNIX "ftp" and I KNOW it will work with pretty much any thing you throw at it...I use it all the time and I'm constantly bi-platform, so I'm using tools on both.
- Dennis Moser
Oh, didn't even know the FTPd in OS X was read-only. You may have saved me time in the future; was planning on using/testing it. SMB works fine (locally) for the time being.
- Gaurav Patel
Real men use "scp". :)
- Patrick Beard
If I was a Disney Princess, I would be Jasmine and Belle - http://www.brainfall.com/test6_R...
oh my god i'm gay
- Gaurav Patel
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