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FriendFeed Jabber/Gtalk IM bot - http://blog.imified.com/index...
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I think this is the origin of story!! March 26 was when I added the bot to my gTalk..!!
- Jigar Mehta
I like having each service as an individual contact. Much easier. Can we see the same for Pownce?
- Chris Nixon
Well, IMified has taken bot to a next level.. I even created a customized option to check my google calendar appointments for today (a quick schedule for today) by interacting with bot! Not sure, if they have one for Pownce..
- Jigar Mehta
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One year later. Just bumping this because it's the one year anniversary of the only item on FriendFeed to get more than 400 likes. (452 at the moment)
- Ken Sheppardson
450.
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Hi i am charles Camil ,i want to know you
- charles
Amazon.com: Sigma AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS (Optical Stabilizer) Zoom Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras: Camera & Photo - http://www.amazon.com/18-200m...
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I'm thinking about getting this lens to replace my Nikkors 18-55 and 55-200VR. Any thoughts on it?
- Roshan Vyas
from Bookmarklet
Why not Nikon's own 18-200 VR?
- Benjamin Golub
I'm not sure if i want to spend so much on a lens. I just got my D40 this year and am pretty new to the dSLR world... If I buy the Sigma on eBay using the MS Live cashback program, I could get it for as low as $300. That is much more palatable than the $450 or so after cashback for the Nikon
- Roshan Vyas
I have used both on a D40; the Nikon is superior & in my view worth the cash difference.
- Mel Buckpitt
I suggest looking for a used Nikon 28-200mm G. You can probably get it for under $200 and it is a GREAT, often overlooked lens. A couple of reviews: http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon... ; http://www.nikonians.org/nikon...
- Ben Greenberg
Take up Mel.Buckpitt's advice, you'll end up kicking yourself for not saving up that little bit extra.
- Andrew Trinh
Thanks for the advice everyone, I'll hold off on this lens
- Roshan Vyas
Neither of those lenses will give you any (significant) improvement in speed, image quality etc over the lenses you have already... Just convenience... Perhaps it would be worth considering a nice prime lens first?
- Janek Mann
@Janek I bought a prime a few months ago, a Sigma 30mm f/1.4, and I love it
- Roshan Vyas
I got the Nikon 18-200 VR for my birthday, and I'm actually thinking of selling it. It just isn't as sharp as I'd like and it's dog slow in low light.
- cecily
the MacBook pro is the worst laptop for battery life ever. I just left my office with a full charge less than half an hour ago. When I opened up the laptop 10 minutes later I'd alredy last 75% of my battery life. 10 minutes of use later and now it's dead. Why does Apple make such crappy products?
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That's not typical though. I get 4 hours out of my MBP battery. Maybe your battery is defective?
- Andru Edwards
You have probably checked this, but I had terrible problems with runaway processes. Next time you are losing battery power fast, open Activity Monitor and sort by % CPU.
- s t e v e
frequently my MacBook pro just burns through battery life when it's supposed to be sleeping. I HATE that.
- Thomas Hawk
brightness problem? bad battery? there were some recalls on older MBPs
- mjc
turning down the brightness helps save a TON of juice.
- mjc
are you serious? My battery for my MBP is the best I've ever had.
- Zee.
I just re-read.... losing 75% during sleep? yes, bad battery.
- mjc
i agree. macs have bad battery duration
- Cee Bee
best I can tell the display is totally off while the lid is closed. I just have no idea how it can burn 75% of my power with the lid closed. Sometimes it does better than this but frequently I close the lid only to find it drained shortly thereafter. Lately I've been really regreting moving from a PC to a Mac.
- Thomas Hawk
Definitely something odd going on there if it's killing your battery life while sleeping. You should be able to close the lid, leave for a day or two and then come back to a non-dead machine.
- ronin
wow, somethings wrong there...
- Zee.
some older MBPs also have problems going to sleep, just like the average PC laptop used to. try to make sure you see the heartbeat on the light
- mjc
still, thomas, sounds like a bad battery.
- mjc
The more pertinent question, Thomas, is why do people keep buying them?
- eggsy
My original MacBook Pro battery used to last upwards of 3 hours but started to go bad little over a year after I bought it. I took it to the Apple store and they replaced it on the spot. I have AppeCare. New one again gives upwards of 3 hours.
- Sam Grover
the thing is that it only does the massive fast battery drain while closed some of the time. This leads me to believe that it's not a direct battery issue. There are many things I've discovered about the mac though in the past two years that I hate though.
- Thomas Hawk
@Thomas - do you check to make sure the light is beating like a heart before you put it in your bag?
- mjc
When new, my MBP would get 4 hours; after a year of regular use, it's down to about 2 hours.
- Mistletoe Glen
MBP batteries die quickly if you cycle them a lot. Download Coconut and see if your battery is still at it's original capacity. Apple replaces up to 300 cycles, I think, if it's not
- Cyndy
for instance why can't I hold shift down in thumbnail view and have it select every file between when I click on a later thumbail. Instead you have to cmd click every single file, time consuming and lame.
- Thomas Hawk
It's pretty clear that there's something wrong with your MacBook Pro or with the battery. It's probably a sleep issue. Clearly not all MacBook Pros drain their battery like this, so it's a little sensationalist to conclude that they're the worst laptop for battery life ever.
- Kevin Fox
or why even after I tell my mac to use photoshop as the default to open jpg filed does it still always insist on opening them in apple's own crappy preview program?
- Thomas Hawk
I have the same issue with mine except it lasts only 5 minutes not plugged in. I have thought about taking it to the Apple store but figured they would make me buy a new battery so had resolved to just live with the cord. Mainly because I am not traveling much anymore.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
given my experience over the past two years with my MacBook pro, my next computer purchase definitely will not be a mac.
- Thomas Hawk
stunned . but fair enough.
- Zee.
I have Apple Care and I'm already on my fourth MBP battery (in two years).
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
My dell can run on for 6 hours tops on its most draconian power saver plan. Vista Power Management + 9 cell battery = FTW
- Roberto Bonini
i guess i've got lucky with my MBP - i was just saying recently how happy i am about the battery...but frankly even if it only lasten 10 minutes, i'd take it any day over a day of battery on windows.
- Zee.
I don't know Kevin, even when my MacBook pro was brand new the battery life still seriously underperformed vs any laptop I've ever had experience with.
- Thomas Hawk
then seriously get it checked out Thomas because i had loads of laptops before my MBP and every single one was worse that the mbp i have now
- Zee.
Thomas: Fair enough. I personally think it's strange that they included two different graphics chips into the latest MBP. Requiring users to sign nout and back in to switch chips guarantees that most users will only ever use one chip and the other is just dead weight in the machine (until someone comes out with a hack that will let you use it to crack WAP passwords).
- Kevin Fox
is the battery 2 years old? swap it out
- Bastard Operator From FF
Believe it or not, I've had worse battery life than that on some older desktop-replacement style laptops (though not much worse). It's the age-old trade off of performance vs battery life. For what it's worth, the Macbook (the now older white one) has pretty decent battery life. Not exceptional, but decent. It also has a LOT to do with what you're running. Games (and virtual machines) use a lot of battery life.
- Cyrus Lendvay
This is nothing like my experience with MacBook Pro battery life, and apparently many that read the story agree. Maybe you have a crappy battery and ought to replace it, or your powersaving settings are incorrect. But it seems you just wanted to air some gripes anyway. If you dislike it so much, why not get rid of it intead of whining and making up sensationalist posts?
- Dread Pirate PJ
I'm wondering if it also may have something to do with Lightroom. It seems to happen the most when I'm running lightroom right before I shut down.
- Thomas Hawk
You may want to take a quick glance at this: http://www.anandtech.com/mac.... I'd say there's definitely something wrong with your battery or something is causing it to not go to sleep properly.
- ronin
Erik Johansson - http://www.clickblog.it/post...
Kevin C. Tofel, Roney Smith, macro and 5 other people liked this
love this one
- sanyam
Dilbert strip from 2002 still relevant on current Bailout
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Can you think of a great new domain name for my photoblog.nicklewis.net website? Something cool is required!
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PicsNick or NicksPics or, er, can't think of any more yet
- Fraser Smith
nickimage.net
- david
Cheers! Mind you I am just going to focus more on my main business site now
- Nick Lewis
SceNick ?
- Fraser Smith
SimplyNoise.com - The best free white noise generator on the Internet. - http://simplynoise.com/#
Vincent van Wylick, Joseph Z., califmom and 4 other people liked this
"Uses of White Noise: * Aid Sleep * Enhance Privacy * Block Distractions * Mask Tinnitus * Configure Audio Equipment * Soothe Migraines * and more..."
- Leon Ho
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You Kill Me, Plate 1 - http://thomashawk.com/2008...
David Sandey, Anna Haro, Shey, Jamaican of FF and 6 other people liked this
I love it, but what is it a picture of? Share your secrets with us. :-)
- Michael Tefft
just some graffiti that had been washed over that I found.
- Thomas Hawk
Excellent.
- Alexei Tolkachev
FriendFeed, A Better Way to View Your Flickr Contact's Photos and Faves - http://thomashawk.com/2008...
Richard Peat, Susan Beebe, Grant Bierman and 39 other people liked this
You know the only thing I find annoying? Flickr has that damn censorship feature and consequently Friendfeed won't display any photos that are marked "unsafe". You still have to go to the contacts page for those.
- Eric P
personally I'd like to see more and more Flickr users on FF -- seeing photos here is one of my favorite things to do. This is one of the reason's why I heavily evangelize FF on my blog and at Flickr. The vast majority of my Flickr contacts though still are not on FF and I'd be interested in ways to see more of them come over. I also think FF needs a feature to let you move *all* of your Flickr contacts over, matching up their FF accounts where possible and creating imaginary friends where not.
- Thomas Hawk
also friendfeed enables piclens which is currently my favorite way to view pictures.
- Alan Le
Eric, that is true. Same with RSS. Flickr's censorship policy sucks. If I want to see naked people I should be allowed to see naked people. The fact that Flickr is a silo for any photos deemed by them as "unsafe" is wrong. Flickr should recognize that as adults we are capable of choosing what to see and what not to see. It bums me out that they filter out Merkley's photos here from my FF experience. I wish more people would complain about that fact.
- Thomas Hawk
I love seeing which photos my Flickr friends have favorited.
- lisa-k
Totally agree on your first comment, Thomas. We need some sort of "bulk Flickr feed import" to get everyone into FriendFeed, even if they don't actually have a FF account. I'm sure some computer guy out there could write a script for this.
- Matt
One other thing I thought of: much like PicLens, it'd be really nice to be able to interact with photos (favorite/comment) directly from FF. For example, have a setting in FF to be able to "blow up" the shot and then fav/comment on it.
- Matt
exactly. I use FF for the same. Its more fun here.
- Thejesh GN
FF could show an RSS with images as photos, which is not happening, that way I could add an imaginary friend called "Flickr Contacts" and add my flickr contacts as a regular RSS
- João Almeida
Thomas: If it is any consolation, you convinced me to join FF, and I must say, it's awesome. Shortly after I joined twitter too and haven't touched it much.
- Justin Korn
I'm also enjoying viewing other people's favorite photos and sharing my own but I'm with Matt in thinking Flickr support in FF can be improved by letting us selectively view (at least) mid sized thumbnails. I never really liked square cropped thumbnails. They look great but misrepresent the original photograph. Maybe a greasemonkey script is the solution for this. Also piclens has never worked correctly for me in FF.
- Rafael Robayna
Matt, one thing that I do is as I seen thumbnails come by in FF that I think I want to interact with I simply cmd-click on those thumnails. This keeps me on the same FF page but then opens the flickr photos in new tabs and I can tab through all of those pages one by one and see larger sizes, fave, comment, etc.
- Thomas Hawk
Also if you want to let people know that you found their photo via FF. You can install the GM add referrer info script. This way they see a link to FF whenever you comment on a Flickr photo: http://6v8.gamboni.org/... See this comment to see what I'm talking about. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Thomas Hawk
Just joined FF after reading your blog, Thomas. Thanks for the info. Although I find adding friends on FF to be tedious and frustrating. It should be a lot easier!
- Mike
I'm enjoying your wonderful articles attached to Flickr pictures. It's a surprise when viewing Flickr pictures everytime there are lovely stories attached. Wish FF would flag/mark stories/videos in Flickr with some special icon. :-)
- Mitchell Tsai
Good point about ctrl-click, Thomas (I'm on a PC). Also, I didn't think of it before, but you can just use Cooliris to bring up the Flickr page as well. That's easy! Don't know why I didn't think of that before!
- Matt
I really like the idea of Friendfeed "discovering" my Flickr contacts who're also on Friendfeed and giving me the chance to subscribe to them.
- Fraser Smith
Agreed. FriendFeed's presentation of your friends' photos and faves is far superior to that of Flickr. Come to think of it, FF seems to work better than most of the services it is aggregating :)
- Brandon Wood
Love being able to see 25 pictures in FF when pressing the arrow key. I wish that FriendFeed would make 2+ posts when I publish/favorite more than 25 photos...the rest are lost. Also, if people comment or like my photos as FF is publishing them (e.g. only 10 photos have arrived), those comments get lost as the entry is replaced by a newer entry (with 25 photos)...I think the comments/like should be merged into the newer Flickr/Picasa entries.
- Mitchell Tsai
See "How to see Top 100 Flickr Likes of personX" and "Viewing FriendFeed-Everyone Flickr feeds" at http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mitchell Tsai
Great, very clear post about this, Thomas. I'm a contact of yours over on flickr. Just thought you should know I'm over here too, largely due to your posts on the subject.
- Anne
Can we all just move to FriendFeed and put an end to this Twitter BS? Thank you
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I won't move to FF alone unless they get rid of the unreadable grey text on white... hard on my eyes! :(
- Lucretia Pruitt
Im in
- loren feldman
Given that Twitter is down more than it's up, I think we're already moving to FF.
- Dossy Shiobara
Amen to that!
- Karen Swim
from Alert Thingy
I'm shrieking and throwing good china at twitter right now. the bastard.
- Erin @queenofspain
The mobile component of Twitter is still the winner for me. This is better for conversation, but still not really intended for true status.
- Jared Smith
@technosailor - Now that I've started work on Blackbird, I could clone it for FriendFeed's API - got a suggestion for a good name? :-)
- Dossy Shiobara
@Aaron - check out FFto
- Dennis Howlett
from twhirl
@Aaron - check out FFtgo
- Dennis Howlett
from twhirl
@dossy I would advise against 'blackfriend' but I'm overemotional about those things ;P
- Erin @queenofspain
I've already moved over
- Stefan Hayden
@queenofspain - yeah, "BlackFriend" isn't the first name I'd use, LOL. FriendBerry isn't exactly great, either. BlackFeed? Uhh...
- Dossy Shiobara
I'm trying, but I need a Twhirl type program that works for FF.
- Summer
FFtoGo works well, better than FF on the iPhone. Still needs "hide" though.
- Thomas Hawk
You can change the colors pretty easily with the Stylish Firefox extension. The appropriate style is at http://ungroundedoutlet.com/misc... (I can't add it to userstyles.org right now as that site is not working)
- James (@willia4)
"BerryBuddy" ...but it sounds like one of my daughter's Strawberry Shortcake dolls
- Erin @queenofspain
@Aaron: works a treat on iTouch (shrug)
- Dennis Howlett
from fftogo
Now that I have SMS gateway via Post2FF, the only thing I'm missing is WAP browser support (aka mobile) and the rest of my friends from Twitter.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Hey, QofS is commenting here! Maybe I DON'T need Twitter!
- Lee Stranahan
from Alert Thingy
@technosailor how about freebird or feedbird?
- Susan Scrupski
from twhirl
@itsinsider - Cool names, but FriendFeed's "mascot" isn't a bird (like Twitter's), is it?
- Dossy Shiobara
Hey James, thanks. I knew about Stylish but the code for friendfeed works well.
- Michael Tefft
@Dossy his other app is Blackbird, hense the bird thing.
- Susan Scrupski
from twhirl
I do use Twitter via the SMS interface and would want to have that functionality still.
- Joe Magennis
@Aaron - also works fine on S60 mobile with standard web client. Just checked with Nokia N95. Quite a few people have those along with 10+ million iPhone peeps + however many iTouch peeps.
- Dennis Howlett
from fftogo
I am all for it if I can get people to move over - twitter is driving me absolutely nuts - at the same time it helped me make some awesome new connections just this week. Love/Hate defined.
- Tony
from Alert Thingy
I'm one of Twitter's biggest fans, and it's driving me up the wall today. I need to make sure FF could replace the "feed hub" functions and more importantly the mobile access I have to Twitter tho
- Doug Haslam
from twhirl
I've added a link to FF on my blog bio
- Andy Roberts
What about SMS and DMs?
- Rubin Sfadj
Until FF or Pownce, Jaiku, and Plurk have SMS capability, Twitter is the way to go
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
How about naming it "Grackle"? A fine shiny resourceful bird found in the south that apparently have no fear of lawnmowers as they used the agitated state of the lawn to find things to eat...
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
I find it very interesting that this article appears in the Financial Times. Definitely more interest in this new platform is coming from the Business community; until recently FriendFeed was only visible for the more IT oriented people IMO.
- Jeroen De Miranda
Just installed Stylish and suddenly Friendfeed is a much nicer place to be.
- Roger Benningfield
FT.com - FriendFeed openness puts pressure on rivals - http://www.ft.com/cms...
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"FriendFeed, founded just eight months ago, has not had time yet to prove whether it can be a mass market or financial success but it has soared in the estimation of the Valley’s digerati to rank as Google’s most significant offspring to date."
- Bret Taylor
Friendfeed is my favorite application - period. NOTHING compares... awesomely disruptive with amazing potential!! My internal *innovation lightbulb* glows really bright when I get close to Friendfeed!!
- Susan Beebe
Good on ya mate!
- Noah Carter
Interesting article. I'd probably move wholesale to FriendFeed.... except the people I communicate with are largely on Twitter and not here. Life's too short to set up imaginary friends on FF. Any way I can pull in my entire Twitter feed here?
- David Sim
I'm with David on that one. I set up some of my Twitter friends as Imaginary to test it out (and I love the feature). However, I am too lazy to set all of them up.
- Yolanda
David and Yolanda: http://internetducttape.com/2008...
- Alejandro
Friend Feed was talked about on Windows Weekly and Twit this week!!
- Paul
The best part of FF is the clean UI. This is more important than featureset. Remember, Google.com search and craigslist -- two very simple clean user interfaces.
- Maneesh
and WSJ and now FT. How cool is this!
- Charlie Anzman
Notice the rise in MSM coverage for FriendFeed, sure sign this is about to hit the public's imagination
- Duncan Riley
FF definitely wins with its API and responsiveness, as well as a vibrant community and ability to generate lots of conversations
- Wil
Congratulations to Bret and company for this continuing very well deserved accolades.
- Alex Hammer
As well as the fact that a bug that constrains you to the last 11 pages of your activity?
- Yuvi
There is massive potential in FF but there should be more tools for filtering conversations and content so that it would be more easy find what is important. Any change for keyword based tracking lists (like in del.icio.us)?
- Daniel Schildt
Please remember to take suggestions to: http://groups.google.com/group... The staff are fast and pleasant at replying. Excellent stuff.
- Earle Martin
@Earle Martin - The bug has been acknowledged and a fix is said to be "in the works" - for about 2 months now :(
- Yuvi
I don't use Google Groups or email for discussions. If they want my input they have to use FriendFeed. Imagine that. I'm more committed to their tool than they are? Unreal.
- Dave Winer
I knew there as something wrong with FF and this is it -- they don't jump in with both feet -- they dip a toe in here and there. It's nice to post links to articles and baby pics (congrats!) and trip pics (ditto) but put your person into this space. Then it'll really go somewhere.
- Dave Winer
BTW the Twitter guys do the same thing. They are not among the power users of Twitter.
- Dave Winer
Dave, I agree with you 100%. The commitment they show in using their own product is vital. And, a proper user profile page will be very nice.
- Dewald Pretorius
I've had the same thought about a user profile page. I'm reading something and I wonder who the person is. Click on their name and -- nothing. Funny thing is that some reporters are starting to read FriendFeed, so if they want to have influence over their press they're going to have to show up here. Otherwise we're going to control their message. Heh. :-)
- Dave Winer
I was also quite amazed to find a Google FF group.. I thought http://friendfeed.com/rooms... was where it was at.
- Samuel Bostock
@Dave Winer: I disagree - with pretty much every aspect you state here :) Google Groups and the availability of standard ff functionality precede friendfeed rooms by years for the former service and something around half a year for the latter. Deriving any conclusions concerning committment to friendfeed from the usage of groups or email - or any other service that might be better suitable for the specific task - is rather subjective and not comprehensible.
- Mustafa K. Isik
Actually Dave has a point - if content producers are meant to go to where the conversation is, without an easy way to find it all, then the same should be true for Friendfeed bug reports and feature requests. You can do searches based upon topics, but try searching based upon a permalink of a blog post
- Andy Beard
I don't think rooms are the answer either. How I would do it -- add a command to the popup menu under More (above) that says -> Feedback to FF. Click on a comment and choose the command. Then it goes where ever they want it to go to be in their queue. If they want to respond, they do so in place, where the discussion is taking place. I've been doing this for a LONG time Mustafa, you have to come to the users, making them come to you -- you'll miss the good stuff (as they are).
- Dave Winer
@Dewald Pretorius, @Dave Winer: What better, more precise and comprehensive profile information, beyond the full activity stream plus links to all kinds of services an individual uses and produces content on, could you possibly expect? I like that friendfeed makes for a platform that is not about people fleshing out a dedicated profile page and telling you how great they are - instead you get the chance to make up your own mind via a very authentic activity stream.
- Mustafa K. Isik
[continued] Concerning a quick way to get an impression of who an ff user is and where his/her interests lie, a computed tag cloud (based on shared items, comments, liked items) could prove useful.
- Mustafa K. Isik
The only issue FF would run into using their own system for feedback is the restriction on entry and comment length. However, they could easily lift those restrictions in a special room or on entries designated as feedback, feature requests, etc. There really is no excuse for them to not use their own system.
- Dewald Pretorius
@Dave: "You have to come to the users, making them come to you -- you'll miss the good stuff (as they are)." Great observation.
- Hutch Carpenter
Agree with Dave, would like to see profile pages on FF. A quick snapshot sort of page that gives you an idea of who the person is. Flickr does a pretty good job at this actually and could be a good model for what a profile page should look like. Profile pages should not limit bio length and should allow html.
- Thomas Hawk
Each users page, especially their recent activity, is a great snapshot of who they are, I think. When I subscribe to someone, I look at those pages to make sure what I see is interesting. I think that's the best kind of a "profile" on a person you can get.
- Jordan Hofker
You don't need a profile page on Friend Feed, you have access to the users profiles in the services on the right hand side. And therefore multiple profiles.
- Toby Graham
Jordan, what you say is true, but what you see is a snapshot of a time-based "profile", which could give you different impressions of the same person on different days. Depends on what the person's FF feed pulled in on that day. A static profile area would alleviate that problem.
- Dewald Pretorius
I kinda get the feeling that early on they've been sitting back and letting the community develop by itself, rather than leading the way. Which I totally agree with.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Full disclosure time: I gently rolled my eyes when I heard about FriendFeed, but I have to say I'm a huge fan now, if that kind of thing can be measured by how much time I spend on it!
- Jeff Eddings
You test out a lot of these social/feed applications and just the odd one or two have that easy fit like a glove feel to them which means you use them day in day out - google reader was one and friendfeed is another...
- David W
Time goes faster as you get older.
Anton, Evgeni Leshtanski, timepilot and 33 other people liked this
Time speeds up the moment you have children!
- Joe Dawson
I've often thought that as well. It's like once I hit 30, everything started speeding up.
- Hutch Carpenter
Time probably goes faster when you get older cuz there tends to be less variety and excitement? I.e., more of the same?
- Dewald Pretorius
Life is a downhill slope; naturally you accelerate.
- Parth Awasthi
from twhirl
@Joe - spot on. kids seem to make the world go faster. i need tips on how to just slow it down and soak it in.
- Adam Cohen
from twhirl
I agree with Joe, once I had kids time went into warp drive
- David
Well, I'm still kid-free and I've noticed that things are clipping along. I think Parth got it.
- Yolanda
I noticed that too.
- Rubin Sfadj
I echo the time goes faster with kids.
- AJ Kohn
...another one for the "time speeds up with kids"...
- JA Castillo
@Adam @David I have no idea how to better divide my time for the family as there always seems to be a busy schedule!
- Joe Dawson
Time is never enough as you get older and takes on more responsibilities.
- Winston Teo
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
- Baard @ Pixum
I think it seems faster because every year you live makes the next one that much of a smaller percentage of your whole life... For instance, when you're 5 years old, a year seems like forever... it's a whole 1/5th of your life... at 30 a year seems to fly by because it's only 1/30th of your life so far... at 60 we'll be blinking and another year will be gone...
- Fa La La La Lindsay
especially when you have kids! I think it is more interesting, maybe the advice to the young is to value the chance to take time.
- John Cass
from Alert Thingy
The best photographs in the world have yet to be taken.
- Thomas Hawk
I 100% agree with @Lindsay ..... You experience time as a function of your age.
- Stefan Hayden
Life gets a LOT better as we get older too, or at least that's how I see it. From bullied dweeb to happy, successful family nerd in 39 years!
- Chrimmus Tad
from fftogo
except if you're a social web app ;)
- Steven Livingstone-Pérez
from twhirl
From what I've heard, life like like a box of chocolates...ah...can't remember the rest :D
- acedanger
It's children that REALLY make time go faster.
- Mark Dykeman
Sorry, I don't have time to comment...
- Fraser Smith
we sleep more , but need to do more things.. so hardly enough time to et things done .. its all an illusion :)-
- Peter Dawson
Getting all Buddhist on us Peter? Yes, it is ALL an illusion. :D
- Chrimmus Tad
from fftogo
'The day will soon be at an end and now you're getting older!' - @tmbg
- Bill Sodeman
from fftogo
@Hutch - Wait for 40+ Rocketship!
- Charlie Anzman
The good thing is that long, boring drives are a lot shorter than they used to be.
- Thomas Brox Røst
Time may move much faster, now that I have children, but I've noticed I move much slower (physically, at least).
- David Tallan
It's not time getting faster, it's just us getting busier.
- ronin
Oh I see...that explains it then!
- Emma
the 4th dimension is all relative.
- Geoff Schultz
I find when running a 100m dash that life really slows down. I try various methods to stretch/shorten time. Living in the moment. Sometimes a week feels like a year to me. Other times, I see a friend's 13-yr old and remember when she was two...
- Mitchell Tsai
According to the general theory of relativity, the faster you approach the speed of light, the more time around you increases relative to your own(get your head around it). I would say that when we get older, we do a lot more and have less time to contemplate like a child. Also, we have adapted to the idea of time and have experienced more of it. Summary: Each second experienced here,...
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- Jacob Nahin
it really does. it scares me.
- edythe
Not only does it seem to go faster, I remember less.
- RAPatton
When I was 15 and had to wait until 16 to get a driver's license, a year seemed forever. Now I only wish it still seemed that way - and driving not all it's cracked up to be, either.
- Tom Landini
My eldest son is almost too heavy to pick up now. Seems like just yesterday he was looked like this: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/8...
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
i think einstein actually proved this concept
- Tyler Gillies
Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center - http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007...
David Coyer, Sandie Law, Kajivar and 3 other people liked this
"However, in recent weeks I have started using Gmail as much more than an email host. With its gobs of storage, speed and tremendous search/tagging capabilities, you can transform it into a personal nerve center that's available from any computer or mobile device. When you tap into this power and combine Gmail with some other tools, it is perhaps the most essential site ever developed. Most of the following life hacks have not been documented. This series has several parts... * How to turn Gmail into a massive personal database (Gmail + the Google Toolbar) * How to get real-time news updates in Gmail (Gmail+ Google Talk + Twitter) * How to automatically store your bookmarks in Gmail (Gmail + del.icio.us + Yahoo Alerts) * How to manage Calendar and To-Dos in Gmail (Gmail + Backpack + GCal + GTalk + iMified) * How to blog from Gmail (Gmail + Wordpress/TypePad/Blogger + IMified)"
- Leon Ho
from Bookmarklet
Lisa L. Seifert, Yuvi, Igor The Troll יִצְחָק and 6 other people liked this
Eddie is making a big come back today.
- Russellreno
Both Grant and Murphy.
- edythe
Kinda strange, click any thumbnail and they all link to the first image. A buglet perhaps?
- Fraser Smith
Oops, not on the Friendfeed site, only in the iGoogle module. Must investigate further.
- Fraser Smith
D'oh! Not even iGoogle, it was in my gmail sent via sendmerss.com. I'll go hide in a corner now :o(
- Fraser Smith
Loved #12: "just a little corner tension" by immaculatious. Awesome shoot into store-window-capture-reflection shot! Thanks Thomas.
- Mitchell Tsai
Creative Calendar Designs - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008...
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Jonathan - http://www.zooomr.com/photos...
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Fraser Smith, Barry Owens, Shey, Jamaican of FF and 4 other people liked this
Brighton Pier - http://gormano.blogspot.com/2008...
Fraser Smith liked this
A well photographed location - but this is quite different.
- Nick Lewis
I remember liking this when it was posted on Flickr
- Fraser Smith
The Online Photographer: Summer '08: T.O.P. 10 New Camera Recommendations - http://theonlinephotographer.t...
Tsega Dinka and Fraser Smith liked this
How to Make Yourself Indispensable - http://feeds.lifehack.org/~r...
Nick Lewis, Alice Lam, Mark Trapp and 2 other people liked this
that was really good read
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Lifehack is a great site and well written
- Nick Lewis
I have just found out about Trackmania (gotta download that one) - http://www.trackmania.com/fr/
Fraser Smith liked this
I bought my son an older version of this a couple of years ago. It was a bit sniffy about the hardware that it would run on but when it ran, it was great. Now there's a free version, I'll have to download it too. Thanks for the heads-up.
- Fraser Smith
Cool - we can race eachother!!
- Nick Lewis
Are you using some client to post to FriendFeed or just go to main website? Or do you use something elso to track conversations? Is there mobile client for FF? Any more tips for beginners and more experienced users?
Susan Beebe, Fraser Smith, Leon Ho and Anthony Farrior liked this
Desktop Clients that support friendfeed and twitter: Alert thingy and twhirl
- Cat Laine
from Alert Thingy
when at home i use twhirl. when at a job site, i use the ff site. i do like the twhirl.
- sean808080
I was using twhirl and I think it is the best client I've ever tried for following ff in realtime (and now it supports ff groups, too), but at the moment I use MySocial 24x7 as Firefox-Sidebar. Pros are that it is right in firefox and provides the possibility to post answers to twitter. I don't have it open all the time and so space is no issue and when I want to read more than just the...
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- Michael Hamann
i have twhirl, but i prefer the web interface.
- Jansen Lu
XMPP for Friendfeed: http://mojipage.com/pages/bot/
- Jason Wehmhoener
I use its web interface because it is still cleaner than any other implementation.
- Leon Ho
Posting from the website seems to be the most detailed way, allowing you to easily pick what feed/room to put it in...
- Anthony Farrior
@Leon it's quite difficult to create a clean and well organized interface. i think twhirl is doing a quite good job.
- Jansen Lu
I can't stand twirl. friendfeed is about the details. I don't need to sit and watch the stock tickertape. I feel bad for Alisters that are forced to see this silly blur of social interaction. (sorry about the curse before... I edited my comment)
- Noah David Simon
To post blog posts to ff I use the Shareaholic extension b/c I can also post to every social site I want using it. If I want to follow posts and post normally, I just use the web app.
- Joseph Z.
I'm using the web apps. Twhirl has never worked properly on either of my iMac Desktop's. The client option is a great concept and in my experience, poorly implemented.
- Paul W. Swansen
I've tried Twhirl and Alert Thingy. I've got mixed feels about both. I find myself using the Web site more regularly for posting to FF. To just manage Twitter, I will probably use Twhirl or Twitterrific, but adding FF to the mix (with Twhirl only) makes for quite a lot of screen real estate devoted to these widgets.
- John F Morton
i´m currently using twhirl, its a nice interface for getting the friendfeed-updates, but it seems a little bit buggy
- Christoph Bauer
from twhirl
There really isn't a client that does FF justice yet. Bonus points to twhirl guys for trying though. Anyway, on OSX just use Fluid ( www.fluidapp.com ) to create a SSB (single site browser) that behaves as a regular app, a menu bar extra or even embedded into your desktop. Quite simply it rocks hard, and is free. Fluid has a room here ( http://friendfeed.com/rooms... ).
- John Samuelson
I'm still mostly using Friendfeed's web interface.
- Morton Fox
Apple - MobileMe - http://www.apple.com/mobileme/
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Adrian, Christoph Bauer, Wil and 3 other people liked this
What do you guys think of MobileMe? Do you think it will be a popular productivity suite when released?
- Leon Ho
I'm not sure what it would give me that I don't already get, for free, from Google Apps for my domain. It might be a bit slicker in the interface but that's not worth the extra cost....via feedalizr
- Fraser Smith
I agree with Fraser on this one, Not really seeing the benefits. Although toss in Itunes storage and download with this and I would try it!.
- Tony C
I think its selling point is the push service to iPhone though. So it really depends if you think push service worth the price than syncing it thru USB?
- Leon Ho
I don't have an iPhone and, as all my e-mail is web based (GAfyD), I don't think I'd benefit anyway.
- Fraser Smith
i hope the push really works and is not as lame as the yahoo quasi-push. it's about time apple did something for .mac folks as this service has been the neglected step child for way too long.
- sean808080
from twhirl
The demo of push service looks pretty promising, but never know until we test the actual product.
- Leon Ho
If it's true push amongst every device in my home and abroad, then that alone is worth the price for me.
- Joel Falconer
I'd like to know if more than one iPhone can "sync" to the same account.
- Ben Vaughan
from twhirl
With no iPhone, what's in it for us desktop users?
- Paul W. Swansen
With regards to fixing .Mac it is a step in the right direct, but not far enough to get lots of people to buy in. I look at it as a very expensive way to wirelessy sync my contacts.
- Chris McLean
well, mobileme got me thinking about taking the one-year-subscription - it closes the gap between my mac and "regular pcs"
- Christoph Bauer
from twhirl
I think this is a ground breaking service... 3 years ago. LIttle benefit unless you have an iPhone and even then i don't know.
- Chris McLean
If you are happy using google apps there is no point. However if you are a small business and offline access is critical e.g. planes and trains then this is a simple alterative to exchange for an individual user. If apple add sharing of calendars/contacts plus private/public event invites then it could beat exchange for small businesses that use macs and iphones.
- Adrian
from twhirl
I am very much hoping this is going to be Exchange Lite for our small project team...fingers crossed.
- John Samuelson
Drive-by Tips for Centralizing Your Content on the Internet - http://feeds.lifehack.org/~r...
Nick Lewis and Fraser Smith liked this
Latest release of feedalizr now available. Let us know what you think. www.feedalizr.com
Nick Lewis, Fraser Smith, Anderson and 9 other people liked this
Rockin' it on the new version!
- Olaf
The subscription information is REALLY useful
- Jacques van Niekerk
Great improvement!
- Panayotis Vryonis
I'm just getting 1.1.2 alpha from the install now link. I've cleared cache etc. Uninstalled and re-installed, still getting the old version.
- Fraser Smith
Will check this out tonight!
- Nick Lewis
also only getting old version......
- Kim
Chris, try this: http://www.feedalizr.com/changel...
- Otavio Ferreira
Tried the changelog page, still getting 1.1.2. It could be the corporate proxy but that usually refreshes after 24 hours....via feedalizr
- Fraser Smith
Fraser - just tested the changelog page. It looks fine - maybe it is the proxy.
- Jacques van Niekerk
Here is the changelog for v 1.1.3: * Tooltips have been implemented for user interface elements. * You can see subscription information for your friends, including their friends and services. * Dropped connections are re-established automatically. * We are now using the "via" tag to integrate with friendfeed. * Memory management has been improved.
- Jacques van Niekerk
I finally got it. I browsed to www.feedalizr.com/download (did you know that you allow directory browsing) and right-clicked the file to Save As. I then ran the saved file and installed 1.1.3.
- Fraser Smith
yay, workin :)
- Kim
BBC NEWS | Technology | Google's experimental Gmail toys - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
Fraser Smith liked this
If you (like me) are a Gmail user, this will be of interest
- Nick Lewis
I didn't think any of these were up to much when they first appeared but, I confess, I like the multiple Superstars and Quicklinks. Plus they now work in GAfYD...via feedalizr
- Fraser Smith
How Bloggers Can Use FriendFeed Effectively - Stepcase Lifehack - http://www.lifehack.org/article...
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Yaser Sulaiman and Fraser Smith liked this
"FriendFeed is becoming more and more popular, and if you’re not on it yet, you’re in the minority. While some people stop what they’re doing to complain about the ever-changing landscape of social networking - don’t get me wrong, a totally valid peeve - get a headstart on them by becoming an effective FriendFeed user."
- Joel Falconer
Freeware: Turn Off Windows Update Restart Nag » Persistence Unlimited - Goal Setting Blog - http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2008...
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Kajivar and Fraser Smith liked this
"So to address this problem, I created a simple little app called Leave Me Alone! When you run it and click the “Leave Me Alone” button it temporarily turns off the source of these restart messages. It is certain to boost your productivity when the WU Restart beast comes calling."
- Leon Ho
What's the one thing you really want to have in Gmail?
Tyler Gillies and Fraser Smith liked this
For me, it's skins and may be even an exclusive Gmail branded desktop client ;) I know there are many email clients out there, but I want something that's Gmail branded. I <3 it and I'm addicted :)
- Shankar Ganesh
HTML signature
- Digg Boss
it has everything i need
- Tyler Gillies
@Digg Boss: Ah Yep, I miss HTML signatures too :( and also the ability to rearrange labels. May be we're asking for too much
- Shankar Ganesh
more powerful filtering system
- Leon Ho
The ability to choose what appears on the sidebar
- Fraser Smith
BTW: HTML signatures are there if you use better GMail 2 0.4 (but they add a sidebar box)
- Fraser Smith
Subfolders.
- Tamar Weinberg
Subfolders are in Better GMail 2 0.4 (Folders4Gmail), Some skins are also in there. Of course this assumes that you are using Firefox.
- Fraser Smith
A Gmail client that works on my Blackberry 7290
- Paul W. Swansen
Emails from people that like me :*(
- Geoff Schultz
An inbuilt email assistant that removes the need for me to check email ;)
- Joel Falconer
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